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Did they ever finish the Rao storyline or was that supposed to last the whole 12 issues? I dropped it after 4 issues and never heard anything else about it

I really like Extraordinary X-Men, I have no problems with it so far. I even really like Ramos' art, I don't get what the complaints are about, I think he has a really cool style and I'd be disappointed if they replaced him.

I don't know what it is about Comic Vine, but I swear nobody on the X-Men thread actually likes the X-Men. Outside of Chris Claremont, it seems like people here hate literally every single run on X-Men ever conceived. In a 'worst X-Men writer ever' thread a while back, people were repeatedly saying Bendis, Morrison, Whedon, Fraction, Lobdell... Those were all actually more common answers than Chuck Austen, which is absurd. Apparently after just a few months on the book, we can add Lemire to the "Comic Vine hates" list.

I'm just thinking... if you haven't liked a single X-Men comic from the past 20 years, maybe you just don't like X-Men.

@phoenixofthetides: Yeah I thought the future parts were kind of cool, but with the story only being two issues long it wasn't developed very much. It also didn't help that it was centred around Kitty Pryde, my least favourite character from Claremont-era (modern Kitty is awesome though) and the thing she had to do to prevent this horrible future didn't seem particularly difficult, and with how short the story is, it really didn't take long at all for her to achieve her goal.

It's weird to say this, because I find a lot of the time Claremont would drag out his stories longer than necessary, but DoFP probably should have had a couple more issues. Since I read it as part of an omnibus of Claremont's X-Men, I can honestly say that if I hadn't gone into it knowing how famous that storyline is, it wouldn't have stood out at all and I'd probably have forgotten it pretty soon.

It's very "of its time"

I really like a lot of Claremont's ideas, and some of his comics (i.e. issue 137) are among the best comics I've ever read. However, for the most part I don't think his execution of his ideas is very good. I don't dislike him, but I do think he's tremendously overrated, and Days of Future Past is average at best in my opinion.

The answer is alwaysPsylocke.

Oh come on, we've all been there, everybody makes mistakes

I like Matt as a redhead, although I love Charlie Cox as Matt in the show, the hair colour doesn't bother me at all.

Honestly I don't mind if it's red or brown, but blond just seems wrong.

Well, all of my choices are losing except Domino so far... Fingers crossed for Dazzler

So does anyone on the X-Men forum on Comic Vine actually like the X-Men?

It's just that aside from this complaint about the new books, we've had people trashing Bendis' Uncanny X-Men and All-New X-Men, people trashing Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, people trashing Morrison's New X-Men, people trashing pretty much the entirety of 1990's X-Men comics... Honestly I'm starting to think maybe you guys just don't like the X-Men. If you hate every run on X-Men, how come you claim to like X-Men so much?

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No.

Fox (while they have messed up with Origins and Last Stand) have given us a lot of great movies; X-Men, X2, First Class, DoFP, and from the looks of it, Apocalypse (not certain yet obviously, but it looks great and Singer is 3 for 3 on great X-Men movies so far)

Meanwhile, Marvel have 4 great movies: Iron Man, Avengers, The Winter Soldier, and Guardians... but a whole lot of crap too. Iron Man 2 & 3, Cap 1, Thor 1 & 2, Hulk, Age of Ultron...

When Marvel get it right, they get it so right, but honestly they don't have a good track record. Add to that the allegedly dodgy behind-the-scenes interference and screwed-over directors (Edgar Wright quitting Ant-Man, Joss Whedon refusing to continue after AoU), as well as Marvel's obsession with making comedies instead of superhero movies and complete inability to make a good villain... I like the X-Men where they are.

They may not be perfect, but I still think the X-Men movies are far better off with Fox than they would be with Marvel. No idea why people are assuming that Marvel would actually make good X-Men movies.