Yeah, like this is a problem that predates Woke and the comic industry has been pushing since basically forever.
And unfortunately, basically half the time any comic book line is remotely popular for a run is when they are focusing on "Character BUT X" for a while. So it won't stop.
Like, Batman who Laughs was the only remotely talked about Batman run in a decade. And it was literally "Joker but also Batman!"
In English we have like a century now of permanent media record. So every story has been told.
This is I think a primary driver of Woke. Every year there's fewer people with the imaginative capacity to invent actually new stories, and more people who are only capable of retelling while making brain-dead substitutions.
Yeah, like this is a problem that predates Woke and the comic industry has been pushing since basically forever.
And unfortunately, basically half the time any comic book line is remotely popular for a run is when they are focusing on "Character BUT X" for a while. So it won't stop.
Like, Batman who Laughs was the only remotely talked about Batman run in a decade. And it was literally "Joker but also Batman!"
In English we have like a century now of permanent media record. So every story has been told.
This is I think a primary driver of Woke. Every year there's fewer people with the imaginative capacity to invent actually new stories, and more people who are only capable of retelling while making brain-dead substitutions.
Deserved.