Posted: 30 March 2020 at 11:06am | IP Logged | 6
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When to stop reading is not an aspect of age. If you don't enjoy them, don't read them. If you don't like horror movies, don't watch them. If you don't like arranging flowers... well, you get the idea.
You have to accept the genre and its tenets, especially if you're reading comics - or again, it's time to stop. Uniforms, crazy death traps, staying in the same city even though Lincoln NE has no super heroes, etc. "WHY" is a very awkward question.
I see it as a two headed hydra.* The readers shouldn't consider, for example, Galactus' helmet. But if there's a good story involving it (e.g., it allows him to maintain corporeal form in this universe), then that's worth telling. And yes, we should all remember Marty Pasko's story about Clark Kent's glasses. It was a great story and a good idea that just didn't work. Or Mopee being the one who gave the Flash his speed. A story about such elements can work very well. A reader prying into such is likely to be very disappointed.
In a sense, Crisis on Infinite Earths is just such a problem. Some writer or editor seems to have pondered, "Why are most of the super heroes based on Earth?" and from there... along with lacking imagination about Earth-1, Earth-2, etc.... we got the biggest problem DC ever created. (They've spent 35 years trying to fix it.)
Playing "What If" can be fun; Mr. Byrne has played it to great effect. Playing "How come?" is indeed probably the time to move on. Go watch some James Bond films and ask "Why?" at those, or some deep analysis about how he got so good. And watch how THAT house comes crashing down too.
It's fiction - NOT REAL. Take it as such and just enjoy it, kids.
*See, one day, a hydra was shaving, and he got a REALLY bad nick. Now he has to shave twice as long. Let that be a lesson. :P
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