Originally Posted by
suzene
Also consider that Uncanny X-Men itself is a Top Ten book, and it only moves about 65K copies a month when not involved in cross-overs. An X-Book at 50K would be something like X-Force, which has two Wolverines in it (and one of them has boobs). The Direct Market is a niche hobby at this point and the general push from the Big Two seems to be getting fewer people to buy the same books at a higher price point. That's a terrible environment to launch third-tier X-Book in. At best, you'd probably be looking at a 30K launch and trending severely downward from there unless you had a superstar team on board, and there's no way Marvel's going to put big name writers and artists on an AF book. I'd rather wait until there's an environment and an editorial regime in place where a relaunch would have at least a fighting chance of success. Maybe once a digital comics marketplace gets going in earnest...we can hope.