User blog comment:Peteparker/Flashpoint 2 Video Review by Peteparker 4 out of 5/@comment-3361105-20110605192019

... I'm gonna agree with your comic book store people, who told you not to start with Flashpoint! But you did anyway. The flash is a good book for fans of Marvel, I think, because it's bright and colourful (unlike Batman, but like Spiderman), and generally the tone is just quirky and upbeat (which is my impression of reading most marvel comics that I've read).

Flash also has a lot of good storylines between say... 1993 and 2007 (Wally West era, not Barry Allen era), because there's all this cool stuff involving alternate dimensions and timelines. They really find good ways to make use of the fact that he's so fast without it always requiring that he... just run fast.

I think I chose Knightfall (batman story where his back gets broken) as an entry point for comics. It was fairly easy to get into because there's no shortage of batman mythology in pop-culture, and if you ever watched Batman: The Animated Series, you had a pretty good idea of who everyone was... on the other hand, it was a huge crossover.

Aaaaaaaaaanyway, I had to quit watching after a while, due to spoilers. So that's just me commenting on you trying (sort of) to get into DC.