>>11165570>A writer creates the most random excuseThis is the only bad thing.
Why do they need to justify it every year-5 years?? You do it once and that's it. Other popular designs, like Spider-Man, Wolverine, Superman, Flash, etc don't need to be justified. Sure, they'll get some MINOR changes over the years, but their designs have stayed largely the same for decades and will stay mostly unchanged for the next century. Anything else is hated, hence any major changes that they do get, we know will be temporary.
>comic book characters don't really have one true interpretationFalse. 99% of characters revolve around their defining traits and any deviations is met with a lot of hate. IT doesn't mean Spiderman has to remain a teenager forever, but his character has remained struggling and in penance forever. Any changes that we have seen, they're almost always temporary too.
These characters have to stay this way because it's what SELLS. I mean, go see Morrison's XMen, which got a shit ton of praise, but there were no clamours for it to stay that way after his run. You also don't really see anyone asking for entire waves of Quitely's run designs either, but we do see constant need for Claremont's XMen because that's when they were popularized.
See how XMen hasn't been popular for a while, because a storyline went on for too long and characters were changed beyond redemption.
