5 Best & Worst Things About X-Men Comics
Being an X-Men fan isn't always easy, but some things make it all worthwhile.
The X-Men are one of Marvel’s most enduring franchises. For decades, they’ve been some of the bestselling comics around, throughout all the highs and the lows. In recent years though, it has seemed like more lows than highs, with the line stripped back to just a few core titles, filled with bleak stories about the mutant race once again on the brink of extinction thanks to the poisonous Terrigen cloud released by the Inhumans.
However, a brighter future seems to be on the horizon. Marvel have already detailed their plans following their next big event ‘Inhumans vs. X-Men’ and it points to a brighter future for mutant-kind including a marked increase in the number of X-books and a return to the X-Men being a core part of the Marvel universe.
The X-Men line is about to go through a radical transformation and nobody knows yet how it’s going to pan out. Ultimately, it’s for the fans to decide though so it’s time to look at some of the low points of following Marvel’s Merry Mutants and the highs that make reading about them so rewarding.
10. Worst - Adam X The X-Treme Exists
Now the X-Men are no strangers to terrible characters (looking at you Maggot) so is Adam X really worth a whole entry to himself?
Yes. Absolutely yes.
The problem with Adam X is not just that he's a bad character, it's that he represents one of the lowest points in comics. He is the ultimate 90's character, a horrible mess of outdated attempts to be cool and ludicrous over-the-top grittiness.
It's hard to pinpoint a single worst point about him. Is it that he's so edgy he's literally covered in razor blades? Is it the backwards baseball cap? The white guy dreads? The soul-patch? Or maybe it's the sheer excess of being a sword-wielding super-strong badass who can set people's blood on fire and also has acid blood like he's a freaking xenomorph?
Actually no, it's definitely the backwards baseball cap.
The only way Adam X could have been more 90's was if he was also a break-dancing skateboarder named Bloodslyce. He's not just the kind of character you doodle in a notebook when you're 13, he's an actual fully grown adult's attempt to copy it.
It could have been worse though. The original plan for the half-Shi'ar hybrid was for him to be the long lost brother of Cyclops and Havok. Speaking of which...