Thread Where You Can Ask Various X-Related Questions PART III!

**worstblogever** · 05-05-2012, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by always_crashing

Curious: Second to Claremont, who has written the most issues of x-related titles? Fabian Nicieza, maybe?

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Originally Posted by alf_to_the_rescue

Scott Lobdell would probably be up there as well.

Yeah, from X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and Generation X, he probably does.

Peter Allen David has a pretty big resume, from his different X-Factor runs, too. He's got to have like, over a hundred individual issues. Probably closer to 150, when you count miniseries and one-shots.

**Dr. Sonic** · 05-05-2012, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by worstblogever

Yeah, from X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, and Generation X, he probably does.
Peter Allen David has a pretty big resume, from his different X-Factor runs, too. He's got to have like, over a hundred individual issues. Probably closer to 150, when you count miniseries and one-shots.

I did a peripheral internet search on the matter, but could find no answers. Just guessing, I'd say that Lobdell wrote the most X-stories other than Claremont, followed by Peter David, Fabian Nicieza, and then Stan Lee.

**worstblogever** · 05-05-2012, 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by Dr. Sonic

I did a peripheral internet search on the matter, but could find no answers. Just guessing, I'd say that Lobdell wrote the most X-stories other than Claremont, followed by Peter David, Fabian Nicieza, and then Stan Lee.

Nicienza... does that include all 50 issues of Cable and Deadpool, and Deadpool miniseries?

**Dr. Sonic** · 05-05-2012, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by worstblogever

Nicienza... does that include all 50 issues of Cable and Deadpool, and Deadpool miniseries?

Yeah, I guess. Although, to be honest, while I consider Cable definitely an X-book, I don't feel the same about Deadpool's solo series.

**krisis** · 05-05-2012, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by Dr. Sonic

I did a peripheral internet search on the matter, but could find no answers. Just guessing, I'd say that Lobdell wrote the most X-stories other than Claremont, followed by Peter David, Fabian Nicieza, and then Stan Lee.

Stan Lee comes nowhere being at the top of this list, as he revisited the title only sporadically after #19. Gillen already has him beat.

This is all very back-of-napkin and mostly from my memory, but here's my shot at a top 10 list. I am counting Deadpool, because it is edited by the X-office.

#1 Chris Claremont. Claremont's unbroken Uncanny X-Men run accounts for over 180 issues, plus another 20ish when he came back for Revolution, 30-some issues when he returned for New Age, over 60 of various Excalibur incarnations, over 50 of New Mutants, over 50 of X-Treme plus its minis, and the Wolverine mini and first 10 of his solo ... and that is just he most memorable runs. That's a staggering 400+ issues of X-Men comic books. I highly doubt it ever going to be beaten.

#2 Fabian Nicieza. Nicieza might not be the next name that leaps to everyone's mind, but he has several lengthy runs since his X-Men debut in the early 1990s - 30+ on X-Men, 40+ on X-Force, Gambit's 1999 solo ongoing, the first 10 of Cable, and a slew of minis - plus another 43 from Cable/Deadpool. I think he's closing in on 200.

#3 Scott Lobdell. Lobdell has about 90 issues just on the two core titles, another 50+ between Excalibur and Generation X, and he wrote plenty of other material beside those. He's likely just behind Nicieza.

#4 Peter David. PAD wrote less than 25 issues on his original run on X-Factor and another 80-something since then. He also wrote a number of Wolverine one-shots and some of his First Class title. He has a pretty safe lead over other current writers, but is relatively contained to X-Factor, so someone on multiple titles could overtake him.

#5 Daniel Way. Way is neck and neck with PAD - you'd have to count every issue to know who comes out on top. I'm giving PAD benefit of the doubt for being around longer. Way wrote all 50 issues of Wolverine: Origins, plus over 50 of the current run on Deadpool, a run on Dark Wolverine / Daken, as well as various fill-ins and minis. That places him easily in the 120+ range, and he has a current ongoing.

#6 Louise Simonson. Simonson comes in around here, with nearly 60 on X-Factor and over 40 on New Mutants, plus various other stories. She is not going to hold this spot for very much longer...

#7 Jason Aaron. Aaron doesn't seem like he has been around for a very long time and rarely writes an X-comic not starring Wolverine, but he already has 90 issues between various Wolverine runs and minis. From recent comments he seems intent to stay on Wolverine and the X-Men for at least another year or two. Add to that his penchant for penning multiple titles each month and in the long run he could wind up much higher on this list.

#8 Mike Carey. I'm fairly certain Carey falls here. He wrote 73 consecutive issues in his run on X-Men/Legacy (which, as runs go, puts him at #4). Include various one-shots and anthology issues, plus his part of crossovers like Age of X, and he comes out somewhere around 90 for his issue count. Unfortunately, we might not be seeing him on an X-title again for a while.

#9 Larry Hama. Hama wrote nearly 80 consecutive issues of Wolverine's first ongoing starting with #30 and another 15 of Generation X. I'm giving Carey the benefit of the doubt out of this pairing since there are way more spin-offs, one-shots, and anthologies in the current world of X than there used to be, but it's actually pretty close.

Unless I am making a major omission, the remainder of the top 10 is rounded out by someone in the list of Warren Ellis (Excalibur, Counter X, Wolverine, Astonishing), Alan Davis (Excalibur, Uncanny, X-Men), Frank Tieri (Wolverine, Weapon X), Peter Milligan (X-Statix, X-Men) Howard Mackie (X-Factor, Mutant X), Joe Kelly (Deadpool, Uncanny), John Francis Moore (X-Force), and Kyle/Yost (New X-Men, X-Force, X-23).

When it comes to the top 10 artists with the most issues the list would be even more volatile, since no one has a lengthy consecutive run on art these days.

**YoungG03** · 05-05-2012, 12:07 PM

Man legion is powerful. I thought he only have 4 powers but he act like he has all. But his problem is that he can't use all at one time right...could he even have them if he could? Also how does Legion know each and every persona?

**worstblogever** · 05-06-2012, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by YoungG03

Man legion is powerful. I thought he only have 4 powers but he act like he has all. But his problem is that he can't use all at one time right...could he even have them if he could? Also how does Legion know each and every persona?

He isn't aware of each persona, no. But each one he spawns does have its own power. Here, check this out. It's a pretty comprehensive list of personalities, and powers that we've seen from Legion, so far. Courtesy of Monolith over at uncannyxmen.net.

**Emerald_616** · 05-06-2012, 07:04 AM

What is the address of the blog which has a bunch of behind the scenes info about the X-Titles from the Claremont/Simonson days and details why they left and why certain plot points were abandoned or changed?

**streator** · 05-07-2012, 09:18 AM

some age of x questions:

if there was nothing outside of fortress x and the whole reality was made up by "moira" what was the point of the age of x: universe stuff and the other side stories? fake memories or something?

was revenant rachel summers? they showed her and chamber back on utopia but no one addressed her by name. did the character show up again or did rachel just come back from space and revenant was forgotten?

are we to believe that age of x affected the entire 616 universe or just everyone on utopia?

since coming back has chamber had any significant dialogue or cool scenes? has he addressed having his powers back or the apocalypse stuff at all?

**Dr. Sonic** · 05-07-2012, 09:23 AM