[Professor S]

I think my main problem is with the multi-verse, which gives me the expectation that no death will be permananent. I never question whether or not a dead character will be brought back, and if they do there is a built in explanation, so to me all the drama is removed. I no longer care.

IMO, if you are going to bring back a character you killed, part of the penance should be trying to piece together some storyline where the return makes sense.

And for the record, I think the Knightfall storyline was great, and the back breaking and recovery made sense (hated the art, though). They also wiped out the mutant population at Genosha... but they didn't bring them back either... except for Magneto... but that's a mess, I'll agree.

As for the Ultimate Universe, that is a hard separation, so I don't think thats comparable to the multi-verse. Two separate continuities.

BTW, how did they bring back Magneto after Morrison/Wolverine beheaded him? Magneto really is a character that was more powerful to that book in death than in life, and I think Morrison was trying make the argument that he should have stayed dead hoping the next writer kept him that way.