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It seems to me like Marvel's current output hasn't changed at all since the early 90s. Mega crossovers, multitudes of series, mutants mutants mutants - give me a break.


Mutants, mutants, mutants? Naw...I don't think you're keeping up with Marvel's monthly output at all to make such a statement.

House of M was designed the streamline "mutant mania", which it did a pretty good job of, I think. And since then, Avengers have decisively overtaken mutants as the primary center of the MU. Recent storylines in X-Men, Astonishing X-Men and Uncanny X-Men have been extremely self-contained. In all of the Civil War event, there was one, piddly four-issue X-Men crossover mini, and it was pretty much inconsequential to the main event.

And speaking of "mega crossovers", for all the years Bill Jemas was President (2000-2004), there were none at all, and Marvel still got slagged in a manner similar to what's going on in this thread. So either way, they get slagged, it seems.

Speaking of "unoriginal retreads", threads titled "Is xxxxx Ruining Marvel?" have been one of the most popular threads over the years, especially on this board which has a demographic of traditionalists. One day it's Jemas, one day it's Quesada, one day it's "Quemas" or Bendis or JMS...all commenting from this, that or the other perspective. And in that time, Marvel has slowly crawled out of bankruptcy to a more than solid financial footing and there are close to 80 Masterworks on my shelf. I dunno...I put 2 and 2 together and common sense tells me there ain't much to whi- er, let me stop there and say "complain" about.... :b