You're making my point.
Major critical success? We read different websites. Sales are slipping and X of Swords seems to be globally agreed upon misstep. I'm a huge Hickman guy. I'll read every issue but it's certainly not living up to any of his past works.His X-men run is selling pretty well and is a major critical success.
I agree with all this and again, you're making my point. Thank you!For X-Men you had Grant Morrison and now Hickman and in-between you had decent comics and titles by Aaron, Tom Taylor, Cullen Bunn among others. For Spider-Man...I honestly don't think there's really such a thing as a "legendary run" on Spider-Man because historically this has been a consistently maintained title, far more so than other Marvel titles. Chris Claremont's run on X-Men or Miller on Daredevil gets to be legendary because they took obscure titles from the pits to the heights...with Spider-Man no writer's been in a position to claim that because the title's never gotten to a very low point. The nearest is when JMS revived ASM after Mackie's run in the Post-Clone Saga and Clone Saga malaise. And maybe Roger Stern who revived ASM after the Wein-Wolfman-O'Neill era of bland boring stories. But neither run good as it is, is on the scale and scope of Claremont and Miller.
Again, you're missing my point or purposefully dodging with semantics. Characters and stories obviously come from comics and they are obviously made by people. My point is to invest in those people (who work on comics), so you get better people, or you have better people but now they have an incentive to make better work.Characters and stories don't come from comics. They come from creators, they come from people, and they usually don't get paid enough in terms of what they did and contribute, or are properly credited even.