What happens when we kill them all?
Inspired by X-Factor #27 and Hulk #1
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Another week, another superhero death. It seems like past creations are being culled and killed off in an endless cycle of sacrifice. Every creator wants to claim their story is important by taking a life.
In X-Factor #27, we are reminded of the recent loss of Caliban during the Messiah CompleX event. Now in this issue we lose Layla Miller and possibly Mr. Sinister. These deaths don’t even count the many others littered throughout Messiah CompleX. I don’t care if they’re just going to come back (like Cable) in a few issues. Why show their death in the first place?
Shockingly, Hulk #1 debuts with a murder mystery fully intact. Someone slaughtered the Abomination. Really?! Before the 2008 summer movie featuring Emil Blonsky as the big baddie? Even if that means an impending resurrection, it’s still story creation by character destruction.
Was there a time when people thought, “Why are so many characters being created? I wish someone would just kill them all!” I’m not calling for an excessive genesis of superhero personalities. But I do think there should be some creative recourse for all this death. New heroes with compelling histories should be created to fill some of these spots. Something needs to be born out of all this bloodletting.
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