Originally Posted by
Vakanai
It doesn't need that exacting level of synergy. Miles may exist in another universe in film, but in the comic books the Ultimate universe outside of Spider-Man was basically dead, and this way Miles can cross over in all the Spidey books more easily. It's more important that the bump in comics sales a movie causes has content with that character in them, for that audience to buy, than for it to completely reflect the movie, since those people buying for the movie never become long term comic buyers.
How am I admitting to being biased? I didn't say I was biased, so clearly you read something in something that makes you believe I'm biased, but doing that thing where you say "So you admit to being biased even though you've not said you're biased and I'm not explaining how what you said makes you biased." Please, for clarity, don't do that.
I brought up the Corps because, even though they were destroyed when Kyle had his origin, the Corps had introduced the whole idea of multiple GLs, and human GLs to boot, beforehand. Even if the Corps was destroyed then, the GL audience was trained for decades to accept new human GLs. It's silly to ignore that aspect of it, no matter what the Corps status was during Kyle's origin.
Jay is the grandfather Flash. Barry or Wally taking the mantle while he's still Flash in JSA stories is different, never mind the fact that the Flash family is just different from the Bat one.
Not really. Blue Beetle is a more obscure character who during Ted's era couldn't support a book.
Basically, the examples you're using are not similar. A popular hero like Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman has never had another character share their title while they've lived until now, only when they were dead, which never lasted, done as a gimmick. What happens in Flash, GL, and Blue Beetle are too specific to those different properties, in how the heroes, popularity, franchise, and legacy works compared to those other titles.
A few things:
1. I never said I didn't want him to stick around as a Batman. Personally, right now, I'm indifferent. Maybe that's why you're arguing here, you think I'm saying he shouldn't be Batman or something. I'm not saying that. I'm saying I believe that this is a gimmick. That's a very different thing.
2. Holy moly, much of this paragraph just about is basically stuff I wanted to say, and yet we've drawn the opposite conclusions from it.
3. The Death of Superman was sold as permanent (or so I've read - was before my time comics-wise). DC's done this kind of marketing before.