TH> Maybe his return to X-land is being looked upon favorably these
TH> days but I could care less.
 DH>      I'd have to be honest and say that the X-books in general get a
 DH> huge "yawn" from me these days.  Whether Chris Claremont returns to
 DH> writing an X-book or not affects and impresses me not at all.  For the
 DH> most part, those characters just don't interest me anymore (and
 DH> haven't for a number of years now).
 
I must agree at this point!  I jumped onto The X-Men with #138, just one 
issue after The Pheonix was fried to a crisp!  It was the young Kitty 
Pride/Sprite that drew me to the title.  I thought she was so cute, and if 
Marvel would have keep her on the team I may have consider keeping up with 
the title.  I known about the original line-up long ago, but I was introduced 
to the new (at that time) line-up of Wolverine, Storm, Collosus, 
Nightcrawler, etc.  Now all those characters been bounced around like basket 
balls, and the core team are full of characters that I never heard of before. 
 The storylines are to extensive, and their is just too many X-Books that it 
just kills that interest altogether.  When I was into The X-Men, there was 
just The Uncanny X-Men, and a couple years later there was The New Mutants, a 
teen-age version of The X-Men, and these teams were interesting and unique in 
their own way.  Now with X-Factor, X-Man, X-Calibur, Generation X, these 
characters are just no longer unique because they pretty well took over the 
Marvel Universe.  I would like to see the X-Universe get downsized a tad bit!
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