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Comics and Continuity

Journal Entry: Tue Jan 8, 2008, 10:29 AM
  • Mood: Rant
  • Listening to: WinAMP all day baby!
  • Reading: Mostly comics... and Mortgage paperwork (ugh)
  • Watching: the blue bar grow
  • Playing: City of Heroes (still)
  • Eating: bagel and peanut butter
  • Drinking: water
(in reference to [link])

This is aimed at all the execs, writers, editors, etc, in the comic biz;

I'M TIRED OF ALL THE FIXING!!!!! :X

Every year - or well what seems like every few months now - the Big 2 (Marvel and DC) decide to 'fix everything' and all they do is (re)ruin characters we love, convolute the storyline(s) worse than what they were. And, what's worse is, just when we start getting use to what they've done, someone new comes in with thier "vision" and they flip it around. Again. Hence, sometime down the road, they feel they need to fix it... and all they do is boot, reboot, re-reboot. Why can't they just stick to a continuity for more than 5-10 years and see where it take the characters... I read it not for the pretty pictures, but for the journey of the story. Basically, since they can't please everyone (though they try, bless them) what they do is it to 'wipe the slate clean' and start fresh.

Though I may have missed the Spidey of old, but I was digging the new, darker, no-holds-barred version he's evolved into... read that, EVOLVED! Let the story evolve. I enjoyed letting the story take me on the journey as Peter was living it. That is what a great story does.

Well, unless you kill off one of your iconic masthead characters...

LONG LIVE STEVE ROGERS! :tombstone:

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~AmIWryNO:iconAmIWryNO: Jan 8, 2008, 11:51:38 AM
thankyou!! someone that agrees....for me it was x-men that got killed by those stupid film I mean some bits were good but I don't think the writers even know their own characters

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~xloganx:iconxloganx: Jan 8, 2008, 2:21:52 PM
:( oh, don't get me started on the movies. :no:

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~AmIWryNO:iconAmIWryNO: Jan 8, 2008, 4:44:12 PM
haha it's so tempting to your rants are funny and so so true

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~xloganx:iconxloganx: Jan 10, 2008, 1:26:31 PM
oh, well thank you. :blush:
nice to know someone is reading them. :dance:

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~AmIWryNO:iconAmIWryNO: Jan 11, 2008, 6:20:18 AM
hehe :clap:

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~AmIWryNO:iconAmIWryNO: Jan 11, 2008, 6:20:52 AM
oops meant to reply I'm a spoon!

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~xloganx:iconxloganx: Jan 11, 2008, 8:33:23 AM
heh. too cute. :p

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~xloganx:iconxloganx: Jan 11, 2008, 8:44:57 AM Mood: Rage
For the record; Yes, the X-Men movies made it worse. The first one was ok, though they still managed to mangle origins and timelines. But it mostly worked and I was satisfied. However, by the last one, it was all messed up. Like they didn't care about the fact that there was a certain stigma about messing with (beloved) characters, and that some things were better left alone. I suppose they assumed that since there were already so many alternate realities, multiverses, reboots, and mixed up time-lines that it was ok to just make up yet another completely new one. They 'claimed' it was more based on the Ultimate universe, but any fan could see that was not the case...

Yeah, see what you've done?

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~AmIWryNO:iconAmIWryNO: Jan 11, 2008, 2:56:05 PM
oh dear haha

cake? * holds out a piece of cake* :cling:

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I do not deserve your frigidness, such callousness, yet i persist.
What's wrong with me?