Post-AVX Is X Focused

[jackolover]

Have you noticed that since AVX it has made the readership still focused on the mutants? It's a rather disconcerting viewpoint, considering the Events over, but the post-event still has us on a mutant footing. Much like after World War Hulk, the viewer was focused on Hulk business for a while, mutants are our focus right now. See, I can't get an Avengers vibe or an FF vibe, or anything else vibe going except mutants, because Cyclops' P5 made the mutants the number one subject in the MU. You've got Uncanny Avengers, and All New X-Men, and A+X, so all the other franchises are taking a back seat right now. It was an insidious plan by Marvel, but they really shifted the focus on the mutants in the MU and it's stayed.

[EXCELSIOR 2.0]

Well we did have those ads with earth in the shape of an X, had to go down at some point didn't it?

[Expletive Deleted]

It's almost like most of the X-Men titles have launched while most of the exclusively Avengers related titles haven't, yet.

[theDarkestKnight]

I can see where your coming from but I disagree because there are a bunch of titles coming out of Marvel NOW! that are not focused on any mutants. The way that AVX ended it opened up a lot of stories to be told from the X-Men perpective now, which I am actually very happy Marvel is doing because they are following their continuity still and not erasing it like DC did with the New 52.

[Songbird/Diamondback]

...what?

There are still a lot of comics that are just Avengers and New Avengers. The purpose of AvX was to merge the Avengers and X-Men together. There is no insidious plan, just mixing of the two franchises.

[Wellman]

Have you noticed that since AVX it has made the readership still focused on the mutants? It's a rather disconcerting viewpoint, considering the Events over, but the post-event still has us on a mutant footing. Much like after World War Hulk, the viewer was focused on Hulk business for a while, mutants are our focus right now. See, I can't get an Avengers vibe or an FF vibe, or anything else vibe going except mutants, because Cyclops' P5 made the mutants the number one subject in the MU. You've got Uncanny Avengers, and All New X-Men, and A+X, so all the other franchises are taking a back seat right now. It was an insidious plan by Marvel, but they really shifted the focus on the mutants in the MU and it's stayed.

I think you might be looking in the wrong places if that is what you see happening.

Sure those books you mentioned are mutant focused but they are basically X-Men books or books with the sole purpose of uniting Marvel's long time popular X-Men characters with their recently improved cross media status of the Avengers line. You have only a few books that have been released so far for Marvel Now and several of the Avengers related books won't see release until December or January. It is no plan, the X-books were just in a place where they could end their previous storylines sooner and the Avengers are waiting for Bendis and a few other aspects to wrap up.

Marvel Now isn't about focusing on the mutants, it is about elevating the cash cows and see if any potential new spins on old concepts "stick" when thrown out there.

[The Black Guardian]

If you want an FF vibe, then buy an FF book. There's two of them, and they're not mutant-oriented in the slightest.
If you want an Avengers book, then buy one of the many Avengers books. Uncanny Avengers is really an X-Book in disguise, but that's it.

And of course there are all of the solo titles.

[jackolover]

I'm not complaining that it is a mutant vibe at the moment, and I do get Avengers books still, but it doesn't change the mindset that Marvel produced in the reader, with AVX. You see the MU from a mutant perspective, and the Avengers and FF are over there, somewhere.

[Paladin King]

I don't think that the Marvel line is mutant focused, so much as it's not ignoring the mutants as much. For the past few years, it's felt like Marvel U = Avengers U, with the X-Men off in their own corner doing their own thing.

It only FEELS "mutant focused" because the X-verse has been off in its own corner for so long now. I wouldn't say that the X-Men are getting more of the spotlight than the Avengers or other heroes right now, just that they're actually sharing the spotlight for the first time in years.

[klinton]

I'm actually okay with this. I've been pretty much ignoring the X-books for so long that I'd forgotten how much I like some of these characters.

I'm enjoying revisiting them, and I'm rather chuffed with the direction the X-books are headed. The only minor annoyance is that I lost a bet and Emma is, indeed, a 'bad guy' again. :p