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The x-books haven't sold this poorly in decades.

I remember when X-Factor outsold the Avengers (this was before the cartoon came out).

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Oh nononono, Betsy is quite a bit older than that.

Her twin was in his early/mid 20s when he became Captain Britain in the 1970s, so she's somewhere in her early-mid 30s by now. She's older than the 05.

Now Rogue is about the same age as Sam, they both were around 18 when they joined the x-men/new mutants.

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Mike Marts is the new (old) x-group editor.

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My opinion?

This is me surmising for a bit, but it won't change much, at least from a Bendis perspective. From the sound of it, reading interviews from various people, it looks like Quesada or Alonso offered ANX and Uncanny to Bendis and not Lowe the editor in charge of the x-books, which is a bit annoying to tell you the truth. So what does that do to the writer/editor dynamic in this case where you're bosses boss hired you? How much real authority does the editor have here if the two really disagree on a topic? I do believe Lowe gave out assignments on the rest of the books so the there shouldn't be much of an issue there when the new guy steps in, but how will that person deal with BMB?

If Marts gets this job, I think the x-line will focus on more characters then it did during the Alonso age (i.e. more than Cyke, Emma and Wolverine), but other than that I don't know if there's going to be any sort of massive improvements.

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It's a nice idea but a terrible poster. They should have aped the Avengers and just put everyone who was ever an X-men (or x associated character on a single poster), but instead they decided to go by roster with varying results.

Only two Claremont teams made it!!! The O.G. New Mutants (great) and the X-treme X-men (really?!?!). No X-men squad from the golden age of the franchise made the list. No X-Factor or Excalibur either. Hell I can make a pretty good x-team by putting together a cast of characters that didn't make the poster: Xavier, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Polaris and Dazzler (and it looks like Wolfsbane got cropped out of the New Mutants portion so we can add her too). What a mess of a tribute to a 50th anniversary.

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@tomchu said:

Banshee disappeared for a long, long time post-Gen X / Joe Casey's run. And then he pops up in Deadly Genesis and dies. Brilliant.

Most characters who joined X-Corps were pretty irrelevant now that I think about it, Chamber and Jubilee did jack from the early 2000s till M-Day.

Legion disappeared for an ungodly amount of time, but I guess he was dead. Does dead count?

Most of the X-Terminators are also pretty much missing since Inferno. Artie and Leech got shipped off the FF (more recently), Firefist was Necrosha'd, Skids was put into SHIELD and never heard of again, Wiz Kid more or less went off the radar, apparently in Avengers Academy.

Then there's Caliban...

Yeah! What happened to Caliban? I actually liked her rivalry with Storm and somehow, she's been missing ever since!

No Caliban was the Morlock that wanted to marry Kitty and then became a horseman. He died during Messiah Complex. You're thinking about Calisto.

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@xspectre28: I haven't found anything explaining what the team concept is. This is the first I've heard of them. What are they supposed to be doing?

They're a corporate sponsored super hero team.

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@irishx said:

I am a very big Wolverine fan and I can say that no one character is bigger than the team. In my opinion the key ingredient to the success of the X-Men franchise is actually the mutant origin. The idea that you can just simply be born with powers instead of having to be in a scientific accident makes it much more possible in a readers mind that they too could get powers.

Most people like myself who are Wolverine fans also are fans of many other X-Men characters and I'm sure they would be successful without him. I wonder how popular he would be without the X-Men though? His individual success would probably be even more affected than the team itself if he was never a member.

So much this. The reason why the X-men became so popular in the 80s and 90s was due to plethora of distinct and developed characters within the franchise. Wolverine was a relatively big part of it, but he didn't do it alone.

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There are no bad mutants, just poorly used ones.