do comic book use return from the dead thing

[drychlick]

it seem every 1 come back from the dead! superman bucky. and cap. Do you think there gone too far! you think some should stay dead just to make death real and not a joke! some kids who read them may get the wrong idea about death! i think haveing a hero die and NOT come back will show them how forever death is! love dr ps my mom just die and she not coming back! And so was my hero

 

[sojourner]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

Uncle Ben has stayed dead. Aunt May, on the other hand, seems to resurrect at will.

 

[Trekker4747]

The thread title and the OP are making my head hurt.

Somewhere, Timby's head is actually exploding.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

Nah, Bucky. He was dead since the Golden Age.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

Nah, Bucky. He was dead since the Golden Age.

Sorry, Allyn, but that was a retcon introduced in 1963's Avengers #4.

Gwen Stacy is pretty permanently dead, as is George Stacy. Kraven the Hunter, I don't think, is ever coming back. The Waynes are pretty damn dead, else Batman loses his whole motivation...when he comes back, that is.

However, it sometimes seems like the only people who didn't make it off Krypton were Jor-El and Lara.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

One of the few good things about the mini-series Marvel:The End was it blamed comic book characters coming back from the dead for fundamentally screwing up the universe beyond repair.

 

[FPAlpha]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

Nah, Bucky. He was dead since the Golden Age.

Sorry, Allyn, but that was a retcon introduced in 1963's Avengers #4.

Gwen Stacy is pretty permanently dead, as is George Stacy. Kraven the Hunter, I don't think, is ever coming back. The Waynes are pretty damn dead, else Batman loses his whole motivation...when he comes back, that is.

However, it sometimes seems like the only people who didn't make it off Krypton were Jor-El and Lara.

You can bet any of your appendages that if they found a (in their eyes) "worthy" story that anyone could be resurrected.. if an important character maybe during a big event to sell more books.

If they can undo Parker's marriage how they have done it they can pretty much do anything.

Also one of the reasons why i've stopped reading comics.. again.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

That's what happens in a shared fictional universe where people don't age, and in which the brand identity of the characters can't be altered too much and for too long. Ultimately, all changes are reversed or ignored.

 

[Mr Light]

The Waynes are pretty damn dead, else Batman loses his whole motivation...

Did you read Batman RIP?

 

[DarKush]

Of course there has been too much resurrection of comic book characters. I think it cheapens the character and its all about the shock value of the announcement or story that a character is buying the farm. I don't get too excited about that stuff anymore, like I did for Superman, because I know they'll bring them back in a few months anyway. And if they actually did die the writers now have to come up with a convoluted way to bring them back, like Steve Rogers for example. I was just fine with Bucky taking over permanently, but the Reborn storyline has left me cold.

 

[Mr Light]

I haven't read Reborn but I agree Bucky should have stayed on as Cap. Rogers was great as a martyr. Where does this leave Bucky now? Swept to the sidelines?

 

[ManOnTheWave]

The thread title and the OP are making my head hurt.

Yes.


And on topic, coming back from the dead is merely just another obligitory tool in the old box for super hero comics. Don't like it? You may as well not like tights or super powers.

 

[flandry84]

Um,as for giving the kids the wrong idea about death.....


These are stories about guys who can fly and shoot laser beams out of their fingers....

 

[gastrof]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

I'm a little lost on the whole Barry thing.

Is the current Barry from the time before he died in the Crisis, thus not dead YET (so he's a time traveling version of Barry), or has he emerged from the speed force, apparently never having actually died during the Crisis?

 

[gastrof]

I haven't read Reborn but I agree Bucky should have stayed on as Cap. Rogers was great as a martyr. Where does this leave Bucky now? Swept to the sidelines?

The same can be said about Dick Grayson. He's given up being Nightwing and with Bruce apparently dead, Dick's currently serving as Batman.

Chris Kent, rapidly aged to his teens, is now using the name "Nightwing" (which originated on Krypton in the first place).

We can assume Bruce is coming back, so when he does, what about Dick and Chris?

Dick's Robin is Damian Wayne, and that left Tim Drake a new identity as "Red Robin", borrowed from a parallel universe.

When all is said and done, who'll be who?

It's annoying.

 

[The Fatman]

I haven't read Reborn but I agree Bucky should have stayed on as Cap. Rogers was great as a martyr. Where does this leave Bucky now? Swept to the sidelines?

The same can be said about Dick Grayson. He's given up being Nightwing and with Bruce apparently dead, Dick's currently serving as Batman.

Chris Kent, rapidly aged to his teens, is now using the name "Nightwing" (which originated on Krypton in the first place).

We can assume Bruce is coming back, so when he does, what about Dick and Chris?

Dick's Robin is Damian Wayne, and that left Tim Drake a new identity as "Red Robin", borrowed from a parallel universe.

When all is said and done, who'll be who?

It's annoying.

Realistically, I'm sure that when Nolan's third bat-movie comes out Dick will go back to Nightwing leaving the cowl to Bruce.

That said... I have REALLY enjoyed the Dick/Damian pairing and would like it to continue. Right now, my preference would be if they kept Dick and Damian as the field team, and Bruce stayed in the bat-cave as teacher/mentor/eyes in the sky like in Batman Beyond.

 

[sojourner]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

I'm a little lost on the whole Barry thing.

Is the current Barry from the time before he died in the Crisis, thus not dead YET (so he's a time traveling version of Barry), or has he emerged from the speed force, apparently never having actually died during the Crisis?

Haven't read the story myself, but I hear it's something like the latter you mentioned. He came out of the speed force and is not just a time travel version of himself.

 

[broberfett]

Uncle Ben has stayed dead. Aunt May, on the other hand, seems to resurrect at will.

She's immortal! There can be only one! Go get her Duncan!

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I haven't read the Cap being reborn story, but I understand he wasn't really dead just stuck in time or something. Doesn't that contradict one of the issues in the new Thor series where Thor crosses over to the afterlife to say goodbye to Captain America?