Bishop and Sunspot had Claremont involved in their creation, the rest did not. There you go.
Bishop was apparently so popular in the Dark Age that he took Kitty Pryde's place in X-Men TAS which only brought him to a wider audience who gave him more fans.
I love Maggott!
I think it basically comes down to writers having their fan-boy faves and just not being interested in those "secondary" characters (they are not A-listers, and more decidedly B/C-listers) to begin with, coupled with...editorial "allowing" only certain characters to be used, and How and When they could be used. Plus...the (short) length of time current writers are given to tell their stories, before they move/are moved on to other books/projects.
Take Gentle on XMR by Taylor as a most recent example of my last point.
That was an 11-issue run. And While Gentle was given some character development, in order for him to be given the chance at Bishop-level prominence Taylor would have to be on that book for a good two years plus in order to devote some major story development time to the character. As it stands right now, Gentle is back in limbo.
Today's writers just aren't given the same opportunity and leeway as Claremont had back in the day, or even Bendis for a more recent example. They are writing plot-driven stories instead of character-driven stories. Then consider...as with Bendis, they would much rather devote time and effort into introducing and promoting their creator-owned characters rather than those belonging to/chosen by Marvel and editorial.
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Synch was the best thing about GenX. Which says a lot about him, because there were a lot of great things about the Lodbell/Bachalo era.
Or he'd have been degraded to fodder and mediocrity like Storm, Gambit, and other X-characters. Looking at the state the X-books are in, Synch was spared the character assassination that would've befallen him. lol
I wish some of my favorites were dead, given how horribly they've been treated alive.
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He was Gen X’s Jean Grey. Too proficient, had to go. His absence leaves the rest reeling. That’s not to say he couldn’t have RETIRED from X-adventures. THAT would be interesting. A mutant who doesn’t want to fight, and prefers to hide among humans because he can. Hmmmm
I'm hoping to see Prodigy becoming more prominent this year. He could have his powers back now but even without them he's still perfectly cabable of fighting and has a variety of knowledge and skills. He has ties to both X-Men and Avengers so there's no shortage of oppotunity to use him.
Agree with everything but this part specially and it is the most frustrating part of being a comic fan for me. Seeing characters I like and am interested in getting sidelined so that the same old same old can be front and center in yet another storyline. And given the demographics of the Classic/Old characters, that's what keeps Marvel from ever being truly diverse.
Here we go...