Uncanny, Weapon, X, Gold, X-Men Black. Really damn near every book since ResurrXion has been TERRIBLE with characterization, story, and continuity.
Aside from Bunn, no writer on the X-books recently has been any good imo. Hopefully Hickman will hire some better talent that will utilize characters & story better.
I wasn't impressed with Thompson's Rogue x Gambit, nor her pettiness with Deadpool. lol
Greg Pak goes without saying.
Rosenberg is even worse than him. lol
Guggenheim did nothing good from the bits & pieces I read of Gold.
Not impressed with Williams thus far.
Age of X has just been a slow 6 month lag all-around.
All personal taste, but 2017 - 2019 has been a bad era for me. The forums are more entertaining than the books lol
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I'm not interested in any of the Wolverines, outside of Wolvie (Exiles) so I didn't read his ANW, and even with the chapter I did read, it was fulls of flubs. lol Similar with Red, there was too much of Logan's DNA in it for me. And I was already fed up with Mary Sue Logan in Weapon X...
The last X-Book I enjoyed was Bunncanny, and nothing has come close for me since. Outside of the X-Books, Brisson's Iron Fist & the Soska Sister's Black Widow were books I enjoyed. But that was it.
Hopefully Hickman's era will give me at least one X-Book I can enjoy. That's really all I need. Also loved Duggan's Avengers. So 2016 had 2 good books for me that were good to my favorites with a cast I could enjoy. But it was all flushed 2017.
Last edited by Silver Fang; 07-16-2019 at 07:36 PM.
I wouldn’t call Greg Pak or Guggenheim “new writers.” I wouldn’t even really say that with Tom Taylor or James Robinson. Uncanny, Age of X-Man, MMX, and X-Force have all been pretty spot-on when it comes to events lining up and creating a cohesive bond between all the books. Age of X-Man and X-Force aren’t really starting too far from proper characterization, either.
Brisson is better with characterization than Pak. He has done both Creed & Domino great justice contrary to Pak & Simone's destruction. Sadly he doesn't seem the most successful in the X-books. I'd say he's a close second to Bunn. Too bad he wasn't writing any of my favorites, as I think he could've been a good voice for them.
However, still not impressed anywhere else. Thompson loses points for her Deadpool in MMX, so that killed it for me. In addition to being bored with Rogue x Gambit. As someone mentioned, it does feel more like 90's Rogue, and I personally prefer Duggan's. So eh with Thompson's characterization. Tom Taylor had instances of failing to do his research as well before using guest stars in his book. Or should I say doing proper research than he didn't copy from Pak. lol Nor did I are for Daken as this brotherly anti-hero. If Creed can't make that, Daken shouldn't either. The Wolverine special treatment is very old after 20 years.
I hope we get more variants with different X-Men and not the same 5 to 10 characters.
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I actually haven’t seen any Wolverine specific variants for either HoX or PoX.