+1 (Off-Topic)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Thursday, April 18, 2019, 06:42 (2044 days ago) @ Harmanimus

This is why Marvel’s “What If?” And DC’s “Elseworlds” are the best things the big two do in comics.

Also if that is your broad takeaway from comics you are missing a very large portion of comics and some really, really great storytelling.

I was going to point that out too. He’s comparing comics to TV and Film as if the medium is the genre. Everything I’ve been talking about is within the genre of hero mythology, which follows roughly the same rules across all genres. There are loads of comics that aren’t hero mythology.
Not to mention the fact that characters in hero mythology change all the time... they’re pushed or manipulated or they evolve. The whole reason the characters are considered Heroes is that there’s an ideal that they are approximating. Sometimes their determination or ability to live up to that ideal runs into trouble. Punisher will show up and throw Daredevil’s whole worldview into question. And there will be a story that explores that conflict. But in the end, the hero returns to the ideals that made them a hero in the first place, usually stronger or sharper. They change by becoming even more like the ideal they’ve always aspired to.