I liked it because it was when there were actually comic shops near my school, and there were good comic cartoons on tv (fantastic 4, iron man, xmen, spiderman, batman)
also, it was a time when comics had more innocence? plots were simpler and characters were more iconic in some ways
today, comics are becoming more realistic and complex, which some like and some don't
Many reasons, really. Mainly because it seems like the best arcs [or at least the ones I enjoy most], were published in the 90's.
Writers are just trying to market to a broader spectrum of people, by putting a more sophisticated feel on comics nowadays.
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90's for me too. Thats when I really got into comics. Then X-men cartoon came out and at the time it was the shit. Also Image was born in the 90's and a lot of their early stuff was really good.
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Eww...90's...I'm going to go with Late 80's Early 90's (Anything in the Mid/Late 90's was just unnecessary especially X-Men thus I blocked it out)...can't say I'm not enjoying the 00's though.
The decade that produced this story line was pretty awesome in retrospect.
Anyway two masked men from the future convince both Batman and the UN that Superman is responsible for a slew of crimes in the future. The future men claim that Superman will eventually get into contact with a weird form of red kryptonite that will turn him evil(Kind of like what happens to him in Superman 3). We are then shown a montage of panels which shows various superdickery like Supes shinking a ship,burning a library,destroying the Taj Mahal,and wrecking statues of Jimmy Olsen and Perry White.
But his ultimate crime is when he builds a big Superman shaped satellite and sends it to the year 4069 which shoots out a ray that changes the people affected by it into primitive beings. To prove this the futuremen take off their masks to reveal that they have the faces of apes(Cue dramatic music). Superman then travels to the future to see if they were lying and apparently they weren't because he sees the Superman satellite turning people into apes.
When Superman returns from the future the UN finds him guilty but when the verdict is being made the balcony to the building was about to collapse and about to crush the chairman. Supes saves him despite his guilty verdict. After that the futuremen,the UN members,and our heroes take a lunch break(This scene is acutally vital to plot). We then find Superman's punishment for his future crime is to get a lobotomy but when it is about to begin he freaks out saying "TAMPER WITH MY BRAIN WILL YOU? YYYAAARRRR". Or so it seems that he freaked out.
It is then revealed that the future men's ape faces are also masks and that they are really Lex Luthor and Brainiac trying to frame Superman. How did Superman find out that they were fakes? Well during the lunch scene(See I told you that scene was vital to the plot)the futuremen claim that they only eat capsules as their food yet one of them is seen eating a steak while sprinkling salt and pepper as if he knew what they were. The whole scene with the Superman satellite was also a fake because it is proven that Lex and Brainiac went to a future movie studio to make it look like a Superman satellite is turning everyone into apes. Finally at the end of the issue Superman and Batman are awarded with their own UN flags to shown with the other nation's flags.
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Don't remember too much of the late 80's stuff. I would have only been 4 or 5 at the time. Anyways, I loved the X-Men, Superman, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Fantastic Four, Batman and the Hulk. Didn't care for Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange, Captain America, The Avengers, Thor and some others.
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Me neither, but I went back and read some of the 80's and 90's stuff. Adam X is the personification as to why the 90's(In Mainstream X-Men titles anyway) was just so ...unnecessary. Also the art in some of those issues were again unnecessary.(Having 7 pockets and two belts is ridiculous)
Also it was the birth of Gambit and time-travelling heaven (Cough*) Bishop and Cable (Cough*)
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Although I'm not a huge fan of the big guns big abs big pecs section of the 90's era. But I grew up with it and I think a lot of inspiring things came out of it.
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