Except Spider-Man, which is apparently doing gangbusters. Last I saw the only X book that sold top 10 was the last main X issue, and it got beat by both Spider-Man titles. But take that with a grain of salt, because we aren't getting good numbers for anything.
Eh, Aaron trying to marry the Phoenix to the Avengers just proves it should've been put down a long time ago, never mind the ridiculous Avengers BC/Phoenix and Thor nonsense. As for Iron Man and Captain America, good concepts are nothing without good execution. I've said in this thread that I don't even think the X-Books are outright bad - but the Avengers books are IMO.
Does it need doing?
Yes.
Then it will be done.
It is harder to get specific rankings, if you are looking for the last data it is inflated by XoS. After that they went back to pre-XoS.
Avengers is very dumb but also kinda of fun. It's good that you get the conclusion fast instead of dragging, in 5 issue they solved Phoenix. Not sure if harmless, Phoenix has been taking hits for a decade
Iron Man and captain America are working fine, Thor is interesting too. They don't need to do like X-books
Top 10/20 can be very misleading because basically every single month Marvel and DC have a number of launches, relaunches and event books filled with variant covers that eschew the numbers significantly. Just because X-Men doesn't appear in the top 10 regularly it doesn't mean it's doing poorly. For the satellite books on the other hand it's more about applying common sense: if you see that say X-Factor has been hanging around the 70th spot for a while and books above it are being cancelled, you know that the same is possibly happening to it. There are other factors to consider, for example how expensive the creative team is and how the trade sales are doing, but there aren't many cases where the floppies sell poorly and the trades sell great and it's definitely not satellite X-books.
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Didnt the initial heroes reborn come out of the x-line too via onslaught. It does seem in this era it's a lot harder for the other office to just pull in whatever mutants they want and do whatever they want for insta-sales which is also another thing i love this era. An event is one thing but the X-men shouldn't be brought in just to boost the sales of avenger books when your not a fan of both your getting nothing in return on the x-side and if you are reading both you can't deny the discrepancies when it comes to the stories and which team is actually always helping. So far aside from King in black all the Avenger side x-content has been in minis and stand alone books and the only use of most popular mutants has been severely limited unless they create an AU which this Heroes Reborn i think will be the second one.
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