Does anyone else fear that a lot of these diverse characters that have been created in the last decade or so are going to go the way of Marrow and Adam X in a few years? I feel many of them aren't putting enough equity into the kind of stuff that actually makes for a long-lasting character. Most of them seem like derivative spin-offs of more popular characters, or they lack a rogue's gallery or much of a supporting cast of their own. They seem like the kind of characters that will wind up on some b or c list team 20 years from now and readers will say "hey remember that character." Is it that hard to actually build up the world around a superhero nowadays? What makes characters like Spiderman so popular is the fact that you have an interesting character surrounded by an interesting world. Some of these characters have the first part down pat, but most of them seem lacking in the second part.
Sometimes I feel Marvel is creating these characters to catch momentary headlines, then has no idea what to do with them after that.