Well, with Archie it's understandable. Those are comics mainly for kids; and from what I hear, kids still eat them up to this day. So the pretense of continuity or resolutions isn't really important there.
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It's the revolving door of authors and artists that all try to stamp their own marks on each series they work on, setting their own tone which may or may not be anything like the parts of the series I started enjoying it for -- i.e., classic too many cooks syndrome.
Interestingly, that's part of why I love it. A lot of reinvention and wild ideas. Some things just don't work well outside of comics. Your heroes never really die and someones always got a new take. Besides, that's usually just superheroes (outside of books like Conan the Barbarian, but honestly who can get enough of a ruthless barbarian).
But hey, that's not for everyone and there's nothing wrong with that; but American comics have made a good deal of progress outside of superheroes as well to the point where that's nowhere near the only option these days.
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Both are things not just superhero comics do, but seemingly all American comics (at least non-indies) do
Well, you mention non-indies, but that's really the crux of it; indie comics have grown more and more over the years - to the point where it's not really a word for comics no one sees so much as a descriptor for stuff outside the superhero lines - and there's something for every taste. A lot of them also end satisfactorily. Hell, DC has a line called Vertigo that's removed from the DC Universe books; they have plenty of comics running there (Chew is a recent hit) and several in the past that have ended (Y: The Last Man, which is widely considered a modern classic). Some of my favorite comic miniseries have come from the Vertigo line. They do quite a few crime books as well. Image is no longer that guady company that was the forefront of the 90's affronts to comics; they have a lot of indy stuff there as well. There's Top Cow, Boom! Studios and so on. You'd be surprised.
Edited by dl316bh, 03 July 2010 - 09:37 AM.