With the current trend toward -ending- marriages, who seriously thought that Bruce and Selena (or Kitty and Piotr) would actually -get- married?
To the man-child that is the average comic reader, marriage is not an beginning, but an ending. The end of their pet character getting down with a variety of sexy ladies. The end of their Waifu seeming available.
The end of freedom.
For the writers, it is the end of romantic tension. It is a permanent character change that limits what they can and cannot write. They hate this, so no element of continuity outlasts the current writer any more.
This refusal to let characters grow (on the part of the writers and readers, and the editors whose imperative, above all, is to sell comics) is why the quality of these comics is going down, in my opinion.
We saw some growth in the late 90's and 2000's, but the boss guys of the Big Two (Quesada and Johns) actively reversed character development in favor of older continuity, and our choice has been to get on the trolley or get lost.
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With the current trend toward -ending- marriages, who seriously thought that Bruce and Selena (or Kitty and Piotr) would actually -get- married?
To the man-child that is the average comic reader, marriage is not an beginning, but an ending. The end of their pet character getting down with a variety of sexy ladies. The end of their Waifu seeming available.
The end of freedom.
For the writers, it is the end of romantic tension. It is a permanent character change that limits what they can and cannot write. They hate this, so no element of continuity outlasts the current writer any more.
This refusal to let characters grow (on the part of the writers and readers, and the editors whose imperative, above all, is to sell comics) is why the quality of these comics is going down, in my opinion.
We saw some growth in the late 90's and 2000's, but the boss guys of the Big Two (Quesada and Johns) actively reversed character development in favor of older continuity, and our choice has been to get on the trolley or get lost.
Which is why my primary source of comics is SD.