Why does dc like killing off characters so much?
[QUOTE]WHY DOES DC LIKE KILLING OFF CHARACTERS SO MUCH?[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Güicho;3927810]Cause of the 90's Dark-Age/Tinfoil-Age/Shock & Awe era, it's what sold the most creating the Speculator market boon: People not buying for characters, but for [B]events[/B], and particularly around "[B]Death-Events[/B]".
Mid 80's [U]Bronze Age [/U]ended with Crisis (death of Allen) 1985, and the Bronze-Age "Relevancy" taken to it's dramatic end - Watchmen, Dark Knight, where comics were now commentary on Superhero themselves, vs. Vigilantism.
What followed was the [U]Dark Age[/U] or Shock & Awe age, the most shallow aping of those ^ books, with none of the "Relevance".
Instead replaced by banal, shallow, cynical glorification of violence, mindlessly aping those two books with eXtreme deaths! And events.
Death of Todd (complete with torture, a gruesome 1-(1900 #money generating number, so the "fans" could participate, and vote in the Death), Death of Superman (where it was solidified as a money generating Event), Breaking Batman, blowing up Green Arrow so Conner can take over, crippling Batgirl, Insane Jordan Killing the Corps etc... drove the industry and the creation of the speculator or tinfoil-age, as speculators started buying for supposed "key-issues" meaning anything with [U]shocking crippling, character heal-turns, deaths, and events[/U], they bought multiple of copies of.
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/gf8YmRQ.jpg[/IMG]
Pitched marketed and sold as "Key-Issues" = [I]"in this issue _____ is Crippled, goes Insane, Dies! ...etc! [/I]" The character or their history didn't mater, what mattered was now any mindless shocking violent, easy hook, which they bought in droves.
As long as the same people still buzz and buy into the same crap, they will continue try to market to that same mentality, whenever they can.[/QUOTE]
Man, that [B]picture [/B]alone basically says it all, doesn't it?[/QUOTE]
The new[B] picture[/B]...
[QUOTE=Gaastra;4078055]Here is the cover. Sorry about the mark. Got it from google. Edit-if this is a spoiler then please add the picture in a spoiler tag. (I can't get pictures in spoiler tags on this site.) [IMG][img]https://i.imgur.com/b5j6xwm.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The [I]proposed [/I]cover to Heroes in Crisis, if anyone is wondering if they are still feeding the fans who devour this garbage.
Yeah they changed it, yet it's clear what the "event" is exploiting and what they are selling.
This won't stop till the fans stop buying these purely for shock and awe events.[/QUOTE]
The Old, the New, ...And now the Self-Parody.
[QUOTE][IMG]https://www.previewsworld.com/SiteImage/MainImage/STL130162.jpg[/IMG]
SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #3
written by MATT FRACTION
art and cover by STEVE LIEBER
variant cover by BEN OLIVER
Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today in this catalog to remember our friend, Superman’s pal, the late Jimmy Olsen...’s assassination decoy!
Wait, somebody killed Jimmy’s decoy body? But whodunit? And, like, whydunit? And…wait, when did Jimmy get a decoy of himself? What we do know is it’s not safe for Jimmy in the City of Tomorrow anymore, and with Superman busy and all (you read that SUPERMAN #15 solicit yet?), Jimmy’s best bet is to solve his own murder within the safe borders of Gotham City! (Seriously, “safe”?)
ON SALE 09.18.19[/QUOTE]
LOL so this is Fraction kind of hysterically subverting the whole 90's trend.
So we know the trend, you fed into it, what DC has given you since they crowbar-ed Robin and Crippled and exploited Batgirl for you; when a character sales or direction has gotten stale, pull the Tinfoil-Age/Shock & Awe/Grim-Dark 90s move; the most shallow, cynical glorification of violence imaginable, shocking crippling, violation, out-of-character heal-turns assassination, exploitation and deaths!
Anything shocking, and a huge ATTENTION GRABBING HEADLINE to go with it, to desperately garner attention and sales to the character! And they still feed it to you.
This cover has it all...
So would that work for Jimmy Olsen, here is an event, story line and cover that blatantly does all that, yet....who would actually care? it's Jimmy Olsen, Probably next to nobody.
So make fun of the whole thing, he's naked, shot , and exploited on the cover YAY 90's! Yet hysterically reveal it's his "cardboard" decoy on the cover LOL!
Stand in for "fake" which is how these events work. Written out of character and/or exploited to the worst, for pure 90's shock exploitation.
[QUOTE=brandnewfan;3927670] Why? Can’t creators and editorial craft good stories without having to kill somebody? Why does that seem to be their main go-to when they have a big story to tell? [B]Just give us a big story without sticking [it] to anybody[/B]. [/QUOTE]
At least someone at DC is aware of and addressing how transparent their gimmick and the fans who fe[e]d into it are. LOL!