Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Rebirth, the Resurrection Story

Tell me how many times you've heard this one.
Hero sacrifices life to save the known universe only to pop back up again in a few years all brand new.
Or how about the side kick who dies a horrible death only to come back and enact revenge against everyone involved, including the hero.
We've seen it time and time again and quite frankly it's getting boring.
Can't DC come up with something better than to drag Jason Todd out of the grave.
And what about Marvel scaring up poor old Bucky to give Cap the hebbie-jebbies.
Oh and look Hal Jordan decided it was more fun as Green Lantern then the Spectre.
Guess he wasn't pulling enough clout as God's Wrath, he needed the little blue guys to put aside that little Parallax incident and make like friends.
I'm sorry if I'm coming off as way too cranky but enough is enough.
I can't wait to see how they're gonna bring back Clint and his arrows cause you know that's already written in the books...Right Brian.
No real character ever stays dead and as much as I would like to see Blue Beetle hack at the Omac computers again, I just can't believe he will stay dead.
Well in Blue Beetle's case, yeah its probably a certainty.
Sorry but I did say real character like Ollie Queen as the Green Arrow. Or Clark Kent as this Super guy. Or Donna Troy as WonderGirl. Or Barry Allen as Flas...Oh wait he's still gone.
Ok DC you get props for that one.
DC has done a pretty decent job of late with Sue Dibny but Marvel always seems to one-up them.
Just look at Marvel's track record.
They killed off Uncle Ben back in the 60's and dang-blasted he's a gonna stay dead...ya hear.
And while we're on Spidey, his story has the best history of keep them in the grave.
Let's see... So far we had Uncle Ben followed by Captain Stacy then his daughter Peter's "true love" Gwen and also Harry Osborn Peter's friend and Arch-enemy all wrapped up in one sweet and deranged package.
And that's just a few of them. Anyone remember Ben Reilly...yep still dead. For now!
Anyway all I'm saying is give it a rest sometimes and keep them in the grave.
After all it does say Rest In Peace.
In conclusion, I'll be reading these stories just to pique my interest, but I would rather these 2 giants in the comic industry try a little imagination every once in a while and let the dead rest.

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