I have often wondered the same thing about Secret Wars and the status of the newly rebuilt Earth Prime. Truthfully, it does get wearisome that comic books have resorted to this easy fix when they write themselves into a corner or simply want a sales boost. Hey, let's do a relaunch! becomes the solution to a lot of things. Now selfishly, I would have no qualms with it negating Valeria's death.
Tom B seems to go along with just about anything the writers do. Sometimes this is good, sometimes it's bad. I still think the explanation for Doom's behavior in Slott's FF relaunch to be equivocating. For one thing, Brevoort also was Bendis's editor for "Infamous" so he knew full well the changes that were occuring with the character. His attempts at a rapprochement with Ben were quite sincere for example. At least I thought so.. then Boom! he's putting all the FF in death traps. And they reason was so flimsy and IMO showed lazy writing by Slott. Well we've gone over this before but it still annoys me. I'm looking forward to better things (I hope) from Cantwell.
I hope Tom B is giving Cantwell good guidance in his story and doesn't let him slip into some mistakes in Doom history. Petra is a bit of a mystery to us for now. And you are right to point out she looks too young to be Valeria's mother. But I was thinking perhaps the age was not conveyed to the artist? I suppose she could be a sister to Valeria's mother. We know absolutely nothing about her parents and why they are never seen. Did they die when she was young? It's just never been explained. She is unfortunately such a minor character and no one has bothered to give her much of a back story.
Secret Wars and it's after effects
Tom B seems to go along with just about anything the writers do. Sometimes this is good, sometimes it's bad. I still think the explanation for Doom's behavior in Slott's FF relaunch to be equivocating. For one thing, Brevoort also was Bendis's editor for "Infamous" so he knew full well the changes that were occuring with the character. His attempts at a rapprochement with Ben were quite sincere for example. At least I thought so.. then Boom! he's putting all the FF in death traps. And they reason was so flimsy and IMO showed lazy writing by Slott. Well we've gone over this before but it still annoys me. I'm looking forward to better things (I hope) from Cantwell.
I hope Tom B is giving Cantwell good guidance in his story and doesn't let him slip into some mistakes in Doom history. Petra is a bit of a mystery to us for now. And you are right to point out she looks too young to be Valeria's mother. But I was thinking perhaps the age was not conveyed to the artist? I suppose she could be a sister to Valeria's mother. We know absolutely nothing about her parents and why they are never seen. Did they die when she was young? It's just never been explained. She is unfortunately such a minor character and no one has bothered to give her much of a back story.