I hadn't really been following up on all the comics news, although I have been buying a lot of older issues of late (see my thread about the closing of Hastings), buuut from what I understand, basically Marvel is killing off the X-Men, they're most wildly successful franchise. Or at least, that's what the rumors are saying, and from what research (however minute) I've done, it's hard to disagree with them.
Basically it boils done to this... when they were in financial dire straights, Marvel sold off a lot of the movie rights to their characters, including anything with the word "mutant" in it (that's why Pietro and Wanda are never referred to as mutants in the Avengers film, but that's a whole 'nother subject.) Now, currently, since Disney bought Marvel, and they (Disney) do not have a very good relationship with Fox studios, things have been very dicey. This is why, I'm told, Marvel pretty much cancelled Fantastic Four.
Oh, you didn't hear about that? Yeah, I didn't either, but if you follow comics much, you probably did. Basically, they did a final Fantastic 4 vs Doctor Doom story, and in the end the team got split up permanently.
Well, now in the comics there's this thing called the terrigen mist, that's some kind of deadly cloud/chemical that turns regular folk into Inhumans, but it STERILIZES and eventually kills mutants. So, it looks like they're either going for a "kill off the mutants" or "transform them into Inhumans" story line.
Not fully sure how to articulate how I feel, this video below summaries the situation and kind of captures about it. The whole situation kind of bums me out.
Anyway, you can learn more about it by watching this..
