>>121574344>>121574216>>121574132See the thing is that none of this shit matters because its a reboot, spinoff, or alternate timeline and everything goes back to the status quo in a few years, and has been for decades. No matter what crazy twists cape comics pull out, its all completely loss in a mass of incestuous cancer.
Soul Eater had a beginning and end and that's it, that's the whole fucking story. There won't be a Soul Eater: What If They Were Zombies or a Soul Eater: It Only Makes Sense If You Read A Dozen Other Comics. The same can be said for most other manga as well. You will NEVER see Superman or Batman die for real and never appear alive again, so how could you possibly be invested in their deaths? So many different what-ifs, timelines, retcons, reboots, it all blends together into a mass of grey meaningless potential. In one comic Iron Man is good, in another he's dead, in another he comes back, in another he's actually a robot, and there will never be resolution, closure, or an end to any of it. Who even is Iron Man anymore? What is his story? Anything? Nothing? It's just a slurry of random bullshit. I can't think of any other popular media that does this but I hate it.
Don't get me wrong, there can be western comics that actually do it right. One I read recently and enjoyed is Brink. But superhero comics? It's just a whole lot of nothing to me.
