When did Uncanny X-Men lose its appeal for you?

Question

Looking at my comics and it seems to me that Uncanny X-Men hit its high mark with 175. After Paul Smith left it appears that Claremont lost his focus and JR Jr's art doesn't do it for me. Just curious.

Answer 1

Its funny you ask that since that is the same spot I lost interest (issue #175), but I held out hope until issue #234.  It was so painful to read those issues that I never touched another X-Men book again until Ultimate X-Men.  I like JR Jr's art, but Clarement's writing took a nose dive.

Answer 2

My interest for Uncanny X-men began in the early to mid 90's once the spin-offs began.  I was so excited when Jim Lee came on board and sparked some life back into the series.  I was even excited for the new ongoing X-Men series at first.

But then the problems began.

They could not keep a solid line-up or roster for each team.  When a crossover began, you were lost if you did not read every comic in the X-men universe.  A certain character was extremely over used in ALL X-men issues (hello Wolverine).

I understand the need to expand and create new storylines and characters, but do we need five or six spin offs to accomplish this?

In this day and age, it just costs too much money to try and keep up with the entire X-universe much less trying to make sense of what's going on in just one title.

Answer 3

X-Men was good when Chris Claremont wrote it during the 70s and 80s.

After he was fired the books went down hill from there.

Although Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon did some great stuff.