The super large families are killing comics

Is there no creativity left for actual new characters?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Marvel and DC tries new characters every so often. Nobody buys them. Blame yourself.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I’m not buying the Batfamily and spiderfamily and whatever family either

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        So you're not buying established characters, and you're not buying new characters either.
        Why should I give a shit about your opinion again?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine buying big2 capeshit when none of it truly matters. They are literally a retcon away from making those stories irrelevant.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        My brother in Christ no piece of fiction "matters". It's not real. It's meant to engage your brain or at the very least entertain.

        Maybe these new characters would do better if they got any form of promotion. Oh and also letting other characters finally have a conclusion would be nice but we can't have that can we? Peter Parker will eternally be a poor photographer barely paying his monthly rent despite his massive, extensive resume.

        I'd vastly prefer this. But that's not what we have, and it's not what we're going to get any time soon. And complaining on a Laotian Snake-Milking forum isn't going to change that.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >My brother in Christ

          Go back to twitter and stay there

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe these new characters would do better if they got any form of promotion. Oh and also letting other characters finally have a conclusion would be nice but we can't have that can we? Peter Parker will eternally be a poor photographer barely paying his monthly rent despite his massive, extensive resume.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Nobody buys them.

      Because they suck. Ben 10 and Hero Academia proves you can still make popular new heroes. You just need to tell interesting stories with them.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Ben 10 and Hero Academia proves you can still make popular new heroes. You just need to for them to be cartoons and manga first
        fixed

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You're right. But that's only true because the comic book industry is run by the most out of touch, moronic, unimaginative washouts on earth. They sat on the absolute worst distribution system possible for decades and watched web based content evolve like 3 separate times into different successful models.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is this the guy who draws Annie?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The answer is no, there is no creativity left in Marvel or Dc. Even the trend of making everyone gay was already done back then in the 2010s.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They make new characters all the time, and yet you cry "What is this garbage fanfic character?" EVERY TIME. It doesn't matter what books do, regardless of quality, you have a perpetual need to be triggered and make threads to express it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Stop playing coy. You know exactly what he meant. No one wants to see Ms Marvel when Captain Marvel and Mr. Fantastic exist. No one wants to see Spider-Man...but from another universe! A-and he's little Asian girl! Its fine for onne What If/ Elseworlds story but its getting too much.

        And yes we are aware of characters like Safespace, Snowflake, and Nonbinary Internet Fart Gas boy. You know... the characters coasting off the popularity of New Warriors? Read that if you want but based on the descriptions and designs alone you know those aren't real characters

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You stop being coy, anon. I wasn't even referring to Ms. Marvel or those shitty New Warriors that got laughed into cancellation before ever dropping. We get villains, new heroes, and it doesn't matter what they are.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Harley Quinn but its Himiko Toga
            Okay. Honestly I'll give you this. The one time they try to change the status quo and develope a character (i.e. Harley Quinn dumping the Joker and become a vigilante lesbian) no one liked it and they still keep trying to push it. The Punchline thing just seems like a definite "no Harley will not get back with Joker she's been replaced get over it".

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              No what people didn't like was the crap New 52 writing with flip floppy characterization bullshit. They've since remained consistent. Other new characters too unfortunately didn't catch on

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It depends. Guys like Hulk, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, etc. They were in accidents which could have happened to anyone. Fair enough.

    Guys like Doctor Strange, Green Lantern, Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer were chosen specifically by some being to be the one and only. Having multiple Sorcerer Supremes or Guardians of sector 2814 makes no sense.

    Batman trained himself afrom the age of 8-12 to mental and physical perfection. He also trained three boys of similar ages. Cassandra Cain and his own son were trained from birth. If you have the will and time you could feasibly learn from Batman. But a guy like signal, Orphan, and Batwing? It starts to get iffy.

    And then you have guys like Superman, Wolverine, Groot. They were sold as being the only one of their species. Superman is the most egregious seing as Supergirl, Krypto, a small army of rogue Kryptonians, Doomsday, etc. all attack Earth on the daily. Wolverine at least has the excuse of being cloned. But still it gets iffy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Bruce Wayne is also rich. You can do the
      >rich guy is also a caped crusader by night
      maybe three times in the same part of the world. But a lot of the new street vigilantes seem to be apart of Batman Inc or just barely scrapping by. Even when Dick left to Bludhaven he was struggling to be Nightwing and be a cop and not get evicted from his apartment

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I’m the Green Lantern series they clarified the human Lanterns have different jobs

      They just shouldn’t all come from America

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sorcerer Supreme IS a title, Strange even gave it up more than once before the 2000s. The current title starring Clea has been loads of fun too.

      I get what you're saying though, my big problem with legacy characters is when people treat the original as if they sucked or were somehow less experienced or popular.

      As for Groot, that's more marketing's fault. It's hard to keep him as this loveable childlike plant creature when he's also canonically an evil overlord with a huge body count, so introducing multiple Groots makes sense.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I feel they do this shit because marketers convinced them that every possible demographic needs a version of a successful character

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I hate multiversal heroes like spider-man.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think this is a natural consequence of milking characters dry for decades. They become more a brand than a character.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The solution is really just to launch new book with only tenuous at best connection to a greater universe and then if it gets popular then they can start pulling its characters and concepts for use in crossovers.
    This issue is instead of doing this and keeping the successful ones they tie every single idea back into one of their already existing properties muddying them up with a ton of bullshit.
    Also the refusal to retire characters and concepts like letting people grow old or stopping the process of bring back one off villain's and never letting them leave. keeps things bloated but I get it. Regardless of how much I want peter to settle down with MJ and start a family Marvel will never surrender one of their flagship characters.
    Although all of this is predicated on the people making and in charge of the big two being good at their jobs.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I never realized how many industry shills came here

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Don’t understand

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's time for new Ultimate lines

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ASM right now has none of that and people are pissed. Why are you complaining about it for Spider-Man now? Also, Batman has a dozen comics starring just him.

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