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Well, I don't know how old you are (I'm in my mid-50s) but I tend to agree about Western animation, although I'd say there were still good cartoons in the 2000s, like JLU and the original Teen...

Well, Doc Samson is busy playing Green Sasquatch, so...

It's not been so much abandoned as kiddified: They are still cranking out Teen Titans Go episodes, and Moon Girl is getting a second season.

Yeah, Al Ewing might. But he'd also try to find a way to fit it in with the existing cosmology as he did in Ultimates & Defenders.

Only if anyone outside of GODS actually acknowledges it. Otherwise, it's like all those Starlin Thanos projects...

Yeah. I also remember when a single issue meant something.

Shockingly, yes. Having "fun" is for (ugh) "popular fiction". Comics are all "literary" now...

Fair point.

Of course, a top seller these days would be mid-range at best when I started reading comics.

I'd argue that the first two (at least, I don't pay attention to the Superman line) have reached a saturation point regarding character stuff. There's only so much torment you can put a character...

There are, in my opinion, two major approaches to writing action stories nowadays. You might call them "plot-dominant" and "character-dominant".

A plot-dominant story is usually fairly...

Nowadays, you are lucky if a storyline finished in 12 issues, a.k.a. "a season".



Because writing for comics is a different beast than writing a novel, but Marvel keeps hiring novelists.

'Sfunny that you knew IMMEDIATELY who he was talking about, when all he said was "a certain mutant", innit?

Technically, there were three of them:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Tank

Oh, come on. We all know he's Tito Bohusk...

(I actually have another theory, but I'm not sure if he's a mutant.)

They could have gone full Priest with it, and adapted the first arc, more or less.

And a sizeable percentage are vocal fans of a certain mutant...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQAG0JEb718

People keep bringing up the Dune comparison, but there are three reasons that it doesn't sway me:

1. Comics are not books. It's a different style of storytelling.
2. You don't have to wait N...

"Keep reading! It will be worth it in the end!"

I heard that with Coates.

I heard that with Ridley.

I heard that with Ewing.

And every single time, the "slow burn" fizzled out.

More that flashback story where the Soulsword existed before Illyanna created it, and also why Illyanna could be wielding the Soulsword but NOT ruling Limbo (as seen in New Mutants a brief while...

True, but Prometheus has nothing to do with Otherplace. :)

Because I'm bored, and have a few spare moments, I'm toying with a new explanation for the Soulsword that is divorced from having to explain why Illyana is still alive (because, of course, she is).
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I've wanted to see the return of "spy-fi" 'Berto since Time Runs Out. We never DID get to see what he did as "Citizen X", but I liked the idea so much I used that scene as my avatar. :)

Not so much appearances as backstory. On the one hand, 'Yana created it during her training. But on the other, it's tied to Limbo and the symbol of its monarch (see various issues of Excalibur).
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The light blue energy one. It's a useful balance between "useful sword" and "psychic lightsaber".

Speaking of which... I wonder if anyone still remembers the Two Soulswords Theory I came up with...