Sunday, April 12, 2009

Comics are just like...

...Soap Operas

Honestly - Guiding Light, General Hospital, Uncanny X-Men, Justice League of America. They're all the same stuff.

Both comics and soaps deal with decades of continuity, have constantly changing writers, and suffer from both.

* Characters come back from the dead. Repeatedly. Even when their deaths were shown. Repeatedly.

* Story lines change midstream, giving fans lame endings, and lackluster conclusions.

* Actors replace actors playing the same role, artists replace artists drawing with extremely different styles.

* Fans of both have a stereotype.

I admit I'm making generalizations here. Many great comic stories have been told, and Soap Operas have been popular since they came out. But I never really saw the connection until recently.

Not judging, just saying.

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