What happens when the well runs dry? (Editorial)

Editorial Opinion
By CptShellhead - Jun 06, 2012 08:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Comics

I've always been a fan of good movies and good books. But the one thing that can make or break them is the writing. I stopped reading comics about the age of 14, only to pick them up again in my 30's. What brought me back was the writing. Special effects and great art work add to the film and comic but without a good story we have nothing. The fact that after the comics I got back into are starting to get a bit, well not up to par, and that I have switched to a new title because of the writing makes me wonder,...how much can a comic book character go through before the title is "out of touch" with the original material. Variety is great, but how many different versions of a character or a team do we need? How much is too much? What finally breaks a bond with the reader?

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SimyJo
SimyJo - 6/6/2012, 8:53 AM
Reboot! ...It cant fail =D.

....can it? (lol)
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 6/6/2012, 8:54 AM
How many more of these articles are people gonna post before they realize they can just put it into a comment?
Helena
Helena - 6/6/2012, 8:59 AM
It's not so much the variety of versions as it's the quality of them. The DC reboot would'be been more welcome if 60% of their new comics wasn't garbage.

There's a difference between actually creating a story and playing with characters like an 8th year old with toys in a "now this guy fights this one POOOWWWWWWW" like Geoff is doing in JL. And the characters are just means to tell that story, so I don't mind variations. The wells don't run dry because there will always be new writers with new good ideas. Read stuff by Hickman from Fantastic Four to Ultimates and thank me later.
CptShellhead
CptShellhead - 6/6/2012, 9:03 AM
This is my 1st article, and everyone has been very helpful. I agree I should have been less vague. I think I'm trying to see from a person coming back into the comic book world, and the wave of comic book movies hitting the silver screen. What has more influence? The movie or the comic book? Also, what comics, character's and/or material is worthy of a movie?
CptShellhead
CptShellhead - 6/6/2012, 9:08 AM
I agree, that's Avery good point. I was just recently trying to get into The Green Arrow...but I didn't know the difference between the old content and the "new 52". A big DC fan in a comic store spent 15 minutes trying to sell me on the new Aquaman... And I went in VERY unopenminded, but as he showed me I was very impressed. I get worried because when I left comics as a teenager it was on the Atlantis Attacks..... I missed sooooo much, and have had a lot of fun catching up. But I was left with the same feeling with FEAR ITSELF, how could Siege be so good then this?
TheIrishSuperman
TheIrishSuperman - 6/6/2012, 9:23 AM
This is Hollywood we are talking about, we all know everything is gonna get the REBOOT treatment
CptShellhead
CptShellhead - 6/6/2012, 9:52 AM
Sad but true.
golden123
golden123 - 6/6/2012, 10:48 AM
Next time, you should include examples in your article in order to expand upon what you have. This is editorial is just really, really short.
CptShellhead
CptShellhead - 6/6/2012, 11:32 AM
Sounds good, thank you.
CptShellhead
CptShellhead - 6/6/2012, 4:25 PM
Well said. I know I had never heard The Sentry, before his appearance in the dark reign / siege era. But the "post" backstory I thought was really good. And I enjoyed his run in marvel. I like how he was manipulated and torn between two worlds. It was like a mentally unstable superman. I also liked how he was finished off, after he finished off Ares... Hopefully they will let him stay dead.
ThunderKat
ThunderKat - 6/6/2012, 5:00 PM
Great! Another comment pretending to be an editorial.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/6/2012, 6:25 PM
Shit has evolve. Or do you still want spider- to be in high school? Do you still want the x-men to be 5 teenagers learning to use their powers? Come on, characters have to grow. you cant keep everything like the orogonal because it would get stale. If you dont like what has been done to characters, then move on. but you cant expect everything to stay like it was in the 60's and 70's.
CptShellhead
CptShellhead - 6/7/2012, 3:12 AM
I agree on both, and those are very good points. Evolution is needed and welcomed. It's the "reboot with a tiny change" I think that dumbs down character. Sometimes it's good, but most of the time it takes us back to the same start, the same line up, with one or two minor changes. For example ( and I apologize only having Marvel references ), the black ops X-Force change from the old squad with cannonball, the AoA universe and the Ultimates I personally all enjoyed. They seemed fresh. But things like Cap... I was really enjoying the dark side of Barnes as cap and commander Rogers. Now back to the start for both?
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