Sean Akizuki's Personal Blog

It's been sometime since I decided to write something "meaty". Well, not exactly but I revisited my old post discussing the problem of the comic book timeline . I remember blindly following comics and I realized one thing -- having a floating timeline SINCE THE SILVER AGE is a real sunk cost. It's because it fails to account for the following things: Eras change a lot. The Golden Age (1938 – 1956), the Silver Age (1956 – 1970), the Bronze Age (1970 – 1985), and the Modern Age (1970 – 1985, social realism is rising) DEMAND different storytelling methods. That means the era that demanded for one-dimensional hate sinks. Another era will demand for complicated villains. Many times, backstories just don't match! People are destined to DIE SOMEDAY . A child in 1938 would probably be DEAD by now. I've seen some boomers die too soon before they're even 60. It made me go "HUH?" when I realized a family friend of ours died of cancer only in her 60s .  Ther...

I wanted to give a thought about why I'm hating a lot of comic book companies now. I used to like Marvel a lot but I hate it now. I used to like DC a lot but I hate it now. Perhaps the problem lies with the use of comic book time where stories that started in very old school eras (instead of having been hit with the reset button every how many years) are still continued today. Heck, I'm too upset at stuff like Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver got a complete rewrite without resetting the Marvel Universe or how comics in general tend to suddenly written unconventional plot twists to make a new story. So what's the point? I think the problem with characters that just grow old when it's convenient to the writer is the amount of garbage space they receive. It's just like junk files in your desktop or mobile devices but maybe only worse. But it doesn't only limit itself to comics -- you can see it in cartoons. Spongebob staying past its prime makes room for really s...