*Beams at you* You have no idea how good it is to hear you're still reading! That delights me. Thank you.
It's been agony, seeing them go by on the friends list and having so little time lately to dedicate to them! But Barry.... Seeing barry again is just--oh, I've been hopelessly in love with barry since reading JLA: Year One. I loved the leadership "struggle" between him and Hal (the one Hal wanted to lose so badly) so much.
I think I mentioned somewhere else that the DC Universe didn't used to be this sucking miasma of angst and pain that it is now--and there's no reason for it to be. Those are some of the most brilliant, loving, creative and exceptional characters ever created, they're better, "more" as Barry put it, than that.
That's so, so true, and a fantastic summary of why reading DC can be so terribly depressing. Because if these brilliant, good-hearted, skilled, well-meaning people screw up their lives to this extent, what hope is there for the rest of us?
So Happyverse gives me hope--not for the DCU per se, but for humanity. That's so not a small thing.
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Date: 2006-12-04 01:55 am (UTC)It's been agony, seeing them go by on the friends list and having so little time lately to dedicate to them! But Barry.... Seeing barry again is just--oh, I've been hopelessly in love with barry since reading JLA: Year One. I loved the leadership "struggle" between him and Hal (the one Hal wanted to lose so badly) so much.
I think I mentioned somewhere else that the DC Universe didn't used to be this sucking miasma of angst and pain that it is now--and there's no reason for it to be. Those are some of the most brilliant, loving, creative and exceptional characters ever created, they're better, "more" as Barry put it, than that.
That's so, so true, and a fantastic summary of why reading DC can be so terribly depressing. Because if these brilliant, good-hearted, skilled, well-meaning people screw up their lives to this extent, what hope is there for the rest of us?
So Happyverse gives me hope--not for the DCU per se, but for humanity. That's so not a small thing.