8 Times Good Comic Book Creators Went Bad!

After the Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon runs on X-Men, the book returned to the same pattern of stagnation that had plagued it through most of the late '90s, with no creator being able to follow the new status quo put forth by either writer.

Despite how you may currently feel about him, Warren Ellis was once regarded by many as the "mad scientist" who could take the most underwhelming concept or character, break them down into their component parts, before building them back up in new and exciting ways. His Iron Man run is as much in the DNA of the MCU version of the character as Robert Downey Jr. is.

This time the problems came not from his deconstruction but from the parts he choose to leave on the cutting room floor. Ellis would remove the soap opera and character-driven aspects that made the X-Men so famous, replacing them with hard science and large-scale action set pieces.

The title would become a "tin man" shambling through a series of increasingly benign adventures with no heart - with the book remaining as insular and disconnected from the larger Marvel Universe as it had previously.

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