Do you ever think about endings for your favorite superhero characters? Not that you don't like future installments, but you feel that THIS particular issue is pretty "the end" for this character, and you don't need to see them through anymore deaths or tragedies or status quo changes? Not a canonical ending, but a head-canon ending if you will.
Like, I get to the last page of Born Again with Matt and Karen gone through the darkest hour of their lives and come out shining, wonderfully illustrated as always by David Mazzucchelli, and I think, "you're right, this is all I need to know"
Or in what I feel is still Slott's masterpiece, Spider-Man/Human Torch, was a very real and touching story, and by the end, Peter Parker has a real family and friends, Aunt May is so proud of Peter with his friends and his wife and it feels like that terrible chapter after Uncle Ben's death has been closed, and the FF who started off as freaks and mis-fits are now largely accepting and a big happy family, sharing their children with Aunt May, MJ and Susan talking about nothing in particular but human beings getting to know each other.
Like, this is the ending of this story, right? I don't need to see any deals with the devil or Galactus invasions or Green Goblins kidnapping girlfriends or brain swaps or whatever, no. Its over. We really like these characters, don't we want them to be happy?
Or that great last page of Morrison's Animal Man, can't find it at the moment, but did you ever need to see Buddy Baker ever again after that? Not to say Milligan's issues and the current Animal Man stuff weren't worthy stories, but that last page of Animal Man #26 felt like the last page, right?
