User blog:Thor2000/The Marvel Universe - Take It Or Leave It

I can't recall my first comic book, but it was possibly "Justice League of America" or "Superman Family, but I do know I started picking up Spider-Man, Thor and the Hulk. To me, DC Comics was about creating characters that were larger than life, but Marvel was about creating stories about heroes in the real world. I loved Marvel Comics; I think my number of Marvel Comics more than trumps the number of DC Comics I own. Marvel has created some awesome story-lines from "Attack on the Avengers Mansion" to "Siege on Mount Olympus" and the "Iron Man Wars," but in the last few years, I think they're scraping the bottom of the toilet on ideas. Even ignoring this current "Secret Wars" farce (an incredibly waste of paper on a rip-off of the "Crisis on Infinite Earths"), we've seen Spider-Man's identity revealed and quickly forgotten, all of the Scourge's victims restored to life, the Avengers destroyed and brought back badly several times, Thor killed off, brought back and his homeland destroyed, the Olympian gods turned into homeless refugees, the Hulk sent into space and brought back and let's not get into the fact all of the Hulk's supporting cast have been turned into monsters. The Hulk once once unique in that he was one of a FEW gamma-radiated monsters, but now its been so completely abused that it's been done to death. Let's not forget that both Thunderbolt Ross and Betty Ross were once dead; it would have made so much more sense if they were cloned, turned into gamma mutates then killed off, but THEY'RE STILL AROUND? How much longer are they going to be milking this bad idea. I can get past Marvel turning Nick Fury into a black man, but how much longer are we going to suffer through bad story lines going no where, ridiculous characters, bad story arcs and more confusing cosmic events that no one understands what is going on. Why can't they just stay in the original universe, go one year without creating incessant new godawful characters and maybe reuse some forgotten characters not used in over ten years? Oh, and another thing, this new "Fantastic Four" movie is going to stink.