How Not To Run A Comic - Monday, January 9, 1995

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How Not To Kill Off A Character #9

Contributed by Matt Johnson of

mcDuffies says:

A cliché from films, mostly.
But yeah, there’s often some poor sod that you know is gonna be killed simply because he’s unimportant and hanging around. Usually, preferences of author are obvious – you can see which characters he likes, to which characters he’s fairly ambivalent. By that, you can easily conclude which character is gonna be killed just as a demonstration of power.
Somehow, I always thought this kind of killing is utter disrespect of a human life, by artist.
And don’t you think it’s a bit illogical that villain will kill the least dangerous enemy of all?