brevoortformspring:

>While I certainly enjoy reading my back issues, I have to say I hate the idea that doing that is the equivalent of new stories featuring these characters. There’s a reason people are excited about the new Avengers or Star Wars movies instead of just watching the earlier ones. The same goes with books. We like these characters and want to read more stories about them. I mean, that’s the basis of the entire industry, isn’t it? New stories coming out and us reading them? I want to read more stories with Hawkeye and Wanda as heroes, not the versions of them now that I barely recognize. I feel like just telling me to read the old back issues kind of misses the point. I understand you’re not going to cater to one fan – you’ve chosen to take those two characters in directions where IMO they’re barely recognizable, so obviously they’re not for me – but I think just telling fans that later stories don’t mean they can’t read the earlier ones misses the point. (And honestly, I think you probably realize that too.)>

Unless you’ve read every issue in existence, those stories are new to you.

It’s perfectly fine to have nostalgia for an earlier time, and to want more stuff like that. But time marches on. In some ways, this is like lamenting the fact that there aren’t any more Naked Gun movies like there were in the past, not taking into account that one of the principles of that film series is in prison.

And when many express a desire for such stories, they do so with such a sneer, and such a sense of entitlement, that it’s difficult not to take issue.