Would you buy a weekly Uncanny X-Men book?

[david r]

There have been hints that Uncanny X-Men might go on a weekly schedule. Much like Spider-Man's flagship title has done? Would you be interested in this? Could you afford to buy UXM every single week?

Mike Carey's X-Men: Legacy would continue, as a monthly. In fact, let's say Mike Carey might even write an arc or two of Uncanny X-Men if it went weekly, just to calm fears of Carey's departure.

So I ask you: WOULD YOU BUY A WEEKLY UNCANNY X-MEN??

[KiplingKat]

Uncanny X-Men's quality is already quite low. The worst, IMO, of all the major X-titles.

How the heck would it get any better if it went to weekly publication?

[david r]

Let's say it has several creative teams rotating in-and-out. Just like what Marvel is doing with Amazing Spider-Man. So every 3-4 issues, we get a different writer & artist onboard. So the quality would be consistently evolving.

Interested?

[Omega Alpha]

If it is any good, why not?

[Gene M.]

I already got suckered into a thrice monthly Spider-Man, so why not? I think this is the best the X-Line has been since Morrison, so I'd definitely like more of it.

[HouseSolo]

As someone who has actually been somewhat suckered in by that 2 page ad on every book, I can whole-heartedly say no. Spider-man's book started out great, but as the weekly schedule has gone on, it's gotten progressively worse. I can't imagine anything different would happen here.

Plus, I haven't read X in years, and I'm just going to give it a shot. I'm not willing to pay that much to give it a shot.

[HeckBoy]

If it is any good, why not?That's basically all I'm gonna say as well.

[Swashbuckler]

I buy X-Men books whenever I can, so I'd probabyl buy them. I would be afriad of worse quality, but it'd be an interesting way to make the current concept of a rotating cast work better. I'd believe the stories overlapping a lot more, but I wouldn't want every arc to have Cyclops, White Queen and Wolverine, which is what would happen.

[KiplingKat]

Let's say it has several creative teams rotating in-and-out. Just like what Marvel is doing with Amazing Spider-Man. So every 3-4 issues, we get a different writer & artist onboard. So the quality would be consistently evolving.

Interested?

No. You are talking about situation with zero quality control and no continuity. The writers won't even have time to settle in and get a handle on the characters (multiple, as opposed to one Spider Man) before they are shipped out. No long term plots will be able to be developed.

(What the heck has happened to the comic book industry when two years is considered a "long run"?)

This would be one of the worst things they could do to the X-Verse, a cheap marketing ploy to extort money from fans (like we don't have enough titles we have to buy) that will further erode the quality of the books.

That kind of blatant disrespect and abuse of the fandom would make me stop buying Marvel comics once and for all. I used to pay 65 cents for a damn good product. I pay 3$ for a half-assed one now. And Marvel expects me to sell out 12$ a month for one that is even worse? Let's just say my repsonse to Marvel in this instance would be a pair of rude gestures and the closing of my wallet.

[chickrockguitar]

I said yes.

BUT. The storys would have to keep interesting me quite a lot for me to do this. As I do have a limited amount of comic funds.

[psycwave]

if it stays interesting and i didn't go broke.......sure

[lockerogue]

I think it would work. I like what Swash said that the idea of the rotating cast would do well this.

[Siddon]

I'd like a weekly book, like one week it could be all Wolverane, Icman, Rouge and the next week it will be all Shortpack, Lifeguard, and Stacey X

[darknessatnoon]

That kind of blatant disrespect and abuse of the fandom would make me stop buying Marvel comics once and for all. I used to pay 65 cents for a damn good product. I pay 3$ for a half-assed one now.

For your reference, I've heard of this very interesting concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation) that might pertain to your concerns.

[rwsmith]

Sure. Just cancel Legacy and have Carey write Uncanny along with Brubaker and Fraction, and add Scot Eaton to the rotating artistic line-up of Land and Dodson. You could easily have the book shipping thrice monthly that way IMO, just like Amazing Spider-man is right now.

[Joe Acro]

With the price of comics what they are, the price of gas what it is, and the number of books I already read, I don't think I'd support it.

Maybe on occasion, though, as the arc suited me.

[KiplingKat]

For your reference, I've heard of this very interesting concept (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation) that might pertain to your concerns.

Inflation has nothing to do with the declining quality of the books.

It used to take me about 20 minutes to half an hour to read a comic book, because of the content, the dialog, complexity of the story. But then splash pages used to be used a lot more sparingly, team fights actually choreographed.

It takes me about ten minutes to read through a comic now. Sometimes even twice. There is less story in each issue now. So what the heck am I paying for?

And asking me to pay more for what is probably going to be less is pushing beyond the envelope of what I am willing to put up with.

As Joe said above: Price of gas, price of groceries, Rent, Tuition, I already shell out over 40$ a month for Marvel comics what with subscriptions and buying special "events" like miniseries and crossovers. That's all they get. And if they try to extort more out of me, they'll find that little well drying up in a jiffy.

[CmX]

I think it can be done and I don't think the quality would decline. Seeing especially as Bru already has been juggling multiple titles for awhile now a lot like Bendis has and especially with the help of Fraction and maybe even Carey I think it could be pulled off.

But only if it was bi-weekly and not every week like Amazing Spider Man.

I don't think Dodson or Land can pull off three issues a month w/out being late.

[MasterOdin]

As others have pointed out, it would probably mean the cancellation of some other X-books. Otherwise, the sales would not be able to be sustained.

I voted no. There really is no reason to IMHO. There are basically enough X-books out right now that one comes out every week. The reason they did this with Spider-Man is because it is one character and it helps to avoid telling three to four different stories every month.

[Joe Franklin]

Sure. Just cancel Legacy and have Carey write Uncanny along with Brubaker and Fraction, and add Scot Eaton to the rotating artistic line-up of Land and Dodson. You could easily have the book shipping thrice monthly that way IMO, just like Amazing Spider-man is right now.

This would be fine, but no Eaton art please. We need bigger names like McNiven or Leinil Yu or Chris Bachalo in the rotating weekly artist mix.

[RafiShai]

I wouldn't mind it at all, it could be really cool! The creative team behind it would have to be really good though, to drive a good story on a weekly basis.

But yeah, I would.

[ToxicTeen]

I would love a weekly X-Men series but instead of doing an Uncanny X-Men weekly, it should be a new X-Men series altogether that's sorta like X-Men Unlimited. :wink:

[CmX]

If they really needed to cancel some x-titles in order to make room for this bi-weekly schedule I'd say can Cable & XMen Origins.

Not Legacy especially if it's changing concepts soon.

[darknessatnoon]

What indication is there that this would happen?

I find it highly unlikely.

[lockerogue]

What indication is there that this would happen?

I find it highly unlikely.

Its a just What If question. Like What If Sage fell from a portal in the sky into the new X-Base.

[CmX]

Its just What If question. Like What If Sage fell from a portal in the sky into the new X-Base.

lolies I loves you <3

[lockerogue]

One day she will escape.

[darknessatnoon]

locke,

you are a better person than this. Taking advantage of my vow of silence is just beneath you.

[lockerogue]

locke,

you are a better person than this. Taking advantage of my vow of silence is just beneath you.

I am so sorry. I forgot all about that.

[CmX]

I am so sorry. I forgot all about that.

Your answer should've been "WHATD I DO? WHATDD.. WHATDD.. WHATDD I DO?"

[LordAllMighty]

It depends on the team, the writer and the artist for me.

As of right now, Uncanny is barely on my read list.:frown:

[Pro]

Uncanny bores me to tears lately. The main reason i bought it the past few months is because i still have it on my pull list for the moment. That might change soon if the book doesn't shape up soon. Plus depending on how much income i make in a particular month i might be able to easily buy several books or none at all.if i have to break a series run because i can't afford it in a particular week i drop the series.

I also don't see the quality of the book improving with a rotating crew. At best you get a mediocre mix of good and bad stories and story arcs that will be relatively short since no writer can actually get deeply involved in his writing. And artists who have to crank out artwork at a faster pace than they already do really won't help the quality of the artwork either. There are only a meager few who can deliver good art in a short span of time. 22 pages of good quality art isn't an easy task, let alone in the time alloted to creating a comic.

[scouse mouse]

I could handle fortnightly, but weekly would be a bit of a stretch for me.

[Nyssane]

I think it'd be great if it was all merged into one book, similar to Spidey now, with rotating writers.

[Madrox84]

Well, i voted yes.

But that yes is contingent on the way it was done. If it was done in a similar way as Amazing Spider-Man, i.e with rotating creative teams, then i would buy it.

[MasterOdin]

This might deserve a separate poll, but for those of you that wrote they would buy a weekly Uncanny book, would you consider buying an original trade containing four issues worth of story per month. I understand that Marvel makes more money by selling singles and then selling the trades, but if you are going to have, say four issue arcs per month, why not just collect them in one single trade? Marvel could even sell it at a reduced price of $9.99 instead of $11.96 for four single issues.

Personally, I would like to see that before seeing Uncanny going weekly.

[Sentinel K]

I would buy it, if the quality stayed high.

I'd rather i didn't have to though.

[Yoel]

I would say yes, if the quality was there.

[Agent_Torpor]

Hell no. The quality's not there as it is...

[podmark]

I'd certainly be interested, but it would come down to whether the book's content itself was interesting to me.

[Quinnhop]

They could do group plotting for over-arching stories (those of you complaining that each rotation would be too standalone), much like Fraction and Brubaker have already said they plan to do. I think adding Carey to the team, with Bachalo or Choi, would be a great edition.

And, the more it comes out, the easier it is to create long, building arcs with awesome pay-offs. No time to get bored with writers. I'd imagine it being a well-written, weekly rendition of the classic Claremont/Byrne years.

I'd LOVE it.

[frog]

Taken from the WWC: Marvel - Your Universe Panel (http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080630-MarvelYourUniverse.html):

A fan that enjoys Amazing Spider-Man’s thrice monthly shipping schedule asked if other books might go that route. Brevoort said two-a-month could happen for a book like X-Men. McCann added that the single main protagonist is what makes the advanced schedule work for Spider-Man.

That really sounds more feasible than weekly.

[Muggs]

In that interview with Brubaker and Fraction that someone posted last week.
They said they were looking to get out 16 issues a year, had plotted up to 530 and weren't going to writing for trade.

[Diablito]

If two came out a month, I think I could handle it. Thrice a month is a bit much for me.

[Sentinel K]

Didn't it used to be bi-monthly in the summer months during CC's tenure?

[DDM]

Didn't it used to be bi-monthly in the summer months during CC's tenure?

Yes, it started in the Summer of 1988, 1989, & 1990.

[worstblogever]

I own all of DC's past two big weeklies, both 52 and Countdown.

While 52 was great for me, as a read, it also was a chore for the creative team, and they snuck jokes in the book about how deadlines were killing them. The fact that it was written as the "hidden year" of DC continuity helped. They wrote everything that happened off panel for 52 weeks of DC time, as our own.

Then, DC thought they could attempt the same trick to occur congruently with existing continuity with "Countdown to Final Crisis". And it was, quite simply, a train wreck, from both a quality standpoint, but also creating numerous headaches editorially. That weekly book went from being pitched as "everything you need to read to be ready for Final Crisis", to the irrelevant, lousy book you should skip and read the actual stories going on around the DCU. I, quite simply, am dumber for having both read, and (yes, I admit it) bought it.

I refuse to buy DC's new weekly, "Trinity", and if Marvel went weekly on X-Men, I strongly would fear the same thing would happen that did on DC's end. Marvel would be idiots to try and match the colossal blunder that their main competition has done the past 2 years.

[Imraith Nimphais]

No. You are talking about situation with zero quality control and no continuity. The writers won't even have time to settle in and get a handle on the characters (multiple, as opposed to one Spider Man) before they are shipped out. No long term plots will be able to be developed.

(What the heck has happened to the comic book industry when two years is considered a "long run"?)

This would be one of the worst things they could do to the X-Verse, a cheap marketing ploy to extort money from fans (like we don't have enough titles we have to buy) that will further erode the quality of the books.

That kind of blatant disrespect and abuse of the fandom would make me stop buying Marvel comics once and for all. I used to pay 65 cents for a damn good product. I pay 3$ for a half-assed one now. And Marvel expects me to sell out 12$ a month for one that is even worse? Let's just say my repsonse to Marvel in this instance would be a pair of rude gestures and the closing of my wallet.

That's my answer right there...well expressed Kat.

[Samy]

If the quality was higher than it is now, I'd consider it. At current levels, no.

[DDM]

No. You are talking about situation with zero quality control and no continuity. The writers won't even have time to settle in and get a handle on the characters (multiple, as opposed to one Spider Man) before they are shipped out. No long term plots will be able to be developed.

(What the heck has happened to the comic book industry when two years is considered a "long run"?)

This would be one of the worst things they could do to the X-Verse, a cheap marketing ploy to extort money from fans (like we don't have enough titles we have to buy) that will further erode the quality of the books.

That kind of blatant disrespect and abuse of the fandom would make me stop buying Marvel comics once and for all. I used to pay 65 cents for a damn good product. I pay 3$ for a half-assed one now. And Marvel expects me to sell out 12$ a month for one that is even worse? Let's just say my repsonse to Marvel in this instance would be a pair of rude gestures and the closing of my wallet.

I also agree with KK's statement. Today, we get half a story a month or less due to decompression; a weekly comic would just make that much less story--less! The editors would not be able to handle the extra workload & lose even more continuity than they do now.

It would be one big mess with nothing substantially resolved.

[Agent_Torpor]

I own all of DC's past two big weeklies, both 52 and Countdown.

While 52 was great for me, as a read, it also was a chore for the creative team, and they snuck jokes in the book about how deadlines were killing them. The fact that it was written as the "hidden year" of DC continuity helped. They wrote everything that happened off panel for 52 weeks of DC time, as our own.

Then, DC thought they could attempt the same trick to occur congruently with existing continuity with "Countdown to Final Crisis". And it was, quite simply, a train wreck, from both a quality standpoint, but also creating numerous headaches editorially. That weekly book went from being pitched as "everything you need to read to be ready for Final Crisis", to the irrelevant, lousy book you should skip and read the actual stories going on around the DCU. I, quite simply, am dumber for having both read, and (yes, I admit it) bought it.

I refuse to buy DC's new weekly, "Trinity", and if Marvel went weekly on X-Men, I strongly would fear the same thing would happen that did on DC's end. Marvel would be idiots to try and match the colossal blunder that their main competition has done the past 2 years.

Exactly. A weekly comic requires an enormous outlay of skill and talent, or else you end up with tripe like Countdown or blandness personified like Trinity (so far). 52, by dint of the four quality writers working in tandem, was a serious exception to the rule (but the art would suffer greatly depending on who was doing the chores that week).

I'd rather see Uncanny shore up its obvious current deficiencies in story and establish some consistent art before they ever even think of doing more than their schedule as it stands now.

[DeniseXfrost]

If it means more weekly does of Emma, hell yes!

[_Jayme_]

Judging by what I read during Amazing Spider-Man, no, I wouldn't. ( I enjoye Bachalo's art though)

It would be too rushed.

[Hakael]

I'm totally cool with an accelerated schedule so long as the quality remains high. It will hopefully allow for a good rotation of characters.