Originally Posted by
pkingdom
So I stopped reading X books for a long while. But a few years ago I read a bunch of reviews talking about how great All New Wolverine was, and I saw that Daken, one of my old favorites, was going to be in it. So I bought that and enjoyed it. At that point I started picking up a few books again, mostly solo books, and found I could enjoy them again when they did their own thing and did real character work. So I kind of got back in the swing of being an X fan.
Then we got Uncanny, Dissembled and Hickman. I won't go over all of my complaints, but it doubled down on what had driven me away in the first place. Creepy supremacist tones while only the straight white people really mattering, with token nods to actual diversity and terrible character work. But what pushed me to outright hate it was that the kind of diversity I had been originally looking had started to pop up in the rest of Marvel. It felt like the actual diverse books and stories were starting to get pushed aside to make way for the near dozen meh X-books. Ms. Marvel, Loki, Ironheart are all gone, and Champions has been hanging by a thread. Instead all the advertising and focus is on X books. Children of the Atom got more of a push than most non-X books in general. And having most websites constantly gush about the current line despite obvious writing and ploting problems just rubbed salt in the wound.
As for why I still read them (I don't buy them), its because I don't want to complain about things I don't read. I want to at least try to be informed about it and make informed criticism of it.