X-Men Week Day 6

[jwatson]

Eh. He's a good writer but his X-Men stuff was nothing special. I'm glad we got less instead of more.

[CoCoBandz]

Eh. He's a good writer but his X-Men stuff was nothing special. I'm glad we got less instead of more.

I think his Magneto solo was better than every X-Book we've gotten up to HoX.

I can't think of a better X-Book writer than him in the past few years.

[jwatson]

I think his Magneto solo was better than every X-Book we've gotten up to HoX.

It was good but like most of his other stuff and as I said back then and was called out by him on Twitter. It lacked what I was looking for and I'm just going to leave it at that instead of derailing this thread But I do still think he is a good writer for what he does.

[ermac]

Everything has been place holder from Bendis to HoX; and Bendis wasn't much of a direction anyways. Easily one of the worst periods of X-History.

Even Hickman called it the "lost decade".

The X-line has been a shitstorm since AvsX. Or even Schism.

[Veitha]

Well that waa overrun with Emma vs. Jean. So a fresh one is cool. Lol

Just wait. Someone will say some trigger words here too.

[Havok83]

He never did anything interesting with Jimmy to justify including him in this book. He and Bloodstorm never fit with this team.

[H-E-D]

He never did anything interesting with Jimmy to justify including him in this book. He and Bloodstorm never fit with this team.

I'm not sure anything interesting with Jimmy was ever done in any book.

[PsychoEFrost]

Even Hickman called it the "lost decade".

The X-line has been a shitstorm since AvsX. Or even Schism.

Schism. Hell you can make a case since House of M.

[H-E-D]

I'd say post-Secret Wars, myself.

[Havok83]

I'd say post-Secret Wars, myself.

IA with this. I liked Bendis material for the most part but the Terrigen era and ResurrXion were overall flops IMO from. The books were creatively bankrupt

[Silver Fang]

Schism. Hell you can make a case since House of M.

Overall the entire 00's have been eck for me outside of a few minor eras.

2016, I think that was ANAD (I get that and NOW mixed up) where I enjoyed Duggan's Deadpool & Avengers. Then Bunn's Uncanny. Outside of that...eh.

[spirit2011]

Overall the entire 00's have been eck for me outside of a few minor eras.

2016, I think that was ANAD (I get that and NOW mixed up) where I enjoyed Duggan's Deadpool & Avengers. Then Bunn's Uncanny. Outside of that...eh.

2000s have been pretty mixed, x-men were all trippin on theirselves

But when x-books started get really stale was on 2016.

[Silver Fang]

2000s have been pretty mixed, x-men were all trippin on theirselves

But when x-books started get really stale was on 2016.

I enjoyed 2016. In that year I at least had 3 books to enjoy. And all my favs. were doing well. SO that was a Golden year for me. lol

[NewMutant]

Even Hickman called it the "lost decade".

The X-line has been a shitstorm since AvsX. Or even Schism.

Schism. Hell you can make a case since House of M.

The X-Line has such an interesting history as a franchise. Wolverine and the X-Men/Uncanny X-Force was the last time it felt like we were really reading something that was adding to the mythos of X-Men. But the line has been riding a the direction/success of Morrison and Whedon for more than decade... we needed Hickman. (Now how good he will be is no where near to be determined... though he has had a great start thus far). Fraction's run (which I'm surprised not seeing people comparing Hickman's run/concept to) was flat; he had the ideas but none of the character. He turned the flagship book into a Cyclops and his Uncanny Friends book, which Bendis then continued. And I said from the beginning, bringing the 05 to the present is not a direction; it would be a good mini AT BEST. What "saved" the franchise was many of the side/spin off books. I was starting to completely checkout because even those were dying and then Iceman came out. To me it was the only thing Bendis really added to X-Mythos and the last major X-Men item that got attention and made you excited to be a fan. At the very least it kept me personally invested with Sina Grace's Iceman solo. I can't imagine its fun as a writer to be given a major series and being told you can't do anything to change the status quo.

[H-E-D]

The X-Line has such an interesting history as a franchise. Wolverine and the X-Men/Uncanny X-Force was the last time it felt like we were really reading something that was adding to the mythos of X-Men. But the line has been riding a the direction/success of Morrison and Whedon for more than decade... we needed Hickman. (Now how good he will be is no where near to be determined... though he has had a great start thus far). Fraction's run (which I'm surprised not seeing people comparing Hickman's run/concept to) was flat; he had the ideas but none of the character. He turned the flagship book into a Cyclops and his Uncanny Friends book, which Bendis then continued. And I said from the beginning, bringing the 05 to the present is not a direction; it would be a good mini AT BEST. What "saved" the franchise was many of the side/spin off books. I was starting to completely checkout because even those were dying and then Iceman came out. To me it was the only thing Bendis really added to X-Mythos and the last major X-Men item that got attention and made you excited to be a fan. At the very least it kept me personally invested with Sina Grace's Iceman solo. I can't imagine its fun as a writer to be given a major series and being told you can't do anything to change the status quo.

This erasure of Kieron Gillen's run will not stand.