Ultimate X-Men, I hardly knew ye.
So, just wanted to pop on here and let everyone know that issue 93 will in fact be my final issue of Ultimate X-Men.
A few weeks ago series editor Ralph Macchio and I were discussing what I would do after the upcoming APOCALYPSE story arc. This arc is something my run on the book has been building toward since I was given the regular writing assignment with issue 75 (issue 66-74 was supposed to be a fill-in arc). Everything I’ve done in the book thus far has been building to this and the thought of continuing after I’d completed my grand plan seemed like overstaying my welcome, frankly. I will have said everything I wanted and done everything I set out to do… so it seemed the time was right.
I think when it’s all over people will see that APOCALYPSE is the perfect time to leave, a great way to leave my mark on the book and so I’ve decided to let that be my swan song on the title. In the end, I was hired for 9 issues and ended up doing 28 issues and an annual… not a bad run for a title these days, and I ALMOST… ALMOST wrote as many issues as Mark Millar did… and believe me, I did consider staying on just to break his record… but that just didn’t seem right.
So there you go… Apocalypse is it for me! It was fun while it lasted, but I’m really looking forward to what’s coming up next for me and I’m sure you’ll all be hearing about that very soon.
-Robert Kirkman