New Brevoort Formspring
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"The next generation deserves to get a Storm, Scott, Emma, etc in just as pristine a condition as you did when you started reading about them." I agree with that, but also want to call bullshit. A segment of the reading population got to grow with these characters, and the rest of us had to catch up. I don't see why you suddenly decide to change that. Unless your marketing guys think these mythical "new readers" are idiots...
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Perhaps, but that segment came before you and before me as readers, so you’re going to need to complain to a crew a few generations back about that. Since around 1968, when Stan and others realized that these characters might be around far, far longer than anybody might have anticipated, the growth rate was slowed down substantially. And it’s not idiocy to understand that these characters function best in a certain context. Spider-Man is at his DNA level a young character–if you get too far away from that, you start cutting into the core of what people respond to in the character in the first place. This is nothing new, it’s been going on in one form or another for 45 years now.
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