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Geoff. Johns.
I suppose; actually, I'm inclined to agree here with most everything you've said, but you're still talking about long-running franchises which will have, to many, 'jumped the shark' (as they say) long since Gardner Fox, or Jack 'Fucking' Kirby, or whomever was originally responsible for the title departed; most people, in my experience, seem to believe the best days of a franchise were when they originally read it (e.g. why was Identity Crisis so popular? I think because it was inherently 'Dark Age' writing sold to people who grew up in the 80's) because - I dunno - things are better when you're eight or twelve, etc. You can infuse these things better then; but I think there are cases where this is not correct, Morrison > Claremont being primary to my mind.
This is all kind of aside to the topic; I don't need or desire baroque history, they should just be able to dispose of things as and when, perhaps the companies should even release a guide for the Aspbergers elements which references what's presently in and out of teh continuity. It would almost certainly sell several thousand. It's clear to me that subtler rebootings go on perennially along with ludicrous events like Infinite Crisis (which I suppose I have to cop to buying, not because I care, but because I never read a ludicrous event before - for all that, it was kind've wooden.) |
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