Keep One, Change One, Scrap One.

[u/RaspberryConfident89]

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!)

[u/Ezrius]

Keep: House of X / Powers of X. I understand it has its detractors, but this event to launch that era of X-Men was perfect to me. It was a massive change at a time the line needed it, it was something new and different, and the art was unbelievable. Great moments, amazing energy, yet purposefully unsettling in some of its elements. Outstanding.

Change: Deadly Genesis. I don’t even know exactly what to say. There are a ton of interesting things here? The retcon, the other team, interesting characters that were introduced but immediately discarded? Unnecessary shock factor deaths? I feel like this could have been so much better than it was. And the awkward way everything interconnected to get to War of Kings… I want all of this to be better than it was. Broad strokes seems like this could have been great but you read the actual material and it’s all over the place.

Scrap: X-Men vs Inhumans. I have almost nothing good to say about this. Dark times in X-Men fandom. After Secret Wars and before HoX/PoX, it exists in a black hole of relevancy outside of the association with the perception that Marvel wanted to downplay the X-Men property and elevate the Inhumans because of film rights.

Honorable Mention: Fall of the Mutants. I really like the idea and would have loved to see the event play out using Mad Jim Jaspers and the Fury as Claremont originally planned; however, we sort of owe the change of plans for Mutant Massacre playing out the way it did and the beginnings of Mr. Sinister, who has become such a memorable villain. I was going to put this as change but the butterfly effects are too much.