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1. PlatinumKatie (katiekats@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 14:52:27 EDT PlatinumKatie
   A lot of people are chatting about Tom Kings current Batman run, and the way it feels like a lot of it is mis-using side characters, just to prop up the main ones, and how the justification for this is "well the side characters are clearly gonna be used in Tom Kings next project." 
   
   And this...feels like a good demonstration of why I've really fallen out of love with comics.
   1. PlatinumKatie (katiekats@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 14:54:20 EDT PlatinumKatie

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      Comics -never fucking end- 
      
      This thing people are complaining about, happens all the time. Characters are twisted, pushed and pulled away from ways that fit them, just to star in [insert next big thing here]
      
      There's no true end point, because you're either leading into the next thing, which makes the current thing worse, -or- you're not doing so because it's a reboot/reset and then in which case, it feels like a waste of time following the characters. 
      1. PlatinumKatie (katiekats@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-May-2018 14:58:02 EDT PlatinumKatie

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         It's why I much prefer collected graphic novel types, and films. They have an end point. You see the characters grow, to a particular point, in which everything fits, and then it's done. It doesn't need to continue. It reached conclusion, and it doesn't feel like those characters will just be twisted to get pulled straight into another thing. Because they're proper one-offs.
         
         Comics as they are...just...keep going, they never reach anything, development never truly occurs and sticks.
         
         Because...well...it can't. It doesn't work in the medium as it is.