Marvel ENDS Uncanny X-Men with issue #544?!?!?!
With DC garnering all kinds of publicity for their DCnU stunt, Marvel must be hurting a bit for attention. Even I have to admit things have been focused on the DCnU around here lately – so here is news from the other camp. Not be be outdone, Marvel has announced the FINAL issue of flagship X-title – Uncanny X-Men (first published in September 1963) will be #544 due out in October.
All things must come an end…even for the X-Men, and this October fans will bear witness the end of an era as UNCANNY X-MEN #544 concludes the long running series. It’s all come to this! Years in the making, the seeds of dissent finally bear fruit as the events of X-Men: Schism tear the X-Men and the Marvel Universe apart! When the dust settles, the state of mutantkind will irreparably be changed forever. Don’t miss the historic final issue of the longest running X-Men title this October, in UNCANNY X-MEN #544!
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X-Men: Schism will feature Cyclops and Wolverine having an ideological disagreement in the wake of the return of Quentin “Kid Omega” Quire, the nihilist mutant punk from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s “Riot at Xavier’s” arc of New X-Men. He will presumably do something Very, Very Bad, which will lead to the confrontation between the two popular characters.
What does this mean? Besides MONTHS of gripes, groans and flamewars from faithful fans? The X-universe is about to be rocked by “Schism” – some terrible threat descends upon mutantkind and Cyclops and Wolverine’s opinions about what to do differs so much that it causes the mutants to be “United” no more. I’m guessing that instead of Uncanny we’ll get at least 2 new titles – with 1 book for Cyke’s team and another for Logan’s.
via Marvel and ComicsAlliance
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06/19/2011 at 5:36 am
What a dumb stunt. It’s not as if they’re ending all of the X-men comics. They just want to reset the numbering to have more #1s to grab new readers. I can understand the usual stigma of not wanting to jump onto a book that’s in its hundreds, but they have plenty of other low-numbered X-men books.
I will say that a split in the team will be nice to see again. No one seemed to really write such a large group well. And as much as I would like a locked room alone with Mr. Scott Summers, his persona as of late has been a bit of a turn-off. It would have been interesting to see the Utopia run written more like Legion of Super Heroes with the juggling of multiple characters and threats. Or even focus on small groups like Legacy does when it’s not just Rogue and Magneto.
And Wolverine does not need another book if that’s the case.
06/25/2011 at 9:31 pm
it was announced that they will be relaunching Uncanny with #1 in like October or something like that. So whatever.