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Eddv posted...

DoS did a lot of things that caused a lot of problems for comic books in the 90s that really did a lot to drive the hobby underground. Between the VARIANT HOLOGRAPHIC ONE OF A KIND collector editions, the mass hysteria of people trying to game the collectable comics market and the inevitable bust once people realized that their 50 issues of the issue where Superman dies werent going to hold any value were really awful problems from a financial standpoint and from a storytelling standpoint MAJOR CHARACTER DEATHS (that are very clearly temporary) have become a rather annoying mainstay from a narrative perspective that has only recently gone away to any major extent.

it was basically a prototype of modern clickbait style advertising and writing. they simply came up with a shocking idea that would drive sales without any consideration for what came next. whether the story was executed well or not, whether the resulting stories were done well, is almost irrelevant. the fact that this tactic was financially successful would pave the way for later executives to push these kinds of storylines onto writers as a cheap way to get sales without regard for quality. the industry was forever negatively impacted as a result.

it's also a fairly common sentiment that superman dying and then coming back to life was a precursor for the fact that any character no matter how large could be killed off, and in tandem any death no matter how important could be undone.
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