As long as the prevailing attitudes in comics are what used to be the exclusive province of fanzines, there can be no permanent fixes. Just an unending stream of stunts and patches.

Not everyone will agree on what was a good idea and what was not, of course, but this is why someone with a strong, single-minded vision would be needed to oversee the whole thing. And why that individual would have to be equipped with a death-ray, to deal with anybody who thought it would be "cute" to try to subvert the whole thing.

And why that individual would have to be equipped with a death-ray

Lol, I can just picture it <g>....

What really seems to be needed is a brand new universe from minds similar to those of Lee, Kirby and Ditko, et al, with enough knowledge to set the rules up proerly and keep the rule breakers out of the playground.
Don't get me wrong, the idea of getting Marvel or DC back into a wholly good place sounds great, but getting it there and being able to keep it there seems nigh impossible in the current climate. Starting from scratch would seem to have a slight bit more potential.... and maybe the people who want to write in the certain fashion that's upset the balances in the current big two can build their very own playground to play around in as well. So they don't have to start trying to creep into the new sound universe.

Actually, to this day, I cannot for the life of me understand why certain people insist on twisting in turning characters inside and out, instead of "creating" a similarly powered hero in another fictional universe and tell the stories they want to tell (which clearly aren't stories about the original character anyway). I do think that some of the stories aren't necessarily bad per se, they just become bad because the wrong ingredients were used.

I think it was a good idea with a Superman reboot, since it told the audience that what was was great, but now whe have new creators who do what they can do with their abilities. The book I was working on consisited of people doing something that they thought was an improvement, while it wasn't. More colorful, errors and amateur-like adventurous style maybe, but not better. It would have been much better if they had this is in mind, Rembrandt, van gogh or whoever did what he did and no we do what we do. Period. And really tell/show everybody this, which MoS did. The reboot in itself was nothing, it was what it signalled.

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