So last night we bid goodbye to tough guy Ryan, urban cougar Julie Cooper, sage Sandy Cohen and cool geek Seth … yes, The O.C. has ended. More than just another teen melodrama, The O.C., at least for its first two seasons, was smart, funny and loaded with comic book and pop culture references. So what did The O.C. bring to comic fans over the last four seasons?

–Chrismukkah and the “Seth Cohen starter pack” as a gift, which included The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
–Anna Stern, Seth’s hot comic and anime-loving girlfriend
–Summer surprising Seth with a very special Christmas gift — dressing as Wonder Woman
–The kiss in the image at the top of this post
–A reference to Brian Michael Bendis as the greatest writer ever
–Seth working in a comic shop this past season
–Atomic County, which featured art by Eric Wight … the second season ran a long plotline where Seth tried to get his comic, Atomic County, published, which included a meeting with Wildstorm, a reference to Fantagraphics and an appearance by George Lucas
–Allan Heinberg, who went on to write Young Avengers, Wonder Woman and JLA

As for the final episode, I liked it … although this season has been a definite improvement over the train wreck that was season three, it hasn’t ever reached the plateau of wittiness and charm that the show had in its first two seasons. Last night’s episode ended with a montage showing us what happened to each of the main characters later in life … which kind of reminded me of the last issue of Aztek, which outlined on its last page some of its future plots that were never to be. I thought this was well done and provided the closure the show needed, esp. that very last scene. What comes around goes around.

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