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Old 09-11-2011, 12:08
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Sooooo...

After a sort of (there were the 'reprint years'), continuous run since 1963... The Uncanny X-Men volume one comes to an end and is reborn post 'Schism' (which I am yet to read as I am still on 'Fear Itself').

Rolling Stone article

So my question is... do we care? Though an UXM fan since the early 1980s, I have long since removed UXM from my must-read or even top 20 list... although I have managed to keep abreast of the X-books overall.

Is this just some sort of response to DC's new 52 reboot? I thought it was stooooooopid that a fourthh X-Men book was released late last year, so the reboot of the flagship title does little for me.

So any views on this latest Marvel (marketing?) milestone.

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Old 09-11-2011, 12:29
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they always end up going back to the old numbering anyway. DIdn't they do that with Fantastic Four and SPiderman in the past?!

I stopped reading it about 10 years ago - two many characters and too many crossovers.
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Old 14-11-2011, 21:27
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These renumbering stunts become a pain in the ass after a while. But yeah they'll probably renumber it again whenever they print enough issues to make #600.
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Old 14-11-2011, 22:56
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Yeah, "Uncanny" was my must read for many years, but the constant reboots and team changes drove me away a good 6 years ago now.

If it really goes I'll be sad but not surprised.
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Old 15-11-2011, 02:32
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I ditched the X-books after Onslaught. I got fed up with the crossovers and "events". Same sort of thing caused me to ditch the Bat-books a few years later.
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Old 16-11-2011, 12:33
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I started reading with issue 129 and carried on until about 533. It just became so formulaic. Kill a character, bring him back, villan becomes hero, another secret history we never knew about and stick Wolverine in everything.

A sad end.
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Old 24-11-2011, 13:00
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I started reading with issue 129 and carried on until about 533. It just became so formulaic. Kill a character, bring him back, villan becomes hero, another secret history we never knew about and stick Wolverine in everything.

A sad end.
An amazing coincidence! The first X-book I ever read was UXM # 129, first Kitty Pryde. It changed my life, I was an occasaional 2000AD / Eagle / Shoot / Roy of the Rovers / and UK Marvel reader before reading that now classic.

I remember at the time I couldn't get UXM #137 and had to wait until I was an adult and old enough to seek out and buy it from a comics shop.

It is shame, where they are now... they should let Bendis, Millar, Ennis etc loose on the entire X-book franchise, although I must admit Kierron Gillen is not as bad as some of his recent predecessors...

Ever since Avengers Dissassembled I have found the Avengers franchise so much better and interesting than the X-books.
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Old 24-11-2011, 14:13
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It is shame, where they are now... they should let Bendis, Millar, Ennis etc loose on the entire X-book franchise, although I must admit Kierron Gillen is not as bad as some of his recent predecessors...
No way! Bendis can't write team books. Compare his Avengers work to his Daredevil or Ultimate Spider-Man.
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