Does their return deminish the death story? not necessarily. Does bringing them back to soon? In my opinion, absolutely. There are times where they wait, but often they rush into resurrecting them or create lame storylines/characters to replace them; eg superman or spider-man (current). But whats an adequate amount of time? There's probably alot of opinions... Too fast, piss people off. Too late, piss people off. Do it wrong... Piss people off. Its a balancing act.....
I think when it comes to death/resurrection publishers/writers give their readers enough respect to do it right. It becomes gimmicky and obviously a ploy to boost sales.. and often times readers see that and stop reading.
(slott comes to mind, yet again with his "parker is dead" crap)
Its probably why I started reading some independent publishers, and "non superhero" books like walking dead. When they are dead, they're DEAD.
Rant over... I'm sure people have discussed and will discuss this at nausium anyways...
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