Has anyone re-read Waid & Kitson's JLA Year One or Brave & Bold recently? Do those comics hold up?
Waid's two Brave and the Bold arcs are pretty great in my opinion.
Hal just really misread Supergirl being an overly-enthusiastic teenager .
Both are fresh in my mind, I think they're great. Year One ranks up there as one of the best JL origins with great character work, even if it is a little drawn out. And Brave & the Bold is a wonderful tribute to Flash & GL. Those stories are a little less "weighty" overall but as individual stories they're so fun.
I'd forgotten his second Brave & Bold run with Perez. That was interesting, except for the weird Supergirl thing, but that version of the character was explicitly designed to be teenage jailbait (but technically over 18 so Loeb, Turner & Berganza had cover for being creeps). As cringe-inducing as that Hal/Kara story was, it was "on brand" for what DC direction for the character at the time
When your friend from college meets your friend from high school.