Quote Originally Posted by NewMutant View Post
X-Men is great because it was a metaphor or allegory for minorities. To me, the thing that dates/holds back the modern X-Era is the lack of direction (which seems to be changing with HoX - and let me forever repeat the 05 coming back in time is not direction), lack social/cultural/technological commentary/philosophies, and diverse representation.
And I will forever counter that because Bendis was cut short by at least half (if not significantly longer according to rumours) we will never be able to objectively judge his story. It was very much a part of the big, shifting mutant metaphor but the story just didn’t get told.