Quote: the G-man said: You know, it just seems to me that, if a character isn't working out, a smart publisher could just, I dunno, stop using the character for a while, instead of killing him or her off, thereby leaving the character alive for a future writer, with potentially more talent, to bring him or her back.
Instead, we are subjected, month after month, to mini-series that kill the characters off.
Is that supposed to be creativity--telling the same, morbid story over and over?
I think DC did address why Blue Beetle wasn't going to work in the DCU. He'd been turned into a joke. He was too close to Batman to really move out on his own. They needed a Blue Beetle who returned to the mystical origin of the original; but Ted could really, character wise, fit the bill for that. He was too science based to accept the magic of the scarab.
I think DC gave him a grand send off. A very well written story with good artists and writers. 80 pages to shine. A display that he wasn't the joke that everyone made him out to be. And to make sure everyone read it, DC slapped a Lee/Ross cover with a $1 price on it.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
