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No. 9759
The solution to this is simple, but for some reason none of the big names want to do it. Give up on continuity. Dont even try. Establish characters, and then let each writer/artist do as they wish with them. If one storlyine kills them off, so what, its just a character not a continuity that you have to worry about maintaining. Think Dracula or Frankenstein. If you read a story containing them you wouldnt give a flying fuck if they cut their heads off, burned the bodies and crapped on the ashes. Nobodys gonna scream "OMG, Dey dun killified Dracula!", because its accepted that hes a character to be used freely for storytelling with no continuity to worry about. Killing characters is a powerful storytelling tool, and to hinder writers with continuity concerns makes their writing sub-par.
I think one of the real problems that lead to discussions like this is that some characters have just been used up, or that staff writers have just run out of ideas. I stopped reading spider-man for instance years ago after one of his many "reboots". The reboot itself wasnt what bothered me, although its insanely stupid to try and reboot a character in one title and try to maintain continuity in another (Im looking at you "Amazing Spider-man", I dont care how many issues you've had, its time to hang it up, what bothered me was that there was no new material. Revenge of the sinister six...again? get real. Calling for a reboot and then raping old storylines and trying to pass it off as "for a younger generation of readers" is stupid and lazy.
There are still good writers out there, give them more free reign and well have more gems like the ruins series and what if?. Keep going as is and get more stinkers like "No mans land"
I waited a year for that shit DC! and all he gets its a fucking bullet in the knee? FUCK YOU!
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