With the last issue of superior Spider-Man we once again get a "fear to change the status quo" with marvel. I just came from another forum site and they are tearing marvel apart over it! One comment was "I feel like I wasted a year reading this." It was all for nothing. It's like we are in a episode of he-man from the 80s. Nothing can change and everything must stay the same by the end. If there is a change we must change it back.
Dr doom--after 40 years of the same story over and over and overusing him to the point people are sick of him they change it up. Doom gets a much needed change. They fix his face and make him a "anti hero". He made ties with the fantastic four also and can grow as a character. Can't have that. Bad guy again right away throwing away all that character growth.
Galactus--After the 200th story of him wanting to eat the earth they did something new and fresh with him! They turned him good. Can't have that! Back to status quo by a year.
Sandman--Turned good and grew as a hero even joining the avengers! Can't have that. Mind control (how lazy can you get! Also why has the thing not cured him yet? They have the cure and have used it twice!)
Spider-man--Gets married and grows as a hero. New stories can be told without spidey "not having money" for the 2000th time. Can't have that! It's magic and spideys acting like a 10 years old again. (isn't that what ultimate Spider-Man was for?)
Torch--Marries and grows as a hero. Stops acting like a child. Can't have that. Wife's a skrull and he turns back into a ten year old again flushing years of growth.
Old man logan and female wolverine--Nope bring the old one back.
It's like marvel is to scared to grow it's heroes. Magneto turned good? Nope we want him as a bad guy again. Is marvel (and dc with the batman wedding) just scared to change? When they do change something it's undone after a few years and they "return to staus quo."
If hawkeye and wanda were new bad guys they would never stayed as heroes today. They would have turned bad again!
And marvel wonders why they are getting beat by manga and young reader books in sales. How long before the new X-Men titles go back to what they were?
Is this starting to be a problem or is everything still fine with marvel never letting heroes or bad guys grow?
What do you guys think? Is it really nothing or is it starting to be a problem for marvel?