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Uncanny X-Men Series Ends in October

What will cause the original X-Men series to come to an end?

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All good things must come to an end. Today Marvel has announced that in October, we will se the end of an era. Uncanny X-Men will conclude with issue #544.

Starting back in 1963, the series originally just had the title X-Men. It was in 1980, half way through the Days of Future Past storyline where the series changed to Uncanny X-Men with issue #142.

The first run of the series was actually canceled in 1970 due to low sales but rather than completely end, previous issues were reprinted. This lasted until 1975 when Chris Claremont wrote Giant-Size X-Men which introduced the new team (with characters such as Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, etc) and continued in X-Men #94.

WIth the upcoming SCHISM story, there will be a divide in the X-Men and one of the results will be the end of this series. Said to be years in the making, when the dust settles, the state of mutantkind will be irreparably changed forever.

It's unfortunate that the original X-Men series is ending. Uncanny X-Men #544 is on sale this October. It will be written by Kieron Gillen with pencils and cover by Greg Land.

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Dirty__1

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Uuuuummmm.... WHY?? Do they feel the need to try and keep up with DC? I just can't see them NOT having Uncanny X-Men or any extended amount of time. I'm betting 1-2 years max and it gets renamed back to Uncanny. This sounds like just something to shake up the titles.

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This is just temporary and we will return to the status quo eventually. Just like every storyline. Its a marketing trick that works.

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@8diagrams said:

This is just temporary and we will return to the status quo eventually. Just like every storyline. Its a marketing trick that works.

It'll last as long as most characters' deaths ;)

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But we are getting 2 new titles at the least? Maybe more characters will be featured this way? Come on guys, lets cheer up!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You have gotta be kidding me!

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Stupid Schism! It's all your fault!

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Sad to see it end, was the first comic that I bought monthly.
On a plus though I love Land's artwork so... that's a plus... ... ...

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Didn't they do a .1 issue for UXM? Why the hell would they create a "jumping on point for new readers" if they were just going to cancel it? 
 
I have been reading Uncanny X-Men mostly out of some kind of misplaced loyalty. I have been enjoying Gischler's X-Men title much more of late. I have really enjoyed the past few issues Gillen has written and I was beginning to get excited about this book again, but alas.  
 
I think Utopia should be destroyed at the end of Schism. Have most of the characters split up and have a smaller, core team with new leadership be the focus of UXM. No cancelling.

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in my opinion, UXM will be back soon.  Sonner than we expect
They do that kind of stuff, fo example in al that cases when X-men were disbanding and putting back together for some reasons

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There will probably be like Wolverine and The X-Men #1 and Then Cyclops will have his Team in like The "X-Men" book and Rouge will have her team in X-Men Legacy and who knows what will happen with Astonshing X-Men that's my best guess.

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@xerox-kitty: Have to disagree with you on the Fantastic Four thing. Hickman has been really hitting it out of the park this last year and personally I'm enjoying the ride. Obviously Johnny will come back, there's no question about it but until then I'm sure we'll see some good stories come out of it. What bothers me though is how every writer seems hell-bent on ignoring Mark Waid's run and how it matured Johnny a bit. After 600 issues you would think that maybe there's more to him than frat-boy skirt-chaser. 
 
Oh, and about Phoenix. You do know what a phoenix is, right? You didn't really expect her to stay dead, right?
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I get that it is a crap decision to cancel Uncanny, but I mean how many X-Men books really need to be out there?  X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, X-Men Legacy....and that's not even counting the other books that bear the X name.  It's a little bit much.  
 
Should they cancel the longest of the series?  no.  But does something have to go, yes. 

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Okay, what is with the Land bashing?  I mean seriously.  He is not a crap artist.  Why because he doesn't draw crap that looks childish?  His art looks clean, and good.  Do you people have a book?  No. Get over yourselves.  Sorry, not everyone looks boxy like Romita Jr.

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I could be wrong, but i dont think this will last long. I really hate it when comics start all over with #1 only to have the same kind of stories happening anyway.

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There is nothing I can say that every single X-Fan isn't suffering through already. 
The house of recycled ideas have failed horribly at maintaining one of their greatest titles. 

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The series will come back under a different name and a slightly different direction after the Schism and after a few years they will probably change the name back along with the numbering.

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Name change, number change. I'll be expecting a few of these to occur in the future. 

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It seems rather odd, to me at least, that they ending "Uncanny X-Men" so that they can launch their NEW series... "Uncanny X-Men."   
 
So, they change the volume and reset the number?  Does this really change ANYTHING?

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@xerox-kitty said:
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Why on Earth idn't they end it on a landmark issue like #450 which would have been only a few months later?

This is so obvious.  Cancel Uncanny X-Men, launch something else, then rename that Uncanny X-Men and renumber it to #450 later on. 

However, I really am saddened by this news.  They should have just handed the series over to a decent creative team instead of cancelling it.  It's going out on an all time low.  Although not surprising, it's disappointing to see Marvel resort to these sorts of tactics.

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You can say that to Axel Alonso and Joe Quesada!
they seem to hate brand names(see spideraman).
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I am not suprised Uncanny X-Men is coming to end. The title has suck for years, ever since Matt Fraction took over. The stories were bad, the direction the title was going in was bad. Matt fraction is worst writer I've  ever came across. Like stories, like Loverlorn, have Colossus mourn over kitty and  have him help some helpless women or  the story Nation X, the crap with the void and having Magneto on his knees hailing Cyclops as  Caesar, what a load of BS. 
 
 
Terry Dodson what a horrible artists, gotten make Emma Frost and the other X-Women looks beautiful, while the men look horrible. 
 Greg Land, let's do some copy and pasting and lets make the characters too happy, so there no real emotional behind them. I am suprise Marvel lets X-Men be run by these horrible writers and artists.  
What's point of having the original X-Men on the front cover, Iceman and Angel won't be in the spotlight and definitely not Jean and Beast. They should just have Cyclops. He is the main focus, him or Emma  
 
This story Schism, the whole idea of dividing them up, sounds like a bad idea. I can tell you what's going to happen, once they are divided up. The Mutants who side with Wolverine, in the end , there going realise it was a mistake to side with Wolverine, just to make Cyclops look good.  Just like they did with Charles character, make him  untrustworthy, so Cyclops could take over.
 Remember what they did on Buffy the vampire slayer, the potentials chose Faith to lead them, over Buffy and she almost got them killed and Buffy save them  and regain leadership, same thing is going to happen in X-Men.

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