Rebooting a new reboot?!

[DonFerrari]

The Fury said:

DonFerrari said:

But isn't that true for all other Marvel and Dc franchises? Um comics for sure and in a lot of movies as well. It's so ludicrous that they need to retcoon the canon several times because it Always brings inconsistences.

For DC's latest reboot, I'm not sure why they did it (sales?). For the 80s one, Crisis on Infinite Earths, it was needed. At that time they had 2 different Superman books set on two different earths, the major character had 2 different versions and some being different people entirely. It was a least a mess because of continuity.

With Marvel, I don't think it's needed. The history of the characters is consistant and really only 15 years have passed since FF#1 (Franklin is meant to be 12 I think, it's meant to be 3 yrs plus Franklin's age). Sometimes they are needed, like Spider-man's One More Day story but that was only because he was being writen by 3 writers in 3 different books.

Maybe you are right, and with the Spiderman films at least it's going to happen because of contracts and licencing issues plus actors age. Comics though, well, 15 yrs in 50 years.

They get rebooted retcooned a lot and for several reasons. it fells like they do it whenever the generation changes, with tastes and all. And to make things worse there are several authors and several things end up mixed. Too many times were retold the origin of the same heroes and same fights. 

 

Why are comics industry so hard to let its guys rest in piece? You need phd to read all the comics from one hero and make it coese. So much people complain about sequels in games and some companies milking IPs but accept a monthly milking of several comics from over half a century.