>>149456717
It's because of the state of modern comics internally.
The writers are nostalgic, but don't understand what they're nostalgic for, and they want to be big impressive successes like they remember Romita or Claremont or Priest being when they were younger, praised and making character defining books, but don't actually understand why that worked.
So, being retarded, they ape what they think was the case. They turn him back into a 20 something loser because that's how they "remember" him being when he was successful, without realizing that wasn't actually what made it work because it was actually his bonds with the cast and the fact that sometimes half an issue's plot would be "The rent is late" or "I need to get some photos to JJJ to sell him." even if it was resolved at the end. They write "Huge, world changing stories" with "Biggest/most important villains ever" just like Dark Phoenix or the Night Gwen Stacy Died where it's either a huge gigamonster or super personal and then when it flops and is forgotten about, they don't understand that it's because for every 1 of those stories they "remember" there were like 5 smaller ones that were just like bank robberies or attempted murders by like The Shocker or the Scorpion that established a status quo and built up characters so that the big shit actually had impact and mattered.
IE it's the same fucking problem plaguing the entire industry just expressing itself slightly differently.
>>149456736
The fact that we've gone from "Comics have lasting marriages that go somewhere and manga often have harems that just draincircle pointlessly forever" to "Most harems if they happen actually bite the bullet and become group marriages in the epilogue in manga and nobody other than Reed Richards and Clark Kent can keep their woman in comics." is depressing.
