Originally Posted by
Ra-El
Look, speaking as someone who just can't stand to read another story about Thor losing his hammer, Superman questioning how much he should intervene on Earth or a dethroned Aquaman, I can see where you are coming from.
I like stories that have endings, where the characters progress and things aren't undone or redone every 5 or 10 years. I got those stories with Invincible, Nailbiter, The Fade Out, Sheriff of Babylon or even Mister Miracle. Stories that have a ending goal and that when is done, liking or not I know that is the end. Is also the reason why Hitman and Starman are my two favorite superhero runs, period.
I also know, that having a true ending is against the medium we are talking about here, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman weren't created to have an ending, they weren't created for us. These characters were created to be read by kids and teenagers, that would move on from them, they were created to have one off adventures set in a more or less static status quo.
I used to have the same vision as the op, the stories in DC and Marvel should end. But now, I think that we should stop wanting from the mainstream superhero comics, things that go against it's very nature. For years now, I have been decreasing the number of DC and Marvel comics I read, my general idea is to eventually just move away from the main universes and only read titles like Superman Smashes the Klan and the Earth Ones, stories that do have ends.
What I mean is that maybe the problem is not that Tim and Conner are still Robin and Superboy, but that we grown up.