Originally Posted by
ultradav
The only good ideas to come out of ZH IMO were the ten year sliding timeline and Jack Knight Starman. The zero issues were also a great idea and some of the crossovers were well done.
But as for the main event: it was poorly thought out all around. It didn't really "fix" Hawkman as it intended. It almost irreparably damaged the JSA and gave them the worst possible send off for the company's first super team. Just garbage how they were treated in that event, and also indicative of DC's poor planning when they had just been brought back a couple years prior. They should have just stayed in limbo fighting Ragnarok, at least that send off story was done with respect. Three characters are slaughtered in the blink of an eye. It even ends with Jay Garrick, arguably the most respected of them, just giving up and ripping off his emblem. Thank goodness other writers ignored some of this and Jay and Alan stuck around until finally the JSA was brought back with respect. Then it also irreparably damaged the Legion and it hasn't recovered since. Rebooting the entire timeline was such a waste, though it did lead to a good ten year run of the reboot, it was a drastic step that wasn't necessary. Like the JSA, those characters got a really hastily done finale that didn't respect the characters, although they at least had that finale in their own book.
Not to mention it further compounded the characterization issues with Hal as Parallax and Hawk as Monarch / Extant. On top of all this it's just poorly written by Jurgens. Outside of Superman and Booster Gold I've never enjoyed his work. Even in Superman he was one of the weaker writers of the four titles but gained fame because he happened to write the "death" issue. If it was well written some of the above could be forgiven, but it was bad bad writing. So yes I guess you could say I have beef lol