It makes sense when you consider that human evolution doesn't work in the Marvel Universe the same way it does here, considering that it has been guided by 500-foot-tall space gods who implanted the x-gene into prehistoric man for mysterious reasons known only to them.

Yeah, but it got canceled after only five issues.

Every week we meet in a secret subbasement under the ruins of an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Chicago. We chant for an hour or two and then take turns casting chicken bones that have been carved with the ancient runes of our ancestors. We read the future in those bones, and that dictates the posting order of…

SD will never die, and Larsen is committed enough to the series that he doesn't even want to relaunch it with a new #1 - he wants to keep that original numbering intact, as he's written / drawn / inked every issue to date (even colored one issue iirc, just to do it).

I . . . wow. I actually have no reply to this.

They aren't my favorite either, to be honest. But they did represent a significant change in both the title and the concept.

(To be fair, the Inhumans were "Uncanny" first, in their earliest solo stories back at the tail end of the 60s.)

I've read just about every X-Men book and spin-off as they came out for thirty years, so there's very little I missed (maybe some of the spin-offs in the early 00s, which struck me as a pretty dire era, Morrison notwithstanding). Some of the stories, yes, were pretty good. Citing X-FACTOR isn't very convincing,…

. . . why? I don't understand this argument. The inference YOU'RE drawing seems pretty skeevy to me.

I never liked Cyclops before, at least not since the character assassination following X-FACTOR #1. But he's been a straight-up super-villain for a while now, and while I guess that makes him "interesting," in practice this has been part of the complex of many problems that have driven the X-Books into the ditch in…

War crimes? Wha? I don't even know what you're referring to and I read every issue of AvX and its tie-ins.

Yes, he did. And X-SANCTION showed him able to articulate his concerns in an eminently reasonable and rational manner, didn't it? He comes off like a loon, and is it any wonder that the Avengers - even Captain America, who already knew and had worked with Nathan - didn't trust him?

I wrote both articles, and I've been reading the X-Men for thirty years, have read all the stories your referencing, and still don't believe that argument. Ultimately you're coming from the position of being a reader with privileged information - OF COURSE we as readers knew it all connected. OF COURSE we knew the…

No one in the story knew that, though. WE knew that as readers. The people in the story *only* had Sam Alexander's warning from the AvX #0 issue that the Phoenix was on the rampage and destroying planets left and right.

I think the contrary view is a deliberate misreading, but we'll have to agree to disagree. The X-Men acted in such a way that there was a non-zero chance that the earth would be destroyed, while the Avengers were doing everything they could to prevent a mass extinction scenario to which the X-Men seemed willfully…

Not a Bleeding Cool article.

Cyclops still has fans? I'm genuinely curious how that's even possible anymore.

The first issue was pretty awful, tho.

Did not think this was going to be the part of the article people got bent out of shape over, but I have covered this at length elsewhere:

I put the link up above, but I'll put it here, too: