the Official Index starts its X-Men coverage with issue 514? Aren't we only on 516 just now? Anyone here from the Index writing crew able to let us know what the rest of the X-Men area of the issue's going to be filled with?

Ooh -- that's me! Okay: the Official Index solicits have been right exactly once -- issue #1, where they said they'd be starting with X-Men #1. Every issue after that has just been guesswork, as the solicits have to be written months in advance, and we generally have no idea what issue we'll be ending on until a week or so before we go to the printers. As the months have gone by, the disparity between the solicits and the actual indexes has gotten wider. So, long story short, never believe the solicits.

Index #11, just off to the printers, ended with Uncanny #456. Right now we anticipate that we'll get through #457-491 and Annual 2006 in Index #12, and that Index #13 will start at Uncanny X-Men #492. However, that's just another guess at this point...

-Jeph!