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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 891055" data-attributes="member: 151">Much Obliged.  Mayhaps I protest too much.  It really is a good story arc, overall, but it has some of the first inklings of Claremont repeating himself (both conceptually and thematically) and lots of good moments.  But the Brood themselves went from non-existant to dramatically overexposed around that time, between the X-men and other titles, like Rom.  I have a problem with them because Claremont felt the need to drop in a new race that was a mixture of the Skrulls and the xenomorphs from Alien, after already having done an alien rip-off with Kitty some issues before (and don't get me wrong, I like that issue).  My biggest complaint about the brood storyline is that it goes on TOO LONG.Compared to the mess of the title that later writers would make, it's not really much to complain about.  Claremont's greatest sin, in my eyes, was unresolved plot threads.  His second greatest sin was repetition.  But compared to the (IMHO, obviously) gross mishandling of the characters under writers like Scott Lobdell and Fabian Niceiza, I'd take Claremont back in a heartbeat.The problem, of course, is that the X-men are victims of their own popularity.  Marvel has expanded and complicated the franchise so much, that casual readers can't jump on...there's too much material.  Even Ultimate X-men is starting to feel it's own collective weight, as more and more of the primary continuity is slogged on.  Agreed on both points.  Kurt, as my favorite character, is both the spiritual center of the X-men and, again IMHO, it's most HUMAN.  His compassion was always an important part of the team, and he always struck me as one of the few who truly grasped Xavier's dream.When the movie was over, Scorch, who had gone with me, punched me in the arm and yelled, "Dark Phoenix!  Did you see that?! I TOLD YOU!  #*$&(# Dark Phoenix, man!"  I took my lumps with pride. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Heh.  I can't add a single thing to that, and wouldn't try. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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