Would you rather see your favorite comic book character dead or badly written?

Depends on how good the death is

A simple death that leaves them out of an entire verse, for example new 52 or earth 616.

Badly written ofc. Comics like The Killing Joke, Court of Owls, Batman: RIP and others more than make up for comics like The Dark Knight Strikes Again

Badly written. As long as the character is alive, I can hope that things will improve, but "dead" is "dead". Okay, in comics that's not always the case, but it's easier to turn a book around when the character is alive and in publication.

I'd rather see Nightcrawler dead.

For the 3rd time.

it depends on the popularity... A popular/iconic hero like spider man, hulk or batman can die and he'll be back eventually but a lesser hero like cyclops, jean grey or one of the many super man's support characters can stay dead for decades and basically never come back. in that vain bad writing id preferable to 'death' though a string of bad writing can also lead even a popular character to 'die' by becoming unpopular.

Dead. No question.

Dead.

It was a good thing that Wolverine was mostly dead in Marvel's SJW Era, but now that he's back i fear the worst.

Badly written, theres always a chance for improvement if they are alive

Knowing that X-Man was dead made me more comfortable than knowing he's running around depowered.

Dead. Which is basically cold storage in comics. Rather put them on the back burner than to have their legacy dragged by some group of hacks like current Marvel...

Dead. Just off them rather than continuing to waste my money reading them being written horribly. I do believe that characters can improve though but for me I feel just killing a badly written character is more merciful.

Dead. New 52 Vic Sage (if you can even call him that) was stupid.

die

i do believe in redemption

but if it is perfect closure meaning there was nothing badly written about them before i prefer death

Dead, because Barry Allen had possibly the most heroic and influential death in comics. It'd be a sin to kill him off now in a way that doesn't pay homage to that.

Tim Drake used to be my favorite character, but Lobdell's awful writing ruined the character for me. The last thing I want is for that to happen again.

If the death is done really well then dead, if the character isn't written well I probably will lose interest in said character.

Dead.

That'd be interesting for sure to see how the New 52 continuity would handle Wally taking over The Flash mantle.

I mean my favorite comic is Adventure Time by Ryan North. Now I am reading Squirrel Girl because he writing it, and the current run of Adventure Time, well eh. I mean the graphic novel is technically worst, but still wtf Christopher Hasting, aside from one arc, the comic book is mediocre. That being said other spin-offs of Adventure Time like Ice King, regular show crossover, and Adventure Time comic anthology are pretty good. A badly written book for a popular series or character will always have some bad one, but there will be more good to outweigh them.

Also, I personally like The Dark Knight Strike again. I mean the artwork is crappy and hard to look at, but it gave it is own identity. Is memorable, and fit with the dystopian society and gives the comic lots of personality through the art alone. Plus the story was pretty good (minus Robin that was garbage).

Ask Bruce Banner

It'd make for a really interesting story, especially with Wally's current standing in the DCU after Rebirth!

Personally I'm somehow on both Team Barry-Should-Have-Stayed-Dead and Team-Barry-Is-The-True-Flash. His death was perfect, and paved the way for Wally to come in and become the next generation's Flash. Any version of the DCU that doesn't have at least that story does both characters an injustice. I don't think Barry's rebirth negates his death, although my ideal DCU would have Barry returning as Blue Lantern Flash and Wally staying as Flash.