If only someone would write a long-winded essay about this.
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Originally Posted by Fifthfiend
I don't blame comics too hard given that they are 1. telling stories in a persistent universe that has run the course of (in DC's case) nearly a century, 2. these days a very very small piece of the overall entertainment media pie. Yes you or I the comics reader might love to see Dick finally take over the Batman legacy or Peter Parker just retire and have a kid but the problem is that when the movie industry goes to make a movie they want to make it about Bruce goddamn Wayne and the animated series launched out of that naturally also features the aforementioned Bruce Wayne so if your comics series Batman is Richard Grayson the former apprentice of Bruce Wayne etc. etc. etc. then you're gonna have a lot of people picking it up and going WTF WHO'S THIS GUY HE'S NOT REALLY BATMAN WWWWARGLEBARGLE.
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At this point why even pretend that you are writing for an audience that has been reading Batman since Bob Kane thought it would be cool if a dude dressed up as a bat and fought crime, an audience that consists of shit all nobody? Why not just stop publishing the continuing adventures of a dude whose adventures have continued for longer than his natural lifespan, start over from the beginning, and flat out say that is what you are doing instead of writing a story in which an Anti-Monitor from the anti-matter universe destroys everything and then recreates it except different (so you have to start midstream and nobody knows exactly what has or has not happened yet)?
You can blame comics for that.
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