While there are a few DC storylines that I feel get more hate than they deserve, it feels like one particular story is in fans' crosshairs, and that's Flashpoint. I greatly enjoyed the world Flashpoint created, and not only was it meaningful for Flash, but we also got several really intriguing concepts and characters from the event by the end of it.

I think that's actually part of why it's become more and more disliked over time, as people have tired of how Flashpoint and its world have been utilized both in later comics stories and in other media. We've seen elements of Flashpoint featured in Television, animation, and on the big screen, as well as in a myriad of ways in the comics, and it's been a sort of mixed response to those interpretations. If we separate the original story from those though, I feel like it wouldn't get nearly the hate that I see popping up online, but that's just me.

Let me know what you think!

I liked Flashpoint. It was fun to see that alternate Earth timeline, and Thomas as Batman was great.

I also think that the New 52 got more hate than it deserved. Readers acted like DC was ruining everything with the reboot, but I am old enough to remember Crisis on Infinite Earths, which did the exact same thing, and that turned out fine.

Sure, some of the changes didn't work out as well as others, but I enjoyed it when it came out.

@Shawn Lealos 100% agree. I've got issues with the New 52 as well, and certainly not everything stuck, but I also like a bevy of those changes and character redesigns too.

I never hated Flashpoint. It was fine. I also didn't entirely hate New 52.

I did, however, hate the atrocity that was Bat/Cat which I'm not sure counts for discussion here, I just needed to say that.

@Nicole Drum New 52 really could get its own thread hahaha

Also, Bat/Cat for life!!!!

I think Flashpoint might carry the weight of being its own line-wide reboot that then lead into New 52, which feels unfair because the ideas were at least creative. Months of publishing alternate titles is till a move that would work!

So, I don't know that I would say that "Identity Crisis was good, actually," but there are things about it that I really like, particularly how it depicts the superhero community and the bonds between those characters.

I feel like people have kind of turned on Infinite Crisis in recent years, but I was fully wrapped up in that storyline when it was happening. Admittedly, that might have to do with it being my first big DC event.

Some people say Final Crisis is undecipherable and boring. Those people are wrong.

I am unqualified to comment on Flashpoint because I was so checked out of whatever Geoff Johns was doing with Flash at that point that I was content to skip it and wait for the New 52 relaunch, which is full of good stuff marred by the event's larger rollout problems. I know New 52 Wonder Woman is controversial because of the Amazon retcon, but I loved that book.

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I've always had weird opinions on Flashpoint.

I remember reading it at the time, thinking, "This is solid but nothing spectacular." There are great moments, but I thought there was going to be more to it. When Johns was teasing out something with Reverse Flash in Brightest Day, I thought it was going to be more complicated than "Barry goes back in time and messes up everything."

I think it's just too simple for its own good.

I also really don't like how DC puts it up, Flashpoint on a pedestal as the definitive Flash comic, when there are way better Flash stories. It just doesn't feel earned, especially when it served as the basis for The Flash film.

"Emerald Twilight" was much better than people give it credit for. Three issues of jaw-dropping heel-turn by Hal Jordan. Every time we thought "It can't go any further! He can't fall any further!" it went to another level of WTF?!

It was one of the rare times I remember '90s comics forcing me to do actual deep reconciliation with complex themes of morality in the heroes I worshipped. It also gave comics real stakes I had never believed in before, when actual GLs start dropping.