[Boy Blunder]

I kind of hope he stays dead. Nothing against Bruce, either as his own character or as the Hulk, but I've just found myself bored with a lot of the 'classic' heroes as they are.

I'm a longtime Marvel fan, but I gotta say that I hadn't felt excited about reading the happenings of the 616 universe for years, until All-New All-Different Marvel happened (well, that and some of the Marvel NOW! lead-up before Secret Wars). With so many characters either voluntarily leaving their mantles or being unable to continue for some reason or another, there was a wealth of possibility going on. Sam Wilson as Cap? Laura Kinney taking over as Wolverine? This was crazy, and I was excited. I was ready to give Marvel a ton of money to read all these books. Even if it was 'classic' or formulaic stories, they'd be told with a different character having different reactions and different resolutions, so I could dig it. Marvel was making me care about their stories again, and not just my personal ideas of the characters. Hell, I never even gave two scoops about GotG before Bendis came along, and I'm not ashamed to say that.

Which is why all this 'returning to status quo' crap is just making me drop books left and right. Well, that and the endless stream of crossovers they've been doing. And it sucks, because while I don't hate Peter Parker or Steve Rogers or whoever, these guys have been in the tights for longer than I've been alive. Even factoring in comic-book time, it really is time for, to paraphrase the Odinson, the old order to changeth.