You know, it just seems to me that, if a character isn't working out, a smart publisher could just, I dunno, stop using the character for a while, instead of killing him or her off, thereby leaving the character alive for a future writer, with potentially more talent, to bring him or her back.
Instead, we are subjected, month after month, to mini-series that kill the characters off.
Is that supposed to be creativity--telling the same, morbid story over and over?
