Marvel's What If? line

I have always loved What If? comics from Marvel. I often used them to learn about a story that I didn't know, like the Evolutionary War. And then it would take a different spin on it. But too often they turned into try out books. It seems like and editor would come up with a story idea and then give it to a new writer and artist as a try-out book. I remember some from the '90s being almost unreadable.

The 2 new ones that came out the last 2 weeks feel like that again. The last bunch from last year were good. I didn't care for the X-Men one, but they were good overall. The last 2 are really substandard. Specifically the art. The House of M one was a little light on story (the cosmic cube is a little more powerful than they gave it credit for) but the art brought to mind porn comics and not in a good way. I just read the Fallen Son one. The story was solid, but the art... Maybe he just needed an inker. It all looked unfinished. Like it was trying to be Tommy Lee Edwards, but not good enough.

2 really substandard books give me little hope that the rest of the current run will be any good. Too bad. I was really looking forward to it.

On a side note, I have never read the Young Avengers and only the first trade of Runaways, so the back up story make little sense to me at all.