[Comics] Are We in the New 90s?

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I strongly blame the Ultimate Universe, because I swear that piece of purile nonsense has had an affect perculating through to the main universe; instead of the character death idiocy being confined to the UU, it seems as though that mentality has caught hold of the writers, and, encouraged by Ultimate to play out their wildest Stupid character-murder fantasies, they've appear to be trying to make the regular Marvel universe very almost as bad.

...Erm...Just to play Devil's advocate, Ultimate spidey was/is significantly LESS dark for dark's sake/event for event's sake than many of the mainline spidey comics (I'm looking at YOU sins of the past) at the same time.