[Ultra Seven]

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Yeah, there are individual books I'm enjoying but the overall storyline feels completely opposite of what the X-Men were supposed to represent

There are isolated concepts and stories that work for me, but the overall tone is so far outside of what the team’s always been. Especially Cyclops, who’s gone from the idealist leader of the X-Men to... kind of a fascist. It’s frustrating how they’ve picked on particular favorite characters of mine, with new ideas that are either disconcertingly weird (Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Wolverine being in a polyamorous relationship) or insultingly dumb (Kitty Pryde isn’t actually a mutant, really man?). What happened to Xavier’s dream, guys? Living alongside man, not declaring yourselves a sovereign state and acting like invaders in a fifties A.I.P. monster film?

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I've hated the direction they've taken X-Men since the late 90s. I tried reading an Uncanny book a few years ago that had White Queen wearing black, Cyclops in a red and black suit, Magik (who is wanted by Dormmamu), Magneto in white and working for Shield, and a bunch of n00bs and I couldn't get into it at all. Not just because the story seemed extremely convoluted despite being Volumes 1 and 2, but they just weren't all that interesting and the artwork was all over the place. I loved the idea of Magik being a main member of the team, but I felt like I jumped into like issue 97 rather than 1.

I’m in approximately the same boat. There has been some great stuff in the last twenty years, but the art and writing overall haven’t been my speed (hell, I’m not even too fond of the nineties era). Whedon’s take, as well as Morrison’s, at least presented some cool new ideas and characters. I do agree that the stories have gotten far too convoluted. Marvel seems intent on reinventing each character every couple of years to revitalize sales (which, to their credit, usually works). The problem being, it gets hard to follow fast. They lost me around the time the first class got turned into teenagers.