X-Men Doing Anything Interesting These Days?

[HeavenShallBurn]

Maybe it's just different tastes but for me their highpoint was with Clairemont in charge. It's been downhill ever since. While the art is better the storylines and events just don't interest me.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I thought that Grant Morrison's run was the best. While he may have wiped out 16 million mutants in his run, he had an emphasis that there was still 16 million more mutants that didn't get wiped out. I liked how his run was about the school trying to discover what it meant to be a mutant, and the fact that not every mutant is really cut out to be a superhero.

I really liked his characters like Beak, Angel Salvadore, the creepy Stepford Cuckoos and even Quinton Quire.

There's a reason why I really do despise Decimation.

That drove me away from Marvel, and ironically enough made me into a fan of Green Lantern when they started to undo everything bad that happened with Emerald Twilight (The 90's Green Lantern equivalent of Decimation). I only started reading X-Men again with Messiah Complex for the small chance that they might undo Decimation, the way Emerald Twilight was undone.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Maybe it's just different tastes but for me their highpoint was with Clairemont in charge. It's been downhill ever since. While the art is better the storylines and events just don't interest me.

I'll grant you Clairemont was king, but that doesn't mean that Whedon's stuff is garbage. Of course, that's all in the realm of opinion anyway.

 

[Felon]

I thought that Grant Morrison's run was the best. While he may have wiped out 16 million mutants in his run, he had an emphasis that there was still 16 million more mutants that didn't get wiped out. I liked how his run was about the school trying to discover what it meant to be a mutant, and the fact that not every mutant is really cut out to be a superhero.

I really liked his characters like Beak, Angel Salvadore, the creepy Stepford Cuckoos and even Quinton Quire.

See, I enjoyed that run, except for the fact that it basically stopped being an X-Man book at some point.

 

[Silver Moon]

I thought that Grant Morrison's run was the best.....I really liked his characters like Beak, Angel Salvadore, the creepy Stepford Cuckoos and even Quinton Quire.

Didn't read them, but I was an Exiles reader. When I heard that they were going to do a crossover into the main Marvel universe with the X-Men I was thrilled.....only to discover X-Men teams and subplots that I didn't recognize! The parallel universes were more familiar!

 

[el-remmen]

Never read any of his other comics, but Astonishing X-Men is a great series. Definitely reminds me of the old team back in the 90s when Jim Lee was drawing them.

Funny. I hate the Jim Lee period. Maybe the art may be reminiscent, but the stories aren't - they remind me much more of Claremont before he got bogged down in shiz.

 

[Staffan]

If anything, Astonish X-men was more like the X-men I remember in the old days (could it be b/c Whedon and I are close to the same age?) than anything I have read since then. An action-oriented comic with good dialogue and our classic characters, and someone who understands that Wolverine is best when part of an ensemble because of his loner traits.

Also, Astonishing had the comic scene that probably made me smile the most in this decade.

"Then I just got two words for you, bub."
(followed by a two-page spread with Wolverine flying through the air, and Colossus obviously just having thrown him)

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Also, Astonishing had the comic scene that probably made me smile the most in this decade.

"Then I just got two words for you, bub."
(followed by a two-page spread with Wolverine flying through the air, and Colossus obviously just having thrown him)

I dunno...that was good, but I think the best scene from Astonishing is, without a doubt.

"To me, my X-Men!"

 

[el-remmen]

What about when they run into the FF while fighting the big monster and the Thing is all upset because fighting big monsters is their M.O. And during that fight there is all the typical angsty relationship reflection in the other character and when they get to Wolverine's thoughts? "Beer."

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

What about when they run into the FF while fighting the big monster and the Thing is all upset because fighting big monsters is their M.O. And during that fight there is all the typical angsty relationship reflection in the other character and when they get to Wolverine's thoughts? "Beer."

Hah, yeah.

Gotta love it when Wolverine is written well.