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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5931642" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Here's the thing: as a general social phenomenon, it behooves the comic authors to get with the program.</p><p></p><p>So. how many new hit characters are generated by a given comic line each year? How many are <em>predictably</em> generated each year?</p><p></p><p>It does nobody any good for them to make up a new character, and make them gay, if they have no staying power in the comics. The only way the action has meaning or effect (socially or economically, take your pick) is if the readers think of the character as important. That means they really need to do this with established characters.</p><p></p><p>And, as for complaining about retcons in comic books - that has been pretty much standard since the 1940s. Expecting continuity without change for 50+ years of publication is simply unreasonable. And, the faster the pace of the publishing business, the more frequent the recons will have to be to keep up. My understanding is that the average span of time a given customer avidly reads comics is 2-4 years. Continuity beyond that horizon is less valuable to the publisher than getting in new readers to replace the old.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5931642, member: 177"] Here's the thing: as a general social phenomenon, it behooves the comic authors to get with the program. So. how many new hit characters are generated by a given comic line each year? How many are [i]predictably[/i] generated each year? It does nobody any good for them to make up a new character, and make them gay, if they have no staying power in the comics. The only way the action has meaning or effect (socially or economically, take your pick) is if the readers think of the character as important. That means they really need to do this with established characters. And, as for complaining about retcons in comic books - that has been pretty much standard since the 1940s. Expecting continuity without change for 50+ years of publication is simply unreasonable. And, the faster the pace of the publishing business, the more frequent the recons will have to be to keep up. My understanding is that the average span of time a given customer avidly reads comics is 2-4 years. Continuity beyond that horizon is less valuable to the publisher than getting in new readers to replace the old. [/QUOTE]
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