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Why does it feel like the stories that people hate the most are the ones that wind up with the best reception by the time they're over and done with? I know that I hated the idea of Decimation but I started getting into it when i learned that you undid it in AvX... and I love what i'm reading. Same with the whole Death of Captain America era. The fans who jump shit when you do something controversial are usually the ones who'll jump back in for the omnibus.
Some of it has to do with anxiety on the part of the readers. In the case of Superior Spider-Man, for example, many readers were legitimately concerned that Peter Parker would never be coming back, that they’d never again have the Spider-Man that they loved. Once it was clear that this was not the case, they were able, some of them, to just relax and enjoy the stories. I think the same thing is true in many other cases–it definitely works this way with a bunch of our Event series. Secret Invasion, for example, became better loved after it was done than when it was going on–in part because some fans were worried that we were going to retcon huge swaths of Marvel history, which didn’t happen.
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