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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4180457" data-attributes="member: 8158">Like a lot of fanboys who grew up int eighties, I went from casual reader to hardcore collector due to Chris Clairemont's X-Men. For all the hassles the X-Men went through, at its core the comic was about a bunch of misfits who formed a family. It had heart. But other the years, the series became increasingly grim and nihilistic. Every time I tried to get back in, they'd start layering massacre upon massacre. The sentinells wiping out Genosha, buses full of kids getting blown up, and a mutant concentration camp that ended (once the writers got tired of it) not with the prisoners' liberation, but with another stinking massacre that nobody had to answer for. It seems like the X-Men just became spectators to one atrocity after another, and barely manage to save anyone.Did the whole Messiah Complex storyline actually do anything for the series? Do the X-Men actually do any superhero work anymore, or do they continue to simply eke an existence by staving off one attempt to annihilate them after another?</blockquote>