13-15 simultaneous books is about what X-Men had prior to Marvel cutting them in half around Inhumanity. So the numbers are "back up" to what they were before.
That aside, there's nothing truly new in this. And the fact some essential elements are missing with various characters (whether their lack of presence or key character moments being ignored) kinda undercuts anything that's happening right now. Why read the books of today when pivotal character moments of the past are treated like they never happened?
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Fallen Angels seems to be over for good, Giant-Size is a series of oneshots, that will have only 5 issues anyways, X/F4 is just a mini. The only actual ongoings, that are going to be releasing together are:
X-Men
X-Force
Marauders
Excalibur
New Mutants
Wolverine
Hellions
Cable
X-Factor
Children of the Atom
That's 10 books, 12 with X-Corp and the Moira book if they're also ongoings. 3 of them are solos that people who don't care about the main character don't have to bother with(though more like 2 as I assume people will want to read Moira's for the lore). I don't think it's too much.
While I think Hickman's posts are a degree impractical (no way any publishing plan will please every single fan), the spirit of the intent is the best possible one for something like this.
I also agree that I'm kinda sick of threads devolving into arguments over the new status quo, which seem to just rehash the same complaints.
Which one has x-23 in it (if any). (Not having the easiest time sifting through stuff.)
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
I'm not too sure on that one. There's also supporting cast to take into consideration. Say you want to read about Pixie, you're stuck with Cable. And as we've seen in the past, asking about getting supporting cast elsewhere or even their own time in the spotlight will just get "You can read about them in this other book!"
Funny enough, looks like Sage might be guest-starring in Wolverine perhaps regularly.
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Is it really even Marvel unless we have too many X-books? Do we really want to live in a world with only five releasing a month?
I think its worth noting for those complaining about too many books, that with with the exception of characters in solo's and X-Men (as its a giant team up book) and the odd guest appearance there isn't much character overlap in the ongoings. Also each of the books seems to have an actual unique purpose in the line (each is doing something different).
X-Men - Cyclops + guest stars
X-Force - Jean, Wolverine, Beast, Domino, QQ, Black Tom, Sage
Marauders - Kate, Storm, Ice Man, Pyro, Bishop, Emma
Excalibur - Betsy, Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, Apocalypse, Richtor
New Mutants - Magik, Sunspot, Cannonball, Cypher, Wolfsbane, Mirage, Karma, Mondo, Chamber
-New Mutants B Team - Glob, Armor, Boom Boom, Maxime, Manon
Wolverine - Wolverine, supporting cast tbd
Hellions - Sinister, Kwannon, Havok, Empath, Nanny, Orphan-Maker, Scalphunter, and Wild Child
Cable - Wifi, Pixie, Armor, Celeste, Esme, Mindee, Phoebe, and Sophie
X-Factor - Northstar, Polaris, Prodigy, Eye-Boy, Daken, and Prestige
Children of the Atom - unknown
Unless I'm missing something the only overlap is Wolverine and Armor and we don't know how significantly Armor will feature. Meanwhile the bolded are characters that haven't featured or have seen significant use in an X-Men book in a while (or ever). 10 ongoings with little to no characters overlapping with each book using at least one underused, unused character, each book with a unique identity and mission sounds like something the board has been clamoring for forever.
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I agree entirely. It's strange and new, and that's enjoyable but not free from criticism and skepticism.
Re: the art... Yes, Coipel's posting beautiful male nude studies on IG.
I'm really disappointed that genuinely awesome artists haven't been dragged kicking and screaming onto the X-books. Kim Jacinto, Sean Izaakse, Jorge Molina, Ken Lashley, Marco Checchetto, Paco Medina, Stefano Caselli... Just listing some of my favourite artists currently who have done exceptional work for Marvel recently, and who should be on high profile X-books now that the mutants are in favour again. And not having Russell Dauterman on a book featuring Jean [his fave character] permanently is a crime which I hope is in the process of being rectified after his GSXM issue.
Pre-HoX/PoX, two of my favourite runs in recent Marvel history in terms of story and art are Avengers: No Surrender and No Road Home. The X-Men should be giving me top notch art along with innovative story. Some of the artists are good, esp. the wonderful Joshua Cassara, but most are just meh. Art is subjective, I know, but that's my subjective take on it.
Edit: At least we're getting Mahmud Asrar [for an issue?].
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Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
Thanks for highlighting this. There really is something for everyone, and niche characters are being given time to shine. We really need less new titles and one X-Men Unlimited title that has at least two stories in each issue featuring different characters or teams in one shots or short arcs.
Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
Avengers stole "were getting the best artist thing from the X-men" so it is going to be awhile before the priority switches back. The art except for Fallen angels and X-men has actually been pretty good all around on books. The art on X-men isn't even bad, It is just coming off Laraz/Silva and they are amazing. Yu shouldn't have been the first artist on the X-men and honestly since Hickman seems to be telling single stories they could have gone 1 ofs with artists. But all will be forgiven if the lock up Silva, Larraz or Dauterman for the X-men heck put them all on the X-men in rotation, with Yu fill in someone is late.
I think Hickman is contradicting himself by saying "don't buy what you don't like".
The original New Mutants fans are buying what they don't like when Ed Brisson highlights Glob and gang in the same title. They should separate the two teams with two titles so that fans can buy what they like in their own title.