X-MEN '97 Coming May 2024

Marvel animations are canon-adjacent to the MCU now, and they still haven't figured out how they will bring the X-Men into the MCU.

Plus it comes with a built-in audience.

>Jubilee now asian
She was always asian she just didn't really look it

Bishop has been quietly retconned as black despite being supposedly aborigine. But even in the original 90's series he was kind of coded to be black.

Roy Thomas' original run or if not that, the Arnold Drake run starting from around when Havok and Polaris are introduced. People act like the pre-revival is terrible but it's not. It's shit under Lee/Kirby, but gets better as it goes and the Thomas/Adams run at the end is great. Giant-Size and the first few issues of the revival (where Claremont was basically scripting Wein's stories) are pretty lame and IMO it takes until the mid-120s to get back up to the quality of the Thomas/Adams run but once it does it's great until Fall of the Mutants. Claremont starts falling off as he series becomes more unfocused and characters are (literally) all over the place doing whatever. The real problem is once X-Factor and New Mutants start and you begin feeling obligated to read all the spinoff series (except Excalibur, you never really need to read it and it's horrifically overrated IMO). X-Men is largely good even in the first half of the '90s for as much as people b***h about it barring some dumb shit (X-Factor, aside from PAD, is mostly bad and X-Force is bad initially but improves tremendously once Liefeld leaves after the first year).

It's not until you get the the secod half of the '90s when Lobdell leaves that things start really going downhill. Kelly and Seagle tried but got fricked with and eventually ran off by editorial. The Alan Davis/post-Onslaught stuff and Claremont's return are fricking horrific as far as the main two books go and from there it sort of flip flops all the time. Spinoffs are usually decent everything is just a lot more inconsistent throughout the late '90s and most of the 2000s (as much as I like the Morrison era "mutants as an emerging culture" status quo). It's really just been one giant downward trend since House of M and Krakoa is some of the worst X-Men stuff ever put out. Some of it makes the "the X-Men fight an evil Cerebro who makes his own evil fake X-Men" shit from the post-Onslaught era look good.