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Why do so many comic book fans need to have everything spelled out for them? I am not only focusing on "spoiler culture," as we see today where people complain before an issue is finished or want answers before the next issue is released. I mean the end of Simon Spurrier's brilliant "X-Men Legacy," the theme of the book was spelled out several times, but people were confused over whether we lost AoA, XMan, & Dark Beast. It's infuriating! Same goes for 75% of Morrison that people find "confusing"
I’ve tackled similar subjects in the past, where I’ve pointed to this piece that Alan Moore wrote back around 1987 analyzing the fan culture surrounding comic books. And he postulated that, in a world in which a greater and greater percentage of families were being split because of divorce, and in which the problems of youth were becoming more severe and more adult more quickly, there was a certain degree of comfort to be had for a certain type of person within the confines of a fictional universe in which everything made sense.
So if that love of consistency is a part of what attracts readers to the Marvel Universe, it’s no surprise that some of those fans would want to define the undefinable. The Marvel Universe Handbook was an organized attempt to do just that, and it served as a textbook for this manner of fan (having been spearheaded by a like-minded individual.)
Depending on who you are, the ending to The Sopranos is either elegantly bold or anti-climactically frustrating.
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