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But I felt burnt by the whole thing so I have to trust you and others to tell me it is good after a few episodes

I trust you and I can make a leap of faith if you gals and guys tell me it is worth it. I am trusting you!

Burnt?!?! How so?

Also, I volunteer as tribute.

I will answer this over the weekend, the short of it is Wheel of Time needed an editor.

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Moves to the X-Men Stuff.

So the X-Men is a universe that needs a Editor / Gardener that helps provide the direction to the writers since there are multiple books-properties going on simultaneously. Furthermore the Editor / Gardener vetos ideas they think do not gel well with the Marvel Universe (which is known as 616 since they have alternate reality elseworlds) as a whole. After all you can't have a story that is too transformative

So we have had some bad Editors in Marvel in the past and they kind of ruin the content for they forced the Authors to write certain types of stories and it ruined the Aesthetic of the X-Men.

One thing that many casual fans do not know is the X-Mens were
1963-1970 with the Original 5 X-Men with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and then the series was canceled. Then it was relaunched in 1975 and after a few issues there was a single head writer of the X-Men by the name of Chris Claremont from 1975 to 1991.

• The 1992 X-Men Comics Cartoon you were familiar with Glo is doing almost exclusively Chris Claremont Stories.Note the Cartoon was different in some ways for they used the "Team" that was current in 1992 with the X-Men comics and over 1975 to 1992 some of the team members decided to leave superheroes or do their own thing, but the stories in the 1990s cartoon are very much retellings with the current team lineup. But yeah me too, I was first exposed to the X-Men with the 90s cartoon.

Well in 1991 the main writer, Chris Claremont, was chased out of the X-Men by the editor, and over the next 2 years many other of the writers left to form their own comics lines which banded together under a name "Image comics." This was the 90s. Well this Editor left Marvel in 2000 and a new Marvel editor invited Grant Morrison to do the main X-Men book. So in 2001 "New X-Men" was launched with Morrison as the head writer and it was a great 3.5 years run before the Editor fired Morrison.

Within less of a year of this event Marvel upper management were sold on the idea we need to make Mutants super-uncommon and thus they had the Scarlet Witch depowered all the mutants besides 200 of them when she cast a worldwide spell and said "No More Mutants" when she was emotional due to reasons. [I am skipping explaining the reasons for Brevity, it is an interesting story but it is a segue.]

After which there was over a decade of events where Mutants felt they were on the verge of extinction, and even though there was only 200 mutants worldwide there were plenty of people still trying to kill them and persecute them. This is contrasted to the 2001 to 2004 Grant Morrison run where Mutants were creating their own culture even if they were part of a greater whole, much like the Gay metaphor, or the Jewish metaphor, or the invent of Rock and Roll and other forms of music were very much a Black metaphor and so on.

Now in 2012 to 2019 Mutants are no longer 198 for Scarlet Witch and a mutant Hope Summers cast another spell that allowed mutants to be born again and teenagers plus adults were gaining mutant powers some of the time, but the whole franchise has been locked in Statis to some extent.

It appears this is no longer going to be the case.

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Now the new Editor for the X-Men books and various Mutant Franchises at Marvel is known as Jonathan Hickman. He has written comics for Marvel before with about a decade worth of stories, including being the head writer for an event called "Secret Wars."

Furthermore Jonathan Hickman before he started writting was a Graphic Designer and thus he is a superb writer who knows how to control your attention and where to move your eye. Hickman is famous for his comics having 3 or 4 pages with "data pages" aka mental "Maps" that help you understand the story and re-contextualize what you just read, put another way use Showing / Within Scene to be Dramatic and tell a story, and use those 3 or 4 pages each comic for Re-Contextualizing / Information External to Scene / A Framework / Reporting / Telling / Citation.

Well Hickman does this well and he blends them together where he does not overdo each.

Well Hickman has been hired for the Editor for this new moment in X-Men history where they have already plotted several years out with a big meta-framework while he is also going to oversee authors writing in his garden. To start of this pivot there is a 12 comic run called HoXPoX, House of X and Powers of 10. It is actually pretty good for beginners so far for it touches on those 50+ years of Comic History (which is only 13 years of events in world comic time, much like Wheel of Time is only 3 years in world.)

HoXPoX so far shows Hickman knows what he is doing. So far 11 of the 12 comics of this event have dropped and the 12th will come out next week. I recommend for beginners to wait for a Graphic Novel to come out.

But the point I was communicating earlier is I am excited. A childish love of mine is being reignited.

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Now Glo if you are curious there is a 30 minute documentary that Marvel did and they put on youtube that talks about the 50 plus years of X-Men history and it partly served as a "trailer" for HoXPoX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY3H43y5aKk&list=PLpiOKr1_jFk2AjdtVIoRxpGIBmeQ4LR8w&index=2&t=0s