Worst writers on X-books

[LoganAlpha30X33]

CC's late 90's run got me to leave comics for a number of years as nothing made sense in the X-verse anymore...didn't come back until Morrison and Casey...

[NewMutant]

Alan Davis (Uncanny X-Men & X-Men)
Joe Casey (Uncanny X-Men)
Chuck Austen (Uncanny X-Men)
Warren Ellis (Astonishing X-Men)
Matt Fraction (Uncanny X-Men)
Brian Michael Bendis (Uncanny and All-New X-Men)
Jeff Lemire (Extraordinary X-Men)
Dennis Hopeless (All New X-Men)

Only doing main X-Titles because who has time to list the rest. Dishonorable Mention goes to Larry Hama for his dreadful Generation X.

[Magneto]

Austen
Lemire
Bendis
Aaron... -_-

Fraction, Brubaker, Milligan, etc. They were not good, but still better than those 4 IMO.

[airdreams]

Bendis, Bendis, Bendis.

[borismortys]

Lemire, Bendis Morrison and modern Claremont.

[banky]

Aaron, Austen and Lemire.

There were parts of Bendis' run which worked well, despite what all his detractors write-off. The Annuals and Tempus' story were fine up until the unsatisfying conclusion of course. No one has has taken Eva Bell's character any further, so his legacy of arguably unfulfilling stories may be misdirected/offset with the creation of good characters (Eva, Benjamin) alongside utterly bad jokes (Goldballs).

[donpricetag]

CC's late 90's run got me to leave comics for a number of years as nothing made sense in the X-verse anymore...didn't come back until Morrison and Casey...

I wasn't crazy about that whole "Revolution" thing either. But he redeemed himself with me in Xtreme X-Men

[cc008]

Are we talking just X-MEN books here? Because there were some pretty bad fringe books too. I.e. Sam Humphries defiling the Uncanny X-Force name.

[DDM]

Frank Tieri's work on any X-Book is always a "special treat".

[Supernature]

Austen, Bendis and Lemire.

[DDM]

Austen, Bendis and Lemire.

Yes pretty much. The 90s gets a bad rap because it had the unfortunate luck to follow Claremont but the real franchise lowpoints have been in the last decade.

[origami]

For me the worst X-Writer is Larry Hama. His work on the first on-going Wolverine solo series (specifically those issues featuring Elsie-Dee and Albert the Robot Wolverine) and Generation X are some of the worst comics that I had ever read.

[Nick Miller]

Lol, morrison had one of the best xruns ever. I read it every year.

[MYCMTSC]

Yes pretty much. The 90s gets a bad rap because it had the unfortunate luck to follow Claremont but the real franchise lowpoints have been in the last decade.

This. Most 90's runs have great character moments even if some of the plots are less than savory.

Lol, morrison had one of the best xruns ever. I read it every year.

Agreed. There are some arcs I don't like but those first three or four were a masterpiece.

[bishop66]

hopeless and lemire both a get a pass from me on the x-books really read thanos moon knight and oml are 3 of the best books marvel publishes same with spiderwoman by hopless before it was canned. THey probbaly had some idea when they pitched they had to add an inhuman angle to their stories but i really doubt they thouhgt they thought they would be ordered and forced to write their entire strories around the awful loser sales destroying inhumans. It would have been nice to see them write some real x-men stories before they left