Kevin M., to PGage, in part: > > I know a lot of folks on this list are real comic book guys; I am not >> (when I was 10 I walked to the corner liquor store and bought 5 comic books >> with my saved up allowance; my mom threw a fit and forbade me from ever >> reading them. Unlike lots of kids I guess, I listened to my mother). I only >> ever got interested in superheros when they started paying attention to the >> backstory and the psychology (though my understanding is that there is a >> lot of that in both the Batman and Spiderman comics anyway?). >> >> The only reason the comics seem to pay attention to backstory is that > whenever a new writer takes over a book (or a character), he seems intent > on reimagining the origin. Then there is DC's much maligned reboot of their > entire line of comics which has annoyed a lot of longtime readers. In comic > world, the best selling books seem to be when superheroes either team up or > fight each other, and no origin is needed for either of those concepts. > > I don't mind looking at the psychology of the heroes, but one doesn't need > to start over EVERY TIME in order to gaze into the mind of a hero. At this > stage, anybody who needs to know the beginnings of a character who has > existed for decades can Google it. To keep rehashing the same moment of a > character's life is sloppy writing and not very creative. > > For my part, comics stopped being relevant to me sometime around 1980, but it was more due to cost than content.
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