RUMOR: Gillen to relaunch Uncanny X-Men in Dec/Jan

[Souther]

I wonder if Claremont would have anything new to say about the X-Men...

No.

The last time he tried, nobody was impressed.

[Kitty&Piotr<3]

I don't think there's such a big name that consistently drives sales, but in terms of critical praise, I would say Ewing and McCay are two of the closest.
I personally prefer Ewing over Hickman, as I think Hickman is overated.

Yep, agreed. Never read anything by McCay

[ARkadelphia]

IDK, it seems just like Gillen is obsessed with writing Sinister and making him central to his story, Ewing is doing the same with Storm. He literally turned the Sword title into essentially a Storm solo featuring a supporting cast. Some writers just gravitate to pushing a certain character to the fore even in a supposedly "ensemble" cast. Duggan is currently doing it with Jean, Howard has been doing it with Betsy, Ewing is doing it with Storm and Gillen is most certainly doing it with Sinister. I would say look outside the current crop of x-writers for the next Uncanny writer.

I’ll do it, but I warn you that I’ll turn it into a stealth Toad book.

[Nicoclaws]

I find hilarious that people complain about Gillen using Sinister too much when
- people complained that Sinister's presence on the QC was a problem that needed to be adressed
- people loved Hellion, who made Sinister clearly the main character
- Gillen specifically stated in many interviews that he couldn't really make anything out of Pryde, Storm, Nightcrawler and Colossus and include them too deep in his plot because they were big parts on other books, and still gave us very nice characterization of them through POV issues

Now I totally hope that he lets go of Sinister if he gets an independant Uncanny team.
His next villain will probably be a quippy mysterious conniving charming old british bastard though. I vote for Unit to return.

[Kitty&Piotr<3]

I love Unit too, yall. lol I am sorry

[IN-a-Synch]

He could bring back Unit. He was hilarious. No more Sinister though. I am over Sinister for a good while.

Now I totally hope that he lets go of Sinister if he gets an independant Uncanny team.
His next villain will probably be a quippy mysterious conniving charming old british bastard though. I vote for Unit to return.

I love Unit too, yall. lol I am sorry

I am glad we are all in agreement here

[Odd Rödney]

He could bring back Unit. He was hilarious.

Now I totally hope that he lets go of Sinister if he gets an independant Uncanny team.
His next villain will probably be a quippy mysterious conniving charming old british bastard though. I vote for Unit to return.

I love Unit too, yall. lol I am sorry

I am glad we are all in agreement here

Y'all, I am in complete agreement! We need to see Unit again.

If I recall correctly he hasn't been seen since that original Gillen run, right? Like, no-one else has used him. Or did I miss an appearance?

[IN-a-Synch]

Y'all, I am in complete agreement! We need to see Unit again.

If I recall correctly he hasn't been seen since that original Gillen run, right? Like, no-one else has used him. Or did I miss an appearance?

As far as i recall yes he was only seen in those Sword issues and X-men issues back in the day.

[The Man With The Stick]

Y'all, I am in complete agreement! We need to see Unit again.

If I recall correctly he hasn't been seen since that original Gillen run, right? Like, no-one else has used him. Or did I miss an appearance?

I don't think he has, no. Just Gillen's Sword and Uncanny runs. He did consider using him in Iron Man, but went with a different robotic character instead.

And I'd definitely like to see him again too, one of the most interesting new villains of the last 15 years and it felt like we never saw Gillen's full plans for him.

[Nicoclaws]

Yeah Unit's absence from the HoX PoX era is a little bit baffling, tbh. Maybe because he's an alien robot and not a human-made one ?

[ermac]

I wish Mike Carey came back

[Uncanny X-Man]

Who is the non-Hickman "It" writer at Marvel?

Marvel hasn't been in the superstar writer game in a while for the most part so I don't really think there's anyone even near Hickman-level of popularity. I'd actually say Kieron Gillen would probably be the closest, as he's had very respectable success with his creator-owned books and acclaim for his Darth Vader run.

[Odd Rödney]

Maybe because he's an alien robot and not a human-made one ?

I always got that feeling, especially from the Gillen Uncanny stuff. Also would explain SWORD's interest.

I wish Mike Carey came back

I'd be entirely cool with that!!

[Kitty&Piotr<3]

Marvel hasn't been in the superstar writer game in a while for the most part so I don't really think there's anyone even near Hickman-level of popularity. I'd actually say Kieron Gillen would probably be the closest, as he's had very respectable success with his creator-owned books and acclaim for his Darth Vader run.

I think this is begging a different question:

Who are the big-name writers industry-wide?

[Factor]

I think this is begging a different question:

Who are the big-name writers industry-wide?

Tom King, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison…
But the last two used to be bigger. Tom Taylor is pretty big now, but he did tank a Suicide Squad book not long ago.
And Williamson is being called the new DC architect and getting some very high profile books, but his events tend to be huge messes.