I suddenly understand Marvel comics!

[elfs]

So, I was reading a manga today, something obscure and kinky called (best translation) "Small Tit Research!" when a story line hit me right between the eyes. It was funny, it was cute, it was silly, it might be the comic relief needed between episodes of a story line I told myself I was never, ever gonna write.

Didja ever have a character you'd written off, who insisted on coming back again and again, just because she had potential and wasn't ready to be shuffled offstage quite yet? I think this is why Marvel comics characters keep coming back to life: it's not that they have fans or marketability, but that their writers weren't ready to delete those bibliographies from their databases.

Comments

[blaisepascal]

At least you have the advantage of (a) writing about immortals, and (b) not writing chronologically. Of course, that means that for continuity purposes you have to look both forward and back.