No, respectfully, you see it happen in TV series all the time, or at least you used to when you find the writers creatign all sorts of silly reasons why the characters saty basically the same and in the same dynamic.  It gets old.

Maybe you're right in the sense that properties meant for younger readers should stay enternally in their current state.  But then again, who's to say that the public is served by having the same charactyers dominate the market forever.

I'd prefer to see new characters generated and interesting new stories. 

Relax man, were just talking, why are you being so aggresive?

And sure it can work the way you're saying but who's to say that's the better way, that's your opinion.  No one's stopping you from buying only properties that say forever the same, like Archie.

We're talking about our preferences and our opinions, so chill.  Don't act like one point of view is an objective fact that can be proven, because it isn't.

Why must so many users start out being confrontational? You just get off on the wrong foot and end up not lasting long.

Accepted John, it did feel that way, but if I was wrong I was wrong.  But I did feel that I was hearing an opinion, I understood it, and responded and then was being told basically if I had that opinion I was wrong, regardless of the merits of anything I said.  But again, if I was wrong, I was wrong.

And Steve, I wasn't being confrontational but simply asking why someone was being confrontational with me.  It's not the same thing, especially since I was civil.

And I don't think the decline in sales or quality is intrinsically tied into the fact that the characters have been changed per se.

I think it may be attributed, if you wanted to argue this, to the fact that the properties have been aimed at older ever dwindling audiences.  But I happen to think it's also much more due to the fact that the thrill I got in comics when I was a kid 20 yrs ago, kids can get now from film and video games.  Spiderman the movie was as thrilling visually as any comic.  Superman the Movie was GREAT, and I loved it, but it still wasnt up tomy imagination. 

I hate to say it, but maybe other media have caught up to doing what comics do best. Maybe.

"Well, he doesn't want Archie. He wants Spider-Man. I'd like that too. I'm guessing lots of people would. I see no point, other than sadism, in refusing to sell that product. "

Well, come on, no one can MAKE someone sell a product if they don't want to. 

"As for new ideas, well that's what new books and new characters are for. If not, if constantly based on past work, the new ideas, aren't either new nor ideas. "

My point was that maybe books should be allowed to die, have their stories told, and then make them hardbacks to be enjoyed later.  I mean, the LOTR is the LOTR and there isn't much material after that.  And that's fine.  Would it be nice to have more adventures of Frodo, but I think maybe the best stories have a def beginning middle and end, and that means characters too.