Annoying Aspects of Comic Books Part 1: Comic Book Deaths

I love all forms of entertainment: movies, television, music and of course comic books. I love to sit back and read a good comic book. In a comic book you get a good mixture of drawing and writing. I wish I could tell you that every comic book I've read was great and that every aspect of the comic book industry is great but it's not. Nothing is perfect and there are a few things about comic books that can be very annoying.

One of the most annoying things about comic books is a character's death. I know what you're thinking if you're a comic book fan, "but comic book characters never really die." That's exactly my problem with death in comic books. In comic books it is a common practice to kill off a character, usually as a means of selling comics but later that character will be brought back because the fans will demand it or because the comic will change writers and that writer really wants to use that character.

Personally I feel when you bring back a character that has been killed it pretty much ruins the entire storyline in which they got killed. It also diminishes any future deaths. Captain America was the most recent comic book character to meet his fate but really why should I care? If ninety-nine percent of comic book characters that die come back then why should I care that Captain America died when I know he is going to be back in six months, one year or two years later.

Honestly I think most death of comic book characters aren't really that good in the first place. As I said before many of them are just ways to sell comics and aren't actually a great read. Off the top of my head only Phoenix, Superman and Gwen Stacy were memorable deaths. A character's return from death is usually even worse. As much as I liked the Death of Superman story the return of Superman was just really, really bad. The only return of a dead character that I can remember being good is the storyline where Joss Whedon brought back Colossus.