This is the way things work in superhero comics: trauma explodes and its aftermath is only good for shuffling the status quo. Grief gets its 15 minutes, sure, but cataclysmic happenings are really just about getting readers interested in coming back for new chunks of story.

That's not always a bad thing, but it's… » 10/09/12 3:00pm 10/09/12 3:00pm