I was hoping you could answer this question. why do comics avoid relationships? I mean, ive seen more divorces in comics books than I have marriages, and it confuses me that we can have things like Superman being married and Spiderman being married and Was

It’s believed that if you do serial fiction, especially fiction that lasts for decades, pairing an iconic character with a love interest is a dramatic dead end. It’s also believed that it ages the characters. People say on shows like Cheers and Moonlighting, once the characters got together, a lot of the tension that made those shows fun was gone (I have no idea, I have watched very little Cheers and no Moonlighting). 


I have some sympathy for these concepts, I get why publishers believe them to be true. But so many of my favorite stories had the characters in relationships, I don’t know, I miss them a lot. 

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