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And in that time, Marvel has slowly crawled out of bankruptcy to a more than solid financial footing

I would hope we have a more demanding way to rate Marvel's success than simply saying, "Hey, they're not bankrupt!"

And again, how is having Wolverine and Spider-Man in the Avengers any different than what they did in the early 90s?

And look at all these titles for Decimation:

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Decimation: X-Men - The Day After (ISBN 0-7851-1984-1) collects Decimation: House of M - The Day After and X-Men #177-181.
Decimation: Generation M (ISBN 0-7851-1958-2) collects Generation M #1-5.
Decimation: Son of M (ISBN 0-7851-1970-1) collects Son of M #1-6.
Decimation: Sentinel Squad O*N*E (ISBN 0-7851-1997-3) collects Sentinel Squad O*N*E #1-5.
Decimation: X-Men - 198 (ISBN 0-7851-1994-9) collects X-Men: The 198 #1-5 and X-Men: The 198 Files (one-shot).

How the heck would a first-time buyer know what to get? So if they're going to chill out with mutant massacres now, great; but they sure went hog-wild before doing so.