July 2019 sells

[Digifiend]

Considering how badly Age of X-Man flopped, they should've stuck with the four existing books - Gold, Blue, Red, and Astonishing - until Hickman's run was ready to start.

[Omega Alpha]

Don't entirely agree with this bit. I think if we still had a slate of ongoing X-Men titles running up to or concurrent with HoX/PoX, it would have given even more of a sense that this was just another relaunch, business as usual. I do kind of wish Red had been allowed to dovetail into HoX/PoX, just because I think there could have been some drama between Jean's approach to a mutant haven and Xavier's. Even seeing Jean's approach fail could have been of interest given what was coming. But that probably wouldn't have worked with Hickman's story structure.

Yeah...no. First, this meant the X-books had 2 relaunches in six months. Second, AoXM was the biggest commercial failure the X-books ever had. Third, from what we saw, there was no story reasons for this relaunch.

[spirit2011]

we were talking about Whedon and his numbers were higher 15 years ago

Well Marvel was expecting more from Whedon

[Mutant X]

We shouldn't worry so much about #1 sales.
What we really need are X-men books with consistent top 10 sales, like Batman or Immortal Hulk.