A + X ending in March

fxmatt

Man, I really liked this series. It was refreshing to have some Marvel self contained stories rather than multi-issue story arcs.

bleedingcool.com/2013/10/21/ax-to-end-with-issue-18/

Elsiebub

That kind of stinks, but I wish they just got... more interesting creative teams. I bought issue #2 because Chris Bachalo was there. I bought issue #10(?) because of Adam Warren. But there was nothing else in this series to attract me in the first place.

The thing that most got my ears to perk up in that Bleeding Cool article was:

"watch for some rather big Uncanny Avengers news at the end of this month… or the beginning of next."

Hm. So, I guess that series is ending too? Or they're going to double-down EVENT style, even though that series SHOULD have felt like an event from issue one. But no other series reinforced its continuity, so it felt like the HUGE events there were happening in a bubble universe.

Chuck_Melville

Frankly, I'm not surprised. It had dropped into the finalist's list for the Cancellation Calvacade over the past couple of months.

And I thought the series was a disappointment. Instead of dedicating an entire issue to a team-up -- and you really need a full issue to really spotlight two lead characters -- they crammed them into a half-issue under very contrived circumstances. I think there were only two, maybe three really good stories in the whole bunch. It's predecessor, AvX, succeeded in its short run because they were expansions of incidents that occurred during the main AvX storyline and focused entirely on the fight, nothing more. A+X didn't have that luxury and needed to present a fuller story, but just couldn't pull it off.