@time said:
Years ago Professor X, Jean Grey & Storm all play central role in X-Men comics, but Marvel change all that, they left Jean rot in the White room, they killed of Charles and they made Storm irrelevant, not giving her any voice in the X-Men comics.
When that happen comics became center around Cyclops, Emma & Wolverine.
Have the comics been better or worse, since Cyclops, Emma and Wolverine have been the most important characters to the X-Men. Or was it better when Charles, Jean and Storm were the most important characters to the X-Men comics.
Years ago, Cyclops and Xavier were semi-retired from the X-men, Jean Grey was dead, and Storm and Kitty Pryde were the main characters. That's when X-men comics were best.
Years later, Xavier was retired from the X-men again, Jean Grey was dead again, and Cyclops, Emma, and Kitty Pryde were the main characters. That's when X-men comics were second best.
As much as I liked the 90's X-men, and the first half of Morrison's New X-Men, bringing Jean back from the dead always seemed ultimately pointless to me, as she was never one of the characters I found especially interesting anyway. She was alright in her second life: cool powers, weird costume, likable enough, but never one of the most interesting (compared to most of the other X-men).
Bringing her back, and most of what they did with her after, just all seemed really contrived and like it had more to do with marketing a recognizable character (in so far as she was an original X-man, and originally the star of maybe the most well received X-men story, until they ret-conned her out of it to bring her back (?)) than it had to do with what made sense or would actually make the story better. All of which actually gave me more reason not to like her, really.
When the stories were centered around Cyclops, Emma, and Wolverine (as in, the SF/Utopia X-men), they weren't the best, but there's a lot of reasons for that: primarily, they just weren't great X-men stories. I actually think it had very little to do with focusing on those characters, and nothing at all to do with not focusing on others.
Especially Jean Grey. Seriously, how would she have made that story better?
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