Quote Originally Posted by Revolutionary_Jack View Post
We have to wait for the end of Spencer's run to see what it does. Let's not presume what the conclusion will be and judge the run based on those presumptions. That would not be fair.

In any case, since Quesada, Marvel has generally followed a 'toys back in the box' idea where essentially at the end of the run, the next writer has full say whether they can follow the set-up at the end or simply skirt it at go their own way. So comics runs these days tend to be disjunctive, feel discontinuous and set-ups from previous runs don't always carry on the way it did before where the idea was you to start with the setup given to you, work around it to one to your liking and go from there. It's a general tendency that comics runs across Marvel titles rarely follow "consequences" so much over the last two decades. That typifies Quesada's lackadaisical approach on the whole.
Daredevil being the only exemption to that rule. It has become a tradition for writers to come up with a ending/set up that the next writer has to address or fix. Bendis left Daredevil unmasked for Brubaker, Brubaker left Daredevil as the head of the Hand for Diggle, Waid left Daredevil unmasked/a celebrity for Soule and Soule left Daredevil literally broken physically for Zdarsky. Each writer has generally taken time to incorporate and address those plot threads in their own runs.

I think Spencer went in wanting to do his own stuff, so he pretty much did away with the things that were left by Slott in order to get his story into a position whereby it could hit the ground running. For me, his tenure has been running around putting the toys back into the box that Slott neglected to do himself.