Originally Posted by
Ishin Ookami
Though I will say I can't stand how the guy is being written today. He was once the consumate soldier, ultimate leader and tactician, and heart and soul of the X-Men. Now he's just a flaming emo punk and White queens boy toy. Someone please shoot the writer that thought up that one please.
Don't go knocking Grant Morrison now. He breathed some much needed life into the X-Men when he took over on New X-Men a few years ago if you ask me. I also have to say that right now, Joss Whedon is writing Cyclops (and all the characters on in Astonishing for that matter) better than I've seen any of them be in years. Not only does he make Cyclops more than the hardcore tactician/leader with a stick up his butt, he does it while keeping him the hardcore tactician/leader with a stick up his butt. Cyclops hasn't been this well rounded a character in a long time.
I have to agree with you on Wolverine in most of the books he shows up in these days though. Again though, Astonishing almost seems like a haven where those of us who remember him actually taking some time to heal can see him returned to his slightly more mortal glory (he still heals faster than he did 20 years ago, but it's not regenerate from a skeleton in five minutes fast).