Originally posted by xmarksthespot
Astonishing X-Men has consistently received critical favour and has consistently been a best seller. Peter David's current X-Factor stuff is good. I haven't been keeping up with Mike Carey's adjectiveless but I've heard good things, despite the meh Bachalo art.I haven't been particularly impressed with New Avengers overall, nor has Mighty Avengers succeeded in piquing my interest greatly.
So while House of M sucked I'd look to the writer rather than the characters that were written.
People got tired from people gaining their powers through genetics.
Nowadays, getting powers through genetics is in?
I pick up Astonishing and X-factor, BUT in the nineties they were Marvel's largest earners.. that's where they got their money from a huge amount of the time. That's why Heroes Reborn happened and left the world with only mutants, and it sucked.
Now Avenger books seem to be all the rage, Mighty Avengers, New Avengers, Avengers: The Initiative, Avengers Classic etc. and the last and next big events are focusing on something other than mutants for once.
I don't mind mutants, I used to like them back in the nineties.. but I got a bit fed up of them as of late, especially 'cause of the hole Decimation/House of M thing.