Not a shot against Revox because I don't think he meant it this way but it just kind of jogged a thought for me: This whole conversation is why I basically cannot tolerate interacting with Joe fans outside the Fwoosh/AT community we've built. The obnoxious, absolutely fucking exhausting whinging and piss-bitch complaining about different eras of Joe not being to someone's tastes.
It feels like alone among all multi-decade fandoms, only Joe fans cannot even fathom that a part of the franchise can exist that they just don't care for and don't have to talk about. It's always like "I'll only buy this line until the '84 stuff is finished and then everything else is GARBAGE!' No one cares, dude. Nobody. Just let people have the stuff they like.
The only thing close to this is the amount of hate certain old-timers would give to Jim Lee X-Men whenever that team was brought up in ML for many years over on Fwoosh.