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Marvel Comics' upcoming X-Men revamp is getting bigger - in more ways than one. While we reported on plans for three main X-Men books, two other team books, and four solo titles, we now have word that some will be more than just monthly books.

Hours after Uncanny X-Men writer Gail Simone announced at WonderCon 2024 that her series Uncanny X-Men with artist David Marquez would be aiming to ship 18 issues a year, series editor (and Marvel executive editor) Tom Brevoort said that its not along, and the adjectively X-Men series by Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman will also be aiming for 18 issues a year.

"Before the editorial switch-over, Jordan White had been planning to have the two main X-men books ship 18 issues a year, and that plan sounded wise to me, so we’ll be keeping it in place," Brevoort writes on his Substack. "X-Men and [Uncanny X-Men] will alternate in this regard, with two issues on sale every other month in rotation."

It's unclear why the third X-Men book, Exceptional X-Men, isn't included in this plan despite being framed by Marvel as just as much a major book as the other two.

This new era of the X-Men begins May 4 with the Free Comic Book Day special Blood Hunt / X-Men #1, followed by X-Men #1 on July 10, then Uncanny X-Men #1 on August 7, followed by Exceptional X-Men #1 on September 4.

Keep up to date on Popverse's Marvel coverage, with these highlights: Disney CEO Bob Iger is promising Deadpool & Wolverine will be MCU's biggest movie "in a long time", how Marvel Studios is now working "much more closely" to sell Marvel comics, how Marvel Comics' boss said it was lost in 2023 (and how its finding itself again), Inside Marvel Comics' plans to fix its pricing issues, Overgrown children of the atom: Marvel's X-Men can't evolve past their '90s commercial peak, and the biggest outstanding questions of the Marvel Studios' movies & TV shows.