And in that same vein, let's not forget that the Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman (later Arachne, now the second Madame Web) was already a mother before...
I don't think it's a matter of failure, but that the overarching themes invoked and evoked by the X-Men franchise's ongoing narrative went completely...
That's a good question. I'd personally blame it on the aftershocks from "The Great Comics Crash of 1996," when the speculator bubble (finally) burst,...