psykomyko wrote:
Should I blame the readers, for not buying these great books, or Marvel's marketing strategy, for not convincing retailers and readers to support them?
Both.

I wish another company other than Disney had purchased Crossgen (which was only for Abazad -- and that didn't work out very well).  If Crossgen had been bought/licensed by a smaller company like Dynamite, Boom! or IDW, they probably would've put a little more support behind it instead of being lost in Marvel's mega-event publishing.
nton wrote:
Did Marvel ever release any collections of the original CrossGen-published series'? Because I never saw any, and that put me off getting any of the new ones.
Nope.  It's unlikely that they will now.