Worst Trend of 2008
Jim Doom says: Bringing people back to life!
So we just got Wally West back not long ago, and now Barry Allen is back too. I’m afraid Legion of 3 Worlds is going to bring Bart back as well. Azrael’s coming back in a few months. A whole bunch of people are coming back to life when the Black Lanterns show up. I actually don’t want Bruce Wayne to stay dead (if he dies) so stop bringing everyone back or his return won’t be very cool!
I understand the desire to want to keep cool characters in rotation. So just stop killing them!
Here’s to Steve Rogers continuing the dirtnap.
Honorable mention: Digital “inking”
Somewhere along the way, someone figured out they could cut a guy out of the assembly line by jacking up the contrast on the penciler’s art. But that doesn’t look inked. It looks awful. You save your inker’s wages and I’ll save my three bucks.
Fin Fang Doom says: $3.99 Comics!
I don’t mind paying an extra dollar every now and then for a comic. If it’s an anniversary issue or there’s a reprint in the back or it’s a giant-sized finale or it’s from a smaller company like IDW, I don’t mind paying four dollars. But there’s absolutely no reason I should ever have to pay $3.99 for a random issue of Amazing Spider-Man guest-starring the Punisher and Moses Magnum. If Marvel can give me 40 pages of Criminal for $3.50, there’s no reason they can’t give me 22-pages of anything they publish for $2.99, even if it has a fancy cardstock cover.
While a price-jump is inevitable, a jump of a dollar is most certainly evitable. And Marvel really shot themselves in the foot by upping New Avengers and Dark Avengers to $4. Thanks to Dark Reign, I was going to start buying both titles, despite four years of anger over Bendis disassembling the Avengers. But ain’t no way that’s going to happen for $4 an issue. Hell, I’d stop buying the thrice-monthly Amazing Spider-Man at that price.
Here’s what we had to say about bad trends last year:
2007:
Jim Doom: Silver Age Resurgence
Doominator: Late Shipping
Fin Fang Doom: Interrupting Arcs with Fill-In Issues
Doom DeLuise: Zombie Variant Covers
That picture makes no sense. Shame on whoever posted this!
Looks like I kind of found a way to say the same thing I said in 2007 only with slightly different words.
I agree about how bringing everyone dead back to life is retarded, but Azrael is still dead- this is a new guy taking the name, which is in line with DC’s tradition of legacy characters.