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ParanoidObsessive 04/26/19 9:05:19 PM #162:	Entity13 posted... but we know Disney. We know major corporations as a whole. We also know comic books, which have been telling sequential stories for 58 years (in Marvel's case), or 81 years (in DC's case - unless you count their various reboots as reset points, in which case they've only been telling ~~bad~~ stories for 8 years). The entire concept of comics is a medium where you tell stories that can be so utterly meaningful and charged with emotion that it can bring someone to tears, or stir something in them they've never felt before. And then you do it again. And again. And again. And again. There is no three-act structure, there is no grand finale, there is no ending. There's just the end of ONE story, and then next month we meet right back here again for the next one. Most of Marvel's best stories weren't the FIRST stories for their respective characters. In many cases, they weren't even from the same decade those characters were created. Often they weren't even the first major, meaningful storyline that character ever had. If comics just ended after they "finished" telling their story, we wouldn't have any of the actual worthwhile comic book stories of the past 50 years (ie, some of the best comic stories ever told). I have less problem with the MCU continuing past it's "conclusion" than I do almost any other franchise ever (except maybe Sherlock Holmes or the like), because by definition that's exactly what it's MEANT to do. If anything, thinking of comic stories in terms of beginning/middle/end is what gave us The Dark Knight Rises - and I'd rather it didn't. The fate of the MCU is to shuffle out old characters and shuffle in new. Maybe some characters will get recast. Maybe some will just "retire" and be thematically replaced (ie, Doctor Strange stops being the magic character, but you introduce Doctor Druid or Magik or Wiccan or Nico from the Runaways, etc to be "the magic character", Thor goes back to Asgard but we get Hercules instead, Scott Lang Ant-Man retires and we get Eric O'Grady Ant-Man or Rita DeMara's Yellowjacket, and so on ad infinitum). Eventually they'll likely wind up with nothing left to use but the throwaway characters no one cares about, and the franchise will sputter to a slow, whimpering death (at least until the eventual reboot starts the whole thing over again from scratch), but there may be any number of fantastic stories before then, and it's possible all of us now will be dead before they run out of ideas. There's a LOT of great comic stories for them to crib ideas from they still haven't used yet. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:921114073] in PotdMon: N... [t:77558720]...</cite> <quote><cite>Entity13 posted...</cite> <quote>but we know Disney. We know major corporations as a whole.</quote> We also know comic books, which have been telling sequential stories for 58 years (in Marvel's case), or 81 years (in DC's case - unless you count their various reboots as reset points, in which case they've only been telling bad stories for 8 years). The entire concept of comics is a medium where you tell stories that can be so utterly meaningful and charged with emotion that it can bring someone to tears, or stir something in them they've never felt before. And then you do it again. And again. And again. And again. There is no three-act structure, there is no grand finale, there is no ending. There's just the end of ONE story, and then next month we meet right back here again for the next one. Most of Marvel's best stories weren't the FIRST stories for their respective characters. In many cases, they weren't even from the same decade those characters were created. Often they weren't even the first major, meaningful storyline that character ever had. If comics just ended after they "finished" telling their story, we wouldn't have any of the actual worthwhile comic book stories of the past 50 years (ie, some of the best comic stories ever told). I have less problem with the MCU continuing past it's "conclusion" than I do almost any other franchise ever (except maybe Sherlock Holmes or the like), because by definition that's exactly what it's MEANT to do. If anything, thinking of comic stories in terms of beginning/middle/end is what gave us The Dark Knight Rises - and I'd rather it didn't. The fate of the MCU is to shuffle out old characters and shuffle in new. Maybe some characters will get recast. Maybe some will just "retire" and be thematically replaced (ie, Doctor Strange stops being the magic character, but you introduce Doctor Druid or Magik or Wiccan or Nico from the Runaways, etc to be "the magic character", Thor goes back to Asgard but we get Hercules instead, Scott Lang Ant-Man retires and we get Eric O'Grady Ant-Man or Rita DeMara's Yellowjacket, and so on ad infinitum). Eventually they'll likely wind up with nothing left to use but the throwaway characters no one cares about, and the franchise will sputter to a slow, whimpering death (at least until the eventual reboot starts the whole thing over again from scratch), but there may be any number of fantastic stories before then, and it's possible all of us now will be dead before they run out of ideas. There's a LOT of great comic stories for them to crib ideas from they still haven't used yet. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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