The Marvel heroes throw everything they've got at Onslaught
Updates Mondays... and now some Thursdays! Reflecting on the entire sordid, endearingly bizarre history of the Uncanny X-Men from the very beginning. Follow on Bluesky @uncannyxcerpts.bsky.social Next update: Dec 16
Monday, December 2, 2024
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Holiday Schedule Note
Happy December, all!
Every year around the Holidays, things start to get a little busy around X-Cerpts HQ. I cut a really strong pace through the X-Men comics of 1995 and 1996 this year, but it's been getting harder and harder to find time to work on this little project. As usual, that probably means it's time to take a step back and replenish my energy.
Tomorrow's post will, of course, cover Onslaught: Marvel Universe, the big conclusion of the massive crossover we've been working our way through. From there I plan to post every other week in December and then hopefully get back to once-or-twice per week in January. It's not impossible I may find the resources to do more than this, but I want to set clear expectations.
I still want to cover some Onslaught tie-in stuff at Ko-Fi, and if you want to hear more from me you should absolutely follow on Bluesky.
I hope this season is a happy one for you!
Monday, November 25, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
UNCANNY X-MEN #336: A Voice as Deep as Thunder
The heroes try to rescue Franklin Richards... and Charles Xavier!
Monday, November 11, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
ONSLAUGHT: X-MEN #1: Traitor to the Cause
What will happen when the X-Men learn the secret of Onslaught? Will they react favorably or what?
Monday, October 21, 2024
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Thursday, September 19, 2024
Why donate to Uncanny X-Cerpts on Ko-Fi?
For the last while, every post on this blog has had a link to support me on Ko-Fi promising -- sometimes questionably -- that you can "get more" with your support.
I don't like the idea of twisting people's arms by putting stuff that should be part of this project behind a paywall. I briefly considered whether I should split the difference and put my write-ups of X-MEN vol 2 up there (or Substack or Patreon or whatever platform I was on at the time) but I decided it wouldn't be true to what I wanted to accomplish here.
And besides, I don't have a lot of time to whip up exclusive paid content anyway. I've been down that road. I really wanted to make it work with Patreon and I got close with Substack before the dark truth about that platform was revealed. But I'm usually just a few inches ahead on X-CERPTS and I have other things going on in life, and I respect paying customers too much to short-change them.
I don't deserve any kind of fortune for simply making material out of other creatives' hard work (although in this economy, people have been paid more for less) but I would be doing myself a disservice not to at least have a tip jar. I've given you a half-million words on the X-Men free of charge, and I was happy to do it, and if you want to offer a vote of confidence and a bit of gratitude by "buying me a coffee" with no guarantee of additional work, I am happy to accept. Mentally, thinking of it this way helps me feel less guilt about not providing more exclusives to those who have generously offered a few token bucks over the years.
In thanks for that, I do provide exclusive posts -- I try to do one per month, but in practice it's not that frequent. This week I've posted a write-up of X-Men Unlimited #10, which is a key issue and very worth talking about. Given that the X-Men story is sprawling and often spills outside of the regularly-scheduled pages of the monthly series, it makes sense to have somewhere I can tackle the digressions and side-stories that impact the main thread without disrupting my regular weekly cadence. It's that fabled "stretch space" that has taken a few different forms over the years.
What I like about Ko-Fi is that with one donation of any size, you can have limited-time access to all the exclusive posts I do, which includes X-Men Prime, the fan favourite AOA tie-in Generation Next, the bulk of Phalanx Covenant, and more to come. As of now only a handful of people have read these posts, but you could today!
If you don't, it's no big deal. This blog will do what it does for the foreseeable future, and I'm happy to do it. Thanks for reading!
Monday, September 16, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
X-MEN #48-49: Five Card Studs / Eyes of a New York Woman
Bishop runs from a past that may not be his own!
Thursday, September 5, 2024
UNCANNY X-MEN #329-330: Warriors of the Ebon Night / Quest for the Crimson Dawn
Wolverine and Archangel race against time to save Psylocke's life!
Monday, September 2, 2024
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
Hiatus Imminent
Hey everybody!
It has been a tremendous pleasure to bring you UNCANNY X-CERPTS nearly every week for the last seven years.
In 2023 I was able to devote a lot of time to this little project, which was good because there were a lot of X-Men comics to talk about as I started covering X-Men Volume 2 / X-Men 1991 / Adjectiveless X-Men. Somehow I found myself equal to the challenge as I kept up the pace and covered as many comics as I wanted to in that year.
Un-fortunately, real life does exist. Work is looking to be a lot more "worky" in the near future, and I don't know what that means for my free time. I don't do a lot of blogging during "office hours" but with certain changes in my routine there may be a knock-on effect of less time to write about X-Men.
For some of the foreseeable future, it may be wise to adjust my routine and not stress myself out by thinking about when I am going to find time to write 1000-2000 words about X-Men every week. There is always an urge to push through and keep topping yourself, but I think this is wisest. The Age of Apocalypse provides a good place to hit pause.
My intention is to write up X-Men Omega, hopefully on schedule for next Monday, but maybe not, and then step back. I don't know how long it will take me to get my bearings: maybe only a week or two, maybe more than a month. Overall I am happier when writing this blog is part of my routine, but I need to know what that routine is going to look like before I commit.
I know that nobody will have a problem with this and everyone will be supportive, but I like you guys too much to ever just disappear without in some way addressing it first. This blog has been going on for a long time and I've somehow always found time and mental energy for it and I have no reason to doubt that will continue to be the case.
For my Ko-Fi supporters, I hope to give you something during this layover, at least a post per month.
Thanks again for your support, encouragement, understanding, and X-Fandom. If you want to find me, I'm spending a lot of time on Bluesky these days and consciously avoiding certain other social media platforms (though there are still good people there, and lots of folks who click my links there, so I am still "around.")
Keep on rockin
-Scotto
Monday, April 8, 2024
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Monday, March 18, 2024
AMAZING X-MEN #2: Sacrificial Lambs
The X-Men gaze into the Abyss -- and the Abyss gazes also into them!!
Monday, March 11, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
ASTONISHING X-MEN #1: Once More, With Feeling
Magneto sends his X-Men on a suicide mission or two or three
