Something satisfying...

[lithera]

About being right.

In this case it isn't anything important. Just comic book stuff. But it is very, very nice to know a character well enough to know what has to come next. It also makes me very happy to know that I'll be seeing much more of that character in the future.

And I'm coming back to my thing about chracter death. It sucks to lose characters we love. It does. It doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. BUT! In a world such as comic books there is no saying who may or many not come back at some point. Also, it is very important to me that character deaths in comic books /mean/ something. For example - Jean Grey's first death was a good death, I think. Her coming back.... I don't know. It made it mean less. I'm not sure about Jason Todd yet but I'm still leaning toward it being lame to have brought him back..... but with what is happening in the universe, it makes sense. The door between life and death is broken...

So. I'm not going to talk about specifics because I know there are people who are hating all this. I'm still on the side of really liking it.

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[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

I'm loving this Infinite Crisis thing. I recently read the collected storyline where Blue Beetle dies...and I liked it. It was appropriate, it was sad, and it did affect people. (Possibly is still affecting people; I'm not sure.) Wonder Woman's murder of Maxell Lord, again with the appropriate, again with teh ramifications, again with teh having to deal with it.

But before this...Jason Todd was the big black hole in the Bat-family. Everyone knew about his death, everyone had feelings about it, and it's still affecting them years upon years down the line. Bats is still screwed up about it, Tim still has it in the back of his head, and I'm fairly certain Nightwing still feels occassionally that if he hadn't given up being Robin, Jason wouldn't have died. But no one else (except maybe, just maybe, Hal Jordan) had that kind of effect in the DC universe. Which is why I'm kind of ticked that Jason and Hal are back; their deaths changed people, like deaths do. That shouldn't be screwed with.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

It is still effecting people in Crisis, certainly.

*hugs*

I miss you, Marci. Mike and I were talking about it the other day. There are holes that are Marci shaped that we need to find someone else to fill not so well.

Yeah. Jason... I'm still not happy with Jason. And Hal.... I can forgive bringing Hal back because the whole storyline with him going crazy (suddenly) and killing everyone and redeeming himself and then not and then dying and... It was a mess and apparently came out of the blue and was not told to any of his regular writers before it was going into production.

So.... His death had a huge impact but it could have been much more impactful.

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

I miss you guys too. Lots.