[Poison Shadow]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Yes, in Uncanny Avengers (which is one of the two currently running comics from Marvel I care about, I really enjoy it and Moon Knight) we're finding out High Evolutionary is the twins' actual creator or something, the story isn't finished yet. It's honestly fine by me to say Scarlet Witch isn't a mutant as she's always been more tied to the Avengers anyway.

Regarding current comics in general, I am saddened. Nova is dead and replaced by yet another high-school aged character, the Guardians of the Galaxy have been altered way too much to fit the movie crew, and X-books are getting the short end of the stick. I'm seriously still super bummed about Richard Rider being a skeleton floating in another dimension and almost nobody in the stories seems to give a crap. I can only wait until he is revived, along with Wolverine.

I do enjoy (like I said) Uncanny Avengers and Moon Knight's new book. Superior foes of Spider-man was funny. Rage of Ultron was a terrific graphic novel, so was Starlin's Infinity Revelation.

As previously mentioned, I only kept up with Deadpool - and considering the spoilers I just read about his death (I don't get my issue until the end of the month) I'm pretty disappointed. The book, in its final issue, suddenly ties in with an event I haven't read, will never read, and hasn't even been alluded to in Deadpool up to this point.

And that's the problem with comics. I think a much more successful business model would be to do away with the shared universe altogether, and allow writers and artists to do mini-series (twelve issues at the most) with a definitive beginning, middle, and end using any characters they want.
No continuity.
No decades of sloppily edited stories and convoluted events.
Just great artists and writers making great stories without restrictions - basically what DC has been doing with Earth One, and what Marvel's Ultimate universe started out as, but without the need to continue each story until they wear out their welcome.

But that's just me.

And since this is an action figure thread, let me say this: I really wish Hasbro would make a new Cable action figure. The previous ML versions haven't been that great (although I've tried on occasion to get the Toybiz brown suit variant for a decent price). I'll probably get the Marvel Select release, because Cable has been drawn to be that big in the past, but... well, it isn't ideal. He'll be bigger than my Hulk. My Chinese Deadpool needs his best buddy, though.