Welcome to Graymatter Lane!Comics in this thread:>X-Men United #1>Magik and Colossus #2>Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #2
Bump if you're reading.Before you ask: yes, I did go and connect the two main covers of United #1, because it infinitely pissed me off that the digital edition only contained half of it.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-z3FB3SixYI am 100% sure someone is going to make a joke regarding that last name.>Magneto is drawn with the helmet in the scene where Emma is talking through telepathyEditors pls
Cast page! Seems like all of the Exceptional kids (+ Sophie Cuckoo) are student mentors here.
>They’re using Sinister’s tech that they stole when they met him in Exceptional X-Men #9-10Scott's right, unless they didn’t have someone purge all forms of backdoors that Sinister (or anyone else really) could exploit, this is already setting up for the school to get hijacked.
But enough about that, it's training time now.
>”Shouldn’t Flourish and I both be 2Xs? We’ve been to X-School before.”Actually yeah, why are they not in the “2X” gang?
What the hell was that for Wolf Cub?
>”I always thought Blue Dasher would be a cool super hero codename.”Nice AoR reference there.
>They have their own CerebroThey can’t use the real deal, because Cyclops has it.
>>152780479I hate school
>>152780502Why do they have an imaginary place to serve imaginary food and drink?
>”We need to go recover some of Sinister’s tech back at the Verate Headquarters.”I thought you already took all of it?
>Sinister made a female clone of LockheedFirst, why? Second, does that mean that the Lockheed we saw in Exceptional X-Men #10 was this clone the whole time? And third, why are they letting it in there?
Oh brother.
>>152780479>debussyThere’s a reason the writers chose him, and it’s not because Emma would listen to his work.
And now for Magik and Colossus.
Previously, Magik and Colossus reunited again for the first time after the Hellfire Vigil, and Magik found out that Colossus had been hunted by monsters while making his journey through Russia. Teleporting to the Ust-Ordynsky farm, the siblings had to deal with Lady Midday who had been holding the farmers captive and waiting to fight Colossus. When Colossus killed her, her spirit left her body and traveled to the “Immortal”, a man who is behind the monster attacks on Colossus and operating from St. Petersburg. And now that Magik is involved, he sees no choice but to kill them both!
Colossus is tired with his life.
>>152780471sex with emma and rogue
>>152780519you talking like a buckland regular is my problem kitkat, ey yo I'm walkin over dere!
>Referencing Colossus murdering Kayla in X-ForceOOF
>>152780629>>152780636I already don't like this.
Oh no, mermaids!
>>152780485why vulcan? because looloo?
>>152780490I find it incredible that from all the X-kids in the last twenty years, Glob Herman finally made it as a mainline x-men member, I am so proud of him.
>>152780521So it's more like cyberspace but the physical body remains where it's physically located, got it. And if you die on swordartonline you die irl too
>>152780508Seriously, didn't the Sins of Sinister and the final Hellfire Gala show them that intermingling with Sinister on psychic schnanigans always goes sideways?!
>>152780508>bring up multiple valid points>get shat onhmn
>"It's always funny when my enemies assume I only have one sword up my sleeve."To be fair, you are always seen using the Soulsword so it's only natural that they don't think about the other one.
>>152780508>>152780629The X-Men are already factionalized and have been for a couple years now, how is the X-Office still retelling Schism for the umpteenth time?
>>152780550x23 can restrain me like that anytime she wants, but don't be surprised If fight back obv with my dick
>>152780629>>152780636"No, Scott... You're being irrational by questioning if it's a good idea for mutants to sign up for a SinisterGPT account..."One issue in and Temu Krakoa's already washed
Get electrocuted, suckers.
old man
Oh shit, the old man knows magic!
Nyooooo
>>152780761So when do you think they tie the historical Rasputin into this and this is a bunch of bloodline bullshit?
And now for Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant.
Legion already built a stable habitat in the astral plane. The Altar was never shown to be destroyed in Fall of X. Its existence is not a secret to any of the X-Men. Several of them visited it. Constructing a whole new place using Sinister's experimental technology seems redundant and foolish.
Last issue, Storm had a tea ceremony with Susanoo while he was sending Rage, the Rogue Planet to collide with Earth due to him wanting to have Storm assist him in his ritual suicide. But Storm bluffed him by drugging him with a muscle relaxant and then imprisoning him in a pocket dimension. In response, Susanoo’s war general Akujin (who we first saw in Rogue Storm during AoR) obliterates the city Biarritz with her army of rock monsters and demanded Susanoo to be freed from the pocket dimension or else a city would meet the same fate every five days, while successfully fooling Storm using illusion magic to make her save the wrong part of the city. And if things couldn’t get any more complicated, Scarlet Witch confronted Storm regarding the aftermath of the Thunder War, and what it meant for the rest of the universe…
>>152780616Obvious plant. He could get inside via any backdoor but this way personally pisses off kitty and may even take her out in the first round.
>>152780629>>152780636Cyclops is Right
Oh hey, a recap page. Maybe it’s a hot take, but I prefer these types of recaps that use panels/pages from the previous issues along with a description much more than the standard text recap that we normally see.
>>152780736I appreciate that Magik gets to do more magic in this series.
>>152780702...and they built this psychic network which could inflict physical harm using Mister Sinister techJesus Christ, you might as well tell kids to sign up for Roblox
>https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Mand>https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Mandos
>https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Brigand_(Earth-616)I was going to mention that there was a thread about a villain who also shot Strange with a gun and was actually related to Magik and Colossus, but then I realized that this was referencing Doctor Strange: The Oath, which Ayodele previously referenced in Rogue Storm.
>>152780809Hold up, Storm knows about the Great Society?
>>152780726yana tummy
>Text recap>No splash page with the title and creative teamWait. Did Ayodele cut the useless thematic splash page that he always included and replace it with that recap page instead? But that still means these issues are just 19 pages!
>>152780842Abs
I thought that two of these FBI agents died back during Storm #10-12?
>>152780787Probably only happened because Storm has so many plots going at once
>Subject Identification: Gail Arakawa. Project Codename: Galacta.Just as the solicit of this issue teased, Galacta is going to become canon…but it seems like they’re opting for a different origin because Brevoort doesn’t want Galactus to have a daughter.But still, it’s very funny having him edit the comic where Galacta makes her first appearance in the 616, despite his claims that Marvel Rivals do not affect the comics and his attempts to cockblock her from becoming canon.
Huh, an 8 Deaths of Spider-Man reference. I think this may be the first time an X-Book has referenced it
>>152780636more of a gotterdammerung fan, eh?
>>152780809I mean Strange kinda summoned something else at the cost of his soul to do that.
I have honestly no idea who this guy is
>>152780809And this why human durability characters always docked points in the power wank fest. Storm should have been tomato paste the first time Hedad punched her.
Why is he speaking in Krakoan?
This comic only has 3 issues left, and I honestly have no idea how Ayodele is going to speedrun this given how much he has built this up.
>>152780847Just knocked out
>>152780879Because mutant pride or something.
>>152780879So the frenchies don't understand he's talking about kicking them out of the homeless shelter?
Next week: X-Men #27, Cyclops #2, Wade Wilson: Deadpool #2, X-Men of Apocalypse #3.And that's it! If you liked these, support your LCS or whatever.
>>152780855>Thosee robots the first chapter of the last run are storm's best friendsDid this come before?
>>152780847>Storm needs to make a public address that she is leaving and appoint some babysitters despite thousands of heroes in americaShe hasn't even done that much superhero stuff in this run. It's been tied up with her dying, eternity, and getting revenge on the storm dudes. Murewa is trying too hard to inflate her importance.
>>152780879Like, in the secret plot mcguffin unpspeakable guttural psycholanguage shared by doug and the island? and i guess arakko?
>>152780887Storm one shots Akujin and death
>>152780504>Philosophy to MagnetoAre they retarted.
>>152780787They didn't edit Knull out of the recap page?
>>152780508>>152780629>tfw too smart to fall for another bad school schemeBeing Cyclops is rough, man.
>>152780867Why is Armor so fucking useless?Oh, yeah, to make Storm look good.
>>152780960Despite many of the X-Men having worked at a school through periods of their life, very few of them are actually certified educators. I mean they've let Logan pretend to be a teacher of some sort. Magneto is at least well read and has a talent for public speaking.
>>152780479good job, I saved your pic and replaced the file in my cbz
>>152780508Scott should quit being a mutant and go back to his old 80's self when he was the fearless leader schooling Chuck and Eric.
>>152781051His concerns are legitimate but I don't like how hes flying off the handle. He's typically the guy who will try talking before he loses his temper, but here he barely gets three sentences out before storming off.
>>152781076Saint Chuck is gone and we're all better off that he's gone.
>>152781098Maybe there's a "vX" on the horizon.
>>152781391Well yeah XvX is coming.
>>152780629Jesus the art is so fucking dogshit and this is supposed to be the a flagship title ?
>>152781443Simone and MacKay have the joint flagships, this is just a pity book for the lesser Ewing because Brevoort respects black women and seethed over how he had to cancel Exceptional for its dismal sales, handed her a concept he thought would surely bring in more buyers.
>>152780644I am seated for my wife
>>152781059>Why is Armor so fucking useless?She always has beenEven the new Ultimate version spent most of her book kidnapped/in a coma/trapped on the Astral Plane/dead
>>152781443The are taking the black cat approach of putting the budget in the covers
>>152781391Yep, is Happening.Still no answer for Mystery of the Spider-Woman if its Mary Jane post QiB or Jess with the spider versity garbo
>>152780809>>152780812>>152780817>>152780825Feels odd seeing Murewa acknowledge Storm's limitations after the second half of the last book and especially Rogue Storm went on about how all powerful she is.
>>152781098Everytime these characters are involved in infighting they need to act like the biggest moron around, Emma just stealing tech from Sinister when she could have asked Forge and Sage or even fucking Tony Stark to come up with something is plain stupid, Scott not going "hey i think this is could go sideways so I want to ensure it doesn't by working with you on this" is moronic and Emma could have very well brought this personally to him it's not like they weren't fucking each others and didn't co-lead the X-Men at some point instead they barely talk to each others ? And of course every others mutant is board with the plan with maybe just Rogue bringing up another valid point as to why this is doomed to fail.
>>152781712You know he's only acknowledging it so she can surpass it eventually right ? He's a powerscalerfags he knows its not interesting if she's not "going above" what is though about her and surpassing her limits.
Every X-event since Schism is just a new take on Schism. It's been 15 years and it's been Schism all along.
>>152780629why are they forcing Gob Shitto into every second book?is he coming to Rivals?no one gives a fuck about shitty meme characters
>>152780508>>152780616This is how the KING OF MONSTERS will winHe will get one of the muties to open the door to the school for him
>>152780683>HalvaEveryone knows real Russians crave borscht and pelmeni
>>152780508So when they do hijack the school, does that mean they take over the physical shells of the muties while their spirits are in the matriX?
>>152781065I know but giving the History and Philosophy class to former mutant Hitler doesn't sound like a good idea unless you want more mutant supremacists out there.
>>152781893No, it means that they turn the school into a Danger Room
>>152780887Apparently this is not the real final page, they forgot to include it in the digital edition
>>152780887>>152782217
>>152780508This book must be an elaborate scheme to revive Rightclops memes.
>>152781391>>152781408>>152781703UGHfuck brevoort
>>152781391>constant infightingAnd then you wonder why people liked Krakoa... Krakoa was the only time when muties were more or less united
>>152780490You can tell that this whole thing is just a continuation of Exceptional X-Men by the fact that Emma's students have a higher position even when they have less experience than the rest
>>152782217>>152782311FFS, how the hell can you forget to add the final page to the digital edition
>>152780471>emma tits, rogue ass, and angry manlet front and centerAt least the cover knows what the people want.
>>152780508Being right is Scott's third mutation. And nobody in the comics realizes it yet.
>>152780636IT KEEPS HAPPENING
>>152780636Did Scott commit arson?
>>152782311Wasn't Doctor Voodoo going to be her general?
>>152780485Is that Vulcan? Last I saw him Tarn killed him in Arakko. When'd they bring him back?
>>152782647They brought him back almost immediately after thatIt's what made him crazy and evil again. It undid the alien programming that had made him docile He tried to fight Storm to take over ArakkoStorm worked with a couple other Omegas to build him a Mysterium prison and trapped him
So if Cyclops, Havok, and Vulkan are varying degrees of WoMD and Adam-X powers are less volatile, does that mean the useful parts are in Corsair's DNA?
>>152780545Is Wolf Cub Rahne's revived son or someone new?
>>152782866Damn right sonSame with Guthrie's father
>>152782884Apparently someone from a 2002 comic, so some one else.
>>152782311I'm starting to think Murewa knew this was a mini from the beginning. If this flashward thing is still going in the next issue then it's doing the same thing as rogue storm having the future and presence storyline happen at the same time. That way he can squeeze in his thunder war stuff and the death war stuff into five issues.
>>152782884You're thinking of Tier, who still is out thereWolf Cub was a pre-existing character that ended up shuffled into Academy X
>>152780855Why did they give Galacta a big hammer?
>>152780867A lot of random mutants speaking in French in this week's X-Men issues
>>152783066What else would someone in France speak?
>>152780490>No uncanniesMy babies...
>>152780581>>152780588Isn't this kidnapping?
>>152783093Breton?
>>152783128She never left her room.
>>152783039So she can bonk throwers on the head with it.
>>152783132The French are very very snooty about speaking in French. Just watch any Eurovision's final judging. Just about every other country, even ones like Greece and Italy, will at times use English to convey which countries they give their points to, but France has, for as long as I've been watching it, been speaking only in French.
>>152780508This is giving me flashbacks of the Inhuman Fart Cloud, where Scott was completely reasonable and correct, but everyone acted like he was insanely out of line.
>>152783353probably because both were the fault of the same man (brevoort)
>>152780636If the next chapter don't have Quentin sitting on a couch with a shit-eating grin as he burn down the psychic school then it is a shit chapter
>>152780890But he already said that the Storm Sanctuary is for mutants only in French, so it's pointless to try to speak another language when they already know why he's doing community service in the first placeThe only reason we have this random French mutant supremacist fighting is because Ayodele most likely read the discussions on how the Storm Sanctuary never lived up to the things that Storm said it would do and no one liking that Storm saved the Orchis supporter
>>152780581>french teen having an actual french flag in her room
The dialogue in united feels really weird
>>152780636Bravo Tom>>152781753there's a joke about protestant churches here but I am too stupid to tell it
>tfw a Kitty and Emma fanWhy can't they let my girls do something cool
>>152780644variant coversMagik and Colossus #2 Domenico Carbone Colossus VariantMagik and Colossus #2 Yasmine Putri Doom Homage VariantMagik and Colossus #2 1:25 Mirka Andolfo VariantMagik and Colossus #2 1:50 Domenico Carbone Colossus Virgin VariantMagik and Colossus #3 Meghan Hetrick Ultimate Farewell VariantMagik and Colossus #3 Nimit Malavia VariantMagik and Colossus #3 Stephanie Hans VariantMagik and Colossus #3 1:50 Nimit Malavia Virgin VariantThe Rasputins have been torn apart! Trapped in a gladiator arena, will Magik be able to fight her way out? And with no way to find her, will Colossus be able to help her before it's too late?!Magik and Colossus #4 Nao Fuji VariantNao Fuji VariantMagik and Colossus #4 Nogi San VariantMagik and Colossus #4 1:50 Nogi San Virgin Variant
>>152783093Arabian
>>15278047122 variant covers for issue oneX-Men United #1 Derrick Chew VariantX-Men United #1 Luciano Vecchio VariantX-Men United #1 Matteo Lolli Foil VariantX-Men United #1 Mike Del Mundo VariantX-Men United #1 Peach Momoko VariantX-Men United #1 Skottie Young VariantX-Men United #1 Stefano Caselli Connecting VariantX-Men United #1 Tiago Palma Graymatter Lane VariantX-Men United #1 W. Scott Forbes VariantX-Men United #1 2nd Printing 1:25 Stefano Caselli VariantX-Men United #1 2nd Printing Matteo LolliX-Men United #1 1:25 Emanuela Lupacchino VariantX-Men United #1 1:100 Derrick Chew Virgin VariantX-Men United #1 217 Exclusives Joseph Michael Linsner VariantX-Men United #1 217 Exclusives Joseph Michael Linsner Virgin VariantX-Men United #1 616 Comics / Comic Traders / Comics Elite Godtail Blue Virgin VariantX-Men United #1 616 Comics / Comic Traders / Comics Elite Godtail VariantX-Men United #1 616 Comics / Comic Traders / Comics Elite Godtail Virgin VariantX-Men United #1 Big Time Collectibles / Unknown Comics Skan Srisuwan VariantX-Men United #1 Big Time Collectibles / Unknown Comics Skan Srisuwan Virgin VariantX-Men United #1 East Side Comics / The Comic Mint / KRS Comics Peach Momoko Virgin VariantX-Men United #1 Planet Comicon Kansas City 2026 Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau Phoenix VariantX-Men United #1 Planet Comicon Kansas City 2026 Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau Phoenix Virgin VariantX-Men United #1 Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau Webstore Planet Comicon Kansas City 2026 Goblin Queen Virgin Variant
>>152784149Even ignoring that two are half of a whole and one is just a logoless version, that is a lot.
>>152780787Uncanny should also have a recap like this
>>152784161And two are the same drawing but with different clothes
>>152783112Calico is seen in >>152780502
>>152784014Emma recently had her own miniseries where she spent a lot of time with her tits out.
>>152784749Jitter gets her own door >>152780485And she's part of the team going to WW2 next issue >>152780642
Everyone is written weird. Emma rushing to launch this initiative, by herself, using technology looted from Sinister without having a mutant techie like Forge to look it over and troubleshoot it first, is uncharacteristically reckless. Scott raising concerns by shouting his objection, instead of presenting an argument or trying to work with people to find a solution, is not like him.
>>152780642Can't wait for Steve Rogers to get written OoC again
>>152784934Steve looking like an ass is always fun.
>>152784934>i'm just saying, you people wouldn't be so hated if you didn't cause problems for everyone else
>>152784875Maybe this is some 4D chess and they are using a fake split to bait out Mr. Sinister or something.
>>152784077Do you have the variant covers for imperial guardians?
>>152780471What are good xmen runs to read. Im a normie, ive only read popular stories like dark phoenix, future past and one run (Ultimate comics xmen). Im interested in the original New mutants and new x men academy x. Are these good? Got better runs?
>>152785655>New mutantsyes>new x men academy xidk
>>152780636What is this building that is burning?
>>152780471Is that Sabretooth? Are they really planning to invite him in, considering what happened in Krakoa when he was let loose into the mental space?
>>152785917can't be any worse than using Sinister tech
>>152785917I think it might be Wild Child.
>>152785215That's definitely not the case.
>>152785917Above Gambit? I thought that was Banshee.
>>152780629>>152780636>Scott being painted as the control-freak-stick-in-the-mud when he has CONSTANTLY been proven right.Yeah, hard pass. I'll stick to Adjectiveless.
>>152785917Someone needs to satasfy Laura
Being Scott is suffering
>>152786622maybe he should stop being right and start being wrong more often
What if instead of the super predictable Sinister fuckery we get Shadow King fuckery because it's a giant passively managed psychic construct.
>>152784077>>152784149sex with Magik and Emma and Maddy
>>152780504Rogue on Sex Ed
>>152788765Sex Ed would be taught by Stacy X
What did Brevoort mean by this
>>152780847>>152780855>They're beating Ayodele's ass for this speechAyodele crashout Round 2 soon
>>152789605what was the first one?
>>152789632First one was when the solicit for Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #4 got released and some Twitter user calling him and the X-Office centrist
>>152782683I remember that bswhen did he get out
>>152780508>Mutants giving Sinister another opportunity to spread and take over all life in the universe. Orchis was right, these idiots need to be exterminated.
>>152783093>>152783175The Basques are quite proud.
>>152789946X-Men Red #17-18 had Apocalypse free him to fuel his magic ritual and create Kaorak
>>152790240o yeaguess I blocked out fall of x
You know current Marvel doesn’t care about their worldbuilding when they let someone like Murewa use the cosmic beings
>>152790588is there some sort of cosmic editor/gatekeeper at marvel?I just want to understand your insult
>>152790610No. But Murewa uses it in the most watered down way possible that makes the most powerful beings in the Marvel universe feel like generic space villains. There's no real majesty to them under Murewa's pen.
>>152790965He definitely holds a lot of interest in the subject. Storm has rather all over the place storytelling, but treating human-level problems as just as important as abstract universe and above-level problems seems to be intentional.
>>152790588Ayodele was meant to be working on some G.O.D.S. related project, but when that failed he just reused it for Storm
>>152792046>Ayodele was meant to be working on some G.O.D.S. related projectThat is even worse
>>152780485how did it get magneto through the helmet?
>>152780578I guess it's only flavors
>>152792465The helmet is fake. His actual telepathic filtering is based on his willpower and control of electromagnetic spectrum.
>>152792527but they used it as a telepathy filter before...
>>152790965ohh kkthanks for explaining
>>152789282Is the 2nd panel referring to Raid on Graymalkin, X-Manhunt, or Age of Revelation? Because those are all pretty bad, but the first two are worse than the third.
>>152780539damn, Flourish's a baddie
>>152792527>>152792563>His actual telepathic filtering is based on his willpower and control of electromagnetic spectrum.Y'know, there's only so much that he should be able to do with magnetism, even before Grant Morrison put hands on him, I'm glad the movies actually made the helmet an actually anti-mentat device.
>>152793085He was the main villain and was doing projection in the 1960s. He's only weakened because he's an X-Men instead of opposing them.
So how do you guys feel about Allen's Magik?
>>152782393People want X-Men be united, not to unite with their every enemy
>>152793832It's fine. It doesn't get me giddy but also doesn't piss me off. I'm not gonna remember it in a couple years, probably.
>>152780471>Rogue just showing off her ass
>>152793832It's alrightAllen clearly cares about the character and writes her with more depth compared to other writersBut Brevoort had to come in and cancel the comic for bootleg-AoA despite it actually selling well
>>152792603I mean the 3rd one meant stopping both untitled and Uncanny for no reason and the comics from the event were mostly shit
>>152794219Ok, but Longshots was kino, so AoR is a good event in my book.
>>152792603Clearly X-Manhunt, since the Imperial War: Exiles one-shot picked up from where that ended
>>152780471Damn, that's a good Emma costume
>>152795370>>152794055>Marvel's new fighting game is gonna feature Danger and Magik>Magik's solo gets canned>Exiles where Danger would return gets cannedBrevoort quite a pro in shooting his own foot.
>>>152797379orlando must suck dick & finger brevoort's ass real real well if he gets to continue on as he's been doingfeels like marvel is circling the drain with lots of these editorial/publishing choices
>>152780519Mind cronstruct....only Kitty still phase tro walls
>>152783353>This is giving me flashbacks of the Inhuman Fart Cloud, where Scott was>deadHe was dead, anon. He wasn't right or wrong, he was dead and he didn't do anything, it was all Emma. People keep having opinions about that story without understanding what was going on.
>>152780539>"Arent you young? ">"arent you old?"I dont know, the art suck!
>>152780629>"Kitty has been killed!"as every x-men and mutant...
>>152797488It's weird he CAN write good, that Avenger's mini he did was actually good, he's just enamored with the lamest fucking shit and has a blank check to do it. Dude's on his THIRD Scarlett Witch series and THIRD 2099 "revival"
>>152784814they put the soft-porn in the bad comic that dosent make sense....and the flagship comic is draw like a kitty with cranyons
>>152797718>Dude's on his THIRD Scarlett Witch seriesIt's basically just one run that keeps relaunching for new #1s, Moon Knight's series is doing the same. The minis teaming Wanda with Quicksilver and Vision have been the best Scarlet Witch material Orlando's written, but he refuses to put either of them in the book full-time. By the time the current series inevitably ends at #10 he'll have had 4 years, it's time to see if a different writer and artist can make the book perform better.
>>152798071>Moon Knight's series is doing the sameThat one can at least last thirty issues before the next relaunch Marvel needs to stop with this relaunch shit, just another reason why the company is dying for the umpteeth time
>>152797554Everyone could get whatever damn powers they please, but mommy emma probably holds the key and can take you to the starless badend if you are naughty boy>>152780521Is that kamala with glasses or a new brown mutie qt?
>>152798182>Is that kamala with glasses or a new brown mutie qt?She iis Flourish...it's in the page with the 30 caracters of the comic
>>152780490>wolverine>wolverinedamn hackurai and your clones!
>>152794055>But Brevoort had to come in and cancel the comic for bootleg-AoA despite it actually selling wellThis pisses me off. Magik was doing numbers with her solo, then it had to get canceled in what was basically a glorified break. And now we have a new series but I don't know if it'll sell as well as 2025 since it's lost the momentum from last year. I do think Allen has potential, so I'd like for her books to be successful. Moonstone is practically guaranteed to not do well, sadly
>>152780706Marvel decided to make Sinister blatantly gay, so now he is incapable of doing anything wrong.
>>152798566the pronome people really dosent know why names and pronomes are used to help identify people.
Ah, the thread's still up. Anyways, Marvel released the advance preview of X-Men United #2 along with a short interview with Brevoort.>Warning: Tread lightly, this article contains spoilers for X-MEN UNITED #1, which you should definitely pick up now!>Welcome to Graymatter Lane, the next step in mutant evolution! Following the fall of Krakoa, mutants have been scattered around the world. Now, in X-MEN UNITED #1 by Eve Ewing and Tiago Palma, Emma Frost offers mutantkind another chance to stand together at Graymatter Lane.>Professor Charles Xavier established a long history of mutant schooling, and Graymatter Lane continues in that tradition. However, this is no ordinary school, even by the X-Men’s most uncanny of standards. As the name suggests, Graymatter Lane is not a physical school, but rather a mind palace, accessible to mutants worldwide via the psychic plane. As Emma Frost opens Graymatter Lane’s doors to mutants around the world, Conductor of X Tom Brevoort teases what lies ahead for mutantkind’s latest endeavor.>Take a tour around Graymatter Lane with the X-MEN UNITED #2 preview!
>MARVEL.COM: In X-MEN UNITED #1, Emma Frost states that mutantkind has been scattered since Krakoa’s fall. How does she hope to bring them together with Graymatter Lane?BREVOORT: The idea behind Graymatter Lane is that it’s more than simply a school. Rather, it’s a campus environment wherein mutants of all sorts from across the globe can meet and interact and develop together. In that, it’s the end product of Emma’s many years as an educator, from the Massachusetts Academy to her time in Genosha. And as we’ll see moving ahead, Emma’s vision for what Graymatter can offer extends beyond solely just mutants.>MARVEL.COM: How do Cyclops and Emma Frost's differing visions for mutantkind clash in X-MEN UNITED?BREVOORT: Scott has been on the front lines on two separate occasions in which mutantkind gathered in large numbers—first at Utopia and more recently on Krakoa—and in both instances, they made themselves an irresistible target to those who would do them harm. So he’s skeptical that Emma’s ideas for the new campus pass the Health and Safety Test, and that creating a space inhabited by that large a number of mutants is simply inviting trouble, at least without adequate safeguards in place. But as we see in X-MEN UNITED #2 and thereafter, Emma’s position is that mutantkind needs a place to live and grow and congregate, for the mental and emotional well-being of everybody. So both are determined to do the right thing as they see it regardless of how the other one feels—which is where the best drama comes from. It’s always more interesting when characters can have a legitimate difference of opinion without one being absolutely right and the other being absolutely wrong.
>MARVEL.COM: Schooling is an integral part of X-Men history. How does Graymatter Lane fit in that tradition? BREVOORT: On the most fundamental level, it’s a place where those who are experiencing the first blush of their onset mutantdom can find the company of fellow travelers and learn how to best use the gifts they’ve been endowed with for the betterment of all. It’s a large-scale actualization of the seed of Charles Xavier’s original dream of a place in which mutants could come together to learn about what they can do and find their place in the world.>MARVEL.COM: What can you tell us about the students at Graymatter Lane? What sorts of challenges will they face in X-MEN UNITED?BREVOORT: Most of the students we’ll be seeing are already-established characters from throughout the many years of X-Canon. But there will be some new faces as well, starting with Mal, whom we meet for the first time in issue #1.
>The first challenge these young mutants will face unfolds in X-MEN UNITED #2 as the students of Graymatter Lane embark on a mission alongside none other than Captain America! What will they uncover as they travel through time with Steve Rogers to investigate the past?>The future of mutantkind begins here! Accept your invitation to Graymatter Lane and pick up X-MEN UNITED #2 at your local comic book shop on April 15.>https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-united-2-preview-graymatter-lane-tom-breevort-interviewAnd that's it.
>>152799482so kitty is up Scott's ass, Rogue is up Scott's ass and Emma is up Scott's ass, will his "sister" Storm step up for the beaver trick?
>>152799482>Scott has been on the front lines on two separate occasions in which mutantkind gathered in large numbers—first at Utopia and more recently on Krakoa—and in both instances, they made themselves an irresistible target to those who would do them harm.So this is basically Scott admitting that Logan had the right idea in Schism. It only took him 15 years.
Scemmabros...
>>152799477Interesting that Brevoort's giving the interview instead of Ewing herself. Lends credence to the theory that United was a ghost writing gig rather than her own vision.
>>152799795But Logan was wrong in Schism...
>>152799482Kinky little shit. Strap him harder emma!
>mission alongside none other than Captain America!Imagine be in the 90's and someone say that the relaunch of X_men NEED a Cap.America cameo in Issue #2
>>152801056Brevoort at least know that the time of the X-Men ended a long time ago
>>152780859>>152780861Was this much dialogue even necessary?
>>152801700the whole issue was a mess
>>152780861What is the point of these three? Death is about to wage war on the universe and Storm also has Akujin to deal with. We really didn't need three new faces who are going to get fodderized by Storm or Wanda or Galacta.
>>152801700>>152802189It's just Akujin and two random characters who are helping herBut they should have given this another page instead of cramming all dialogue into two
Reading bump
>>152780855>Lived long enough to see Galacta become canon to 616As one of like, maybe four Galacta fans who existed before Rivals, I'm very curious with what their plan is with herIs she just gonna show up, do a thing, then get promptly forgotten once the run's over?Is she going to have any sort of relationship with Galactus himself besides 'some chick infused with his goo'?Is her personality and demeanor going to be anything remotely similar to her past two iterations? Or is she going to be from the ground up completely new?How hungry will she be?Can she grow big?I'm weirdly excited
>>152804389>Is she just gonna show up, do a thing, then get promptly forgotten once the run's over?You know it.
>>152804414Most likely the case and what I'm expecting to be honestStill, I can't stop myself from being excited to see her in the main universe
>>152780508Cyclops is right, once again.
>>152780539"No. Not really"
>>152780636HE DIDN'T .....
>>152804490How can be a person always right?
>>152805365By having everyone else be really stupid
>>152805365>adopted the position of Wolverine in SchismSo was Wolverine right back then? If so, was Cyclops wrong?
>>152805662all we know for sure is that Jason Aaron should've stuck with Scalped and never touched anything mainstream.
>>152780616>Lockheed Martin
>>152804389probably forgotten, Ewing is ignoring this Storm run in the context of his Thor run since Zeus is still depowered in the preview for the next issue
>>152806209Hera and the other Olympians (except for Zeus, Athena, Ares and Herc) should all be dead right now if anyone was paying attention to EwingBut here Akujin and friends are talking about going through Hades and Persephone realm as if we hadn't seen them dead in Ewing's Valkyrie book
>>152806265Thor's been inconsistent and he is a main character. I don't think they are going to bother lining up with such things, especially if the additional "they don't know the actual status of others and are working on a general state" case is also in effect.
>>152806209There is an important difference hereZeus is a old toy currently being played with by two different people at the same time, so there's bound to be some issues with thatGalacta however is a brand new toy that's yet to be taken out of her box and we don't know to what extent she'll be important, or even relevant to the plot of the runI'm not expecting a breakaway hit for her, but I think there's a chance she might kick around, at least for a while, depending on how she's handled
>>152805365>bendis wrote a story where cyclops was supposed to be wrong but he ends up being right and willingly takes verbal abuse and accusations from tempus because of it
I like Mr Sinister, I do not understand why he was not put on a shelf for at least like 5 years once Krakoa ended
>>152806673Eve Ewing didn't have any other ideas for her lousy series and Brevoort listens when a black woman speaks.
>>152806673He's more general use than Apocalypse.
>>152806673There's very little good to be said about From the Ashes.
>>152807099This, the Big Blue Bitch while a massive jobber (somehow) still is a headlining heel. Sinister works because due to his capricious nature he can be the villain in a low stakes comedy or a brutal body horror story, a world destroyer of a goddamn joke and it all fits his character
>>152806808Make a delinquent mutant gang that start as enemies, but eventually half of them become friends while the others graduate to full-blown terrorism?
>>152806808I think Exceptional can be read as a function of the result that is United. My supposition is that United was planned before Exceptional even launched and the only purpose of the title was to set up this new series. Which is why Brevoort went to bat for it and it got to chug along despite underperforming as badly as any of the title ls that were cut before it.
>>152780859It just might be
>>152807703>others graduate to full-blown terrorism?sorry but only non-mutants can be villains
>>152806652>Whitter tell someone is wrong>someone is rightthat's just amazon's The Boys