Do I Like Sequals?
Just a stray thought I had back in October, but didn't get around to finishing until now. Do I like sequals? And I don't just mean game sequals, but sequals to anything: books, movies, comics? Let's look at each individually. Comics Well, the "episodic" nature of comics guarantees there will be a sequal, so it almost isn't a fair question, however, there is the habbit of revisiting a particular story arc or series again and again. For example: in the DC universe there was a series back in the 80's called Crisis on Infinite Earth's. Lots of people like it, so the made a follow up later on called Infinite Crisis. Again, popular to the point where they brought it to the table again with Final Crisis, which is wrapping up in the next few months. Now, I don't know all the details of the stories, not having read them completely, nor the stories that led up to each of them, so I really don't know if the sequals were necessary to explain more of what w...