I forgot about that little era. A lot of the heavy hitters 'died' defeating Onslaught or were otherwise gone for about a year or two. Marvel tried introducing new versions via 'Heroes Reborn' but it went over like a lead balloon, so Marvel instead went "lol never mind" and brought everyone back.
Except it was during Civil War and those retards were fighting each other. I love how Nova was confused by all that.
Yeah, it'd be something like that. Except as the big annual crossover rather than a weekly series spanning a year.
That was essentially Onslaught and Heroes Reborn in a nutshell. Marvel took the Avengers and Fantastic Four off the main board for a year and placed them in a pocket universe while bigger properties like Spider-Man and X-Men continued on as normal. The Thunderbolts were an almost perfect subversion, the Masters of Evil disguise themselves a superheroes as part of Zemo's world conquest plot. Luke Cage and Iron Fist got another shot at Heroes for Hire. It always struck me as bad timing that the first volume New Warriors was cancelled around this time with Marvel's bankruptcy. They were to the Avengers what the Teen Titans were to the Justice League, granted, none of them were sidekicks. The "death" of the Avengers forced them to step up in a big way and while they made some appearances post-Onslaught in Thunderbolts, no one ran with the premise.
lmao the whole Marvel reconstruction era post Onslaught was weird. We had a new Heroes for Hire, Black Knight popped up again, we explored more of Wundagore and the Maximoffs, and I remember Black Widow & Hercules repeatedly trying to get a new Avengers team going.
I'm morbidly curious as to what they say. Ten years ago, Dazzler had the unfortunate luck of being latched upon by the Zoe Quinn crowd as some kind of feminist/trans icon. When, in reality, she was created to sell disco records years after disco was dead and buried.
Honestly if I was Marvel editorial, I would be trying to make a really good Dazzler series that could run for a while. The fact that her original run is still in the top 10 longest running Marvel female heroes with out a relaunch amazes me
Its still a fun little time capsule. I neglected to mention she frequently says "Go for it!" as this appears to be an attempt at giving her a catchphrase that quickly fizzled out.
Yeah, that's the thing about every 'sales number' reported for comics: It doesn't mean 400k people bought the book, it means stores/news stands ordered a total of 400k copies. 8 million people didn't buy Jim Lee's X-Men #1, 8 million copies were ordered and a few months later they were in the "3 for $1" bins because the stores couldn't return their stock.
