>>115566639>>115566779>>115566894The real issue is that Kamala's popularity, and even her initial brand, was a light-hearted book dealing with low-stakes that had very little connection to whatever else was going on in Marvel. Her arcs were short, character work took prominence over fights, you didn't have to keep up with anything else, and anything that did crossover was either resolved in the book itself or was treated as an in-universe intrusion on Kamala's life. You picked up her book and you got a story about some teen girl going from superhero fan to actual superhero working on the outskirts of a much larger universe, and whose character drama was low-impact befitting the middle-class teenager Kamala was. So as soon as Marvel realized how popular she was, she suddenly became IMPORTANT and becoming such completely clashed with the tone, presentation, and concept of the book. Kudos to GWW for doing her best to actually ignore everything that was happening with Kamala outside the title, but Secret Wars knocked the momentum out of the title and Civil War II basically trashed everything people liked about the book. By her last year on the title it was pretty obvious that Wilson was completely fucking checked out, Amanat had moved on, and Marvel was doubling down on the strategy that killed the book.
>>115566733I mean, she's a synthoid like her dad. They'll just rebuild her with the added bonus of Byrne not being around to torch the character. But I think it is pretty telling of Marvel editorial that one of their events has their teen characters murdering one of their teammates with premeditation because they fucked up and needed an out.
>>115568030>>115568444The problem is that Waid is almost 60 and is well-known for being horrifically opinionated and combative when people disagree with him. "How do, fellow children?" could have been avoided, but you're not going to get any nuance out him, just characters espousing his direct opinions.
