Young and Just Us: Thoughts on Fan Generational Issues in the DCU

[ladymordecai]

There is a thing that I do not understand.

In this Newsarama article, an interview with Dan Didio, I am excited by very many things: the idea of multiple Wonder Woman titles, the integration with Milestone (though I am anxious about that, as well as excited about the re-emergence of the characters), and the return to a nonlinear continuity.

Comments

please forgive the c/p

[arks]

Yes. This. This almost exactly. I approached the problem from a bit of a different angle when I ranted but it's the same issue, really. I refuse to read Infinite Crisis. I don't want to see these characters I love killed or broken.

And I refuse to believe that was required in order to age them, or advance the titles, in such a way as to be interesting to the readers. It has to be possible to go forward without going down. I reject the idea that the only true changes are bad ones.

Which is also one of the frustrating things about Green Arrow and Black Canary. They got what should have been a positive change, years late and through incredible struggle, and it seems something only their generation of heroes is allowed post-OYL. And then? And then, horrible things just have to happen anyway. The title careens from horrifying life-destroying crisis one to the next. Is no one allowed to have a positive change?

That's not right, and it shouldn't be so. No positive changes just careen the universe downward, and that's just what we've seen for the past how many years? No, DC. No.

Re: please forgive the c/p

[ladymordecai]

I agree. It is one of those things that I feel comics should learn about from TV--not all TV, obviously, but shows like Buffy and Star Trek. Due to how TV works, they can't just randomly kill characters because characters are played by actors under contract. Things change for the worse, people die, but people also triumph and/or learn to become new people once they've failed.

Failure is not an end, it is a learning experience. DC does not seem to grasp this concept.