a team not based in NYC.
genuinely new powers. not the 50th teleporter.
Probably was said already but: Bring back Logan and Scott, make them all forget the schism happened, bring all the X-Men back together (Mags, Emma and the like included), take Kitty from the leadership and relegate her to teaching something non important.
"I wish I could live life five times over!
Then I’d be born in five different places,
and I’d stuff myself with different food from around the world.
I’d live five different lives with five different occupations...
and then, for those five times...
I’d fall in love with the same person..."
- Orihime Inoue
Stop listening to the fanbase. Every time that a new writing team is brought on (or at least almost every time) it's to do some sort shakeup to the status quo in some way or another, and a lot of the time it's because of editorial looking at places like CBR or basing it on what they hear at comic-cons and such as that as to what fans supposedly want to see, and a lot of the time it leads to some kind of rehashing of a story that has already been told or trying to bring things back to an era that has past, even if that can be a largely good base.
Tell the stories that you want to tell as opposed to the ones that you're expected to tell. Bendis' entire run for instance is critically acclaimed, and he told his own stories without really worrying what the fanbase had to say about it, but if you based it on what they did say it would be considered one of, if not the, worst runs that the X-Men have ever seen when that's largely not the case. It's not perfect, but it isn't awful and at least he tried to do something relatively new with the stories told. Chris Claremont, Scott Lobdell, Fabian Nicieza, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Grant Morrison, Kieron Gillen, Rick Remender, they all told stories that they wanted to tell without worrying what anyone other than the professional critics had to say about their work. And the stories that they told were better for it, they were interesting, fresh, and passionate. But because of writers and editorial trying to pander to the masses, we can't and haven't gotten anything like this since Gillen and Remender left. It's time to find people that are interested in telling THEIR OWN stories with the X-Men.
X-Men Red was that, but because of the pandering to the fanbase it was ultimately shoved to the wayside in favor of an Uncanny X-Men that, while I have been enjoying it, has been neutered of any remotely nuanced storytelling in comparison to those other writers who told the tales that they wanted to tell with passion and with vigor. And it's interesting, because a lot of their runs start out as darlings of the fanbase and then it turns right around whenever something happens that the fans just happen not to agree with, and it never regains traction. That's happened when Remender had Havok give his 'Call me Alex' speech, and it's happened even before that and will continue to happen. Apparently there's a large sect of fans complaining about Jean Grey's speech to Cassandra Nova and the united nations being about acceptance... in a franchise that's all about acceptance. Excuse me, what?
So yeah. Writers and editorial need to tell the stories they want to tell as opposed to what they think that the fans want. We need more books like X-Men Red, more arcs like the Dark Angel Saga, Phoenix Resurrection, and more. More writers telling the stories that they passionately want to tell. Less that feel indepted to a bitter fanbase that will virtually almost never be happy with what they're given.
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
All the X-Men are prehistoric Dinosaurs...hows that for crazy.
I have a list of 'don'ts' for the writers as my idea. 5 years without any of the following.
1 - No imminent extinction story arcs
2 - no alternate reality/version characters unless they vanish after a max 6 issue arc
3 - no love triangles, squares, or anything else featuring any two of the following: Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Logan
4 - Rachel is not to get turned into anyone's Hound
5 - no time travellers from any future dystopia with the exceptions of Cable and Rachel Grey
6 - no single story arc to reset the last several years of progress towards not hating all mutants.
7 - no mind controlled Wolverine turned on all the X-Men
8 - no Laura goes through her own version of a classic Wolverine story arc. She deserves her own stories
9 - for that matter, stop writing her as Girlverine. She used to have her own personality.
10 - if you can't get Wolverine on your team, you aren't allowed to take another character and have them suddenly act like Wolverine.
11 - no rehashes of old Avengers events starring the X-Men this time
12 - no rehashes of old X-events
13 - The same basic personality for any character is required no matter who is writing them. You also aren't allowed to bring someone in just to have them job for your arc villain.
Cancel the series.
Maybe one day when Marvel gets it together and they stop pandering to the pc crowd while alienating their other readers, they can bring back a real xmen book.
But for now...just throw the whole thing away
Let's change things up via typography. From this point on the only font allowed in an X-Men book will be "Highway Gothic."
Continuity, even in a "shared" comics universe is often insignificant if not largely detrimental to the quality of a comic.
Immortal X-Men - Once & Future- X-Cellent - X-Men: Red
Nobody cares about what you don't like, they barely care about what you do like.