Go ahead and make the new Captain America a Hasidic Cyborg Freegan, by all means. Fancy a Thor who’s a Latina paraplegic with a knitwear fixation? Have at it! But this once, Marvel, when you’ve Got It Right – don’t mess it up!
My god the slump in standards some way into this is painful. I’m not sure I can think of another Essential volume where it’s so precipitous.