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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 4850417" data-attributes="member: 4720">Let me clarify:It was specific decisions made about Hal Jordan decades after he passed the torch the first time that flipped people out all over the joint.My only point was that people can accept Green Lanterns who are not Hal Jordan and any number of Flash characters, but they seem unable to accept Batmans who are not Bruce Wayne as anything other than a temporary situation.Actually... no.  The movies themselves are the meaningful revenue stream, AFAICT.  The comic doesn't need to be there at all anymore, since the only characters who get movies are the ones who have been pop culture icons for a LONG time.  And I think it's telling that the movies only succeed when they start from scratch.  Even continuing off previous movies as Superman Returns did is a big mistake. True.  But the legitimately consumer unfriendly atmosphere in comic book shops and new customer unfriendly nature of the stories don't help.The nice thing about being a modern myth is that you're very accessible.  Everyone gets the idea right off the bat.  Deliberately keeping those characters stuck in a soap operatic level of nonsensical plots for 20, 30, or 50 years eliminates that benefit handily.That's why the movies succeed while the comics continue to fail.</blockquote>