>>125415695>Pre-Morrison was garbage likeYou don't necessarily have to get to the exact status quo of those runs, just back to something recognizable as X-Men and move from there.
>What Morrison did in making mutants into a growing population and culture was good in that it reinvigorated a franchise that had become stagnant and aimless in a way that still fit fine within the MU (unlike the current stuff) and allowed for a large variety of stories to be told.A large variety of stories that weren't superhero stories. This is an important point. He shifted the books into a post-superhero setting, and that was not a good decision, and left a lot of characters that simply didn't fit into the new status quo, particularly all of the mutant villains.
>It was the most dynamic the X-Men had been in a long timeI know this is subjective, but completely disagreed. Some of the other books were better, but the core books managed to be both boring and awful, while the Morrison and Hickman eras seem to prove that when mutants are "winning" they're consistently at their most unlikeable.
>I can understand the criticism for what he did with suddenly having millions of mutants overnight with no explanation as to why and ideally that's what his run should have built toIf he wanted a setting with millions of mutants where he could explore "mutant culture" he should have moved the X-Men to Genosha for his run instead of destroying it. A world where every nation has millions of mutants that are to some extent harmless and tolerated, the X-Men have achieved most of their goals, and Magneto's ideology is irrelevant isn't "a new era", that's what you'd do if you were writing an ending to the saga.
