Why aren't there more standalone comics, and why does everyone need their own expansive universe in comics?
>>155603241Your pic disproves your argument
How many do you need? Have you read them all?
>>155603241>Why aren't there more standalone comicsThere's plentyGo to a libraryPeruse databases like LOCGGet into comics outside of the direct market (and even in the direct market there's plenty of non-universe comics)
>>155603241Hellboy falls into the latter category.>>155603299>How many do you need?More.>Have you read them all?Yes.>>155603302>There's plentyThere really isn't.
>>155603449>YesLiar
>>155603255not really, Hellboy was a shared universe from the first shittily-scripted John Byrne issues onward
>>155604236That idea was scrapped.
>>155604295BRPD you fucking dumbass
>>155603241This series made me wish it never fucking expanded beyond the first stories with Hellboy and Lobster Johnson. Holy fuck did the expanded rest of things start to suck after a while. Hellboy's own run even started to suck too.
>>155604322The BPRD comic didn't start until years after Byrne's issues.
>>155603241Standalone comics don't produce a thousand years of endless merch.
>>155604423Scott Pilgrim?
>>155603241You pretty much have to look to one shots for that.
