Comments | dingogrrl: *sniff*

dingogrrl

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Feb 02, 2007 14:45

Great Geoff Johns interview at Newsarama.

Thanks for making me cry, Geoff. At work.

NRAMA: Knowing how you feel about Superboy, it must have been so difficult for you to have to write his death and then lose him from your title ( Read more... )

comics, superboy

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natalexx February 3 2007, 01:09:46 UTC

Why do they hurt us like this? Whyy?

On the other hand, I think I'd rather know the poignant pain of being a disappointed fan than simply be the average casual viewer/reader and never feel so attached I have to scream at the TV or get online and sob over a comic book character, yeah?

*cough* I've been thinking about this lately.

dingogrrl February 5 2007, 06:48:02 UTC

Clearly, they hate us. There is no other explanation for this pain. (Maybe I'm still smarting from the fact that *Dick* was supposed to die but he had too many fans and was given a reprive because, dude, as a Superboy fan, I'M NOT IMPORTANT TO THEM. They kill off the character with more potential for growth and development just because he doesn't happen to wet as many panties as another, and I feel cheated out of what could have been the greatest story ever told ( ... )

natalexx February 11 2007, 23:10:48 UTC

Okay, the part *I'm* pissed about is that TPTB continue to think that killing off characters is a cool and edgy and interesting. It really just never STOPS pissing me off, as a matter of fact.

Yeah, that "better to have loved and lost" thing? Get back to me in another twelve months, maybe, because I'm not there yet.You know, the very idea that *that* is what I was espousing totally took me aback--because I don't even think I really believe that maxim. In RL, I'm more into the "better to love wisely and cut your losses if you made a bad call" concept. And hey, I'm still not cool with the Clark/Alicia thing *myself* (*pulls out icon*). I think what I'm trying to get at here is that when you love a fictional character/show/etc, you take possession of it in a way that no one can stop. Yes, whoever creates or controls it has the power to send that kill command, but in a way that really and completely *doesn't* parallel RL, the character does live on. That seems like poor comfort, because canon still has a lot of power whether we like it ( ... )