http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2011\/03\/07\/ultimate-spider-man-160-to-be-polybagged\/<\/a><\/p>\nWhen I was a little-kid comic reader,\u00c2\u00a0 nobody signifigant died in comics unless it was during the origin story, and that was to give motiviation to the hero to don a batsuit or otherwise pick up the mantle of great responsibility that came with\u00c2\u00a0 great power….\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nowadays, it seems like EVERYBODY is on the dead\/reborn list. Spider-man, the Human Torch, Captain America, Superman, Batman, Robin, Green Lantern, Flash….\u00c2\u00a0 And they all come back as good as new.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like killing Kenny in South Park, but with a collector’s edition poly-bagged release version….<\/p>\n
It just feels like a lot of \u00c2\u00a0cheap exploitation and bad writing to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Need some drama?\u00c2\u00a0 Need to generate some excitement for a fading character?\u00c2\u00a0 Kill him\/her!\u00c2\u00a0 Then bring them back for an even more dramatic resurrection!\u00c2\u00a0 It’ll draw attention and sell a lot of copies.<\/p>\n
But to all those comic readers who complain that nobody outside of fandom takes capes and powers\u00c2\u00a0seriously, killing characters with no consequence is just another reason for mainstream readers to snicker at comics and treat it as a juvenile medium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was just reading about what\u00c2\u00a0 a big\u00c2\u00a0event\u00c2\u00a0the impending death of\u00c2\u00a0 “Ultimate Spider-Man” is going to be.\u00c2\u00a0 All I can say is\u00c2\u00a0“yawn.” http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2011\/03\/07\/ultimate-spider-man-160-to-be-polybagged\/ When I was a little-kid comic reader,\u00c2\u00a0 nobody signifigant died in comics unless it was during the origin story, and that was to give motiviation to the hero to don a batsuit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,20,24,22,21,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}