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Not including Peter David...X-Factor is tangential to the core X-Men universe.
Which X-writer had the best run post-Chris Claremont?
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I agree. He and Whedon on Astonishing X-Men were head and shoulders above the rest imo...Remender's Uncanny X-Force was pretty good as well.
Whedon's. totally biased, though. The only weakpoints, IMHO, were Whedon's use of his typical archtypes while overlaying them over characters' established personalities.
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And one issue coming out every fiscal quarter.
I was a Planetary fan. It'll teach you extreme patience. lol
Liked Lobdell/Fabien Nicieza's stuff....Mark Waid had some good key issues..Gillen's run was very good. He had a plan but it was mostly suited with building up Cyclops even though Unit and his Sinister turned out to be great. Mike Carey PISSED those Twilight type fans of Gambit and Rogue off when he put her with Magneto. LOL. The reaction to when they had sex in Legacy #249. It's one of the funniest threads ever on any forum. They hated on that nygga BIG TIME. As if he was promoting rape and as if he was using Magneto as "his stand in" for the comic. White girls are hilarious in general but especially when they think they have a point.
You left Joe Kelly off the list...he and Seagle were working on the X-books at the same time.
Their runs on the X-books got screwed over by constant editorial interference.
I enjoyed Seagle's brief time writing the X-Men more just because he brought a different sensibility and tone to the book than what was the usual with those characters and their stories.
The two of them had planned this epic Magneto story where he did something really terrible and Storm was going to end up dying while stopping him.
And Chuck Austen is the worst thing to ever happen to comic books.
Their runs on the X-books got screwed over by constant editorial interference.
I enjoyed Seagle's brief time writing the X-Men more just because he brought a different sensibility and tone to the book than what was the usual with those characters and their stories.
The two of them had planned this epic Magneto story where he did something really terrible and Storm was going to end up dying while stopping him.
And Chuck Austen is the worst thing to ever happen to comic books.
Dusty Bake Activate
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Wow, you actually voted Steve Seagle? His work was the definition of meh to me.
He was gonna flip the world over or something....this was talked about in Wizard in the end of the 90s. Forgot how it went down. There's probably a summary of it somewhere inthe Internet age but who the fukk knows. He was gonna have him go far. I think that was planned for the Magneto War since he basically controlled the planet in that shyt too and was gonna let everything get fukked up if he didn't get Genosha. LOL.
What arcs did Seagle write? I remember Kelly, but Seagle is a super haze for me.
Seagle did Uncanny X-Men from 350 to 365.
He was planning on Jean getting the Phoenix force and that Magneto storyline that R=G mentioned plus he got rid of Gambit which was one of the best things about his run because I hated Gambit.
The ultimate ETHER..all Gambit had to do was tell the truth but that nygga kept it all inside and Rogue left his ass to die in the Artic.
Dusty Bake Activate
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I stopped reading comic books altogether in about 94. I read some here and there from about 98 on and wasn't really moved by anything I read. The Cerebro being sentient story, the Wolverine being Death thing, the Magneto War, that stuff was 
to me.
After that Cyclops merging with Apocalypse bullshyt I dropped it cold turkey. I didn't get interested again until I picked up Grant Morrison's first E is for Extinction issue. That was something new and bold I could fukk with. X-Men writers had just been channeling the ghost of Byrne and Claremont, rehashing tired plots, making wack new struggle characters like Maggot and Marrow, and generally just running out of fresh ideas for about a decade until New X-Men. Grant Morrison got me back into comics altogether as an adult.
to me.After that Cyclops merging with Apocalypse bullshyt I dropped it cold turkey. I didn't get interested again until I picked up Grant Morrison's first E is for Extinction issue. That was something new and bold I could fukk with. X-Men writers had just been channeling the ghost of Byrne and Claremont, rehashing tired plots, making wack new struggle characters like Maggot and Marrow, and generally just running out of fresh ideas for about a decade until New X-Men. Grant Morrison got me back into comics altogether as an adult.
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It's Morrison, and even his stuff went off the rails a bit, plus he dealt with some wack artists.
Whedon's stuff is good but highly overrated considering he basically just retold classic X-Men stories.
Austen's run was probably the worst thing ever.
Brubaker's run was lackluster as fukk, though I give him credit for pushing Warpath.
Fractions run was horrible and puts on display every flaw in his writing. Fraction often has great ideas but rarely can tell the stories well. Plus he pushed a bunch of X-characters into the background needlessly.
Mike Carey's run is underrated but was hampered by shytty artists like Ramos.
Whedon's stuff is good but highly overrated considering he basically just retold classic X-Men stories.
Austen's run was probably the worst thing ever.
Brubaker's run was lackluster as fukk, though I give him credit for pushing Warpath.
Fractions run was horrible and puts on display every flaw in his writing. Fraction often has great ideas but rarely can tell the stories well. Plus he pushed a bunch of X-characters into the background needlessly.
Mike Carey's run is underrated but was hampered by shytty artists like Ramos.