LogFAQs > #979165237

NightMareBunny posted...

its part of the package. Independent comics dont have that but again they arent financed by mister money bags so people online will keep acting like they dont exist I think its fair not to scold marvel/dc for not being more like manga when its been a toy box for decades. This guy gets a crack at spider-man and once the series concludes they put all the toys back in the box so the next writer can play with them You dont get that with indies or manga because its a different system

Inaccurate. =)

Western, independent comics don't have the money for marketing, but also don't have to worry as much about executive meddling . . . unless it's that same independent writer meddling with their own material. I used to love Questionable Content and Gunnerkrigg Court before they started dragging on longer than necessary, implementing random ideas and soft or hard-retconning those same ideas out along the way. Marvel and DC choose which projects receive advertisement or fanfare, but their model has been collapsing under its own weight since the turn of the millennium (I'm sure PO will come in with a 5-page essay saying longer than that).

As for your toy box argument, some writers don't even get to finish playing or putting toys away before other writer come in. Messes are made, writers are let go or have to share, and sometimes the toys are falling apart or smeared with dubious-at-best substances before they're put in better hands. No, I don't think your toy box comparison is accurate.