Also, as a message to people who claim to care about the state of these comics...maybe stop blaming and open the door. Instead of gate keeping and being a jackass, help new readers out. Dont belittle people for not knowing every episode of your soap opera.

Graphic novels are booming in part because there is ACTIVE outreach. There is connections to libraries, there is a supportive community of people who love comics who are helping kids and readers of different demographics get into them & find ones they like and continue reading.

Whining about the decline of readership while you belittle every new reader is a phenomenal act of shooting yourself in the foot. If you love comics, you should love helping new readers find those comics, without judgement or condescension.

Also, anecdotally I can absolutely say, as a young girl the two most potent tools to me getting into comics, as a reader, and eventually as a career; a library stocked with a robust comic selection and comic book store with staff who were encouraging, helpful and kind.

To FURTHER clarify, the idea of changing/rebooting/different takes is not the problem...those are great. I LOVE the different takes. It's the bizarre insistence that 100 radically different takes on Peter Parker over are the SAME Peter Parker (sticking with 616 as an example).

I feel like that idea was okay for a bit, but....Peter Parker didnt even know what the internet was in his first iterations. The logic and believability really decays into the fifth, or sixth decade

Meanwhile you've got a canonical multiverse sitting RIGHT THERE. Give creative teams more license to do smaller, self contained runs. Batman comics had HUGE success with the idea of small, self contained runs that are both fan and critically acclaimed STILL. Go Sherlock style.

I feel like you can really go nuts then too, stretch creative limits without the next poor writer having to bear the burden of finding a way to reset that doesn't make the whole community hate them

It's totally fine if you like the big bloated monster the way it is. It's not ENTIRELY without charms for those two love it. Theres no wrong way to eat a reese's. But this is about what keeps comics sales barely afloat and the evergreen question of "where are the new readers?"