Uncanny X-men #544

[sherkahn]

Newsarama has stunning news about the ramifications of Schism.





The tip of the iceberg. The end of the Uncanny X-men.


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Comments

[an_idol_mind]

I really don't think these cancellations/relaunches are that huge a deal, but they do make it difficult to provide references for new readers. With a long-running series like Uncanny X-Men, if someone wants to know about an event that happened a while ago, it's easy to say, "Check out issue #xxx." With so many cancellations and relaunches, it becomes harder to isolate those issue numbers.

It's not as huge a deal with Uncanny X-Men, but with some books, when you say, "Check out issue #12," it's now a matter of, "which issue #12?" It seems to me like keeping a consecutive numbering makes past stories easier to reference, thus making it more likely that new readers will go back and read up on the history of these characters, thus getting them more invested in the comics and wanting to continue reading.

All this is filtered through the fact that I am not an industry professional and therefore might be off-base, but it really seems to me that, as with character deaths and resurrection, these instances of advertising a "Final Issue!" only to relaunch with an "Exciting new #1!" is chasing short-term sales in an industry that really needs more patience in pursuing new long-term readers.