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Originally posted by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk:
So they didn't suck during the last years of the Jurgens era? C'mon, I love those guys... but the shit they were writing at that time is unbelievable. Better than anything in the Super-titles I've read since then, though.
I belive we already agreed that they did suck that last year, but it wasn't because of the 12 year old origin, it was because the creators were burned out.

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Originally posted by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk:
As I explained to you back then, the problem became even bigger when they tried to appeal to Silver Age nostalgia AND Byrne nostalgia at once. They didn't ignore Byrne's origin, they avoided it. It was never deleted, it was still there, and there's only so much a writer can do if you're trying to avoid something as vital as a character's origin. To top things, they were also trying to appeal to Silver Age nostalgia. What resulted from that are comics that Byrne fans and Silver Age fans don't like.
Jurgens and his crew weren't trying to appeal to the SA crowd, that's been Eddie's crew all along and they are the ones that failed.

I do agree with the rest of what you said, but it sounds like you agree that BR isn't necessary, all that's needed is for the people making the comics to pay attention to the origin.