torok on 16 December 2013
| d21lewis said: The same thing happened in the 90's when Superman died and Batman got his back broken and they were replaced. Fans were losing their minds over something that was obviously not permanent. The guys at DC comics said (after the heroes returned) something like "You really think we don't know what we're doing with our creations? We knew they were coming back. The story is what's important and we knew how it would end before it even began." |
And the most important is that it created a sales spike. So they keep killing and bringing back characters simply because people really buy more because of this old trick. I'm pretty sure that Family Guy ratings improved during Bryan's death/return.
