Over at his blog, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort thinks about series restarts:
I have to admit, I like the continuity of sequential numbering that reaches all the way back to the 1960s or longer. There’s an abstract sense of stability, of longetivity there for me. But even with that, we’ve already rebooted the numbering of most of our perennial titles over the years, and in some cases eventually restored the original sequential numbering. But that chain was briken, and no latter-day take-back can ever completely rejoin it. So why bother? Is it simply nostalgia or deeply-ingrained old-world thinking? Or is there some more tangible reason why these issue numbers matter?
