Marvel had a big week this week, releasing several new limited series as part of their overall Dark Reign story line.  Perhaps too much of a good thing can only explain the silliness that is Sinister Spider-Man #1.  Focusing on Venom AKA Spider-Man, this mercifully four-issue series will follow Mac Gargan, the man formerly known as the Scorpion who now wears the symbiote once housed by Eddie Brock, the man most people associate with the character of Venom, as he cavorts around New York on his own, apparently, hilarious misadventures.

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Recently, IGN conducted a survey of their readers on which Marvel A-list characters they felt were the most overused/overexposed or any other “over” adjective they felt fit.  Perhaps as coming as a shock to no one, the top two choices were Spider-Man and Wolverine.

Throughout the 1990’s especially, both Spider-Man and Wolverine were appearing in multiple books, some that they were anchors of and others, such as The Fantastic Four and The Avengers, had them on just because, hey, why not, everyone else was doing it!  It was a marketing tool that may have helped fuel the media enterprises that both represent today, and because of that media exposure, they continue to make appearances, together and separately, in various comic books.

If all things are logical, and that’s usually the case when discussing comic books, you can’t have overexposed characters without having characters who perhaps don’t get the “page time” they deserve.  Consider the following heroes who stand to have their profiles raised just a bit more. read more….