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Kitty pryde is easily one my top five X-men and watching people write her as a bland middle school principal has been painful for years.
X-men Gold soured me on her and at this point I'm over her.
Think I'm going to focus on 1-2 books and then wait for the rest to hit Unlimited. I don't think I can afford to be buying six books a month.
Garbage..No Morph/Changeling in this picture :)
Super excited to see what hes going to do with the X-men, interesting to see so many X-villains on the team
Obviously for a hunter/stealth character the combo and of bright blue and yellow works best.
Let me tell you about a master thief who wears hot pink and chrome, a mask that doesn't cover his face and hair, and gloves that don't prevent him from leaving fingerprints.
Oh man, those new lineups! I'm so glad Magik is gonna be in New Mutants. WHEW. I was worried she'd be dead or gone given what apparently happened to her in Uncanny X-Men. Too bad she's gone back to her post-AvX look... I was never a fan of that and I was happy to find out she went back to her New Mutants uniform. This is disappointing. Similarly, my worry that Jean is sticking with her Marvel Girl outfit was warranted. I already miss her X-Men Red outfit.
Sucks that my faves are split, though... Iceman on Marauders, Magik on New Mutants, and Quentin on X-Force. I think I'll have to pass on X-Force for now since Marauders' roster and premise interests me more. Plus, Kitty and Emma are there too! Although, Wolverine is in X-Force... But then, Marcus To is on Excalibur and Rogue and Gambit are on that team... Ugh. Stupid Marvel trying to rob me with all these exciting new books! Well, whichever I decide between those three, New Mutants will be the one thing I am sure I'll be getting. Loved what I've read of the team recently and I'm very excited to read more of them!
Sucks that my faves are split, though... Iceman on Marauders, Magik on New Mutants, and Quentin on X-Force. I think I'll have to pass on X-Force for now since Marauders' roster and premise interests me more. Plus, Kitty and Emma are there too! Although, Wolverine is in X-Force... But then, Marcus To is on Excalibur and Rogue and Gambit are on that team... Ugh. Stupid Marvel trying to rob me with all these exciting new books! Well, whichever I decide between those three, New Mutants will be the one thing I am sure I'll be getting. Loved what I've read of the team recently and I'm very excited to read more of them!
From that Hickman AiPT Interview:
Then this bit I thought sounded neat
So theres still another Hickman book that hes got coming, that no one has done yet. Duggan's Marauders has had the most time to cook, aside from the main books. New Mutants looks like the most "classic" of all the books, at least to me.
Marauders looks like its going to be a swashbuckling pirate adventure, that is exploring the world, probably looking for new mutants being persecuted. Its being funded by Emma Frost, and something called the HellFire Trading Company.
Also, X-Force looks like its 2 teams working together. One team, with Jean, is like the CIA. A bunch of espionage and spycraft, probably similar to X-Men Red. Then, the classic black ops team, lead by Wolverine.
Talking about Gerry Duggan
Then this bit I thought sounded neat
So theres still another Hickman book that hes got coming, that no one has done yet. Duggan's Marauders has had the most time to cook, aside from the main books. New Mutants looks like the most "classic" of all the books, at least to me.
Marauders looks like its going to be a swashbuckling pirate adventure, that is exploring the world, probably looking for new mutants being persecuted. Its being funded by Emma Frost, and something called the HellFire Trading Company.
Also, X-Force looks like its 2 teams working together. One team, with Jean, is like the CIA. A bunch of espionage and spycraft, probably similar to X-Men Red. Then, the classic black ops team, lead by Wolverine.
Oh shoot, I didn't even notice that Gerry Duggan is writing Marauders. Coupled with what you quoted here, I'm definitely going with New Mutants and Marauders then. The others will have to wait for Marvel Unlimited.
Fallen Angels and Excalibur are the ones im the most interested in, but im totally going to give all of them a few arcs before cutting anything. Fallen Angels, written by Hill, with Cable, X-23, and Kwannon/Psylocke looks so freaking good. He has quickly become one of my top writers. Then having Betsy become Captain Britain in Excalibur is such a great idea, really looking forward to seeing what that book is like. Not sure about Tini Howard, but I dont think ive read anything by her yet.
Need to look into who each of the different artists are also. Yu is the only one that stood out to me.
Need to look into who each of the different artists are also. Yu is the only one that stood out to me.
I think I'm right there with you bunkitz. X-Men, Marauders, and New Mutants (for Hickman's first arc, at least) sound the most exciting to me. I'm hype for them all, but the other books will have to win me over a bit more.
Huzzah for similar tastes! Although, I do wish I could afford to read X-Men too since it's the "main" main book and it's Leinil Yu on art... maybe I should at least check it out for the first arc. Hmm.
the greatest villain of them all, budgeting. no harm in trade waiting!
To be fair, these are all meant to be accessible after you've read that 12 issue prelude.
We're all excited by these evocative team names and lineups but no one has a clue as to what's going to happen.
But I'm really confident this will stand on its own, with no need for extensive knowledge of previous events. Hickman's Secret Warriors, FF and Avengers worked like that. They could evoke names that you wanted to look into, but that's where it stopped.
Do we know if it's going to be necessary to follow all 6 books to get full story details, i.e. are all these sharing the same story arc intimately? I was good with following just Avengers/New Avengers as "sister books" back when Hickman was writing them but I can't afford to keep up with 6 books. I can do 2 tops.
We don't know, but I have a feeling a lot of these questions are going to be answered over the course of HOX/PO10. That's what I'm doing- reading those and then making a decision which X titles to pick up based on their stories.
I suppose I'll be doing the same. Thanks for at least clarifying it as an unknown at this point!
Most certainly not (it would be suicide for the new line). As it looks like, X-Men and New Mutants are the titles that are going to be important
I was thinking the same thing.
Also Warren/Angel not on Fallen Angels, but that's just because he would be a cool fit imo.
Hickman had a panel at SDCC today that was devoted entirely to X-Men Q&A. A lot of interesting stuff in there. Here's him talking about Cyclops:
If he has an ending in mind for his run:
If he has an ending in mind for his run:
I'm in for all books, Comixology subs day 1. With this many titles, each Wednesday morning coffee + commute should be truly lovely.
Both his Avengers & Fantastic Four runs required only a little knowledge of the Marvel Universe to get your footing - then it all builds from there.
Both his Avengers & Fantastic Four runs required only a little knowledge of the Marvel Universe to get your footing - then it all builds from there.
Making Gambit an Omega level mutant and making Wolverine's healing factor become basically a form of invulnerability are both epic levels of missing the point of those characters.
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Hey I know, let's make the characters powers actively undermine their personalities and archetypes!
I dropped out of Xmen comics a short while after schism because I just thought so much of what followed wasn't great. I'm excited to be excited about new books.
To be the team dirtbag who has a serviceable power, but is much more defined by his cunning, charm, and skills. No point in sneaking and conning your way into places you're not supposed to be if you can just Captain Marvel your way in.
As for Wolverine, being the guy who never stays down doesn't work if nothing can put you on the ground in the first place.
Okay so in terms of following the core Hickman story for this, so far it's:
- House of X (miniseries)
- Powers of X (miniseries)
- X-men (ongoing)
- New Mutants (first arc)
Right? Any word on how long the first arc of New Mutants will be? I wonder if it'll be one or two trades.
- House of X (miniseries)
- Powers of X (miniseries)
- X-men (ongoing)
- New Mutants (first arc)
Right? Any word on how long the first arc of New Mutants will be? I wonder if it'll be one or two trades.
Should only be 5-6 issues for the first arc, collected in a single trade. If Brisson wasn't gonna get the book for longer than that, they wouldn't have even mentioned him yet.
Hickman said at his Q&A today that he has another book coming later, too. Something "no one else would do" conceptually.
Did he indicate if it was a limited series or another ongoing book? I really don't think Hickman should write more than one ongoing book at a time. 🤣
LOL no, no indication how big it is just that it's still X-Men.
That does seem logical, but both of those general plot points have basically been done in the past (Moving the X-men base to Limbo that one time, and Asteroid M/Utopia in San Francisco Bay) and I feel like Hickman is the last person to just re-tread concepts that have been used in the past.
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As already mentioned, HoX/PoX will give us a clear view what to follow later. I am planning to check at least the first issue of all 6 series, but probably will follow X-Men (least interesting description on the solicit, but hey, Hickman), New Mutants (at least for the initial arc) and Marauders (interesting concept).
finally got started on this, finished all the Grand Design books. really fun series. love the art and throwback presentation. also finished the first 2 issues of the New Mutants part. good stuff. gonna keep at this even though I'm gonna end up overlapping with Hickman but I should be done by the time the new ongoings start up.