Marvel Ending ‘Uncanny X-Men’, Oh Please Guys. C’mon.

I’m not particularly glad to see that Marvel is joining in on the bullshit DC reboot-rehash-refried-look at me train with Uncanny X-Men. They’re “ending” Uncanny X-Men at issue #544, because of totally immense consequences and shit. Please.

Comics Alliance:

This morning, Marvel announced to the Associated Press that as a consequence of the events of Jason Aaron’s X-Men: Schism event series, the stalwart Uncanny X-Men will end as of October’s #544, giving the crown of longest-running uninterrupted title at the Big Two to… Vertigo’s Hellblazer, of all the unlikely winners.

Speaking of the change, which will no doubt lead to a bevy of new X-Men titles, current Uncanny X-Men writer Kieron Gillen said that “if the story we’re telling demands that you end the ‘Uncanny X-Men,’ you end the ‘Uncanny X-Men.’ No, it’s not taken lightly – but it’s taken if it’s necessary to do it.”

X-Men: Schism will feature Scott “Cyclops” Summers and James “Wolverine” “Logan” “Patch” Howlett having an ideological disagreement in the wake of the return of Quentin “Kid Omega” Quire, the nihilist mutant punk from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s “Riot at Xavier’s” arc of New X-Men. He will presumably do something Very, Very Bad, which will lead to the confrontation between the two popular characters.

I’m going to be forthright and admit that I’ll be checking out Schism. Jason Aaron has some serious writing chops, and I’ve enjoyed him enormously on Wolverine and Ultimate Cap. I also imagine I’d like him a lot on Scalped if my lazy ass ever got around to digging into it. Despite checking it out though, it seems like yet another marketing plot that has me tugging at my pubes in annoyance. They’ll cancel it, but for how long? This sort of shenanigans seems the lot that makes it hard for people to take comic book seriously. And more fucking importantly, it makes the comic world so convoluted that even use fanboys can’t follow it.

“Well uh, Uncanny ran until #544, then it was X-Men: Wunderkinds for nineteen issues, then it picked up at Uncanny #563.1 and then…”

C’mon guys.