A Comic Book Horror Story

Comic book companies  would be better off respecting the history and aura of their characters rather than being so anxious to degrade their characters to gain attention. The companies should not be catering to snot-nosed, foul-mouthed teenagers nor to immature, power-drunk comics creators who want legacy characters to be blown up. There, I said it!

In the 1980s when Howard Chaykin in Blackhawk was the first writer to get a certain word into print in a major-company major-character comic book series. I was appalled. These days almost every DC and Marvel comic is filled with russa-frussa Scooby-Doo  #!@&% -type swearing. Who exactly is it that wants this nonsense in their comics?

Why don't the companies realize from the dropping sales and title cancellations that they are not going in the direction that their readers want? It's not too late to guide the horse back into the pen, it's never too late to put the toothpaste back into the tube!