User blog comment:Edkaufman/how did Iron Man ever survive?/@comment-4871269-20120414221818

I've only ever read X-men and other X-branches so I'm not exactly sure how I can comment on the Iron Man ones or any of the other titles. I agree that many of the older X-men comics were dreadful, but I'm 16 and used to all of the things that today's comics (even though I don't normally read them and tend to stick to the 80's and 90's).

There were plotholes around every turn (which doesn't seem to have changed much), and the characters seemed so flat. Now that they've had nearly fifty years to expand on their characters, sometimes for good and bad, they seem to be a lot better.

I think that also has to do with loosened comic standards and morals, allowing for the reader to see more of the character and fill in some of those holes, and the different technologies and ways of doing things in today's market allow for mistakes to be caught before they leave the presses.