That said, readers take whatever is thrown at them. So, my Flash is Wally, because he was the one being published when I was collecting, and Barry was just a memory, often used in those "return" stories that didn't pay off. I like Wally.

So, if you're a kid today and you enjoy Jane Thor, good for you. It's not a story, it's a run, in which I'm sure she encounters a number of menaces. It should be important to some readers. I'm not defending something I don't read, but I won't attack it either. I know that some Silver Age fans despised the stuff that rocked my world back in the eighties.

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Happens to be one of my favorite issues of What If?, in fact.

I didn't mind the idea of a female character becoming a new version of Thor, but I hated the execution of it. Making it Jane Foster was the obvious choice AND easy way out. Not thrilled that the real Thor lost an arm, either.

But M****l has gone way overboard with legacy heroes. And I'm not happy with the way that them and DC both have gone about it, in certain cases. I know they're trying to get more ethnic diversity, but replacing a perfectly good existing character (and in DC's case, doing it by killing off the existing characters, Blue Beetle and Firestorm) doesn't work for me. I especially think it was a bad idea to give us not one, but TWO, new Iron Men: Victor Von Doom and a teenage girl. Doom as a hero *might* work (if you forget he's the very definition of an arrogant egomaniac), I suppose....NOT!

Oh, and the previous wave of Marvel's legacy heroes, I hated that they killed off Eric Masterson rather than just depowering him, yet left USAgent (who I like to refer to as `Asshole America') alive.

(Of the current crop of legacy heroes, I'll be surprised if any of them are still around in any capacity in five years, other than Miles Morales and X-23. Doom doesn't count, for obvious reasons, and will likely be back to being Doctor Doom well before then.)

Yeah.  Ed Brubaker writing CAPTAIN AMERICA as a super-espionage title for a number of years was one of my favorite newer runs, but then they killed him off for three years and replaced him with Bucky/Winter Soldier.  I knew they would bring him back eventually, so I stuck with it even though the Bucky/Cap issues were somewhat boring.  They finally brought Steve Rogers back from the dead--in a storyline that's still confusing to me.  For a while, we had Steve back as Cap, but Brubaker's heart wasn't in those issues and he finally left.

Then we got Cap stuck in Dimension Z as basically a sci fi title for a year.  (Totally the wrong approach for Cap!)

Then he came back but was immediately "de-supered" and aged into an old man for a couple of years.  Sam Wilson (who as the Falcon was very popular in the movies) was the new Cap.  (Didn't we just do this with Bucky five years earlier?)

Then we had Marvel's version of "Crisis on Infinite Earths" and all the books were weird alternate reality versions and Cap's "son" Ian from Dimension Z was the star of the book--which was "Hail Hydra" for a few months.  (Which I had to suffer through since I---foolishly--had a subscription and that's what they chose to send me as a replacement series.)

Finally, it was advertised that Steve Rogers was going to return as (a young) Captain America again--but with a different shield and an ugly costume.  Okay, but at least it would be the REAL Cap again, so I was on board...and then they retroactively made him a murderous, traitorous Hydra agent.

So, Captain America is my favorite super-hero and I would love to be buying his book--and I'm sure at least a few of his new millions of fans from the movies would too!

But we haven't had a good, regular Steve Rogers/Captain America comic since his "death"--and that was 2007!  Ten years!  How does any of this make sense?!?  How does that satisfy anybody looking for the real Cap?  Just from a marketing point of view--how does that strengthen the franchise?  Just from a totally selfish, cynical, greedy point of view, how does any of that sell toys or merchandise?  What a waste of three movies (not to mention the AVENGERS movies) that could have served as $100 million commercials for the comic!

If they were actively trying to drive away old fans like me AND potential new readers (from the movies and the present high public profile), they could not do a better job of it!

DC has reversed both of those. Ronnie and Stein are back to being Firestorm with Jason serving in a support role. Ted Kord is now serving as a mentor for Jamie's Blue Beetle,  Ted likes wearing goggles and blue t-shirts with a beetle design. 

 In case the regular one slips in the shower. 

And of course a GL's beat is more than one planet, its one of 3600 sectors of the Universe. So a better question is why each sector doesn't have more Green Lanterns? 

While I was against making Bucky the new Captain America, the run was okay for me. But I hate everything they've done with Steve since Brubaker left.

The HYDRA garbage I know will eventually be undone, but the new costume and shield suck. I especially don't like Cap without the wings on the head, and gloves and boots design are awful. The shield looks like something Battlestar should carry if they ever bring him back. And, again, why does he need a belt with pouches? He's not Batman.

Good to know Ronnie, Stein and Kord are back. 

Funny thing about the Green Lanterns is, while I have no clue about the two running around in the Justice League and their own series, Hal is my least favorite of Earth's GLs currently running around that I know about! (My favorite is the original, Alan Scott, but if we're talking GL Corps, then its John Stewart.)