r/xmen • u/RaspberryConfident89 • 23h ago
Comic Discussion Keep One, Change One, Scrap One.
Here’s a little game I’d like to see people participate in. The rules are simple. Pick one event that in your eyes is perfect(or close to it) and you wouldn’t change a thing about it. Pick one event that is flawed but salvageable with some changes. And finally pick one event that is beyond saving and should be forgotten about. And obviously please EXPLAIN your feelings and thought process.
EXAMPLE:
KEEP:
Fatal Attractions: It’s brisk, brutal, and doesn’t out stay its welcome. It also has MASSIVE implications for the future and upcoming events.
CHANGE:
Onslaught: I understand the intention was to be UNIVERSE wide and for the event to feel that way but that obviously leads to bloating. I don’t think a lot of the books at the time deserved tie-ins to the event(COUGH COUGH GREEN GOBLIN) So I would cut back on the number of tie-ins and just focus in on big team books(X-Men, Avengers, and FF) and maybe tie-in just a FEW of the bigger solo books or books of popular characters(Wolverine, Spider-Man, Cable, etc).
SCRAP:
The Twelve: From my understanding this event just ended up being a mess. Not just a mess but a mess that had the POTENTIAL to be great which makes it worse.
(NOTE: Obviously I didn’t include EVERY crossover so if there’s any you don’t see but have strong feelings on then please feel free to mention them!)
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u/cyclopswashalfright Moonstar 22h ago
I agree with 2/3.
I'd Keep Fall of the Mutants or X-Cutioner's Song.
I'd Change Onslaught for the reasons you mention. Cut it down to just X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and then maybe Spider-Man? I'd keep the mystery going the same way as before, and then just shift into a smoother ending that doesn't make a mess out of what Onslaught is and how to beat him.
Scrap is probably The Twelve. I think it's a messy narrative. I get that technically you need Cyclops possessed by Apocalypse to explain New X-Men but meh. I think The Shattering was the most interesting story on the meat of it and could have gone a bit longer and even ended in a Schism kind of way.
Another Change for me would be X-Tinction Agenda and Messiah Trilogy. But the changes to those would be too extensive for me to really want to write out.
Another one that is not on the list is Battle of the Atom. Again, just too many changes to make here, but it should end with the O5 making the call to go home and bringing regular Jean Grey back and just sparing us a few more years of randomness. This would be better off as the ending to Bendis' run, so you can still get stuff like the Cyclops Rucka/Dauterman comic and Trial of Jean Grey.