limit of story.
All stories in actuality can continue forever and ever. But there comes a point where one story becomes another story. But then again, you could say all these stories would be the same story.
The point is, there is a limit to which people can keep the qualities of a character static and non-dynamic. Many characters today in comic book industry rely on characters begin static characters, that is characters who do not change, because if they so much as change a bit, people would freak out and stop buying the comic. Even those who advertise diversity, by changing the former main character's persona to another person can attest to the following fact. There is a limit to how many stories can be made from a character that hardly changes. A character who 30 years later is still doing the same thing. The reason why these people realize there actually is a limit on the adventures of one character, is because they have acted to make these iconic characters different by including "diversity" and say " this is the guy/woman now, deal with". Just to garner support from a current societal movement, and to keep on making money off of characters they have long forgotten ideals for. I mean, if you have to hire about 50 writers over the years to keep the ship sailing, its already a dead story and only a matter of time before even all these artists and writers can't figure out a proper story and make a mess of the legacy.
So, there actually is a point where the character does change. Because there is a limited amount of space where the characters stay as they were as ideally introduced. I don't mean, the hero gets better at their powers, developmental bit-but what I mean here is the full grown hero turns into a totally different person than before,"He had the powers of telepathy to he turns into a dinosaur summoner".
However, comics only tend to change in the most nonsensical manners at most times. The guy goes from hero to war criminal to psychic crime mastermind. And many of these attempts to grown the character's persona are usually reconncted or erased from the character's history or put as another dimension. The further reason why characters are flung around in this manner and not even give the proper thought of their whole story, is because the comic makers theirselves don't respect the characters in comics. They don't see them as being possible people with actual possible lives, a beginning, middle and end, not a constant, beginning, middle and restart beginning and restart middle. Where is the end?
The end is seen as threat to these comic book companies. They can't seem to hold their own in the manner that they could possibly be losing money to give these characters a complete ending. The end looks like it would be an end to their money flow, from their perspective. But eventually, time will yield the conclusion, that no matter how many writers you put to the question to find ways to keep your iconic characters relevant and your iconic characters unchanging for the most part, it will all eventually fall apart as more of these writers with different views and perspectives from those of past generation change these old stale characters till they are unrecognizable. And when this happens people will have a falling out with buying these comics.
In another light, the current dominate companies can not stand the test of time, they can not have a sold grip of the market forever. Especially if another company comes around and basically innovates a better way to create comics and tell them. What if this company can tell their stories better than they ever could? Then that would be their limit for their story.
The length or limits of the stories I will outline will either be 2 volumes of 20 each or 4 volumes of 20 each. However much it takes to expand to the very ending of their story. Which it could easily end up being about 20 volumes or so in length, so this project in all likelihood will take some months or some days. Either or as new details come about/
The point is, there is a limit to which people can keep the qualities of a character static and non-dynamic. Many characters today in comic book industry rely on characters begin static characters, that is characters who do not change, because if they so much as change a bit, people would freak out and stop buying the comic. Even those who advertise diversity, by changing the former main character's persona to another person can attest to the following fact. There is a limit to how many stories can be made from a character that hardly changes. A character who 30 years later is still doing the same thing. The reason why these people realize there actually is a limit on the adventures of one character, is because they have acted to make these iconic characters different by including "diversity" and say " this is the guy/woman now, deal with". Just to garner support from a current societal movement, and to keep on making money off of characters they have long forgotten ideals for. I mean, if you have to hire about 50 writers over the years to keep the ship sailing, its already a dead story and only a matter of time before even all these artists and writers can't figure out a proper story and make a mess of the legacy.
So, there actually is a point where the character does change. Because there is a limited amount of space where the characters stay as they were as ideally introduced. I don't mean, the hero gets better at their powers, developmental bit-but what I mean here is the full grown hero turns into a totally different person than before,"He had the powers of telepathy to he turns into a dinosaur summoner".
However, comics only tend to change in the most nonsensical manners at most times. The guy goes from hero to war criminal to psychic crime mastermind. And many of these attempts to grown the character's persona are usually reconncted or erased from the character's history or put as another dimension. The further reason why characters are flung around in this manner and not even give the proper thought of their whole story, is because the comic makers theirselves don't respect the characters in comics. They don't see them as being possible people with actual possible lives, a beginning, middle and end, not a constant, beginning, middle and restart beginning and restart middle. Where is the end?
The end is seen as threat to these comic book companies. They can't seem to hold their own in the manner that they could possibly be losing money to give these characters a complete ending. The end looks like it would be an end to their money flow, from their perspective. But eventually, time will yield the conclusion, that no matter how many writers you put to the question to find ways to keep your iconic characters relevant and your iconic characters unchanging for the most part, it will all eventually fall apart as more of these writers with different views and perspectives from those of past generation change these old stale characters till they are unrecognizable. And when this happens people will have a falling out with buying these comics.
In another light, the current dominate companies can not stand the test of time, they can not have a sold grip of the market forever. Especially if another company comes around and basically innovates a better way to create comics and tell them. What if this company can tell their stories better than they ever could? Then that would be their limit for their story.
The length or limits of the stories I will outline will either be 2 volumes of 20 each or 4 volumes of 20 each. However much it takes to expand to the very ending of their story. Which it could easily end up being about 20 volumes or so in length, so this project in all likelihood will take some months or some days. Either or as new details come about/
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