fubarthepanda wrote:
Personally, I'd rather see a brand new set of creations myself if Marvel was really interested in launching a new genre-bending line of comics instead of resurrecting the corpse of CrossGen (or Ultraverse or whatever other failed universe is out there). However, this just seems like Disney throwing a bunch of stuff they bought at Marvel and demanding that they find a way for it to work instead of some sort of organic publishing effort. Like Red Circle, First Wave or ThunderAgents at DC, more glut is probably the last thing the market needs right now.
I don't know all of the details. but it sounds like Crossgen failed because of financial mismanagement, not on a creative or sales level. That being the case, I'm not sure it's fair to label the universe "failed." Unlike some other revivals (which have usually been decades later), there hasn't been all that much time go by since Crossgen's collapse, and it might be easier to recapture the what was lost when the company went belly-up, and draw the original creators back.

-Eric