New Brevoort Formspring

I’m sorry, but you’re distorting the facts to fit your opinions here a little bit. Chris and Dave were on X-MEN together for two years (it was bimonthly in those days). While yes, they were thinking about writing Wolverine out, if they wanted him “booted from the team”, they could have done so at any point in their run. That’s not a lack of interest. And John knew everything there was to know about Wolverine at that point, having been an avid follower of X-MEN who campaigned to take over the series if Dave ever left–so while the fact that he was Canadian was the element that was most important to John, it wasn’t the only thing he knew about the character by a long shot. (He’d done a design sketch of what he thought Wolverine’s face should look like before the character unmasked for the first time in X-MEN #98–that sketch became the basis for Sabretooth’s face. And that was a year and change before he was anywhere near the book.)

And I’m not saying that no new writer is willing to do that. Writers bring in new characters and bring back older characters all the time. They may not be interested in the same characters that you are, is the point–at least the crop of writers who are working on the books at the moment. All things come in their time, and tend to work on a twenty year cycle–that’s when you get the new writers coming in who read these books when they were younger and have nostalgic feelings for some of these characters. This is why Darkhawk goes a decade without any appearances, and then gets a few new shots at life–the writers who read DARKHAWK when they were fans are now writers who have some residual interest in the character.

No character is an afterthought. But there are only so many books and so many pages every month, and a lot of other characters also vying for that spotlight.