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The people working on 'Rogue' may not think of it as a 'nothing book' though. I'm not weighing in on the quality, myself, but for the writer, the artist, hell, even the letterer or colorist, this may be something they're really trying to put their all into, y'know? Whether that shows on the page, or anybody enjoys that all, is beside the point.
It's silly to make statements like 'don't do important things outside of important titles' because no comic serial gets important without doing things that might be considered, er, important. Without risk or innovation of some kind, who wants to read the book?
Personally, I think lopping of Sunfire's legs is kinda silly to do, but y'know, he's an ass ninety percent of the time, so maybe somebody out there's getting a thrill out of him getting fucked up. Sorta Bats/Guy one-punch.
It's the comics that do these things because it's intended to make them important and serious, that bug me. Larsen kills half his cast every dozen issues or so, but it's entertaining and it's not 'ooh, ooh! Look at me, I'm dark and gritty and intense!' so it doesn't rile me at all, and Ellis' killing of the title character in Druid all those years ago was a fine and sensible outcome. I liked the old Druid, I liked Ellis' take on the character, but in the end, killing him was a better story at the time.
And it's not like Oracle's got less a presence in the Batbooks than when she was Batgirl; Sunfire could, arguably, do something with his life that doesn't require walking. Loads of people do. |
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