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Doug: You veterans out there will recall a couple of months ago when Karen and I requested some creative contributions from our readers. Every now and then we get a bit rundown and it can be hard to come up with meaningful fodder for your discussing pleasures each day. We've run several of your ideas over the past few weeks and have had a blast doing so. Today we're back at it, with a missive from our ever-faithful Inkstained Wretch. He wrote (with some minor editing by me):
Another
idea that just popped into my head: A discussion of "jump the shark"
cases for particular comic book series. I mean, at what point did a long-running, popular
series go seriously astray?
We've talked in this comment section a couple of times about how the Avengers lost its way for years after the justifiably infamous 200th issue. Any other cases anybody would like to talk about?
We've talked in this comment section a couple of times about how the Avengers lost its way for years after the justifiably infamous 200th issue. Any other cases anybody would like to talk about?
Doug: For those of you not "in the know", "jumping the shark" is a reference to a venerable American television program called Happy Days. Set in the 1950's in David B.'s very own Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the show followed several friends through various sitcom situations. It was very highly-rated, until that fateful episode when Fonzie, the King of Cool, -- jumped a shark. In short-shorts and a leather jacket. Jumped a shark. All downhill after that, kids... So today we're talking about comic series that were going along just swimmingly (ouch) until some event, creator, etc. just made it all head south in a hurry. Have at it!
