Quote: The publishers are far more interested in making money off of licensing than they are off of telling good stories
Bullshit.
Barry Allen had been dead for four years when he got his own TV show.
Huntress stopped being Batman's daughter 17 years ago and that didn't stop her from being his daughter again last year on TV.
Licensing has NOTHING to do with what happens in comics, so come up with a better argument.
And change in comics happens all the time, some is more permanent than another but it happens.
Kyle Rayner
Clark & Lois being married
Barbara Gordon in a wheelchair.
So instead of trying to make excuses for the hacks and claim that change will never happen in trademarked characters owned by evil corporations, you should try looking around at what's actually been happening in comics in the last 17 years.
What Waid's doing with Superman and Loeb's doing with Supergirl is the equivalent of Barbara Gordon getting up from her chair and becoming Batgirl again for no good reason.
Change in comics happens "all the time"?! The times you've mentioned are exceptions, and none of them would have happened if they weren't comercially viable. Most of the stuff that happens has no impact a year or two after it happened. There's no point in reading comics like that. Doesn't stop some people from buying them even though they don't like them assuring that they keep being published...
