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With some rare exceptions mostly everything that came out after Jim Lee's run on X-Men until the Heroes Return Reboot was garbage with a few exceptions. It was the decade where Marvel lost all their big talent to Image. They also tried to do what Image was doing: big out of proportion people with big boobs and bigger guns and lame plots involving cyborgs... and did that horribly. They pumped out so many books (in 1993 alone they had 77 titles introduced over the 55 odd other titles they were already releasing monthly) that they went bankrupt. Oh then there were all the different cross overs, the majority of which -- especially if they involved an Image, Wildstorm or Top Cow property -- royally stank.

If the stories weren't bad, they suffered from some horrid art. A lot of artists were trying to copy what the guys at Image were doing and were doing a horrid job at it. I can only really name a few that were any good at the time: John Romita Jr. (goes without say), Adam Kubert, and Joe Madureira (who really didn't get his huge break until 1995 but I digress).