The absolute state of the American comics industry
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There’s a moment in the Simpsons from 2003 where even as a kid I knew the show was done being original. Principal Skinner is about to marry Ms. Krabapple, and thus stop being a stuffed-shirt loser, and Barney had sobered up a few seasons earlier. The scene is Skinner in the bar telling Moe he can’t go through with the wedding for basically no reason (I think I literally just says “I have cold feet”) and then immediately they cut to Barney showing him back on the sauce. Two opportunities for major character development derailed in the space of 10 seconds, in favor of keeping the characters the same one-joke 2D caricatures they’d always been.
That’s comic books right there.
Never thought of that but spot on
The Principal and the Pauper was the defacto end of the Simpsons for me. Funnily enough, its a 20 minute joke about the same refusal to do development that you're criticizing - except it has the gall to blame the audience for reacting poorly to seeing a character's backstory senselessly destroyed.