No.

Difficult to read it in the proper context, I suppose, given everything that has been troweled into the story since, but that does not alter the original intent.

I think that "modernization/throw the baby out with the bathwater stories" that move the main character into a new "millieu" by casually destroying the old one, should be banned. The positive sales  generated by readers reacting with shock over such a thing is usually short lived. The damage isn't. Violaters should be tracked in a database and prevented from ever getting a pizza or chinese food or deli delivered EVER AGAIN.

Example: If your new Thor comic starts with all (or most) of the gods being killed and Asgard on fire just so a scientifically resurrected Thor can dress like a road warrior character, fight sadistic demon possessed cyborgs in some post apocalyptic cyberpunk dystopia , and deal with his addiction to exotic drugs that he needed to tend the pain of his nigh-fatal "Jourmangand venom wounds" ........then you have to walk or drive to get that double chicken burrito from now on.

Or you could make it clear that this is a story that is not related to the current Thor continuity

The fans-turned-pro have been running the industry for 20-25 years now, though, and the characters are still around.  And even though their comics aren't selling what they once did, the characters themselves are as popular as ever, in large part because of the various movies.

It's like this for me - I thought the Spider-Clone thing in the 90's was about the dumbest idea I'd ever heard, to the point that i could not believe that anyone, anywhere thought it was a good idea.  The resulting sprawl of a story is more or less the poster child for Comics Gone Awry - but 10 years later Spider-Man is still swinging around.  If that didn't do him in, it's hard for me to believe that anything short of turning him into a serial killer will.

Put it outside of mainstream continuity and I actually find this idea intriguing.

It's been 20-odd years since I did those HULK issues. I have reconsidered what I think should or should not happen in the kind of serial fiction we do in comics.

But in the past decade or so, the balance has tipped. The Old Guard are almost entirely gone, either retired or dead, and the current crew at both major companies are mostly people who have not been around for a nearly as long as that Old Guard had been twenty years ago.

What I understand is that you created the first native american in comics with any true potential and let it fall into the "Revelations of previously unknown siblings (99.99%)" category by virute of a daughter that was inherently more powerful and full of enough teenage angst to overshadow her father's potential.

*****

It gave Shaman much more depth than if he had just been Cheif Bigheart and used as a token indian character. In addition to being a super hero he was also a father and a husbend, who was unable to save his wife. Then leaving his daughter to be raised by someone else. I fail to see how thats not living up to his potential as a full three dimesional character.