Publication History X: 2011

[Dean Clayton]

A year of very significant events which saw the popular Age of X crossover released, Alpha Flight return during the Chaos War, Fear Itself struck the x-titles, the X-Force team murdered a child and a Schism saw the X-Men divided like never before, This was 2011!
https://uncannyxmen.net/publication-history/2011

[WorldWideWade]

2010 and 2011 were what I refer to in my mind as the Deadpool and Wolverine over-saturation era. The shear number of ongoings, limited series, and one-shots that featured these characters was insane.

UXN may be another decade before all the various issue summaries finally get written for these two years as the quality of a lot of those books was mediocre to poor and I can understand the reluctance to work on them. Overall the Schism era was the beginning of a brief modern golden age in my opinion and I'm looking forward to the 2012 history.

[Nu-D]

2010 and 2011 were what I refer to in my mind as the Deadpool and Wolverine over-saturation era. The shear number of ongoings, limited series, and one-shots that featured these characters was insane.

1986-2017 is what I refer to in my mind as the Wolverine over-saturation era.

[EphemeristX]

At the same time, some of the best X-Plots the teams had in years were happening. Uncanny X-Force by Remender is up there with my favorites, along with Age of X. Legion returned to prominence, Wolverine's Red Right Hand plot was pretty brutal. Wolfsbane's pregnancy plotline culminates.

Yeah, there was alot of Wolverine and Deadpool, but most of that was either contained to their own books or in titles you didn't really need to read to keep up with the X-Line. They both were used to their fullest in UXF; I haven't seen a better Deadpool since.

[WorldWideWade]

Gillen and Remender were certainly turning in strong work in 2011 that went on to further improve in 2012. David and Carey continued to churn out entertaining yarns, but outside of the core titles the solo books just felt mostly superfluous.

Regardless of how you feel about AVX, I personally think 2012 may have been the strongest X-men year within most of the last decade.

[ev82]

I would say the oversaturation of Wolverine started during the post-Morrison era in 2004- that was the first time he was featured in all three main X-Men titles (Astonishing, Uncanny and Adjectiveless) as well as having a solo title and soon to be an Avenger (December 2004 with New Avengers #1)

[Blackcyclops]

At the same time, some of the best X-Plots the teams had in years were happening. Uncanny X-Force by Remender is up there with my favorites, along with Age of X. Legion returned to prominence, Wolverine's Red Right Hand plot was pretty brutal. Wolfsbane's pregnancy plotline culminates.

Yeah, there was alot of Wolverine and Deadpool, but most of that was either contained to their own books or in titles you didn't really need to read to keep up with the X-Line. They both were used to their fullest in UXF; I haven't seen a better Deadpool since.

I disagree with the final DP statement but everything else is facts.

The Red Right Hand plot is such an incredible story arc...and the villains actually win! You don't get that very often in a superhero book.

I think the cyncism makes it easy to brush aside all things in broad strokes without reading it all to actually pass judgment. A great example is how many people I've seen slam the Spidey and Logan mini by Jason Aaron because of the stars but they never read it...and ended up missing out on a delightful series.

Some of those one-shots and minis might not be impactful to continuity but they end up being great comics and fun.


Anyway, 2011 was a great x-year...I think it's hard to compare more modern x-stories in general to pre-91 (I definitely think you can't do it pre-X-Factor era) stories cause prior to that you just had far fewer x-stories being told and fewer voices. But the 2011 period had some of the best x-stories period.