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Beardguy57 said:
In the Legion series before the current one, they killed off Colossal Boy. He was always one of my fav. Legionairres! I also didn't like when they killed off the first Invisible Kid, Lyle Norg, or Chemical king..who was another hero slated to die from his creation, as it has a statue of him in the dead Legionairres memorial room on the cover of Adventure Comics #354.




Yeah, the Karate Kid death was really cheap, I thought. (LEGION, third series, 1984, issue 5, by Levitz and Giffen) at a point where Giffen's art was diminishing.

I'm glad I never saw Collossal Boy's death, he's another character I like. Especially in LEGION 287-305 (second series, 1982-1984), during his budding romance with Shrinking Violet, that had several great twists at the end.

Lyle Norg also made a brief comeback, in LEGION 298-299, from the same Levitz-Giffen era, that I thought was a nice send-off.


A character I liked a lot that they killed off was Blok, in 1989, in LEGION (fourth series, issue 3 or 4). Again, a really cheap and meaningless end to the character. If they had to kill one of my favorites, they could have at least done it well.



With CAPTAIN MARVEL (Mar-Vell anyway, although they just found another character to fill the same costume), at least it was Starlin who killed him off, and he had a well developed and meaningful death.
And ditto for Starlin's run on WARLOCK.

Jean Grey/Phoenix in the Byrne/Austin X-MEN run was one I felt a loss for too (although they brought her back a dozen times after, and couldn't leave well enough alone. )

And Gwen Stacy's death, back in the early 70's, although same thing, they brought Gwen back, and killed her appeal, while leaving her alive, and then killed her physically again too.



Most characters when they kill them off, I often feel they've had a good run, and it's time. And the ones they kill off that I either find the death-story distastefully done, or that the character was killed off too soon, I just go on enjoying the issues I liked them in, and pretend like the "death" issue doesn't exist.



One I love is Kirby's Fourth World series.

But then in 1985 or so, Kirby himself concluded it with a God-awful conclusion in the HUNGER DOGS graphic novel.
But as far as I see it, it's apocryphal and never happened.
I just cant reconcile that abberation of transcendant lameness, with the greatness that Kirby gave us in the early 70's.
So as far as I'm concerned, HUNGER DOGS doesn't exist, and the "Darkness Saga" in LEGION 290-294 is the real conclusion.

Back in CRISIS in 1986, Supergirl was one character that I felt had many great stories left to be told, and it was too soon to kill her. But... they brought her back too !

And also in CRISIS, the Barry Allen FLASH was one I was disappointed to see go, but it was time. It was appropriate that he died in 1986 with the conclusion of the Silver/Bronze age, and I'd have hated to see what would have been done to him in the darker modern age of comics that immediately followed. Barry Allen FLASH started the Silver Age in 1956, it was appropriate for his death to reign in the end of the era.