4. Uncanny X-Men, Volume 3
Uncanny X-Men is one of the best examples of the new directions that Marvel creative teams and characters are pursuing in the revamp. After years of working on the Avengers titles, for the first time Brian Michael Bendis get his hands on not one, but two X-Men titles. And for the characters, following the ideological split that began in X-Men: Schism, Marvel's two most popular mutants have become the two most prominent leaders of the mutant right movements - albeit with radically different approaches - Cyclops playing the Magneto figure to Professor Logan's Charles Xavier. Uncanny X-Men follows Scott Summers and the remnants of his extinction team, all of whom no longer believe in the possibility of peaceful coexistence between the mutant population and the rest of humanity following the events of Avengers vs. X-Men. Now on the run and with blood on his hands, Cyclops has to deal with the loss of his control over his powers and his status as the public face of the new mutant revolution. Bendis takes one of Marvel's oldest superheroes and casts him in a more morally grey role, the once clean cut X-Men leader becoming a self styled Che Guevara. And that's just what's going on with Cyclops! Isolated, broken and morally compromised these are the X-Men at their very worse, Uncanny X-Men providing a dramatically different set of circumstances for some of the Marvel Universe most recognizable figures.