Quote Originally Posted by phantombassist View Post
As someone who had been reading Marvel pretty religiously since approx. 2010, I have not given one iota of a damn about the X-men as a concept until Hickman. I liked characters related to the franchise, but as a whole the X-Men came across overly dramatic and without substance, relying on inconsistent characterizations and quickly abandoned plot lines to limp along from relaunch to relaunch. Hickman gave the franchise what it needed to get off the ground; he gave them a reason to go forward instead of wallowing in relationships and traumas of the past. Leave the drawn out interpersonal drama to teams like the Avengers, who are built on relationships;X-Men is a now a story about a society, its culture, and its trails.
And as someone who has been reading X-Books since the mid 80's...I agree with you one hundred percent times 1000.