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Jan 7 08 2:12 AM
You Know what's funny Count Karnstein? I pretty much agree with you--it's just I don't want to ! I want to have hope! And every time I see DC or Marvel attempt some major damage control to fix some past editors short-sighted mistakes, I give them the benefit of the doubt. Until they make their own short-sighted stakes and make me wait another ten years for the next guy to fix things. Which seems to be the way it goes. But speaking specifically of this situation, anytime somebody wants to unmarry fictional characters that never should have been married in the first place, it's all right with me. I mean, when you think of Get Smart, are 86 and 99 married? How about Mork and Mindy? Jeannie and Major Nelson? Probably no, right? The bright spot is those shows were near the end of their run and were gone in a year anyway. With comics though, when you write major characters into that corner you're stuck with that situation for YEARS. The problem isn't rebooting continuities to fix mistakes--the problem is writers and editors who make these stupid, short-sighted, obvious mistakes in the first place. All in the pursuit of short-term sales, and that generate consequences that won't really come into play until after they've gone on to other assignments and don't have to worry about them anymore. You know the best way to do a continuity fix though? Warren Ellis did this recently in an issue of Iron Man, and it used to be the way things were always done---they just had Tony Stark relate a brief flashback of his origin in the middle of a story, except they updated it to Afghanistan instead of Viet Nam, where it originally took place in the 60's. Four pages, no muss, no fuss. No multi-title crossover, no fan controversy. Onward and upward. And as for the shelf life of characters, I have to disagree. I think history has proven that a popular continuing hero can be timeless. James Bond, Captain Kirk, Superman, Spider-Man---there's no reason they can't go on forever. For cripes sake, in the last year there's been two Beowolf movies! Things change though, and a Spider-Man comic from 2008 is not going to read the same as one from 1968. But from what I've seen of the Brand New Day stories the feel is closer than I've seen in over twenty years, and that's something to be happy for. Until they screw it up. I give them six months
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