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7/14/2025, 7:26:08 AM
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There is no saving comics.
There's nothing that can be done to make them accessible, there is no magic entry point, no super number 1 that is somehow more number 1 than the other number 1's.
No amount of rebooting can eliminate the fact that all of these comics have decades upon decades of history behind them defining their existence. They are not a clean state and cannot be made so.
Just as there is no rebooting Gundam. You start with 0079 and you watch every series, that is non negotiable.
The only true entry point for a comic is its real beginning, and when that beginning is over ten thousand issues away, you have to accept that it's time to stop.
Make a new series, a completely new series, a new IP.
The reason anime is not as convoluted as comics is because they have not clung to the past. Every huge influential anime that was made had its moment and then left.
Astro Boy was the biggest thing ever when it came out. It didn't diminish in popularity and get cancelled, it ended, the author moved on to other things.
Demon Slayer outsold all of comics and manga by a margain so great it will likely never be topped for decades, maybe even a century. But despite this immense popularity, it ended. It had its moment and then it finished, and people moved on to newer things.
Batman, etc comics would not be so convoluted if they had simply ended within a few years of their initial publication. There would be a couple hundred issues of Batman, and that's all you would need to get the full picture.
Akira Toriyama is dead and yet the Dragonball anime still continues, this is convoluted. It should have ended where the manga ended. Everything past that has muddled the waters.
There is no saving comics.
There's nothing that can be done to make them accessible, there is no magic entry point, no super number 1 that is somehow more number 1 than the other number 1's.
No amount of rebooting can eliminate the fact that all of these comics have decades upon decades of history behind them defining their existence. They are not a clean state and cannot be made so.
Just as there is no rebooting Gundam. You start with 0079 and you watch every series, that is non negotiable.
The only true entry point for a comic is its real beginning, and when that beginning is over ten thousand issues away, you have to accept that it's time to stop.
Make a new series, a completely new series, a new IP.
The reason anime is not as convoluted as comics is because they have not clung to the past. Every huge influential anime that was made had its moment and then left.
Astro Boy was the biggest thing ever when it came out. It didn't diminish in popularity and get cancelled, it ended, the author moved on to other things.
Demon Slayer outsold all of comics and manga by a margain so great it will likely never be topped for decades, maybe even a century. But despite this immense popularity, it ended. It had its moment and then it finished, and people moved on to newer things.
Batman, etc comics would not be so convoluted if they had simply ended within a few years of their initial publication. There would be a couple hundred issues of Batman, and that's all you would need to get the full picture.
Akira Toriyama is dead and yet the Dragonball anime still continues, this is convoluted. It should have ended where the manga ended. Everything past that has muddled the waters.
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