[WallySparks]

you reading old X-Men stuff or the new crap Marvel made recently?

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I've been reading Reign of X and I've gotta say, is it just me, or did the quality take a downturn since X of Swords? Most of the stories have been so god damn boring. Children of the Atom has been the worst of the lot and I just don't get a crap about any of the characters. It seems like someone wanted to make a cheap knock-off X-Men team and it somehow accidentally got added to the books. I'm also lost on what the hell is going on in a few series because there seem to be things going on without any explanation. For example, Sword 2-3 (which Sword has been almost as bad as Children) had the planet engulfed by something and they were fighting dragons. Same goes with Marauders King of Black. I don't get why it was called King of Black when Shaw wasn't even featured in it at all and he's the Black King. It was about Kitty and her gang rescuing slaves from human traffickers while also fighting dragons. Still no explanation about the dragons and then none of the other issues have mentioned anything about it as if those issues were in their own universe. Fortunately, the next two issues of Marauders were better with the stuff going on in Madripoor.

I'm about ready to drop X-Force and Excalibur because those series have really taken a tword for the worst. X-Force has focused on Kid Omega and I do not like him one bit. Exaclibur has been stalling on this whole "We must find Betty" kick. I did like the X-Men issues that featured the trio who went into that weird dome thing before X of Swords and just got out of it now. X-Factor is still my favorite of the lot and both Cable and Wolverine have been interesting. Loved the auction sequence from Wolverine and a young Cable is different. Finally, New Mutants has started to really go off the deep end as if they just gave on up caring about logic.

I've also been reading the fifth volume to Uncanny X-Men, which has covered Nimrod and a few other stories that occurred while Secret Wars II was going on.