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MacGlaspyn

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January 25th, 2007 7:20 PM

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Back when death used to mean something...

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Okay, now I know that the "Powers-That-Be" in Comicdom like to have death be something of a revolving door. Ultimately, I am fine with that. Jean Grey is[/is] the Phoenix after all, and Superman coming back, well... I kind of count that as a "do-over" since DC created out of whole cloth a villian [i]just to kill him rather than letting Lex, or anyone else do it who earned it over the years. Fine. When you have several decades of canon text to go with, I can understand needing to occassionally dust things off and have people come back all 'soap opera' style. Kevin Smith did just that in his run on Green Arrow and did it very well. He took several issues to build the story, dealing with not only the hero's point of view but also those around him coping with his return as well. The author took him to the afterlife to talk to his soul (since he hadn't brought that back with him) worked out the whole thing artfully.

***SPOILER WARNING***

In Civil War: The Return, Captain Marvel comes back from the dead. Technically, snatched out of time from before he dies due to the rift in space/time of the Negative Zone being mucked around with. Still, he is back from the dead. The Sentry looks at him, tells him to get back in the game and play Warden and there you have it. ALL IN ONE ISSUE! Half of one really, since the last half was about the Sentry.

As a man with a brain tumor, I had always liked that they let him die of cancer. Weird huh? Not in a gruesome way, but just in a way of saying "Look, even heroes can't fix everything". There is a reason Green Lantern doens't cure AIDS with his power ring, there is a reason The Scarlet Witch never made it 100% unlikely that a nuclear launch happened. The real word and the comic world never met, really. I thought this was the one death they would honor, since it was a "real" death and not one of an epic battle or a cosmic event.

I should have seen it coming when Uncle Ben came back. I mean, after all, with great power comes infinate do-overs right? That was the lesson being taught to Peter? That he shouldn't worry about the outcome of things, someone later on, down the road will just rewrite how it happened. Kinda like the real world after all when you look at it that way.

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