Comix publishers are dropping their formerly rowdy and peevish letters columns from their funnybooks. The letters have tapered off, as comics fans find themselves arguing on the net, instead.
DC Comics recently announced the end of its letters-to-the-editor pages in all of its titles, more or less admitting that no one was really taking the time to write and mail letters to superheroes anymore.
DC’s decision to kill off letters — and with Marvel Comics inclined to do the same — is a surrender to the far superior powers of the Internet. Fans haven’t complained about the loss; they’re too busy flaming each other on comic book Web sites.