Uncanny X-Men (Chuck Austen run)

Uncanny X-Men is a comic book series centered on the superhero team, the X-Men. This article will focus on the run by writer Chuck Austen.

Why This Run Sucks

 * 1) It is one of the most despised X-Men runs.
 * 2) X-Men characters like Beast, Longshot, Magneto, Colossus and others do not appear in the run and weren't available to Chuck Austen.
 * 3) This run is notable for ruining the character developments and arcs of Angel, Havok, Nightcrawler, Husk and Stacy X.
 * 4) Nurse Anne is just an assistance for the X-Men and is useless.
 * 5) Unconvincing new villains:
 * 6) The Church of Humanity are just ab Anti-Mutant cult who want Nightcrawler as a pope.
 * 7) Azazel is nothing more than Nightcrawler's biological father.
 * 8) Some story arcs feel like filler such as Holy War, She Lies with Angels and The Draco.
 * 9) *Holy War relies on the Church of Humanity crucifying mutants, having Nightcrawler placed as their next pope so that they can create a false rapture (something Catholics don't believe in) by using communion wafers to disintegrate people and make mutants appear to be agents of the Anti-Christ.
 * 10) * The Draco retconned Nightcrawler's parentage.
 * 11) * She Lies with Angels focuses on a generic Romeo and Juliet like story where it focuses on the Guthrie family of Husk, Cannonball, Icarus, and Aero against their enemies, the Cabots, a mutant-hating family.
 * 12) This run has a lot of unlikeable characters like the bullies of Samuel Pare/Squid-Boy along with his father Claude, the Cabot family and more.
 * 13) Despite this, Austen would go on to write the adjectiveless X-Men run, which was even the same as Uncanny X-Men.
 * 14) Chuck Austen only did this because he wanted to give fans what they want in his run, but only ended up pissing them off.
 * 15) It's worse than his run on Action Comics.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Good artwork from Japanese artists Kia Asamiya, and Takeshi Miyazawa.
 * 2) Juggernaut does get some character development rather than a one-dimensional brute.
 * 3) It's sad to see how Samuel/Squid-Boy was treated by his peers, but has good friendship with Juggernaut. But, dies in the issues of New X-Men.