Common sense does not exist in comic book fandom
If you are a lifelong fan of Kirby's Fourth World, Mister Miracle, and/or the New Gods...
Why in the hell would you expect to be satisfied by something titled "THE DEATH OF THE NEW GODS"?
Remember when half the civilized world got upset over the death/gimmicks of icons like Robin and Superman? This is because their status as icons made the world feel as if they partially own the characters. So Kirby and New Gods fans, being a far smaller and dedicated fandom, would naturally feel a bit of entitlement to be upset by the death of their favorite characters.
Which leads me to some questions to the people who bought this and are now upset by it.
So why buy this book in the first place? Morbid Curiosity? Fan Devotion? Creative Team? Opportunity to Complain?
Do you honestly think that this is anything other than another "death/gimmick" and that the storyline has real permanence? Furthermore, does permanence really matter to Fourth World fans?
Are there any real Fourth World fans around? Are all the people complaining about this series ones who were introduced to the characters well after Kirby in books like Justice League, Birds of Prey, etc? and do latter day fans have a say in the mortality of characters that probably should have already been dead years before?
Honestly, Jack ended the whole thing pretty well with his Hunger Dogs Graphic Novel. That was waaaaayyyy back in 1985. We Bronze Age old fogies already know that Jack never intended these characters to still be walking around. So I wonder where all these people are coming from. To give my own two cents and put my own dog into the fight. The New Gods were already dead after Hunger Dogs. The only man that has the right to ever bring them back passed away in 1994. So whatever these things are running around the DCU now are, they aren't the New Gods to me anyways. Why should I care if they kill off the whole fucking lot of them?
I will be far more upset when they get bring them all back to life, again.
Why in the hell would you expect to be satisfied by something titled "THE DEATH OF THE NEW GODS"?
Remember when half the civilized world got upset over the death/gimmicks of icons like Robin and Superman? This is because their status as icons made the world feel as if they partially own the characters. So Kirby and New Gods fans, being a far smaller and dedicated fandom, would naturally feel a bit of entitlement to be upset by the death of their favorite characters.
Which leads me to some questions to the people who bought this and are now upset by it.
So why buy this book in the first place? Morbid Curiosity? Fan Devotion? Creative Team? Opportunity to Complain?
Do you honestly think that this is anything other than another "death/gimmick" and that the storyline has real permanence? Furthermore, does permanence really matter to Fourth World fans?
Are there any real Fourth World fans around? Are all the people complaining about this series ones who were introduced to the characters well after Kirby in books like Justice League, Birds of Prey, etc? and do latter day fans have a say in the mortality of characters that probably should have already been dead years before?
Honestly, Jack ended the whole thing pretty well with his Hunger Dogs Graphic Novel. That was waaaaayyyy back in 1985. We Bronze Age old fogies already know that Jack never intended these characters to still be walking around. So I wonder where all these people are coming from. To give my own two cents and put my own dog into the fight. The New Gods were already dead after Hunger Dogs. The only man that has the right to ever bring them back passed away in 1994. So whatever these things are running around the DCU now are, they aren't the New Gods to me anyways. Why should I care if they kill off the whole fucking lot of them?
I will be far more upset when they get bring them all back to life, again.