he’s a 1 trick pony.

Poor Osiris was created to die as well, but I hated to see him go.

I hate the practice of creating or bringing back characters only to kill them especially in “events” like Infinite Crisis etc.

It’s both sides, too, how many versions of New Avengers have there been in the past three years? A book in it’s 50th issue should not have had that many “all new all different” member shakeups.

It’s a catch 22, a team book with external characters will always have these problems, especially in our current event driven universes. And self contained teams like Doom Patrol and Metal Men that side step events and external characters will never gain as much popularity.

The trick is to find a writer who can handle all of these shakeups and make the book good. Unfortunately, most writers get desperate and just kill off characters.

**quote might be slightly paraphrased.

And who gets credit for the awful “Graduation Day” book?

And that was it, really. Between about 58 issues before they went to reprints and 70 issues of the Baxter series, the only Titan that I recall dying IN THE BOOK was Terra. The above two and Jason Todd died elsewhere. With #71 of the Baxter, the Titans Hunt kicked in, and others died (Charlie Parker, who was retconned back to life; Jericho, who was retconned back to life; Danny Chase, who became Phantasm . . . and that’s it, isn’t it?).

That’s not the same as the recent wave where we’ve seen DC kill Conner (now back), Bart (now back), Terra II (in 52/WW3), Marvin, Osiris, Panthan, Wildebeest, Bushido, Molecule, and more.

And that during Johns’ run on the book, the only Titan to die was Kon-El.

But at this point, I think I will just stick with my TPBs and my DVDs of the Titans cartoon.

Says the Titans ‘has recently felt like some sort of funded study into how bad a comic can possibly get’ and you can’t argue, can you? Last week’s issue was dipping close to ‘below professional standard’, in terms of both writing and art.

But, yeah, the Teen Titans seem to bite it like Spinal Tap drummers.

We don’t know what the end result of Blackest Night will be, but it seems tailor-made to resurrect dead characters (of course, most of the Black Lanterns are recently deceased, so it may have been planned from the very beginning).

And then there’s Barry Allen. Again, we’re not sure if he’s going to be alive or dead at the end of his mini (and thankfully, it doesn’t seem a foregone conclusion to Barry himself), but his is one–if not the–most celebrated deaths in super-hero comic history. His successor has matured and come into his own. What benefit does his return give.

All this to say that, yes, the idea that you can kill off any character without consequence because you can always bring him back later is getting a little old.