The X books have been on the backburner for a while and this is probably Marvel’s attempt to publicize them. They have a supposed big X-event coming up with the “Messiah CompleX”. I think there are too many X titles that have watered it down. You’ve got Uncanny, New, Astonishing, Adjectiveless, not to mean X-Factor. Astonishing is clearly the best, though I’m not nearly as into Ellis as Whedon, so we’ll see if it stays that way. But, really, does this mean anything? Marvel dissassembled the Avengers and now we have like 4 Avengers teams if you could the Initiative and Young’ins. So there might be short-term stuff, but the X-Men are not going anywhere.

House of M by Bendis was a travesty, especially when you compare it to Grant Morrison’s New X-Men. How Bendis can be allowed to continue to RUIN Marvel Comics Intellectual Property is beyond me. How can anyone read the boilerplate crap he churns out?! Bendis’ writing is Shallow, unoriginal and always braindead. I remember reading once that Quesada and Grant Morrison had a falling out over something and that shortly afterward Grant Morrison left for DC Comics. Being a Marvel Comics fan for the last decade, it seems to me that Quesada likes to dumb down comics and that he finds Grant Morrison’s work too intellectual. Thus, we had Quesada mangle the plot developments of what Cassandra Nova is and the Magneto being Xorn storyline and many other plot points. I think Quesada should be fired as Editor in Chief: Choosing Bendis over Morrison is unforgiveable.