It sure does.

Uh-oh. @BenderBukowski is going to be very upset that you used the word "bullshit".

…am…I missing some kind of sarcasm or reference here, or did you really just not respond to a single factual statement I made and instead act like you had the vapors because I used the word "bullshit", and also because Breitbart and Trump for some reason?

They act as if Nintendo's internal bean counters know less than them.

Yeah, it's not like it's hard to find a good Metroid-style game. (Dik's right; Axiom Verge is fantastic.)

Given the relative successes of the Switch and Super Mario Run, I'm not sure I buy that Nintendo's best shot at turning a profit is to become a third-party software developer.

Marvel went bankrupt because of bad investments by its corporate parent, though; it had nothing to do with any decisions made by the comics division (questionable though some of those decisions may have been).

Maybe. But that's not always a bad thing. Books like X-Statix and Nextwave that took a loose-to-nonexistent approach to continuity were often excellent.

It's barely even started yet.

Somewhat. You probably don't want to disregard it entirely.

Eh. Marvel's been disrespecting continuity since Lee and Kirby decided that Captain America had been trapped in a block of ice since the end of the war and the last 20 years of Captain America stories never happened. (Later, a retcon to the retcon established that there was a different Captain America during that…

I think Alonso did an absolutely fantastic job around the turn of the century, and he was at least as responsible for that period of experimentation and invention as Quesada was. (The first place I saw his name was as editor of the Allred/Milligan X-Force, later X-Statix, which I'd say is still the best Marvel book…

It definitely feels like it's in the "too much corporate control, not enough creative freedom" part of its twenty-year cycle. Fortunately, historically that's been followed by the "hire a bunch of immensely talented people and let them do whatever the fuck they want" phase.

Popular doesn't equal good

…that's a pretty weird place to draw the line.

If the standard is "How many people find this interesting?" then it might be worth considering that Marvel's sales are plummeting right now.

No, because a comic book staying in print for 30 years was completely unprecedented.

But there's a difference between using public domain characters, or pastiches, or original characters loosely based on existing characters, and assuring a creator that he will have ownership of his work and then keeping it and continuing to use it in ways he never intended and over his vocal objections.

Corollary: if you don't like the Big Two event books, there's plenty of other stuff to read. There is *amazing* variety out there, whether it's from DC, Marvel, IDW, Image, Boom, Fantagraphics, Dark Horse, whoever. Instead of bitching about books they don't like, people should find books they do.

"Only you can't, because Steve Ditko's a crazy libertarian shut-in."