Anonymous
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I find the way you handle books that don't sell pretty darn offensive. Dark Wolverine didn't sell so you killed off Daken in the final issue (then brought him back without explanation in X-Force to kill him again!), Avengers Academy graduated to become fodder and murderbait in Arena, and now you're killing off all the characters from AoA and X-Treme in X-Termination. It's just mean-spirited and a really horrible thing to do to the people who actually DID read and enjoy those books.
I think you’re making this about you when it’s not about you, and making it vindictive when it isn’t vindictive. All characters in the Marvel Universe are fodder for stories–that’s what they’re there for, that’s why they exist in the first place. And characters in super hero fiction face jeopardy on a regular basis. it’s also an undeniable fact of life that characters who don’t have their own comics anymore are more likely to come to a bad end as a result of that jeopardy than characters that do–if only because it’s tough to publish issues of, say, HULK without the Hulk. But not every character from a cancelled series meets with a bad end, not by a long shot.