Chancellor Araki didn't die for this.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
I rather liked him, honestly. . .
What I gather from the boards is he was.... 1."Gary Stu" 2. Stolen from some the french thief "danger diabolik" and I vaguely remember someone complaining that he steps on
gambits toes.
Ultimately... who know why the people on this board hate/or love anything.
I'd never knew storm was popular to the extent the stormfans project her... so yeah. People love wolverine everywhere... except here. Its an odd microcosm. Believe nothing.
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.
There isn't "Too many" there's just the amount that there is.
The general visceral appeal of him just reaches more people that... some of the other x-people. He's the aspirational cowboy archetype and a few other things.
But yes... there was a time in which wolverine transcended the X-men and thenn there's things like "Wolverine and the X-men".
I notice there's a backlash against his appeal here that isn't in other places.
Example:
A. Alex Ross doesn't' like Wolverine because his popularity (along with a few others) kinda drug us into the 90's era "EXTREME!" books.
B. Person on the boards "Seem to think" if not for Wolverine *shakes fist* "Storm/Cyclops/Iceman/My favorite would have that popularity!!!"
"B" is... a stretch, while A. Might be a thing if you lived through that era.
But I came back to say.........
Diabolik is actually Itallian.
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.
I'm not sure, but it was certainly the angle they implicitly leaned on. "Red Hair, Could Be Jean" and "Plucky Youth for Cable" are basically her only identifiable traits. And with Jean back she has no reason to be around, which is why she began fading out as early as the O5 stuff. (Also, Jean on her most boring day still has waayyyyy more going for her) Even then they had to prod the books to still remember she existed. She's a somewhat more promoted Joseph now AFAIC.