[url=#user_comment_350638]@AckAckAck[/url] Stop being such a Weeb. DC and Marvel aren't the only companies that make comic books in America. You wouldn't only look at Shonen Jump to judge Japanese comics, would you?
@Random Dude: Disagreed. The good thing about the manga and anime industry is when you thought it's stagnating something new and interesting appeared.
SlvrNight
over 10 years ago
Actually, some of the writers at Marvel were talking about this and they revealed that they have story arcs planned up until 2016 and there are still no plans to bring him back by then. Inevitably he'll return since he's one of Marvel's most popular characters, but he'll be dead for a good while.
That's nice and all Kilgore, but with the death of a fictional character it's only really ever them being discontinued as a character that really counts, maybe it's not resurrection, but it's certainly reincarnation (or preincarnation? o_O) Either way, it's cheap storytelling.
On the other hand, in the last ten years Marvel has killed off both Peter Parker and Captain America, and both were brought back fairly quickly. So who knows?
On the one hand, sometimes heroes do stay dead. Jean Grey got killed for the 2nd time in 2004, and has stayed dead since. A younger version of herself time-traveled to the present in 2012 along with younger versions of the original team, but that doesn't really count as a resurrection. (cont.)
new ideas churned out every year. Stories for all kind of age demographics and new innovative characters now and then. The weakness is that if the marketing is not careful a series can disappear and lost its popularity after a decade or so.
The problem with American comic characters are that they trying too hard to keep the status quo. In one hand it will create an iconic character, but in the other hand it throttle innovation and creativity too much. I mean why Japanese comic industry thrive so well? Because they got a lot of
Jigglyboo
over 10 years ago
That's American pop culture in general for you. Action heroes never die. This was what made Twenty Four so interesting back in the day (until you got used to characters getting killed completely arbitrarily to meet the tragedy quota).
