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HBOs Lanterns a return to the cool as hell comics of the 80s.

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Dan Barrett
Mar 04, 2026
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I grew up as an early 90s DC comic book kid. That early 90s distinction is important as it was an era informed heavily by a radical shift in mainstream American comics through the 80s.

In the 80s, comics got cool. In the 90s they got corporate. And in the 00s, they became a dumpster fire.

When I started reading comics, it started in that post Batman 1989…

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