{"id":24661,"date":"2011-12-20T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/reiventing-superheroes-threat-or-menace.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:22:15","slug":"reiventing-superheroes-threat-or-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/reiventing-superheroes-threat-or-menace.html","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing superheroes: threat or menace?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here's the problem with a comic book character that's been around ten, twenty, seventy years … it's hard to come up with something new for them to do, some fresh approach that makes current fans clap with appreciation and non-fans come over and buy the comic.<\/p>\n

At which point, editors and\/or writers usually devise a cunning plan to reinvent the character as something All-New! All-Different! And usually all-awful, as the core of what makes the character interesting and follow-worthy in the first place usually gets tossed out along with it. Fortunately, these reinventions usually get undone or even retconned away within a short time, and often are never mentioned again.<\/p>\n

Fun list here, though I disagree mightily on their thoughts on Peter David's Hulk … #ddtb<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClassic comic book characters have successfully been reinvented over the years. But they kept being succesful because the core was the same — no one would ever mess with that, would they?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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