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#wolverine is a horrible character written like crap because he is popular
daisyachain · 3 years
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The thing about Marvel comics is that they are bad BUT so few of the individual characters are popular enough to merit multiple permanent solo books (Spider-Man, Wolverine, Thor is right on the margin). Most of their big books are team books, and most of their solo titles are shorter and more intermittent. Because so few characters are getting 3 books a month devoted to them over the course of 60 years, writers aren’t forced to go in new directions on an already heavily-written character, leaving each character (apart from Wolverine and possibly Spidey) with at least a semi-consistent and recognizable characterization handled by 1 writer at a time.
The proliferation of team books at Marvel also makes it easier to track obscure characters, since they’re often associated with a silo (X-Books, Avengers, Cosmic, Edgy, Classic) rather than drifting between tenuously linked books at random. Marvel isn’t good, but how much it can suck is is limited by it having big teams and small heroes as well as having a single unbroken (if fucked) continuity.
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