Death Of Wolverine: 10 Ways To Make It Not Suck

5. Non-Stop Mindless Violence

For all the good one final battle would be to Wolverine€™s history, there€™s the obvious risk of the comic focusing far too much on it over any character moments. This is true of any superhero comic €“ turn too much towards the violence and the audience becomes bored of non-stop bloodshed, turn too far away from it and the comic loses its main draw. While there should definitely be fighting of some kind within the comic, it needs to strike a balance between them. Many of the best moments which did feature moments of mass violence or a heroic last stand as a character€™s end only introduced it in the finale. One of the best remembered character deaths in the Thor comics was that of Skurge the Executioner, who died holding off an entire army at the bridge of Gjallerbru. Rather than depicting a massive conflict stretched throughout multiple issues it only lasted a few pages. In the end that was all that was really needed, with the presentation and text doing more than showing the full fight ever could. That same restraint needs to be used again here, with any violence controlled and carefully timed rather than dominating the entire book. With a talented writer, a story doesn't need to show every punch the protagonist swings, just the right ones.
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