reallyineedtosignup
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I'm conflicted over the renumbering(s). On the one hand, placing runs into volumes by stories and team shifts is very logical and on par to running a sequel or writing another novel in a series. On the other hand, there's a legacy factor of high titling. There's a reason why Spidey made it to issue #700, right? So as a consumer I feel secure in a big #, although I might be in the minority. Just seems weird to renumber a title after #24 though. I don't hate it, but it still feels weird.
Change is always going to feel weird. And the reality is, I can’t think of the last book to make it to an issue #100 naturally–in other words, without resetting somewhere along the line to a #1 or another numbering, or jumping ahead by including previous iterations of the same character. So sure, there’s perhaps power in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN getting to #700 (though it got there after a restarting as well), but the likelihood of such a thing happening these days is in the slim-to-none column. At which point, the whole discussion becomes about nostalgia and memory-comfort, and that’s not really the best thing to use to guide my business.