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Originally posted by Dave:
O Mighty Snarf, your wisdom has failed you. Kingdom Come was the wrteched spawn of Mark Waid's fanboy imagination. Already, this tripe has dated and faded from public memory. Dark Knight Returns is still celebrated.
Wrong on two counts:

1.It was Alex Ross's idea/concept/fanboy imagation. Mark Waid just scripted it, really.

2.There was a anniversary issue commemorating it just last year, along with other classics like Watchmen and Killing Joke. That doesn't sound like something "faded from public memory" to me.

I thought Kingdom Come was a masterpiece. Something that, like Watchmen, writers have attempted to duplicate since, and failed miserably. It redefined and restored iconic yet seemingly irrelevant characters in ways no other contemporary piece of literature has. In my opinion, it was truly inspired.