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This. Exactly. 

We need fresh minds, new writers and writers that have a respect and deeper knowledge of the character they’re writing. I’d appreciate writers a lot more if they’d back-read a lot of stuff, I get that they’re busy people but sometimes you get the feeling like “did you... even bother reading particular things..” A key example of that was during the initial idea where Tony’s “oh my god I’m adopted” story was drafted up by Gillen and published, and he was given a brother -- a lot of people questioned him like “did you know Gregory exists in ults!verse” and he replied;

While I don’t expect comic book writers to have an encyclopedic knowledge of who they’re writing, I would at least expect them to google “tony starks brother” if you’re CONSIDERING putting one in, and seeing what comes up first. Then trying to blag his way through a half arsed reason why he made his distant relative his brother. 

I appreciate throw-backs and little cute Easter eggs, but it seems to me that we’re re-hashing ideas that don’t need to be brought back, either that or performing unnecessary retcon to make a character “”interesting””.