Marvel Confirms Plans To Kill a Main Character Every Quarter

This is why I dropped every Marvel title. Now I only read Brightest Day since that's where the real story and characterization is at. If Marvel thinks that since FF nabbed over 100000 copies, killing characters will grab the attention of 100000 readers repeatedly; they are terribly misinformed. This is a plain stupid idea, which will most likely involve resurrections over and over again. They should focus on making quality stories of each individual character. If Death is a necessary thing, they should do it right. Marvel went from an excess supply of events to now excess deaths.

I would say that Marvel and DC are the best comic book publishing companies. They are equal in their own ways. The unfortunate thing is that today they are the worst companies in terms of quality. Image comics and Dark Horse have much more interesting stories now.

It seems ridiculous that their sales would be bad enough to kill off characters this often to try and draw people in. I didn't bite when Cap died, I didn't bite when Punisher "died" and got turned into a God-awful zombie killa, and I sure as hell didn't bite when HT bit it. There was a time when "death" in comics meant something, and then both companies started resurrecting dead characters and caused "death" to lose its value. Now if Marvel decides to do this, they may as well not even call them "deaths" anymore, but sabbaticals, or leaves of absence.

Atleast there admitting its to boost sale and like there saying its about the aftermath which al ready looks interesting spidey joining the future foundation is pretty cool. Long as they keep the characters dead for a while its all good. But seriously all this high publicity comic book death was started by DC with the "death" of Superman. Superman started the super hero genre and he also started the fake super hero death sub genre

my exact thoughts.

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Looks like Disney's influence on Marvel has proven to be as disturbing as Hitler's obsession with Disney.

Even low budget horror movies understand it's not about death, but how you lived. I know the guy said it's "about what comes after their death" but still. He decided to kill a character every quarter. How childish is that? OH! You liked when I did the THING! I'll do the thing AGAIN! LoOOK! I DO THE THING! I DO THE THING! I DO THE THING! Hey... why aren't you paying attention?! I"M DOIN' THA THIIIIIING!

The really sad part is when all these characters come back to life next year because "it was all about your FEAR of loosing Johnny Storm! They we're never really dead at all Dorothy!"

Ah well. It could be fun. Just don't take it seriously. Even Bucky came back.

Hey, it was a great gimmick in Great Lakes Avengers when they did it every issue! Wait, this isn't a comedy. They should stop listening to Mark Millar. Grigori, I really don't think this is a Disney thing. Since Civil War, I think it's been a lot more about shock than story. Marvel still puts out some good stuff though (I thought Young Avengers was way better than the actual Civil War event.) I'm a bigger fan of Marvel's slightly lower profile stuff.

I was totally being sarcastic about the Disney thing. I really doubt that Disney would say, "Hey, why don't you kill people off? Murder is cool... you should do more of it, on an epic Mickey scale!"

No... there are plenty of idiots in the world. We don't need Disney to help us make bad decisions.

The way I think of it is this- Death is a natural part of life. The heroes have avoided death for too long and NEED to start dying to show us that they are mortal. What Marvel needs, is to make them STAY DEAD. Once you can't come back from death, it becomes something to fear. People stop reading comics because it's the same stuff all over again... but make the people stay dead and you don't need the Scarlet Witch to screw up reality just to keep the level of mutants under control.

Setting a number is the stupid thing. If we KNOW someone is going to die, it's just another gimick. If they'd said, "We plan to kill more characters off... you won't know who or when... but death has come to Marvel." THEN I would have been interested.

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If we KNOW someone is going to die, it's just another gimick. If they'd said, "We plan to kill more characters off...