STARBLAST was bad, yes, but I have affection for it because it was more or less the last hurrah of Mark Gruenwald's QUASAR, a series I dearly loved. He was trying to put a lot of stuff out there that could be picked up on in the future - the integration of the original New U into the regular Marvel U, for instance. But part of the reason the story isn't as fondly remembered might be that no one else picked up on these threads - and when you brought back the New U, it wasn't even the original.