User blog:Johnnybravo44/Uncanny X-Men cancelled!

Not quite brand new news, but still. As you may or may not have already known, Uncanny X-Men will be cancelled this October, and subsequently replaced with a yet to be announced new series.



Now, in my opinion, they are just doing this to compare with DC's reboot. Or are they? No, it's probably just for money... I haven't picked up an issue of Uncanny since the five lights were introduced, so I have no idea how the book is doing. But it can't be doing bad. It's the main X-Men title. I know some people who buy this just because it is Uncanny X-Men. What are they going to do now?

Back to the money. Again, Marvel is not full of a bunch of idiots. They generally know what the fans want. But that doesn't mean they can always do that. However, when times change, readers' interests change. Sometimes studies show people want a brand new series, starting with a #1 issue. Back in the Heroic Age, so many #1s were thrown out there. And lately, every largely numbered series has changed/will change. Fantastic Four was replaced by FF. Captain America was replaced by Captain America & Bucky. Thor was replaced by Journey into Mystery. And now Uncanny X-Men is replaced by whatever. But why? People who buy some comics but not Uncanny will generally be interested in buying the last issue, and subsequently the next #1. But why? Because they think it'll be "important" later on.

And I fall for this too.. I have never signed up for an issue of Fantastic Four. But I had to grab the last issue. And shamefully, I will be doing the same for Uncanny X-Men.

How do you feel about the cancellation? Will you pick up the last issue? Any other thoughts..? ;)

--Johnnybravo 44 (talk) 03:34, June 14, 2011 (UTC)

P.S. On another note, with DC's rebooting, and this book be cancelled as well, the longest running comic book now is Vertigo's Hellblazer. (And surprisingly the next main X-Men title, X-Men: Legacy, is a close runner-up...)