Eh, I don't know. Keeps things interesting.
I disagree. Setting a status quo and letting it play through and evolve into the next thing is interesting. Setting a new status quo and then shaking it up again and then again and then again gets old and stale. The X-Men have had, what, 6 or 7 status quos in 10 years? There's no stability to the title.
From 2000 we had the
Revolution status quo with Claremont and the Neo and I think that was the first real status quo change since Jim Lee's X-Men #1. A year or two later came Morrison and the movie inspired
New X-Men status quo began. When he left they revamped for the
Reloaded status quo once again led by Claremont. Then came the House of M and the
Decimation status quo. Here's where it starts getting machine gun fast. After the stale Decimation era came the
Messiah Complex status quo that saw a disbanding of the X-line but that lasted only six months or so and we got the
Manifest Destiny status quo which lasted an arc or two and then rolled into the
Utopia status quo. That lasted longer until Hope showed up in Second Coming and we got the
Heroic Age status quo and that quickly shuffled off into the now
Schism status quo,which is leading into AvsX in less than a year promising a new status quo when that finishes up in six months.
So we had 100 issues of X-Men during the last long-lasting status quo (7 years worth give or take, I'm too tired to check) and then in the following 12 years we've had 9 status quos. THIS is a large part of why the X-Men have sucked so bad over the past decade. Each status quo has some good that comes with it but almost none of it plays out how it should and almost none of it reaches the potential it could. Plus, during the 90's while we had quite a few X-titles they all had their own identity and only 2 of the were actual X-Men books (not including Unlimited, which was an anthology for the whole line). In the past decade we've had four X-Men titles ongoing plus all those other X-titles, all of them but X-Factor being X-Men titles with a nostalgic title. The New Mutants are X-Men the same as the rest, as are X-Force. The student books are fairly separate but once Academy X became New X-Men it was just a team of young X-Men alongside the other X-Men and Generation Hope was just the same. It's all X-Men and every status quo change shifts the entire line and nothing can last longterm. Constant status quo changes in all of those books is exhausting.
So yeah, I don't think the constant change in status quo is interesting in the slightest. At least not where the X-Men are concerned.
