Wayne Osborne wrote:  Again, I can also use Animal Man

He reset Animal Man to status quo at the end of his run on that series as well. True, it was the status quo he established when he rebooted the character, but he did indeed put Buddy back into place for future writers. It's not his fault that future writers took him in bizarre directions.

Morrison did some dramatic changes to the Doom Patrol and to the X-Men. I don't think anyone is arguing against that. But not every title he does ends with the toys all out of place. We don't know if Seven Soldiers will be like how he treated the X-Men, or how he treated the JLA, where his last issue brought the league back to the Big Seven, and a basic status quo.

But to have been more accurate they probably should have called it the "disfunctional" X-men

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I agree.

Zaki Hasan wrote: Just as a sidenote, and obviously one's opinion is exactly that, but how much damage did he really do to the so-called status quo when almost every "permanent" change he initiated has pretty much been reversed.  The X-Men are back in costumes, Phoenix is back, Magneto is back, Beak and the new Angel are MIA.  The point being, this is comics, there's nothing that can't be undone.

I'll agree with that, sorta (certainly that nothing can't be undone in comics).  But, having a drug-crazed Magneto who gets beheaded and having Scott "get with" Emma, not to mention the secondary mutations, almost set the "comeback" to far to get to even for comics.  He definitely didn't make it easy for whoever followed him, did he?

WO

Wasn't Magneto brought back in like one issue two months later or something? Seems pretty easy.

Brian

Eric Kleefeld wrote:   He was left almost exactly as Morrison set him up.

Ask anyone about Morrison's Animal Man and they'll tell you he was the character who found out that he was a comic book character (anyone who reads comics, that is).  Most won't remember that Buddy was left "almost" exactly as Morrison set him up (but not how he was originally set up though).  But, hell, I'll give you Animal Man too.  That makes it 50/50.  We shall see, won't we?

I wonder if Orion is a good enough boxer to get on "the Contender"..................

WO

Zaki Hasan wrote: In all seriousness, I haven't read the book since Morrison left, so I'm not sure, but didn't they explain Scott getting with Emma as some kind of mind control or mental seduction of some kind?  And how exactly did they have Magneto come back in EXCALIBUR?

Me neither.  I have no idea................

WO

Excuse me, Eric, have you actually read X-Men#1?

Where does Magneto show disregard for human life in that issue? When he sends a rocket into the sea or when he chooses to strike at an unmanned target ship or when he asks the humans to surrender?

Comparing Morrison;s sad excuse of Magneto to Stan Lee's is sacrilege....

Morrison left the X-Men changed. The writers that followed had to take care of returning the heros to some sort of order. That is Morrison;s shortcoming. He should have taken care of that job himself. Instead of that, in the final story arc he made matters even worse....