Around this time, I had begun to suspect that all the pre-Crisis stories were going to be paved over, so I was happy to see Steve Englehart bring back a story that he had done during his great JLA run in 1977. I was relieved to know that not every story from the past would be forgotten.
I remember really liking the eight issues of MILLENNIUM itself--and I've been a Joe Staton fan since his E-MAN run for Charlton. The books that interconnected with the event (and I believe I bought every single one--DC must have been so happy to steal my money), those were a mixed bag. I was probably the most upset by the FLASH and LSH crossovers because they destroyed continuity simply to fit in some Manhunters.
In hindsight, it demonstrated what was good and what was bad about these events. It was good to have an event that built on previous continuity and establish important things about the universe going forward. It was bad to have individual titles going off their regular programming just to try and include themselves in the event, while destroying parts of their continuity to do so. We would get more of both in the following crossover events.