User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-3118271-20120430200532/@comment-3465526-20120502204851

Zod, that particular story line in the early 90's is what got me to finally stop buying comic books -- I'd given up on Marvel about 6 years previously and was only following DC -- when the "Hal goes nuts and destroys Coast City" happened -- I just said "you know, I really DON'T CARE anymore" -- Me and about 30% of the remaining fanboy audience who hadn't grown up at that point. Almost immediately after the speculator market collapsed -- it wasn't that storyline per se -- but that storyline was really a LAST STRAW for a lot of my generation. I got back into it via Graphic Novels and bound story collections but I still don't buy monthlies -- YJ is the first actual comic book I've bought in years.