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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

That's really because they had relaunched their entire line of books, starting the Silver Age and useing only the names and general powers of the original characters (Flash, GL, etc.) and kept the old characters as being from "Earth 2"- a parallel reality where heroes could sometime cross over and team up.

In the 1980's they crammed everything together in Crisis of Infinite Earths. Now you have "legacy" heroes useing the nmaes of long-dead 1940's characters- they are on their fifth Phantom Landy and Black Condor for example!

Yeah, but a crisis every few years to fix the mistakes of the past and change more history is getting annoying.

We've had what? 3 crisis, plus crisis in time/zero hour, armagedon 2001, and the list goes on.

Legacy heroes who are never truly a legacy because the original always comes back unless a minority takes their place. Not that I mind the minority aspect, it's the bringing back the original at all when you claim legacy mantles that bugs me.

Now we have flashpoint, which will end doing the same as zero hour altering time, eventually leading to the originally passed on title for Zero hour Crisis in Time.

I like DC, I'm just tired of this constant destroying growth to bring back silver age heroes for no reason other than to let the current writer have their childhood hero back to write. Barry's story for example was full circle. He was the lightning bolt that struck himself. Wally had a similiar aspect, but they left his open to not close that circle, with him just being the man from his youth who gave him the confidence to dream. The best jumping on points to me as a youth were when the mantle was passed on. Wally as flash, Kyle as GL, and so on. Just as the silver age did the same to passing on original mantles to a new generation of heroes with new origins.