Was Killing Wonder Man the Best Solution?
So, Tom Brevoort stopped by this week’s Comic Book Legends Revealed to say that the character Mark Gruenwald was talking about Marvel killing in October 1993 (as related in this week’s column) was Wonder Man. So I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the arguments in favor of killing Wonder Man back then and see whether they’re convincing (the conceit of this piece, by the way, is Gruenwald is approached by two men who want him to whack a comic character for them). Let’s begin! The guy’s backstory has gotten way too complicated, he’s been handled by a succession of writers who took the character this way and that, his sales are now in the toilet, and – to make a long story short – our employer thinks the only thing good about the character is his name. So he wants to kill the current guy so he can turn around and recycle the name with a new character. I don’t even get part of this, by the way, as I don’t recall Marvel ever having intentions to do a new Wonder Man. Otherwis
