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Back in the day, DC let readers decide Jason Todd's fate via telephone vote. If DC had let the fans vote on whether or not to make Hal a villain, what do you think the outcome would have been? Would Hal have been saved from the travesty that was Emerald Twilight?
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That question's not fair! At the very time of things, Hal's readership wasn't enough even to sustain sales enough to not cancel it."Gone are all my comforts, I held so dear
Sold them to strangers looking for a deal
You left me here all alone, my worst fear
Don't think this kind of pain will ever heal
I gave to you my life and love for years
Look deep in my eyes, my pain do you feel
All I ever wanted was to be loved
Waiting on dad to take me up above" -
Topaz, I gotta hand it to you. This innane, pointless, inflamitory question, asked for no other reason than to stir up a flame war is a better one.
By better I don't mean that the question has any merit. Nor do I mean that your question is worth asking, or answering for that matter. No, what I meant by better is that unlike your last baiting question is that you needn't present any kind of case or coherant arguement one way or the other to get the ball rolling. This thread could actually be disguised as relevant.
None the less you fail.Comment
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what if--people stop makin flame threadsComment
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Seems like a relatively legitmate question to me, though I can't speak of modus operandi.
I probably would agree with CG... the fanbase/readership at the time immediately preceding ET would have probably voted to keep Hal as-was... but as we've been told, Hal's numbers were well within the cancellation range at that point... so said readers weren't even sufficient/significant enough to keep it afloat as-was. The name of the game was what was gained following the -- granted, radical -- decision... which seemed to be substantial. I know I wouldn't be here today (or this message board, website) if they had not gone the way they did. And it wasn't so much what they did (I didn't even know who Hal Jordan was at that point), to be honest, but rather (vaguely recalling the Wizard article/feature on it that piqued my interest) this inherent sense I got of, "Oh wow, shit is really rolling over in Green Lantern... status quo is really being shaken up, stuff is really changing up! Lemme go check this out real quick" after being burned in arenas like Batman and Superman in similar ways to the contrary (being cock-teased about changes that didn't end up gelling at all, only proving an insistance on an everpresent status-quo).
It's kind of like (and forgive me the potential crudeness of the metaphor)... traveling over to Japan forty years ago and asking a couple of survivors if we should have dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Of course they'll say it wasn't. But did the end justify the means? I think it did.Comment
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The problem is, when these questions get posted, there's nothing to defend it. they sit back and watch people argue. EVERYONE can have there opinion but atleast back it up. anyone knows this ??? don't hold water because of the books #'s at the time.Originally posted by Andrew NDB View PostComment
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Can we just start ignoring these threads? I think I'm going to. Who's with me?Comment
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I usually make 1 little smart-ass remark than don't reply anymore.Originally posted by Jack-O-Lantern View PostComment
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Would it matter if people voted? look what they did with Jaso Todd, in the end I think DC will do what they want anyway!Comment
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Hal would've stayed a hero, people seem to forget why Volume 3 sold so bad it was because the book was horrible, even other Hal fans I knew had enough of the bad writting and bad characterization of the character in Volume 3."If at first you don't succeed, try Kyle again!".Comment
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Having been here long enough, I do get the sense this is a flame based question, but what the hell: I think if they had a 1900 number, no one would have called. I was probably one of the few who still read Gl v3 faithfully, and only cuz I didn't like missing issues
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I didn't start reading till Kyle's run so
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i'm guilty of reading because
i don't like missing an issueComment
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