Yeah, Cyclops was resurrected long before Quesada took the throne (in 2000).
Ah ok. With respect to current X-Men, I posted this on GAF earlier today:
Hm this sounds kinda dumb. I was a huge, huge X-Men fan for years. I'm definitely not ashamed to admit that the Onslaught thing really got me hooked on comics; before then I was a casual reader who'd just hang out at the comic store or read my uncle's old comics. Hey I was young.
I collected X-Men and Uncanny X-Men quite religiously for years and saw the various major story changes, such as the whole Josheph/Magneto thing or Xavier being detained for his role in Onslaught. Whenever I hear about current Marvel stuff I hear a lot about these crossovers, but back when I read comics they seemed rarer. There was an Apololypse crossover that spanned all the X books though, and it ended with me rejoicing in joy: the death of that asshole bastard Cyclops.
After the first X-Men movie came out my interest in the comic began to wane. It felt like the comics were purposefully being dumbed down to attract casual fans of the movie. I'm far from an elitist prick, but this really disturbed me mainly because of the devolution in storytelling. I mean, they went back to the generic "hello I'm the villian let me tell you my mutant power!" bullshit.
When I heard Chris Claremont was coming back to the series for X-Men #100 I was very excited. He then proceded to really make me less interested by introducing a totally stupid storyline. But what finally pushed me over the edge was his decision to make ****ing GAMBIT and ROGUE the leaders of the X-Men. WTF was that shit. Now I'm a diehard Wolverine fan so I knew he wasn't fit to be placed in a leader position (more of a mentor, advisor, asskicking position), but Jean and Storm were the opposite. They should have become the leaders dammit. That pissed me off so much at the time that after a few more issues I just stopped buying comics entirely, never to come back.
