I don't mind soap operatics either, as long as they involve genuine character motivation, challenge and growth that are organic to the people and the plot (like say, Gar going after the brotherhood of evil for the murder of the Doom Patrol, or Kory's space showdown with her sister...a LONG simmering plot line.... Notice how I even called the characters by their names instead of the hero codes, because that's how I thought of them.
I really hated how Marvel would make you read not one, but a half dozen X titles in order to follow your favorite characters (and they would hop between titles). It was maddening to try and jump on in the middle of all that. Up until then, New Teen Titans had really been my only "ongoing"...although Fury of Firestorm did have a over arching plot over it's first 18 issues and annual...but much like X-Files it managed to tell a bunch of done in ones (and twos) along the way as well.
And, much as I have both enjoyed and been annoyed by "events" in the last few years, I give total props to J.T. Krul for making great use of the Blackest Night event to finally give Gar / Beast Boy closure over the whole Terra incident. That emotional journey always seemed somewhat in limbo for the longest time (as did Beast Boy) Just thought I'd shout that out, btw.
I really hated how Marvel would make you read not one, but a half dozen X titles in order to follow your favorite characters (and they would hop between titles). It was maddening to try and jump on in the middle of all that. Up until then, New Teen Titans had really been my only "ongoing"...although Fury of Firestorm did have a over arching plot over it's first 18 issues and annual...but much like X-Files it managed to tell a bunch of done in ones (and twos) along the way as well.
And, much as I have both enjoyed and been annoyed by "events" in the last few years, I give total props to J.T. Krul for making great use of the Blackest Night event to finally give Gar / Beast Boy closure over the whole Terra incident. That emotional journey always seemed somewhat in limbo for the longest time (as did Beast Boy) Just thought I'd shout that out, btw.
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