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We'll record our Month of X episode for March 2012 this weekend. Tell us what you thought of this month's X-Books.

I really like what they did with Broo in WATX. He has his own cute little berserker rage. Good thing he is on Team Wolverine!

loved the Jorge Molina art on X-Men
hated the X-Sanction mini

book of the month = wolverine and the x-men 7
wicked moment = Brood Rage

What are these "X-Men" books about?

I loved legacy 263. Surge, dust and hope put wolverine and rogue in their place, and made points he couldn't argue with. Gage is a great writer because he shows all sides of different situations; in this book as well as the wonderful avengers academy.

OH WAIT!!! today's books count! wicked moment of the month is TOTALLY the end of x-force 23, holy schmoley, i love it when a book gets me to read pages multiple times, that was Awesome. don't want to spoil anything in this thread, but ya... i haven't even been paying all that much attention to this arc, but everything you needed to know was in this single issue. so good. but yeah.

also, cibawag, the blow up doll look is SO in right now!

oh worst book of the month, if that's still on the plate, has to be Astonishing 48. i understand that it was just the start of a story, but it was super weak. i expect it'll be more interesting towards the end of the arc, but as a standalone issue, it was kind of yuck.

Best Book of the Month: X-Factor #233
Lots of solid books this month, but X-Factor gets the nod for degree of difficulty. Two more characters get added to an already extensive cast, and yet PAD still found a way to give everyone a moment or 3, show the team working effectively as a team, and advance several of the long-standing plots.

Worst Book of the Month: Avengers X-Sanction #4
Nearly as unpreludy as "Prelude to Schism." Yes, there were Avengers and X-Men, but this was really just an excuse to bring Cable back - unnecessarily.

Cover of the Month: X-Club #4
Science über alles.

Character of the Month: Hope
She not only appeared in tons of books, she was front & center in multiple stories. And clearly, that's only going to be increasingly true.

Wicked Moment of the Month: "That's right! Tremble, puny soldiers!"

The rest:
Avengers Children's Crusade #9: Nice coda for the Young Avengers. Still confused about "House of M" ramifications.
Avengers vs X-Men #0: I think I was actually more intrigued by the Wanda bits; overall, didn't make me any more or less interested in AvX.
X-Men #26: Again - like how the X-Men are written here, but not keen on the story.
Generation Hope #17: Wrapped up the book about as well as can be expected. Wonder where amne-Shaw will turn up next?
New Mutants #39: A rare instance of a comic that made me like Warlock.
Astonishing X-Men #48: The plot structure was a bit odd, but the scene in Gambit's apartment was fantastic!
X-Men Legacy #263-4: The Exodus story wrapped up well in 263, and I enjoyed the focus on power-borrowing in 264 - Mimic and Weapon Omega are nice contrasts with Rogue.
Uncanny X-Force #23: This story was the opposite of "Dark Angel Saga" - instead of building logically and deliberately, we get a huge swerve at the end that undoes everything.
Uncanny X-Men #8-9: Still love the sci-fi vibe of this book
Wolverine & the X-Men #7: Brood story was decent, but the casino adventure needed a better ending. All that effort for no money, then in 1 panel Krakoa solves it all. Did someone decide it would be a bad idea to suggest gambling was a good way to get rich quick?
Wolverine & the X-Men: Alpha and Omega #3: Still love how everyone is (not) reacting to Quentin.
X-Club #4: More of the fun and zany science we've come to love and expect from this book.

X-Factor has to be my book of the month. Not only because it was a great issue by PAD, but also because I was ecstatic to see that Kirk has up'd his artistic game. He will fill the Lupacchino void nicely!

If the cover to Daken #24 doesn't get cover art treatment for the podcast I'll cry!

*Denial*

that cover is ace

So, every time a show's coming up & I see that Puffin's... er... PSB... er... PAUL gets on XBox, I'm always secretly skeered that he's come to tell me to stop playing & read my X-Books.

Best issue: X-Men, but the art is juat awful. All the women look like my Bratz dolls from when Iwas younger. WATX and Astonishing were great as well.

I'm taking a stand and will no longer be buying Uncanny X-Men until Gillen is off the book. That man couldn't even write directions on how to get from his house to the corner of his street.

Wicked Moment: Marvel finally putting a stop to ruining one of my favorite characters by canceling Daken. Also Perkins art, cause it proves that X-Books can have good an artist.

Best: X-23!! Final and silent issue!! Also X-Men, Wolverine and the X-MEN, Astonishing X-Men, Wolverine and the X-MEN: Alpha & Omega, X-Factor

Is this Captain Britain thing really still going on. Is there anyone that really gives two shits about this story arc?

I too gave up on Uncanny X-Men. I'll pick it up for AvX, but this current arc I just can't in good conscious pay money for terrible writing and art, which by the second issue will have back up help from 9 other arts teams like what happened at the start of this relaunch. Just NO.

WTF? Moment: Wolverine's healing factor works on clothes now, as seen in Legacy #263, as his gloves keep on appearing and disappearing through out the fight in every other panel.

Wicked Moment: Gishcler writing Deadpool again.