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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9463422" data-attributes="member: 7044704">To some degree I think you're seeing that already.  There seems to be an uptick in reviving/revitalizing dormant Golden/Silver Age characters, retconning them to have more extensive careers that can be told retroactively using modern storytelling techniques, even creating "old" characters out of whole cloth to give them more supporting characters, eg that flurry of Golden Age sidekicks that got de-erased from history in DC not too long back.  The fact that more of that kind of thing is being greenlit suggests someone high-up is thinking the way you are - and not just the way the movie studios want.  I agree, but that's just anathema to the people at both big companies pushing endless "event" comics on readers whether they want them or not.  The idea of self-contained stories is practically dead at this point - finding anything that fits in a single six-issue trade bundle is hard enough.Also agreed.  He was far from perfect, but the (relatively few) swell-headed creators he really leaned on have vilified him so much it drowns the quieter signals from creatives that he supported.  And he certainly did make a lot of money for both the Big Two over the years, even if his own endeavors were less reliably profitable.  Some of it's purely petty personality clashes too.  Look at John Byrne's systemic destruction of the surviving New Universe books following Shooter's departure from Marvel.  That was sheer malice, and really broke me out of my foolish nostalgia about the jerk from his old X-Man run.  I still have trouble processing what a huge market that is, and I don't see an end to its growth anytime soon (I mean, maybe as population growth numbers drop off, but that's generations of time to really notice...).  It kind of amazes me that it took so long to connect the traditional "kids like picture books" thinking with "graphic novels are called that for a reason" but boy, has that worked out. I'm old enough (and rural enough) to remember what it was like to find comics for sale when comic shops were something you only saw in real cities, and even then usually only one per population hub.  It was worse than bad, and wouldn't work at all with the modern multi-issue decompressed storytelling.  Hard enough reliably getting any two issues in a row off spinner racks, much less six.  I can remember insisting I needed a haircut as a kid just because the barber was next to the only real newsstand within fifty miles and their comic stock was the best I'd ever seen before the first dedicated comic shop within begging range opened in 1979.</blockquote>

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