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Prometheus said:
There are lines of comics for kids. This should not change. No five-year-old should be reading Identity Crisis. However, no adult should have to sift through the idiotic and dumbed-down nostalgic wank that guys like Johns and Loeb push.

I think Wonder Woman should be offing bad guys twenty-four-seven. Then she would be a character relatable to modern sensibilities. Same with Batman's moronic "no killing" policy. That's neither believable, nor intelligent. Should Superman kill? When there's no other option, yes. When it comes to guys like Zod, and others of similiar-powered ilk? Definitely.



But no one is holding a gun to your head and telling you, at the approximate age of thirty, to read stories about characters who were created primarily as childrens' stories, regardless of who is writing them. You don't "have" to sift through any writer's work.

And as far as what "modern sensibilities" are, I think that really is a matter of individual preference and the age of the reader involved. When you consider the pacifisitic nature of many people, there are probably as many people who would prefer to see a superhero not kill. In fact, comparing, for example, the average Punisher story to the average Batman story, I think one could legitimately argue there's nothing at all "complex" about a superhero killing his enemies instead of finding other ways to subdue them. Doesn't the fact that Batman lets the Joker live, and the consequents of that, invite a greater level of moral complexity than just killing him outright?

Like I said, I have no problem in the proper format telling "adult" stories with "kids" characters but I think that they should remain, primarily, kid accessible characters.