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Death All Over The PlaceSubmitted by Drumm on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 4:48PMIf you’re anything like me, you get a little attached to the characters in the books you read. You laugh with them, cry with them, and you genuinely care about their well being and what happens to them. So what about when they die? I just got caught up with a series where basically the entire supporting cast got killed in a matter of pages. Like everyone. It was a friggin’ slaughter. I had been with these folks for eight volumes and now they are all dead. So what now? With everyone dead, its going to change the whole dynamic of the book. With only two people escaping with their lives, now what’s gonna happen? On one hand, this makes me kind of angry. Angry at those who killed my friends, angry at the writer for killing them off in the first place, and angry that I was duped into loving these characters in the first place. This right here kids is why I love comic books. This book got a genuine real life reaction of me. I sat up in my bed after reading the last volume, tossed it aside and said “God, that was AWFUL!” And that is the sign of a good book. I lost sleep, I thought about it the next day. Sure, I’m angry and sad, but now I want to know what happens next more than ever. Good comics are all about emotion. If you care about these characters so much that is transcends the fifteen minutes it takes to read an issue, then it’s a winner.
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Death in comics
I'm right there with you Drumm. I've been reading comics for years and during all that time there have always been some deaths in the comics. Gwen Stacey, Jason Todd, Harry Osborn, Jean Grey, Bucky, Hal Jordon, Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, Captain America the list just goes on and on. But the thing is over the years most of the deaths were of supporting characters and for the most part at some point they all came back in one way or another.
But in the last 2 or so years things have changed. Before I went to college I was getting a ton of comics of most companies and then once in college I barely was able to afford 2 titles a month. But now I'm done with it and getting back to a lot and in so doing that I have got back into readin such titles as the X Men and wow I could not and still don't believe the death and destruction that occurs in them.
In just a matter of a few pages or in some a few panels there were multiple deaths that was in the double digits. Now I don't know if the companies will keep with the one day they can come back to life but right now the feeling I get is that these characters are dead for good. Why? The first Astonishing X Men I picked back up was the one that had Kitty Pryde die. Why kill her? Though with her the story is left open enough were she might have been saved by someone out in space but still, what was the point? Shock? If so they need to stop it. I don't like shock and if the industry has gotten to the point of needing shock factors such as countless and pointless deaths of major characters then it's time to start doing something different.
The reason I read the comics I do is because I like the characters in them. I first started reading X Men for Kitty Pryde. My dad bought me a huge box of comics from some guy and in it were hundreds of comics that wasn't the most popular. But there were some miniseries with Nightcrawler and Excalibur and from there I was hooked on reading about Kitty Pryde and Lockheed.
But now she's dead, almost all the mutants are gone, Captain America, and though not a death per say but Peter Paker and Mary Jane are no longer married and the way that was dealt with is just plain horrible. It goes against everything the character Peter Paker/Spider-Man stands for that it's sickening.
I understand there needing to be deaths in comics but as with the alternative covers of the 90's don't go overboard with it.
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