The Gaming Den

Complaining that the new characters won't stick rings a little hollow. Nick Fury as a Samuel L. Jackson look-alike begins in an alternate comic continuity, makes it into the movies, and is so popular it's brought into the main continuity. That will last exactly as long Marvel wants it to last. That...

I'm inclined to think that Chamomile has the right of it - these substitute characters are very unlikely to endure. After all, both Kyle Rayner and Wally West ended up having decades of well-loved stories under their belts, and yet now Hal Jordan and Barry Allen have returned to their respective ide...

I absolutely had to register and add my two cents for this particular topic. I am a huge comics fan and I have been for a long time. A lot of the information in this thread seems to be the kind of thing people pick up from Wikipedia, which is factually accurate but lacks nuance. Sorry if this makes ...