@chasereis said:
1980's all day, all nite. 2000's lose by default solely based on the fact that it had "The Twelve".
@FadeToBlackBolt: Not saying anything bad, but you realize X-Men have been and always will be superhero books with a "fitting in" angle right? The early 2K's only tried to make it seem like vertigo was publishing it, then ret-conning the bejeezus out of it, then having no direction at all winding up to now where they kinda sorta try to move towards its original core principles again. Anyway please don't be offended as I'm not trying to offend you, your comment just really strikes me funny. All good fun.
Not offended at all :)
What I mean is that the X-Men were originally a group of outcast heroes operating out of school. The Claremont era really focused on the superhero aspect, to the degree that aside from Nightcrawler, the Mutants were basically all supermodels with powers that were only an advantage. Storm being the worst offender (she has full control of her infinite useful and ridiculously powerful abilities, and was worshipped as a goddess), what about that says "hated and feared" "a gift and a curse". My point is that the X-Men was about young people coming to terms with the changes they were experiencing, and learning to focus themselves for a greater good, while the rest of the world shouted them down.
The Claremont era was about fantastic, good looking people with helpful abilities doing superhero stuff. It was written well, it just wasn't the X-Men. Add to that the few times he examined humanity's hatred of mutants, it was always to extremes. Everything was about genocide. There was a lack of subtle hatred. Homosexuals, for example, aren't so much persecuted by crazy Reverends trying to kill them, but rather by the fact they are treated as fourth-class citizens in every day situations.
The 2000s had the right idea of returning to the school style, but unfortunately, they handled it in the worst possible way, and now we have the repugnant WatXM.
Morrison's X-Men was pure X-Men as it should be. Progressive, relevant and featured both the "teachers" (popular, established characters), and the new, suffering students (Beak, Angel Salvadore, Basilisk, No-Girl, Ernst, and to a lesser extent characters like Quentin Quire and Negasonic Teenage Warhead)). These were mutants that we could feel sorry for, who had gifts and curses, who were vilified by not only humans, but their own kind as well. It was a real return to what made the X-Men so appealing as a concept, while also bringing in amazing new ideas and venues to explore.
Then the mutants were all removed except for the sexy ones, and those who are blue. Great =T
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