The Associated Press report that the long running Marvel series is set to come to an end with issue #544 this September, as a direct result of the events of Schism. A series which will see Cyclops and Wolverine come to blows, tearing apart the X-Men in the process.
"Well, as anyone who's watched the movies will know, the traditional axis of the X-Men has been the polarity of Magneto and Xavier. Xavier basically believes in peaceful integration. Magneto doesn't," said current writer Kieron Gillen. "In the last five years or so, the X-Men have been exploring a different angle. A catastrophe reduced the population to a couple of hundred mutants, and no new ones are being born," he said. "This fledgling species was looking at extinction - and the militarized forces of prejudice moved in for the kill."
"The X-Men are getting torn apart from within. The events of `Schism' do more damage to the X-Men than any villain has ever done," said Nick Lowe, editor of Uncanny X-Men.
Gillen finished by saying that the events of "Schism" makes ending the series a necessity: "The X-Men has always been a book with ideology and ideas at its heart, and to be fair to them - to best present them - you have to be entirely true. And if the story we're telling demands that you end the `Uncanny X-Men,' you end the `Uncanny X-Men.' No, it's not taken lightly - but it's taken if it's necessary to do it."
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