It was the last decade where new characters could be introduced on mass. Bane, Doomsday, Harley Quinn, Lobo.
It was the last decade where new characters could be introduced on mass. Bane, Doomsday, Harley Quinn, Lobo.
Lobo was 80's but I tend to agree with your point. The 80's and 90's were great for DC introducing new characters that stuck around.
Didio kind of stifled that by dragging characters back to the Silver Age and having little use for legacy characters. There was a mini explosion in the mid-00's, too, but most were just young derivatives of existing characters and have since disappeared.
The New 52 on has given quite a few new characters but a lot are gone already. Whether the rest stick is anyone's guess.
"Has Sariel summoned you here, Azrael? Have you come to witness the miracle of your brethren arriving on Earth?"
"I WILL MIX THE ASHES OF YOUR BONES WITH SALT AND USE THEM TO ENSURE THE EARTH THE TEMPLARS TILLED NEVER BEARS FRUIT AGAIN!"
"*sigh* I hoped it was for the miracle."
Dan Watters' Azrael was incredible, a constant delight and perhaps too good for this world (but not the Forth). For the love of St. Dumas, DC, give us more!!!
1990s also gave us the Bloodlines crossover-event arc in DC's annuals and such characters as:* Animaamong others.
* Ballistic
* Cardinal Sin
* Edge
* Gunfire
* Hook
* Jamm
* Krag
* Layla
* Loose Cannon
* Myriad
* Pax
* Prism
* Razorsharp
* Terrorsmith
As to whether they were memorable or not, YMMV . . .
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Vertigo wasn't afraid to experiment with controversial ideas in a way Marvel wasn't. A lot of things like Black Label and Marvel's Max line owe their origins to Vertigo.
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Hitman
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I never said ALL the characters introduced in Bloodlines were forgettable, and I didn't say they never appeared elsewhere later on.
What I said at the end of my post was
And quite a few were used as the mean-hearted, needless cannon fodder body count courtesy Geoff Johns in Infinite Crisis.
1993 was a pretty shit year for DC's main titles
Knightfall
Bloodlines
Death of Superman
Judgement Day
Emerald Twilight
But nevertheless it was a fantastic decade for the company, and DC hasn't been as consistently as good as it had been since the end of the 90s.
"Never assign to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity or ignorance."
"Great stories will always return to their original forms"
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." James Baldwin
"Never assign to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity or ignorance."
"Great stories will always return to their original forms"
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." James Baldwin
I loved the 90's era of DC!
They were really just throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck.
Young Heroes in Love
Hourman
Martian Manhunter
Major Bummer
Chronos
Power of Shazam
Starman
Hitman
The Bat titles and Superman books were BOTH rock solid (IMO, neither have been have consistent since).
Wally as the Flash was still kicking arse: Waid, then Johns both created their reps writing the title.
Peter David made people take notice of Aquaman for the first time in a decade.
We were given legacy characters:
Kyle
Connor
Conner
Cissie
Bart
We had stuff like Elseworlds and Vertigo all firing on all cylinders.
Yes, the 90's gave us a lot of dodgy stuff (shiny variants on every book, the IMAGE style over substance reigned for a while too) but I loved the creativity that was going on.
Yes there were misses, (Manhunter and Fate revamps spring to mind) but there was a feeling of anything worth while was given a shot.
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
The majority won't agree, but there were a few new characters that came after the '90s that were quite interesting. Two of my favorites were...
1. Captain Kilina
2. Frankie Moxon
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In agreement with you about both GLKyle & DickBats, their stories were interesting and kept my attention (XD)
But don't forget about No Man's Land, which introduced Harley Quinn into the main DCU (LOL):
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