Originally Posted by
Grinning Soul
I see some negative points in X-Men: Red, but overall I really like it. At the same time, I’m glad it wasn’t a book that lasted too long.
It seems to me that nowadays everyone wants their favourites to be front and centre, all the time, in what would be almost like a solo book that happens to have other characters as part of the team.
And I just don’t like it. I miss the old comics when the writers managed to juggle the whole team and all characters felt like they belong there.
Perhaps that’s the problem that people have with Scott and Jean together. Before 2000s, they were not the centre of every story. They were some of the most important characters in their teams because of their gravitas, but the other characters weren’t support characters to them.
Jean dies and Scott becomes the leader, having a prominent role in across many books.
Jean comes back while Scott is dead and gets one of those solo-team books.
I’m not sure if people can see that their problem might not be with their relationship itself, but the fact they’re blaming the relationship because they want their favourites in those central roles, as if it was the relationship that prevented it to happen.
It’s weird… But I guess I have to accept that comic book readers nowadays don’t like actual team books as much, I guess. All that matters is that their favourites are powerful either politically, or by leadership role or by mutant power level…