When I wrote a review of Civil War II a couple weeks ago, I referred to a couple characters as "temporarily dead." This highlights a major problem for comics: Nothing is at stake. Characters die and come back all the time. With characters like The Hulk or Superman, their radiation-enhanced or alien physiology would allow them to come back from catastrophic injuries that should be fatal. But even street-level characters like the Punisher can be brought back, though through convoluted and frankly rather silly means.
Nothing is at stake, so nothing matters
Nothing is at stake, so nothing matters
Nothing is at stake, so nothing matters
When I wrote a review of Civil War II a couple weeks ago, I referred to a couple characters as "temporarily dead." This highlights a major problem for comics: Nothing is at stake. Characters die and come back all the time. With characters like The Hulk or Superman, their radiation-enhanced or alien physiology would allow them to come back from catastrophic injuries that should be fatal. But even street-level characters like the Punisher can be brought back, though through convoluted and frankly rather silly means.