Iceman and Angel have the same problem, in that from basically Giant Size X-Men #1 until Adjectiveless X-Men #1 neither Chris Claremont nor anyone writing the Avengers gave a shit about them. That is a LONG time to be put up on the shelf.

Yeah, this. I still like it overall, but that pedophile ring…c'mon, man.

Yeah, Miles is awesome…

Which is really weird, 'cause "Guy made of metal smashing into things" should be an easy sell.

It's easy to hate on Wolverine, especially because he HAS stolen stories/issues/creators/attention from one of your other favorite characters at least once, but honestly, a character can't reach his level of ubiquity without tapping into something very strong in the audience.

Say no more.

Yeah, given that Kamala is just about the only successful new character in the last 5-10 years, "it should only be new characters" seems pretty limiting.

Graded on the curve of Marvel Comics, not that weird.

Maybe, but that's handwave-able. If they tie it into SW, reality is breaking down anyway, what's one li'l mutant disappearing for a minute?

Beast!

Like because of the universality of the experience you described.

I suspect they're going a different way with it, making a whole nature v. nurture argument- and that there's a non-zero chance that Iceboy, Tykeclops, etc. are an alternate reality, not the past (which would dovetail nicely with SW- why can't they go home? 'Cause Thanos blew it up in an incursion).

Obviously we may get an answer on this, but the show keeps calling out real-life classmates by full name. They seem to say "Dave Sirota" every couple weeks.

Don't really understand why you're arguing this, you said yourself you hoped Marvel would prove you wrong. They have! It's good news!

"Sorry I was able to come up with those in 5 seconds, next time I'll wait an hour and then only come up with 1 name."

No, it's the post SW team.

I mean that you've jumped to quite a conclusion on scant evidence, and the word "basically" doesn't really cover that up. Marvel isn't "basically" saying anything. It's published a story that established that Young Bobby Drake is gay, while noting that old Bobby Drake is not. Everything else is fans, as is there wont,…

"The entire SW idea makes no sense anyway. "We've made fun of DC for years for their reboots of their universe, so let's do the same thing.""

Yeah, three out of the whole MU. That's the art of almost, right there. And even then, they had to contradict/handwave a bunch of stuff for Ric and Shatterstar.

Man, the word "basically" is doing an awful lot of work there.