As most of us just found out, Brian Michael Bendis is leaving X-men after Uncanny X-men #600. He says that this issue will help tie up many of the various plots he's been working on since All-New X-men began in 2012. We can speculate all we want on what this will involve, but there are other threads for that. We don't know much about how X-men will be structured after Secret Wars, but it has already been shown in teaser art that the O5 X-men don't go back to the past. O5 Jean Grey is present with Cyclops on one of the covers. So chances are the O5 X-men will stay in the present (although that's subject to change). So now that we know Bendis is leaving, who should take over? Who will be the main creative force for the X-men moving forward? Who should have that title? I thought this would be a good way to discuss this issue.