When I look back at the stories that had a lasting effect on me \u2014 the ones that shaped, inspired, and frankly blew the roof off my basic storytelling sensibilities \u2014 I'd have to say that one of the defining tales was a 12-issue DC comics epic.
For a hick kid with a second-rate movie theatre, a laughably small local library, and six channels on cable? My storytelling could pretty much be summed up as BC and AC:
Before Crisis on Infinite Earths...and after it.
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