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Uncanny X-Men To Split Into Two Books In X-Men: Regenesis

Published Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:43:42 -0500

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:23:11 -0500

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Respectfully we informed you of this at an earlier juncture.

Uncanny X-Men, which was reported as being cancelled with issue 544 in November, will be replaced by a new book. Uncanny X-Men #1, also shipping in November. Which is possibly the shortest cancellation in existence.

It will be accompanied by Wolverine & The X-Men in October, as the X-Men splits along ideological lines, Cyclops taking one team , Wolverine taking the other in what Marvel are called X-Men Regenesis.

Kieron Gillen will write Uncanny X-Men with Carlos Pacheco and Greg Land on art. Jason Aaron will be writing and CHris Bachalo will be drawing Wolverine & The X-Men. The title of which will also have resonance with the popular Marvel cartoon of the same name.

The image above seems to suggest that Cyclops, Magneto, Iceman, Storm, Gambit and Psylocke will stay on one team, while Wolverine, Rogue, Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde and Lockheed will take the other. As for Charles Xavier, he seems split down the middle. Or it could just be a thematic poster and the real split will be very different.

Still, can't see this as being particularly good for Scott and Emma, can you?

Marvel EiC Axel Alonso, in a seeming dig at DC, is quoted by the Associated Press as saying "We promise that there will be a reason for each and every new issue No. 1 that hits stores in the near-future."

There's no news as to the status of other central X-Men team books, Astonishing X-Men, X-Men Legacy or X-Men. Can there really be five ongoing central X-Men books?

In February Bleeding Cool reported that;

I'm told the members of the X-Men are planned split into two very distinct teams and books, each with a different moral outlook, aligning along the traditional Xavier/Magneto divide. Scott Summers, Cyclops, will lead the Xavier-minded team, while the Magneto-motivated will be led by… Wolverine!

However, it appears we initially got the ideology wrong, reporting in March;

the split will be as a result of Scott Summers continuing to want to unite all mutants separately from the human population. He started doing this on the Utopia island, but this will be a, for want of a better word, permanent solution.

Logan will finally kick off against this, insisting that mutants should integrate into the rest of humanity. And will lead the X-Men team that leaves to promote just that.

This is reminiscent of the Xavier/Magneto split but directly reflects the age old problem of population management. Do you isolate or integrate? At extremes you have South Africa and Israel. But even in the melting pots of New York and to a lesser extent London, you have ghettos andareas of ethnic concentration, poth physically and mentally as cultures split and segregate.

And earlier this month, with the announcement of the Uncanny X-Men cancellation, we reminded you that two books would take its place,

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