The Pendulum
One of the things you've got to remember about the comic book field is that, in some respects, it's cyclical. Especially when you're talking about the big company-owned icon characters who've been in continuous print for forty, fifty, sixty years. Given enough time, everything comes around again, in one way or the other.
By that same token, the elements or approaches that do come back around aren't preserved as though in amber, but do adapt to the era in which the comics of the day are being done. But in
