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12-04-2007, 12:41 PM
Irid70
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Comics have to be able to balance the necessity of keeping core characters alive with the demands of keeping a dynamic and interesting narrative alive. Obviously if you're talking about a Spider-Man book, well, Spider Man isn't ever going to die, not permanently. But in my opinion anyone else around him should be fair game.
In a comic like G.I. Joe, though, the writers have a cast of dozens to keep the story going, and they don't superpowers and origin stories in order to introduce new characters. It is about a group, not an individual. That gives GI Joe's writers much more latitude when it comes to killing characters off, because it isn't like the book dissolves without its single protagonist. The fact that some fans were angry when LJ died is a GOOD thing. As CC said, it isn't a bad thing to piss some fans off a bit now and then. If the writers were only going to make decisions by sticking their thumb in the air to see which way the fan-created hot air is blowing, they'd either not get anything written, or not write anything worth reading.
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