Like zombies without all the fun stuff

[yendi]

[Poll #841468]


In case I left out your favorite character (Guardian, Nemesis, Superman), it's because I ran out of room.

Also, I'm not saying that all comic-book resurrection is bad (Nemesis is a great survivor, and Superman's resurrection was inevitable), or even that all of those choices are bad. Although most of them are (especially the first three and the one perpetrated by a continuity-ignoring John Byrne).

ETA: Sigh. Fucking typos. I hate the fact that polls can't be edited.

Comments

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

How dare you suggest bringing back Cluemaster is a BAD IDEA?

*grin*

[yendi]

You'll notice that he's one of the two I didn't vote for.

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

Also I would argue that the Bucky thing was done wonderfully by Brubaker. It feels right for a Cap book.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

I liked the Hal Jordan Spectre, but that wasn't exactly a resurrection ...

[yendi]

*nod* I liked him as the Spectre. I just see no need for his current state as a living GL again.

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

Because Geoff Johns and Dan DiDio obviously believe that all DC fans should be whacking off furiously over Hal Jordan (since he is most certainly teh_sex by their view).

That was one of the big reasons I completely dropped the DC line and don't plan on going back any time soon.

JSM

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

I don't either.
I think Kyle Rayner was doing a great job and the DCU had no need for Hal Revisited.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Just checking-- they've never actually resurrected Barry Allen, right?

Also, I'd say Uncle Ben, but the guy over in David's book is a plot point, not a resurrection, so he doesn't count.

Oh, but that reminds me-- Gwen Stacy. Even if she was a clone.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Marvel did a "hidden" Barry Allen cameo in Quasar a couple of years back, in a race to find the fastest being alive. "Buried Alien" in a tattered Flash suit showed up and won the race.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I liked Quasar. (That doesn't count as a resurrection, though, in my book.)

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Hey, come to think of it Quasar also died in his book, became a light spirit, and then got his body back.

[yendi]

He's dead. They teased a resurrection during Mark Waid's run, but he was too good a writer to resort to that.

[montykins.livejournal.com]

I have decided I don't mind the Jean Grey resurrections. Once they named her "Phoenix", it was clear that dying and being reborn was going to be part of her ongoing gimmick anyway.

Well, I object to the resurrections that were things like "that last Jean Grey was really an alien; this Jean Grey's been in that underwater spaceship for the last hundred issues".

[yendi]

Well, someone else has been using the Phoenix name for the last ten years or so. Although that character is so annoying, I just tent to ignore her, or any book that uses her.

I do think that we'll someday see an entire planet of Jean Greys, all ready for the next time a body needs to end up dead.

[montykins.livejournal.com]

Well, someone else has been using the Phoenix name for the last ten years or so.

I tend to ignore that sort of thing. I ignored it when Rachel Summers became Phoenix, and I ignore it now. As far as I'm concerned, Jean Grey is Phoenix. Take that, official continuity!

[amokk]

So is it like The Island with a bunch of Jean Grey clones sitting around doing menial tasks until they're called up?

[greatcalvero.livejournal.com]

I really like that Joss Whedon brought Colossus back in Astonishing. The fastball special in the first book actually made me tear up. Plus, him and Kitty: about damn time!

I really like what Whedon is doing in Astonishing period. He's made Cyclops interesting. Has that ever happened?

I was dead, but I got better

[beldar.livejournal.com]

I thought one of the best comic twists I ever read was the first Guardian "resurrection" in Alpha Flight (one of the last Byrne issues, before Mignola took over and f***ed it up). Heroes/villians coming back from the dead was such a comics cliche that to have a "gotcha, no, he's really dead; this is an imposter" was a refreshing change.

After I abandoned AF, I've been told that an *actual* resurrection was accomplished *headsmack* Now I know I was right to stop reading it.

In deference to long-held tradition, I'll accept any and all revivals of Dr. Doom (besides, it's Doom! Can't get rid of him forever, not till Reed dies at least), provided, of course, that tradition is upheld and that the not-really-dead has a plausable (within Marvel pseudopysics) explanation.

I've also been told that the long-awaited Doug Ramsey resurrection in the X-books finally came about sometime in the 90s. That one was easily allowable as he was "infected" with nearly-impossible-to-destroy alien genetics, which wouldn't have been eradicated in his simple burial.

PS: I'm so out of it, I didn't know a lot of these were dead.

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

I find the Doom Patrol resurrection to be the most offensive of the bunch. It took away the singular nobility of their original sacrifice, and for heaven's sake, it was none other than John "Be True To The Original Intent Of The Creators" Byrne who brought them back (badly).

JSM

[the-nightguy.livejournal.com]

The return of Jason Todd has got to be the most godawful thing that DC has done in years.
I feel betrayed. I payed good money to kill that little bastard way back when.
DC owes me $0.99!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

discussions like this make me glad to have dropped out of the Marvel/DC continuity/crossover headfscks.

I occasionally peek in over at scans_daily and that usually confirms my feeling about that; though I was encouraged enough to pick up a Runaways collection at $7.99.

But sheesh. resurrection is becoming part of the defining characteristics of the superhero genre, along with latex spandex.