Months back, I lamented the pointless cancelation and renumbering of Uncanny X-Men, at the time the highest numbered title Marvel had that had never been stopped and restarted.
Sure, the number, in the grand scheme of things, doesn’t really matter.
But, it was the principle of it all, that it wasn’t getting canceled because of sales or anything like that; no, it was getting a relaunch immediately after just as a sales gimmick.
Lame.
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Oh, no! The “final issue!” What? Until next week? Nevermind. |
Anyway, Marvel went ahead and launched the second volume of Uncanny X-Men and unlike its predecessor—which lasted nearly 550 issues—it was canned at issue #20. Seriously. The bold, new direction that could only result in the renumbering of Uncanny X-Men only lasted for twenty issues, much of it as tie-ins to Avengers Vs. X-Men. And, again, not because of low sales.
So that’s it, right? Surely, Marvel wouldn’t bring it back again less than six months later and relaunch a title that hadn’t had a relaunch for nearly five decades for the second time in just over a year?
That’d just be silly!
Wait. They are? Son of a bitch, they are!