"HEX Be a Lady!" Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff Appreciation 2021

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Claremont's original intention was to make Jean a cosmic hero on the level of Silver Surfer. It was Byrne that wanted her corrupted by her power because one very powerful X-Woman already existed with Storm.

Because there can't be two powerful women on a team?

I'm a boring, old, snob, who thinks those earliest years of the new X Men were the best and most of what followed, up until somewhere in the '90s

Yes, those foil/super-expando-cooler-than-cool covers (multiple # 1s for certain X comics) did a lot to convince me they had mostly become Marvel's big thing and all forces were moving towards full exploitation.

That is what it is/was to me, the X is gravy and they wanted to make the most of it.
It's not that there are not good stories and things; over the years I've seen some great stuff, but it is not consistent enough and there still are too many superfluous characters for me.
)and sometimes I feel that way about the FF or other comics too, so I'm trying to not pick on X comics(

IMO the X-Men will always be more interesting than the FF