The New X-Men...Wolverine and Uncanny #1's

It was a sad week for me and my favorite team of mutants from Marvel. After I couldn't read through half of Wolverine and the X-Men #1 last week, and the cold hard fact that I was so unimpressed with Uncanny X-Men #1 (I got through it), I will be using this new renumbering of the X-Men world as a great place to jump off from all of the X-Books completely.
This is a shame because I have always liked the X-Men, but there are only so many times I can read about mutant genocide, the Purifiers (a church of mutant haters), S.W.O.R.D., the Hellfire Club, rip-off stories from good writers, and in general the same old crap that has dominated the pages of Uncanny X-Men and X-Men for years.
I will admit there was some hope with Matt Fraction's run with art by Greg Land, but even with the change of coast lines and the creation of Utopia it wasn't enough to hold my interest in the titles after the disappointment of Age of X and Schism.
So, I will be saying good-bye to the X-Men until Marvel can realize that we need to have characters develop and mature; not jump from one event, to another crisis, to another epic-ground shattering cross-over, back to another event. We need down time and a chance to see the characters we know and love do something other than the same old repeated garbage. Adieu X-Books.

P.S. Does anyone know why and when Wolverine become such a pussy? If it was in Schism then I really don't care.

Conspirator Brock's Pull List for 8/17/11

For all of the curious people out there wondering what I like to read week to week here is a list of the titles I am going to be picking up for the week of 8/17/11:

01. Batman #713 DC
02. Captain America #2 Marvel
03. DC Universe Online: Legends #14 DC
04. DMZ #68 Vertigo
05. Fables #108 Vertigo
06. Fear Itself: The Home Front #5 of 7 Marvel
07. Flashpoint: Abin Sur the Green Lantern # 3 of 3 DC
08. Flashpoint: Legion of Doom #3 of 3 DC
09. Flashpoint: The Outsider #3 of 3 DC
10. Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies #3 of 3 DC
11. Green Lantern Corps #63 DC
12. Legion of Super-Heroes #16 DC
13. Superman/Batman #87 DC
14. Uncanny X-Men #542 Marvel
15. X-Men: Schism #3 of 5 Marvel

Another week of picks and I feel behind in my reading...wait I am. I haven't been able to get to X-Men: Schism and at this rate I think I might wait to read the trade. But I am looking forward to the next round of Flashpoint minis that are coming to a close, the end of the Green Lantern Corps, Legion of Super-Heroes and Superman/Batman, and I am looking forward to my Vertigo reading; DMZ and Fables. Although I must say that this month comics don't entice me like they used to and I think that is because Marvel doesn't have anything that is amazing me and DC is making a decision that is big, but it is only leaving me hopeful they don't fuck it up. This August is not what I would call a good month for comics.

As usual I'll be talking comics on The Comic Conspiracy, and on the Geekbox Forums. Now get out there and enjoy some good old fashioned comic book reading.