if given the job of EIC, what would YOU do?

[Rollo Tomassi]

Brubaker has already gone to the well a couple times with that 50s Cap guy. Bru had him show up as a Herring after Steve "died" and then again after Steve came back but Bucky was officially the new Cap. It was that whole "teabag" incident that made the papers remember? 50s Cap was the antagonist for that story arc. I can't remember if they killed him on the last go around or not.
And I was thinking of doing a U.S.Agent series, but I haven't found the right hook yet. That's for personal preference, i think John Walker has untapped potential along the lines of Jason Todd to be a very compelling character and not just the one-dimensional a-hole he's been written as thus far.
Lemar Hoskins AKA Battlestar AKA Walker's Bucky could be the fist modern Black Cap (aside from Falcon's shortlived retconned stand in) And if not him...
There is also Josiah X, who is the son/grandson of the original black Captan America from the Truth mini. He was in the extremely shortlived ongoing The Crew that lasted 7 issues. If you wanted to get REALLY super radical (and therefore unpublishable) Josiah is Muslim I believe. A Black Muslim Captain America?Conservatives would collectively poop their pants.
But i think since we just went through a "substitute Cap" story for the past five years, having anyone except Steve as Cap for awhile would feel retread. I think him just being a man without a team for awhile.

I do like Collins for Iron Man, but wouldn't you rather have him headlining a Deathlok series of his own?
Narratively it would make sense for Rhodey to resume being IM if Tony were injured, but I think a new person would be more interesting. but at the same time, killing him off feels cheap and for shock value only. There's got to be a more creative way to get him out of the picture.

The Avengers. What I'm trying to figure out is how to have a team with a name called the Avengers thats nothing like what we expect The Avengers to be. I mean, if you think about it, having the Marvel version of the Justice League, is not really an "Avengerish" type team. So it would be a team of super powered "I don't give a fucks." especially since the world is not the biggest fans of the Avengers anyway. So, just flip the concept of the Avengers over like an 18-wheeler in a ditch. The trouble is, you can't have villains because thats just Thunderbolts with a new name. And pretty much 90% of the heroes are or were Avengers at some point. So deliberately finding people to be on the team while not making it look like your just dredging the characters who haven't been Avengers yet. And without getting D-list about it. And also makng the roster feel like it came together naturally. And what would they be "Avenging"? (aside from the fallout of the Event which is too broad in my opinion). I was thinking maybe Deathlok (one of the ones that isn't Collins) is on the team, but pretty much I'm stuck on this one and leaving it alone for now.

[Rollo Tomassi]

I am reluctant to come up with any FF ideas simply because Hickman is rocking ass on the series now, but i did post this one in a different topic awhile back, and from it, you could derive three different titles. There would be some rejiggering in light of Johnny's death and the Future Foundation stuff, but you come away with Future Foundation, Fantastic Force, and Fantastic Four books. Mostly I just like the idea of Lyja, Kristoff, Val, and Franklin being on a team.

I have this idea for a Fantastic Four story. Let's say I take over the series as the new regular writer. I talk up a bunch of shit I'm going to do over the next year or so at conventions, on CBR, etc. Lay out a fairly conventional series of story arcs lasting two to four issue each.

But then half way through my first arc (say after three issues) the Four just vanish. WHOOOOSHT. Like the last two pages of that issue are just white blank pages.

Then Marvel hits up this massive ad campaign. "WHERE are the Fantasitc Four?" or 'Where were you when the FOUR vanished?!" Getting all these fanboys wanking their shit.

So then starts off this three tiered storyline. First off, I introduce a new Fantastic Four which is Val and Franklin looking for their family obviously (by the way, the only cool thing that came out of Millar's run on the title was making a two year old Val hyper intelligent like her father. I LOVE that aspect of the ongoing series now. Brilliant.) Anyway, they are joined by Lyja who wants to find Johnny (I would also retcon that she actually had his baby, but that comes later). And the fourth member would be Dr. Doom. Mostly because I would love to play Doom off of the Richards' children. And Doom would be arrogant enough to assume that he is the only one capable of finding the missing Four. I would also re-introduce young Kristoff, who is actually a young man at this point. Mostly for the father/son riff of him playing off his "father" Victor VonDoom whom he now realizes in an incredible douche, and Doom in turn sees Kristoff as a failure because he's not as "EVIL" as Doom. Which I realize is Five instead of four, but whatever.

So the second prong of the story would be four random characters coming together by fate and becoming a New Fantastic Four. These would be brand new characters, a new team dynamic who become the Public Heroes while the "Family" (Val, Franklin, Lyja, Doom, and Kristoff) are focusing on finding the missing Four. How does the world react to these unknown heroes. How do other here teams react? other villains, etc? This is mostly done because after almost 600 issues, lets face it, Reed and company are stagnant at times. Theres only so much you can do with the same four characters.

Finally, the third arc is eventually finding out what happened to the Four. They got shunted to the far corners of the universe. They have no idea who they are or where they are. Ben landed on a world that has access to the Old Power (which has been established on the world of Skaar that other worlds have a similar power in them) and he now has access to it really ramping up the Thing as a this "rock creature". Reed has no idea he can stretch, but is still hyperintelligent, except now he has no sense of morals and is actually flunkie for some evil alien force on the other side of the universe. Sue is ONLY invisible. She doesn't realize she can revert. I'm not sure of where she landed but I was thinking she has become almost like a God on some world, unseen using her powers to make "miracles" happen. And finally Johnny has gone Supernova permanently and might even be a Herald-like being for some Galactus type being.

In any case, finding and bringing the original Four back would take more than a couple years, so that when they finally returned to earth they would actually be a big deal again AND in the case of Ben and Johnny for example they are even more powerful than ever ( and in a reversal, Ben can change to and from the Thing at will, but Johnny is now the one stuck powered up. And at the same time, hopefully, the "Replacement" Four have had enough time to establish themselves as interesting characters in their own right and their adventures would continue as well. Not to mention the character development of Lyja and Kristoff as permanent supporting characters in the book. AND whatever characters/stories would be continued from the four worlds the Four were eventually discovered on.

That's how I would do it.

[Rollo Tomassi]

I must be losing it or something. I could've sworn I had thrown this X-Men idea out here at some point, but it may have been over at the WUMB or maybe even just as a PM to somebody. Anyway. here it is again for the first time:

The Intrepid X-Men. This is/was conceived as a more lighthearted X-Book. The star of the book is Leech, who at this point is 14 or 15. He's matured a bit and doesn't look quite as midgetly freakish as he does in other books. Also, as originally conceived, Leech and Artie were NOT twins of each other with giant bulbous heads with spots on them. Artie was like that with pink skin and vacant white eyeballs. Leech was more normal looking although he had more of an oblong head and squinty eyes. But at sme point, some lazy ass artist decided they looked exactly the same except for the green and pink coloring, and that imagery stuck. But I digress.
So Leech has been living at the Mansion Utopia this entire time, working in the laundry room or the kitchen. one of the joke's would be "Where've you been this whole time?" And he's been there, just not as one of the "pretty" mutants that writers like to use. And he's been focusing his powers so that he can either A. Aim it at someone. Not pinpoint, but more like a windtunnel in a general direction. or B. he can expand his negative-power in a large bubble area. Which makes him fairly powerful and useful as far as mutants go. So he heads up a new team that goes out and tracks down the bad mutants. The rest of the team includes Artie, who is following in his father's footsteps and is the genius of the team. He's a protoge of Dr. McCoy. He still can't speak, but he has learned to write, so his uniform is a white T-shirt and his 'dialog' just shows up as print on his shirt. He also has grown up enough, to where he still has an expansive noggin but otherwise looks like a normal teen. The third member is Whiz-Kid, who went to Madison Jeffries and asked if he could be the new Box, sonce nobody is using that name. So Box 3.0 He went back home to Japan for a while which is why he hasn't been around, but now he's back. Next on the team are Albert and ElsieDee. The joke with Albert is that Wolverine doesn't have enough time to be on ALL the teams, so Albert is filling in. And ElsieDee just because she's an ornery little douche and fun to write. The final member of the team is some big name popular X-Man like Emma Frost or Kitty Pryde or someone. And although that person is "officially" the leader of this X-Men team, nobody listens to her/him and they just listen to Leech and Artie which causes Kitty or whomever all kinds of frustration.
So they basically go out on all these wacky Keystone Cop type adventures with lots of bickering and whatnot while trying to save/recruit/talk down all the Mutants who haven't yet joined the Utopia.
Now, of course, all of this was before the Schism and before Hickman decided to use Artie and Leech in the FF book, and that they are still the same age they were when X-Factor discovered them back in 1986. And it doesn't quite fit in with the Mysterious X-Men premise above.
And I could've sworn I had already posted this somewhere on here before. But there it is. For Marvel to steal along with all these other ideas. Meep.

[anarky]

I'd nominate a repowered, de-vampirized Jubilee for that role. I could totally see her given command of this D-team, and no one listening to her at all.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Jubilee's not A-Lst enough to get people intersted in picking up a book of D-Listers. Although I did come up with another idea (or tow) that's goofy and probably wouldn't sell well.

Daughters of Logan. Or D.O.L.L.s ( I dunno what the second 'L' is...yet.) Before he dissappeared, Logan had a penchant for hooking up with getting cozy with adopting and taking under his wing underage brunettes. More than Half of them Asian. So, a team-up book with Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, X-23, Armor, and little Akiko. Plenty of personality clash in that little group. I don't know what the point if such a series would be. having them "team up" to find the missing Logan seems a little egregious and on the nose for me.

The Hornet's Nest. A team book with Hank Pym, Scott Lang, Eric O'Grady. Rita DeMara, etc. Since Scott Lang is alive again he's wanting to be Ant-Man. But o'Grady is all up in his face. So Pym suggests that Lang become Yellowjacket. But the recently returned Rita DeMara has issues with that. So then Pym says somebody can use his male Wasp costume and be a new hero called the Hornet. At which point, the Slinger guy shows up and is like what's up with that? Again this one doesn't really have a decent hook, other than to get all these opposing personalities in a room bickering with each other and not actually out fighting crime. Not a strong premise, but one I chuckled at so i threw it in here.

Constrictor and Diamondback. I was trying to come up with a clever title like 'Sticks'n'Stone' or Whips'n'Chains' or something but nothing fits. If you can think of something...anyway. Frank Schlicting has always been a fascinating character to me. He's a villain who doesn't really want to be a villain, and when he's tried to be a hero, it doesn't go too well. Being a villain pays better, but his heart isn't in it. And now he's dating Diamondback. So when your new girlfriend's ex-boyfriend is Captain bloody America, well you're gonna have performance anxiety. (I mean that in the heroing sense, not the other way you pervs). So you got these two people who want to be heroes, but suck at it and are better at being villians but don't want to be. So the premise would be that Cap comes to them and says why don't you guys be good guy posing as bad guys and help us clean up the system from the inside. Which of course Frank bristles at because it's Rachel's ex-boyfrined gift to humanity SuperHero making the offer. So there's some humorous dramatic tension there. And the series is them constantly saving the world but through comical bungling it looks like they're the bad guys. Like that old Western TV show 'Alias Smith and Jones'.

Scourge of the Underworld. Bring back the Super-villain killer. But keep his identity a secret. I want to drop bread crumbs in making people think its Frank Castle, but in reality its Frank Bohannon, the Crimson Commando. Who originally started as a Nazi-Hunter along with Super-Sabre and Stonewall back in X-Men, and then got bastardized into some kind of villain and then turned into a cyborg and all other manner of shite. Anyway, this would be a very down and dirty grungy title. Scourge would be hunting down and killing Marvel Super-villains, but EACH villain would be a real task and a threat. None of this walking into the Bar with no name and killing 30 villains all at once. i would make each villain the coolest and as dangerous as you've ever seen them. So much so that you'd be impressed and sad when a mort goes down and think 'aw damn, that was a waste of a good villain'. And sometimes they'd get away and he'd have to start all over. Sometimes Scourge would be tracking one guy for almost a year before they finally had a showdown. Really ramp up the epicness. Because if you're going to kill a badguy I don't want it to be a throwaway. That being said, there are a lot of Marvel Supervillains that could be culled.

Punisher. Of course, for the Frank Castle red herring in Scourge to work, that means the Punisher would have to be someone different. There are so many different ways you could go with this. But many of them would just be for shock value like Luke Cage IS the Punisher. Or Elektra. Or Foggy Nelson. Or going back over your old footsteps by making Lynne the Punisher again. And part of me just would like to see Frank just being Frank and leave this one alone. So I dunno.

U.S.Agent. John Walker is another character I have an affinity for. I think his original abrasiveness towards Steve Rogers has been tempered over the years, and while he knows he's not Rogers and doesn't want to be, he respects Rogers and what he aspires to be and the way Rogers inspires other heroes. But he also knows the country needs somebody who's a little more hard-ass. And the book opens with him and Rogers having a real heart to heart just so we can unload that anti-Rogers one-dimensional baggage that Walker has been saddled with. In his newly cloned body (if they can do it for Rhodey, they can do it for Walker) he's not the good little order following soldier he used to be. That part of Rogers has rubbed off on him, that he represents the ideals of the Nation, not the nation itself. And that no soldier should follow orders he knows to be immoral, unethical, etc. So the premise of the book is that Walker gets wrapped up in this conpiracy and he actually starts unravelling all these super secret black-ops programs that the govt seems to have a bajillion of. he has a personal stake in it because somebody close (maybe Battlestar) is killed and while he's investigating it keeps leading back to the govt. and things like the Comittee on SuperHuman Affairs(C.S.A.) and various attempts to get Project:Rebirth working. The book would be him cleaning all that shit up. It would have lots of political intrigue. And since he's always been a puncher instead of a thinker he's a little in over his head and has too start thinking like a Captain America instead of just the one-dimensional asshole he always used to be. And just for shits and giggles maybe throw Nomad in as his sidekick and Trish Tilby as the investagative reporter who's helping him track all this stuff down Woodward and Bernstein style.

The Rampaging Hulk. In this one, Banner is now the head of the Hulkbusters and we don't know who the Hulk is. But the Hulk has something on him or in him that is crucial to get before time runs out. And although the Hulk knows that what he has is important, whoever his human side is doesn't. I was thinking maybe Rick Jones is the new Hulk, but thats been done so many times before. Still working on this one.

[anarky]

Rollo, if I had it in my power, I would fire everyone at Marvel and put you in charge of rebuilding it.

No shit.

It's too bad they're stuck in a "maintain the status quo with minor cosmetic changes" corporate rut. This is some awesome stuff.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Thanks. As I do these, I'm coming to the realization that if you don't have 8 titles with the word 'Avengers' or 'Spider-Man' or 'Wolverine' in the title, coming up with 52 different concepts and ideas is actually kinda tough. I kinda realize that you almost need to have the core titles be bi-weekly or even thirce monthly like ASM did for a couple years and then count those as two of your 52 titles. And while its fun and snarky to say 50 Wolverine Books!! its not very interestng and doesn't take the original conceit to heart. Also, I have a few criteria I've imposed on myself. Firstly, It would be easy to just name off 52 Marvel Ideas that have already been done as series, Cloak&Dagger, Inhumans, Eternals, Guardians of the Galaxy, yadda yadda 52 times. But again, thats not taking the spirit of this exercise to have fun coming up with 52 relaunches. So, Secondly, I'm trying to come up with heady enough MOMENT or reason to make someone look at a new first issue and go HOLY SHIT! at the new concept. But merely having that moment isn't enough for me either. otherwise its just a douche Mark Millar fanboy idea, like "Captain America skullfucks Aunt May!" And then you're like 'okay Mark, how is that a series?' and he's like "What?!? HE SKULLFUCKS her every issue! I'm Scottish and awesome! Plus me mother sucked my penis when I was a child and that's normal right? I had a normal childhood where parents and children sex each other orally? Yah?" So, thirdly, the idea had to have legs. At least, enough legs with an overarching idea that last a couple years. After that, y'know everything changes. but if there's enough of these big ideas that toally changes the landscape of the entire Universe, then its like hopefully these changes lead to other changes in a natural organic way, and not a Fanboy Mark Millar way.

But yeah coming up with 52 books is...getting tougher.

Cloak & Dagger. Considering the etymology of the name of this series is shorthand for Cold War spy stuff, I'm rougly thinking of how to make these two kids agents of SHIELD or something. that way the title would have two meanings. But i'm trying to radically alter their powers enough to make them interesting again. because lets face it, Tandy and Tyrone are pretty stale. I thought about switching their powers so that she's got a white teleporting cloak (ala Raven from Teen Titans) and he's firing off shadow daggers, or something. But the stagnation of these two is working against me. Its almost enough to scrap those two entirely and come up with two brand new characters.

Eh, how many is that so far?

[anarky]

I haven't been counting.

Cloak and Dagger as spies is one of those things that seems crazy, but, once you think about it for a second or two, seems so obvious that you have to wonder why it hasn't come up in the 30 or so attempts at the title.

How about a Kingpin title? Or a Sabretooth title? I'm thinking of taking one of the more iconic hero/villain relationships, leaving it as a hero/villain dynamic, but having the book completely from the bad guy's point of view, with the hero as the antagonist. For Kingpin, this could be more interesting, as he isn't confined to one hero, per se, so you could have more of the "rotating antagonist" approach you get with a typical superhero book.

[vynsane]

How about a Kingpin title? Or a Sabretooth title? I'm thinking of taking one of the more iconic hero/villain relationships, leaving it as a hero/villain dynamic, but having the book completely from the bad guy's point of view, with the hero as the antagonist.

you could go so far as to have the same book from both viewpoints, like "Wolverine and Sabretooth" and two weeks later "Sabretooth and Wolverine" comes out, filling in some of the moments from the first book, fleshing out the characters that much more.

[jjreason]

Hell make it a flip book & read the same story twice, from opposite perspectives, once every 2 weeks. In my mind this is a limited series though, those two can't fight with each all the time or it wouldn't mean fuck all. It has to happen once a year or so and blow the roof off when it does.

Not sure if you've mentioned any team-up books or not (I have read it all, but there's a lot there & I'm lazy), but Marvel Team-UP and Marvel Super Villain Team-up can be awesome AND they allow for exposures of not-so-common characters with regularity. They were usually one-off stories too, so nice for a kid to be able to grab a comic & read it to a resolution as opposed to a cliff-hanger.

Anthology books like Marvel Comics Presents, following in the footsteps of the original Anthology series Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish & Tales of Suspense are also to my liking, but you've got to have that one key character in the lead story (be it Dr. Strange, Ka-Zar, Surfer, Namor, whoever) to push sales, and I'd recommend getting key writers to do these for the same reason. Like the old theory from Robert Kirkman went: folks will buy Amazing Spidey & Uncanny, no need to "waste" (my word, not his) your good writers there.

[anarky]

This is back to DC, but, when I thought of this, it was so freaking obvious, I couldn't help but wonder why it's never been done before.

I don't have a title, but here's the premise:

Hal Jordan has always been assumed to be the first official human Green Lantern, with Alan Scott having had a Green Lantern ring not bestowed upon him by a predecessor Green Lantern.

That assumption is wrong.

The ring assigned to Sector 2814 has existed for a damned long time, right? And, when one Green Lantern is mortally wounded, killed, or just gives up the power for some reason, it finds the nearest entity without any fear to fill the void. It turns out that, several times since the dawn of humanity, it has selected humans. (All this requires is adding a minor caveat to the requirements of the Corps: "Thou shalt not disclose anything about any technology you may have access to which is advanced beyond your race's current level of technology.") So there have been quite a few human Green Lanterns, who not only have had adventures in space, but have used their powers on Earth.

This series would explore their stories. The only one I know of for sure would be the Green Knight, from the Authurian legends.

Really, it seems pretty damned obvious, don't it?

[jjreason]

Bah even I got one of those rings for 15 minutes back in 1989... all I could think of doing was making a big green version of my ding dong so they took it back.

[Rollo Tomassi]

It'd be cool to have L. Frank Baum get a hold of one and that's what gave him the ideas for the Oz books. The Emerald City is his storybook version of Oa, and the Cowardly Lion, Tinman, Scarecrow are all Lanterns he met on adventures.

Hell make it a flip book & read the same story twice, from opposite perspectives, once every 2 weeks. In my mind this is a limited series though, those two can't fight with each all the time or it wouldn't mean fuck all. It has to happen once a year or so and blow the roof off when it does.

I mentioned a Kingpin book earlier, Chux. I like the idea of the same story being told from both sides. I agree it would have to be a mini series. But it might be a good idea for a series of minis, each one focusing on a different arch-nemeses. Victor/Logan. Reed/Doom. Skull/Cap. Spidey/Goblin etc. OR even cooler, switching things up. How cool would a Captain America/Green Goblin showdown be?

Not sure if you've mentioned any team-up books or not (I have read it all, but there's a lot there & I'm lazy), but Marvel Team-UP and Marvel Super Villain Team-up can be awesome AND they allow for exposures of not-so-common characters with regularity. They were usually one-off stories too, so nice for a kid to be able to grab a comic & read it to a resolution as opposed to a cliff-hanger.

Anthology books like Marvel Comics Presents, following in the footsteps of the original Anthology series Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish & Tales of Suspense are also to my liking, but you've got to have that one key character in the lead story (be it Dr. Strange, Ka-Zar, Surfer, Namor, whoever) to push sales, and I'd recommend getting key writers to do these for the same reason. Like the old theory from Robert Kirkman went: folks will buy Amazing Spidey & Uncanny, no need to "waste" (my word, not his) your good writers there.

I didn't get to the Anthology books as yet because there's not really an inherent "pitch" in them, except to say they focus on a changing cast. I'm trying to think of all the 'anthology' titles Marvel has had over the years, some of them being reprint titles, or 'split' books.

Tales to Astonish
Tales of Suspense
Strange Tales
Astonishing Tales
Marvel Fanfare
Marvel Comics Presents
Marvel Universe
Marvel Premiere
Marvel Triple Action
Marvel Spotlight
Marvel SuperHeroes

I would use three, perhaps four of those, and have each one focus on a different Area of the Marvel U. Fer instance,

Astonishing Tales to Astonish The Mutant book would headline Cyclops and have backup features with other X-Men. I've long thought Cyclops deserved his shot at an ongoing solo book and this would get halfway there. And if possible, I would have each story arc buffered by a team-up tale between the outgoing character and the incoming one from the next arc. So the first six issues would be Cyclops and say Nightcrawler. Then issue seven would be a Nightcrawler/Dazzler team-up. Then the next four issues would be Dazzler. Then a Dazzler/Magneto issue. Then a Magneto series. Etc.

Strange Tales of Suspense The Avengers book would headline Wonder Man and Beast and then as each arc ended, replace each Avenger with a Team-Up style standalone issue, then the new Avenger would come in so the second arc would be Wonder Man and Vision, then the third arc would be Vision and Scarlet Witch. Then the fourth arc would be Scarlet Witch and Tigra. Etc.

Marvel Comics Presents. Would feature everybody. And the more it could crossover with the two books above the better. Ghost Rider teams up with Nightcrawler in this book, it follows into Kurt's arc in the first book, then the villain would turn up in the Vision issues of the other book. Etc.

The thing with anthologies however is that they never seem to have legs. Marvel has been going towards excessive minis rather than putting all those potential stories into one anthology book. The best attmept so far was the bi-weekly MCP from the 90s with the flip format and four ongoing features at any one moment, all staggered so that you'd always get sucked into the next ongoing by the time the one you were reading was finished. But they tried that a couple years ago and the book only lasted 12 issues.

And I would stay away from the "tried and true" characters like Dr. Strange, Namor, Nick Fury, Black Panther etc. I would regulate them to supporting roles in ALL the titles across the board. Fury works better as a catalyst character than in a book unto himself.

[vynsane]

I like the idea of the same story being told from both sides. I agree it would have to be a mini series. But it might be a good idea for a series of minis, each one focusing on a different arch-nemeses. Victor/Logan. Reed/Doom. Skull/Cap. Spidey/Goblin etc.

most of those, yes, would need to be minis - however, a wolverine/sabretooth book could easily be an ongoing. they don't need to 'fight each issue' but they both have such a long history with each other, it would be interesting to see things happen, like wolverine fucks over sabretooth, setting him up to be taken in the weapon x program and gets hauled in himself. next issue we find out sabretooth was also double-crossing logan, etc.

[anarky]

Wolverine/Sabretooth would be the obvious choice for it.

I'd seriously propose doing that as a mini, then having an ongoing Sabretooth/Wolverine series. We've had Wolverine's point of view for so long, and, by all accounts, he was a nasty fucker. You could have decades worth of backstory. Just say that Romulus is a stupid lying fucker who's really only fifty years old or something and somehow implanted false memories into Logan.

I'd have to stress that Sabretooth, though he's the protagonist of the book, is never a hero. The trend in the 1990s to give villains their own books while sticking to their "no villains in lead roles" mandate by turning them into shitty anti-heroes was, in a word, pathetic.

If you want a real shit-storm, put Wolvie back to the original status quo by saying the events of Origin and everything else he "remembers" from the past decade or so (real time) are false memories.