>>106003556Like I said before, I wasn't a fan of Morrison's New X-Men but I thought the mutant population explosion he introduced was the best thing that ever happened to the franchise. They always want to play on the minority (racial/sexual/ethnic/whatever) shit but it's not like those groups are always hovering around a few hundred people and constantly on the verge of extinction.
The population boom helped update the metaphor. Mutants were an actual group. There were millions of them and they were developing their own neighborhoods, their own celebrities who sometimes crossed over into the mainstream. They had their own culture that was in its own ways interacting with and influencing mainstream culture which is how that shit actually works. You got books like District X, X-Statix, Mystique, New Mutants/Academy X and such that you wouldn't really be able to get without that set up. All of the books felt distinct and different. Sure not all of it was good necessarily (Austen for instance) but it breathed a lot of life into the concept of the X-Men and creatively as well.
But Joe Quesada got a bug up his ass because there were so many mutants (and was probably still butthurt about how Morrison left). House of M is pretty much one of the two worst things to ever happen to the franchise along with X-Factor's creation, I'd say Schism and AvX too but neither of those happen without House of M.
