I'm sure a lot of Marvel readers had the same reaction to the announcement of Amazing X-Men. "Ugh! Another X-Men book?!?" The franchise does seem to be reaching critical mass. But even right away, there were several qualities in this new book's favor. It's written by Jason Aaron, who's already done a hell of a lot for the X-men in the past few years. It's illustrated by Ed McGuinness, one of the best superhero artists in the business. And this opening storyline revolves around the return of Nightcrawler, a character whose absence is still felt several years after his death. All of those qualities give Amazing X-Men just enough power to stand out.
There's very little separating Amazing from Aaron's other X-book, Wolverine and the X-Men. Aside from Nightcrawler and Firestar, the cast is basically identical. The only two distinctions are a slightly more timeless feel in terms of continuity and that Amazing looks to focus less on the students of the Jean grey School and more on the teachers. So really, this book is just a replacement for Marjorie Liu's Astonishing X-Men. My hope is that the existence of Amazing will convince Marvel to stop double-shipping Wolverine and the X-Men so often, allowing both of these series to operate on a more steady schedule and experience less of the artistic turnovers that are so common to Marvel's ongoing books now.
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