Batman is Dead
Oh come on…. reallly….
— hartnell
Batman is Dead
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Holy rotting corpses! Now it comes down to a glorious battle of time and money between writers and Time Warner (DC).
How long can DC not have their most profitable character dead? That's why we have those wonderful DC universe scenarios and can dismiss some great story lines. Remember how they quickly placed Frank Miller's Dark Knight returns into another alternate universe storyline.
Personally, I like it. It's time to kill the old heroes and make way for new ones. It's getting hard to explain how a comic series can be around for 30 to 60 years but the character(s) only age 10 to 15 years at best.
I agree. Although I do love many of the oldies, there needs to be a pathway for newer heroes. Or even expand on the heroes that have very little storyline. With old heroes in for such a long time, the CB world has become a bit stale.
Keeping some heroes is a good thing as it connects the old to the new and preserves the history.
Characters already that have immortal or prolonged life spans should stick around and meanwhile the older characters that were killed off can always be revisited through graphic novels and alternate time lines. The options become incredible with this kind of approach. Besides fresh new characters and story lines, even older story lines (once thought closed) can be revisited. Wow! this could really open up some cool ideas.
I got to disagree with the first person. Killing off old characters wouldnt open a door for new
characters, it would simply destroy the superhero era as we know it. You can't kill off a legened
like Batman. If you do, what new character could replace, and leave an impact like Batman.
Today, newly made up super heroes are not creative nor are they based on the super hero
lifestyle. They are more about personal relationships that nobody really cares about. I know that
they are starting to do that with Batman comics now, but there has to be new writters. If the
same people continue to work with the same character, they are bound to run out of ideas.
They are tired so they decide to kill a character off, just look at that series Birds of Prey.
they completely got rid of Batman and not one single viewer watched it. the truth is, nobody
is ready for the superheroes that we know and love to change, and quite frankly, neither am I
Fair enough point, our heroes from the past were built (created) based on ideals. Whereas today with new characters we try to humanize them to the point where they are the same as you and I and not really "super human" anymore.
As a counter point I present Marvel characters, the reason why Marvel came on big in the 70's was that their characters were dealing with real world issues. That is what connected me with Spiderman as a kid. Here was a kid who had to deal with the social acceptance of school, having no parents, and not exactly living the life of luxury with his elderly Aunt. Marvel also dealt with other issues in the 70s such as poverty (Daredevil), racism (X-men), alcoholism (Iron Man).
Of course this was during a time when Marvel was not so corporate and writers had every opportunity to send a message with only the comic code limiting them. Today though I believe Marvel and DC are strictly about money and will use whatever story line they want without the purity of Ideals (old DC) or tackling Real World issues (old Marvel).
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