User blog comment:Colby Cheese/Team Cyclops or Team Wolverine?/@comment-1538701-20111221200956

Cyclops, definetly. For one, despite all his faults, I don't think Cyclops has ever made a descision that didn't work out in the end. He's a strategist, a realist, and is, quite frankly, a better leader than Wolverine. Logan is a loner, its his entire thing. He doesn't make good battle plans, or at least not very good ones, and quite frankly, the whole event felt like a way for Wolverine fanboys to bash Cyclops. When Logan bonded with Kitty, it was adorable and a great source of character development. When he bonded with Jubilee and all the other Kitty clones, he lost its spark and became a dead horse gimmick. Now, he has a whole school and, to be frank, I didn't like it. It didn't feel like X-Men, it didn't feel like a good idea for a series, it felt stupid.

Actually, I lied, Cyclops has made a total of two bad descisions: Choosing to stay and co-found X-Factor instead of returning to his wife to work on his marriage, and choosing to let Emma Frost give him psychic therapy that lead to his mental affair. But, both of those descisions were caused by bad writing because someone in power had an idea and they needed a way to work it in. First time, a writer wanted to bring back Jean and reform the first five, and couldn't think of a way that didn't involve getting rid of Maddie (Here's an idea, try maybe killing her? Yes, I know, its a horrible thing to do, and looks like a traditional 'get rid of the one in the way' thing, but it would work. Alternativly, maybe try focusing on his crumbling marriage instead of just showing a bit of it, focus intently on that for a short while, so that fans want her out of the way, so he doesn't look like a jerk). And secondly, Quesada wanted Jean dead and to put Cyclops with someone else, and Grant Morrison decided an affair would work, instead of maybe, I don't know, killing her off THEN pairing the two together?

But, yeh, those are the only bad descisions he's made, and both were editorially mandidated. Logan however, has a lot more faults, many NOT editorially mandidated. He's a drinker, he's a violent man, he has a vicious temper. In his past he's been a war criminal, he's killed many, he berates and insults others for petty reasons, and while Cyclops has the traditional soldier mentality, Logan is the traditional 'point me where and get out of the way', monster on a leash mentality. I think Cyclops is just more likable than he is.

My main opinion is based on the fact that, there's a lot of bias against Cyclops and towards Wolverine, and personally, I don't like that. They have a lot of ignored similarities, but ultimately, I find Cyclops more likable. Logan can be pretty cool when he wants to be, and is pretty funny, but Cyclops can be just as badass (in fact, even more so when you remember how many times he's done things Logan isn't badass enough to do) and can be just as sarcastic when he wants to be as well (I've read some of the greatest one liners come from Cyclops' word balloons). When it comes to their personal lives, both have severely screwed up pasts, and when written fairly, Cyclops is the more likable one (too bad there's so many people who don't write fairly).

So, in the end, Cyclops is the one I'd side with.