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Adamantium

So they went and changed everything. That's fine, and lord knows I'm not averse to a good narrative shakeup every now and then... because hey, funny. I've been in the X-books for what now, about three years since Chad first handed me Vol. 1 of New X-Men, and it's easily the central franchise of my comic read-dom... nothing quite clicks for me so well as a well-written X-book. (Or a poorly-written one, as my thoroughly unjustified devotion to all 18 issues of Emma Frost gloriously attested.) But I believe this is the first "Crisis"-level crisis that I've actually run afoul of since becoming a "comic book guy," so I'm interested to see how Decimation affects my enjoyment of the franchise. I'm particularly wired (though no one's talking about it) to see how this spins through to Astonishing's second year, if and when Joss ever gets around to starting it... in the meantime, there's a bunch of House of M fallout to deal with, and a few new, post-Decimation X-titles coming up that look... well, interesting, but in that wordy, Claremontish sort of way, so we'll just have to see.