11 Reasons You're Wrong About Marvel Legacy

7. A Return To Classic Numbering Makes Sense

One of the topics publishers can't seem to get away from is how best to make comics accessible to newer readers. All kinds of different methods have been used, including full on reboots, renumbering series, and - if you're Marvel this year - ignoring the problem altogether. The fact of the matter is that comics are still difficult to get into, and any efforts to change that - big or small - have to be appreciated.

Anywho, people have long accused comic book numbering with putting newer readers off, but as Marvel are now showing, publishers would've been better off leaving them be. At the end of the day, renumbering issues has actually exacerbated the problem of readers feeling unable to get into comics, with multiple volumes, editions and collections having been fragmented by relaunches in the past.

For instance, Mark Waid's Daredevil - despite being a fantastic series - is frankly impossible to track down in one sitting. It was relaunched and started with a brand new first issue, and then another volume came along (also called volume one... bear with) and did it all again, despite the series having followed a linear narrative that didn't necessitate a relaunch.

That leaves you with two 'first' volumes of the run, complete with their own first issues, so where are readers meant to start? The reality is that giving Daredevil his original numbering would eliminate the problem entirely, because there would be a clear beginning, middle and an end in the character's wider bibliography.

It's a common sense move for Legacy. Whether Marvel stick to it, however, is another matter altogether.