X-Men: Regensis

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Can I throw out a question and see what everybody thinks? Over on the You Are in Charge of DC & MARVEL COMICS thread, somebody mentioned that they'd like to see an All-Star Superman version of the X-Men to sort of clean that messy corner of the Marvel Universe up and make it a little more palatable. Which is a decent idea.

But then I got thinking about the X-Men and wondered: isn't the messiness of the X-Men sort of their appeal? That there's this big, soapy, tangled backstory and history to these characters that, as convoluted as it can get, is sort of the fun part -- maybe even the point at times -- of following Marvel's Merry Mutants around for all of these years?

Or is it just me? Thoughts?