After Age of Apocalypse, we were dropped into the middle of a dozen running plotlines, with no explanation. For instance: Sunspots a member of X-Force?
• Captain America: Preparing to be cancelled and rebooted, from the beginning. • Fantastic Four: Preparing to be cancelled and rebooted, from the beginning. • Spider-Man: Surprise! The character you grew up with for the past fifteen years wasn’t really Peter Parker. • Iron Man: Double Surprise! Tony Stark is, and always has been, a villain. Then, a teen Tony. Then, preparing to be cancelled and rebooted, from the beginning. • Dr. Strange: Looking (and acting) like a drunken bum. • Daredevil (and this one’s the clincher): Do you realize that, by Daredevil 350, Matt Murdock/Daredevil had been the victim of a parade of mental illnesses for almost fifteen years?! Now I realize that a lot of dramatic and gut-wrenching stories can come from a heroic character going through an emotional whirlpool (case in point: Tony Stark’s alcoholism), but fifteen years? C’mon, guys… I could go on….. So just as Onslaught was beginning, I dropped comics entirely. That lasted about a year. Then I started
