Well. At least they didn't kill Speedy, too. :-/

[benicio127]

From the Emerald City Comic Con DC panel:

The first question jumped into the recent controversy over the death of Lian Harper, the young daughter of Speedy who was recently killed in "Cry for Justice," when a female fan expressed her displeasure with the "fridging" of the character:

James Robinson: "That decision [was] a controversial and one that I know has been greeted with some displeasure by some people... I'm sorry if it upset people. In all honesty, they wanted to kill Speedy too, and I said no, so give me some credit for that."

Ian Sattler: "I'm happy it upset people because it means that the story had some weight and emotion."

Source: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/03/13/emerald-city-comic-con-the-dc-nation-panel/

WTF.




Suggested tags: char: speedy/red arrow/arsenal/roy harper, char: lian harper, title: outsiders, creator: Judd Winick

Comments

[suzene]

This kind of reasoning is depressingly familiar in comics.

Your readers want to burn the creative team at the stake? Yay, we got a reaction!

Basically, whatever the readers do or say, the people involved will defend their decisions to the death, to the point of repeating them over and again, so why bother getting invested? Breeding apathy and cynicism in your fanbase is not a good thing.

[amaniwolf]

God yes, this is the Quesada method in Marvel, if it pisses you off, it must be right, so we'll just keep treating you and the characters like dirt.

[goldenbrowngod]

On the creator side I can see where it's easy to say getting a reaction is a good thing.

Whatever a writer does it seems like their will be some fans want to kill the creative team. It doesn't matter if something really bad such as killing of kids or something as simple as a hero getting a new look.

Because of this creators can't really go by what people say. The only real way the can judge fans reactions are by sales and the sad thing is this type of stuff seems to sale.

Cry for justice has been sh!t from the get go but kept getting decent sales.