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Seriously though.....Just tell me a good story. I don't care if it's Spider-Man facing off against the Green Goblin for a 3-issue story or Spider-Man helping regular folk in their daily lives for one issue.
Just tell me a good story. Everything doesn't have to have subplots that drag on for all eternity (Chris Claremont on X-Men was notorious it seems for this and the pay-offs were a long time coming. How long was it before we found out who the 3rd Summers brother was?
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Just tell me a good story. What happens in Metropolis, STAYS in Metropolis and doesn't have to effect Gotham City or Star City or Ivy Town on a continous basis. A cross-over should be a special story, a treat, a rare instance....not a monthly expectation. To paraphrase Syndrome...."When everything is super, nothing will be"
Just tell me a good story. There doesn't need to be this constant character growth and pushing the envelope. Batman is Batman and will always be Batman (but whether he'll be Bruce Wayne or not is another matter apparently
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Just tell me a good story. Death should not be a revolving door. Why is "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" a landmark story? Because it was unique at the time....Gwen wasn't resurrected by the High Evolutionary as a clone a few months later. What? Oh it was Miles Warren that created a Gwen clone two years later? Hmmmm.....nevermind. Again, to use the Syndrome ideology, when everyone dies and returns, death isn't so special anymore. Thank god Uncle Ben, Bucky and the Waynes are still dead. Hmmm? OK, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Just tell me a good story. Why is Crisis on Infinite Earths a landmark series? One reason is because company-wide cross-overs were a rarity at that time. But COIE begat Legends which begat Millennium which begat Final Night which begat Invasion which begat War of the Gods which begat Zero hour which begat Bloodlines which begat Infinite Crisis which begat Final Crisis which begat Blackest Night. And those are the ones I remembered off the top of my head. (I'm trying to forget Secret Wars II)
Just tell me a good story. The phrase "writing for the trades" has became a death sentence for the comic book as we know it....it's like a drug. Writers are always chasing that next high. Everything has to blow away the previous arc. A stand-alone issue is JUST-NOT-GOOD-ENOUGH anymore. Heaven forbid if there's a stand-alone issue sandwiched in between arcs. How are we going to "trade" it? Does it fit in with the prior arc or the arc following it? Do we not "trade" it altogether? (But we'll later "trade" it as part of an omnibus collection independent of "arc")
Just tell me a good story. Everything doesn't have to have subplots that drag on for all eternity (Chris Claremont on X-Men was notorious it seems for this and the pay-offs were a long time coming. How long was it before we found out who the 3rd Summers brother was?
)Just tell me a good story. What happens in Metropolis, STAYS in Metropolis and doesn't have to effect Gotham City or Star City or Ivy Town on a continous basis. A cross-over should be a special story, a treat, a rare instance....not a monthly expectation. To paraphrase Syndrome...."When everything is super, nothing will be"
Just tell me a good story. There doesn't need to be this constant character growth and pushing the envelope. Batman is Batman and will always be Batman (but whether he'll be Bruce Wayne or not is another matter apparently
)Just tell me a good story. Death should not be a revolving door. Why is "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" a landmark story? Because it was unique at the time....Gwen wasn't resurrected by the High Evolutionary as a clone a few months later. What? Oh it was Miles Warren that created a Gwen clone two years later? Hmmmm.....nevermind.
Again, to use the Syndrome ideology, when everyone dies and returns, death isn't so special anymore. Thank god Uncle Ben, Bucky and the Waynes are still dead. Hmmm? OK, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.Just tell me a good story. Why is Crisis on Infinite Earths a landmark series? One reason is because company-wide cross-overs were a rarity at that time. But COIE begat Legends which begat Millennium which begat Final Night which begat Invasion which begat War of the Gods which begat Zero hour which begat Bloodlines which begat Infinite Crisis which begat Final Crisis which begat Blackest Night. And those are the ones I remembered off the top of my head. (I'm trying to forget Secret Wars II)
Just tell me a good story. The phrase "writing for the trades" has became a death sentence for the comic book as we know it....it's like a drug. Writers are always chasing that next high. Everything has to blow away the previous arc. A stand-alone issue is JUST-NOT-GOOD-ENOUGH anymore. Heaven forbid if there's a stand-alone issue sandwiched in between arcs. How are we going to "trade" it? Does it fit in with the prior arc or the arc following it? Do we not "trade" it altogether? (But we'll later "trade" it as part of an omnibus collection independent of "arc")
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