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News columnist admits X-Men aren't easy to follow in their current incarnations

The Valdosta Daily Times' comics columnist took a look at the current X-books, and is willing to admit something, though at the same time, he beclowns himself with another:
– The current X-books are sort of the manifestations of Moira MacTaggert who has been reincarnated multiple times through the various incarnations of the X-Men throughout Marvel’s 60-plus history.

– Mutants can be killed but they cannot die. Mutantkind has learned the secret of reincarnation via keeping databases stored with up-to-date memories and growing new genetically matched bodies.

Even with all of that, I felt readers could keep up with what’s going on in all of the X-books.

But reading the third collected volume of the “X-Men” comics, I realized it may be impossible for a new reader, or even a casual reader, to figure out what is going on. Or even a regular reader of a specific X-title, for that matter.
Wow, you don't say. This has been the problem for years, since the turn of the century, when Marvel's continuity as we once knew it began to deteriorate, and only now is somebody willing to come even miles within admitting something went wrong. Yet at the same time, he won't recognize that Moira's standing as a mutant was only a recent retcon from a few years ago, One must wonder what's so special about such a trivial retcon that he can't take a logical view of it. I get the feeling he knew plenty of years ago that Marvel was unlikely to stand their continuity erect again after only so many artistic disasters, not the least being Avengers: Disassembled, yet these mainstream columnists regrettably won't argue whether it's time to retire Marvel until a proper reworking can be done, in paperback formats to boot, and it definitely won't come under Disney's ownership.

The X-Men, much like other Marvel/DC books, became unreadable after the turn of the century, and Joe Quesada, among other successive woke editors and writers, only precipitated the farce they've devolved into since. Probably the only thing possible to appreciate here is that the current writers are actually willing to emphasize resurrection, after the way Marvel/DC were going out of their way to spite it in the 2000s. But that's still not going to redeem the pretentions still dogging much of mainstream for many years now.

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