No I don't think it's too much but it NEEDS a stronger editor.

There can never be too many X-men titles. Its good that there are many options but whether you buy them or not depends entirely on the reader.

Forgot Deadpool. I would say there are too many Wolverine books, or too many books with Wolverine in them.

@TheCrowbar said:

No I don't think it's too much but it NEEDS a stronger editor.

I agree with this.

Too Many - Debatable

Too Many terrible Titles - Absolutely

@Rabbitearsblog said:

This is the list of the X-Men titles that are currently out at this moment:

1) All New X-men

2) Uncanny X-Men

3) Savage Wolverine

4) Wolverine Max

5) X-Factor

6) Cable and the X-Force

7) Uncanny X-Force

8) Wolverine

9) Wolverine and the X-men

10) First X-men

11) Gambit

12) Ultimate Comics X-men

13) Uncanny Avengers (has some X-Men members in it)

14) X-Treme X-Men

15) Age of X (or Apocalypse, I can't remember which one)

16) Astonishing X-Men

17) X-Men Legacy

18) X-Men

well first x-men and wolverine max are mini series so they should wrap up soon, but books like X-factor, X-force, Age of Apocalypse, ultimate X-men and Gambit are different from the rest of the X-titles.( wolverine is a bit too, but his storys have been hit or miss in past few years)

Agreed on the stronger Editor(s) part. Nick Lowe is a goofball.

There are too much X-titles.

@Rabbitearsblog said:

This is the list of the X-Men titles that are currently out at this moment:

1) All New X-men

2) Uncanny X-Men

3) Savage Wolverine

4) Wolverine Max

5) X-Factor

6) Cable and the X-Force

7) Uncanny X-Force

8) Wolverine

9) Wolverine and the X-men

10) First X-men

11) Gambit

12) Ultimate Comics X-men

13) Uncanny Avengers (has some X-Men members in it)

14) X-Treme X-Men

15) Age of X (or Apocalypse, I can't remember which one)

16) Astonishing X-Men

17) X-Men Legacy

18) X-Men

I'm sure there's more and maybe some of these titles are about to be cancelled, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

So, do you think that there are too many X-Men titles out and how do you think it would affect the X-Men universe in the long run?

Personally, I do think that there are way too many X-Men titles out and even though the X-Men has like the largest amount of characters in the comics, it can be problematic in the future if fans are trying to figure out which of these series actually ties into the main stories. Also, what about the titles that doesn't really tie into the main stories? Would it be too confusing for the audience if you have all of these different X-Men characters running around and yet, they are not really involved in the major stories? Of course, there are certain X-Men titles that should be considered their own stories like Wolverine and Gambit's solo series and X-Force and X-Factor and Ultimate Comics X-Men is another universe from the mainstream universe.

Anybody who says there are too many Bat-family titles should see this list. Yes some of them aren't technically X-men titles but even with those cut out...

How about:

Avengers

New Avengers

Secret Avengers

Young Avengers

Avengers Arena

Avengers Assemble

Uncanny Avengers

Avengers + X-Men

Ultimates

@spinningbirdcake: ?

Doesn't the Bat-family constitute of about a handful of people ?

@Rabbitearsblog: my feeling is not so much that there are too many titles, per se, but there are definitely more titles than I'm going to bother reading. Even with these, what was it, 18 titles, there's still really only 3 or 4 core titles, which is enough to get one or two X-men stories a week.

Stuff like X-treme, Ultimate, and Age of Apocalypse are set in different realities, and if people are into that, it needn't have anything to do with the fact that I'm not into it. This will probably end up being the case with First X-men, too. If All New X-men becomes this kind of title, I probably will follow it, and I'm sure other people won't.

X-factor, Cable and the X-force, X-men Legacy, Gambit, etc.. are more their own entities within the same world, but I've never felt I needed to read these (kinds of) books to know what's up with the X-men. Sometimes I do read them, but only if they interest me on their own merits. I've never followed one solo Wolverine book for very long, so I can't imagine why there would be three, but, hey, I am following two Daredevil books right now, so who am I to judge?

Yeah, I can see how some books may ultimately just be watering things down by featuring characters I couldn't give a toss about with ones I genuinely want want to see (Uncanny X-force, Astonishing X-men, Wolverine and the X-men especially), and, yeah, if it were up to me I could definitely think of some ways to cut the fat. I really don't think there needs to be more than six or seven X-titles, tops, but what seems superfluous to me might be what someone else is most interested in. Really they are just trying to appeal to the most people they can.

So when it comes right down to it, yeah, it is super bloated if you really want to read all of it, but, given that I only follow three or four X-men books at a time, I'd still rather have more choices than less.

@AgeofHurricane: Well there's Batman of course, Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, who you could technically take out I guess because I think part of the new 52 reboot was to make him never take the mantle of Robin but only Red Robin. I might be wrong about that. Then there's Damien, the current Robin, Batgirl, Batwoman, Batwing (?), Catwoman. So yeah a handful, but from that there's :

Batman

Detective Comics

The Dark Knight

Batman and Robin

Batgirl

Batwoman

Nightwing

Catwoman

Batwing

Birds of Prey (?)

Red Hood and the Outlaws

Batman Inc.

Talon(?)

So...we get it DC, Nolan made some good movies. Chill out.

Is Wolverine in all of them ?

@cattlebattle said:

About 15 too many. Seriously, that many titles runs risk of alienating the fan base. Too many books to buy and keep up with.

Not really. It's not mandated that you spend money on all the available books because there isn't a coherent story running through all the titles. I'd like to think the consensus is that people buy what they want to read, while still retaining interest in the overall plot.

Sales figures alone dictate the proper # of X-Books.   It works itself out.

@cattlebattle said:

@AgeofHurricane said:

@cattlebattle said:

About 15 too many. Seriously, that many titles runs risk of alienating the fan base. Too many books to buy and keep up with.

Not really. It's not mandated that you spend money on all the available books because there isn't a coherent story running through all the titles. I'd like to think the consensus is that people buy what they want to read, while still retaining interest in the overall plot.

Eh, I have had comics where a character will show up and allude to an adventure they had in their own book. For instance if a villain returned from apparent death and you didn't read the spin off in which he returned in you could be kind of lost. The X-Men tend to intertwine more than most other franchises

I remember those good ole' days, but that's not the case for the X-Franchise anymore. At least ever since 06. There's not really any cohesion going on atm, and that's down to incompetent, useless Editors.

Too Many - Debatable

Too Many terrible Titles - Absolutely

@Bison4Life said:

@Brazen_Intellect said:

Too Many - Debatable

Too Many terrible Titles - Absolutely

I second this.

Third, Fourth, Nth this.

@HopesummersFORtheFUTURE said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

How about:

Avengers

New Avengers

Secret Avengers

Young Avengers

Avengers Arena

Avengers Assemble

Uncanny Avengers

Avengers + X-Men this is an x-men book too

Ultimates

no x-men has more cause its more popular then avengers,,,,i myself dont like the avengers

I don't think the X-Men have more. the list in the OP is including solos and miniseries, if we where to do that with Avengers we'd have to add in Avengers 1959, Captain America, Captain America &, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man ect

• Uncanny X-Men
• X-men(Second team)
• X-Force
• Wolverine(I like the idea of Savage)
• Ultimate X-Men(Alternate universe)

This would be ideal IMO as less quantity= more quality

I believe Wolverine MAX is a mini series and Age of Apocalypse can't really last forever.

Other solo titles for X-Men would be fine

Avengers line needs to get trimmed down aswell.

@Simpson said:

• Uncanny X-Men
• X-men(Second team)
• X-Force
• Wolverine(I like the idea of Savage)
• Ultimate X-Men(Alternate universe)

This would be ideal IMO as less quantity= more quality

I agree with this in theory, in so far as there's never more than this many X-books I care to read..

That said, this is how many X-books there were when I started reading, and that didn't make them all of a higher quality, in fact, most of the time, most of them were still superfluous.

@Yung ANcient One said:

Wolverines, And Gambits solo are not part of the "main story" Xtreme Xmen, UltimateX, & AoA.X aren't even from the same Universe as the "main story" X-factor is from the future X-force are kind of their own entiry Uncanny Avengers is a Avengers book plus outside the "main story" Above all they are all their own angle of a story. (+)

X-factor is set in the present 616, though is largely self contained.

There won't ever be too many XMen titles. The only problem with these books is that many many MANY mutants are being under-utilized, and Marvel is afraid to make a monthly mutant comic that doesn't star Wolverine or Cyclops. C'mon Marvel, look how well XFactor has done!!!

WAIT! Hold the phone there buster! How the Hell do put out that many X-titles, and not have a New Mutants, or a New X-Men. Sometimes I think Marvel is just F-ing with us. Yeah, who wants to read about, Hellion, Surge, Elixir, Mercury, Armor, Prodigy, Dust, Anole, Rockslide, The Stepford Cuckoos, X-23, Pixie, Trance, when you have Quentin, Idie, and a dead ass Broo in another wolverine book? and that is why they make Jameson Irish whiskey. Chears! 

Yes there are and they're pretty much all garbage. Besides Uncanny X-Force of course.

Lets see don't really count Ultimate Comics X-men although I do read it.

AoA, ANXM, AXM, CAXF, Legacy, UXF, UXM, WATXM, X-Factor, X-men and X-treme

Plus Savage Wolverine, Wolverine and Gambit. And Uncanny Avengers if you want to count that.

Meh don't have problem with it. More choices is a good thing in my book. Sure better quality would be nice as well but I don't think those are mutually exclusive.

Although maybe I am not the best source since I read 10 out of 16.