The X-Men are a superhero team of mutants founded by Professor Charles Xavier. They are dedicated to helping fellow mutants and sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them.
The addition of Havok on X-Factor seems odd due to his recent adventures in space with the Starjammers. Is he going to be settling back on Earth by being part of X-Factor Investigations? Is he going to try to lead the team or follow orders from Madrox? I like my X-Factor separate from the rest of the X-Universe. Hopefully this won't drag them into whatever X-shenanigans that are coming along.
Motto.
I read X-Factor because they aren't involved in all the nonsense the rest of the X-books are all involved in. I hope it stays that way. I'm sure if PAD has his way though it will. I'm hopeful.
Is it just me or does the Gold team seem more...exciting? Just look at their poses and background. The Blue team is just standing there hanging around Utopia.
Well Marvel's gotta give Gold Team a chance, right? Blue team was much more interesting last time around. But the Gold group (which I'm sure is just to show their alliance rather than overall teamings) does look much more interesting and cool. I mean X-Men Legacy and X-Factor, and X-Force!! Wicked.
So on X-Force we got Psylocke, Deadpool, Fantomex, and Nightcrawler. On Wolverine and the X-Men we got What looks like Shadowcat, Rachael Grey, Canonball, and about 3 others. On Legacy we got Rogue, Gambit, and two others. On X-Factor it looks like the team we've always had plus Havok for some odd reason.
For Generation Hope we got Shaw, Hope, and those 5 lights nobody seems to care about. The X-Men have Jubilee, Warpath (looks like him), Domino (looks like her), and 2 others. Uncanny X-Men looks like Emma, Cyclops, Namor, Colossonaut, Iceman, and Magneto. New Mutants looks like a lot of the old team members plus X-Man.
: Angel looks to be on the "X-Men" team which has Jubilee, Warpath and possibly Magik or Psylocke. Has anyone else noticed that Betsy is possibly on both Blue and Gold teams? Storm was on the alternate cover of Uncanny #1 so she is with Cyclops. Polaris will be on Gold team of course since Havok is.
Also, Iceman looks to be on Logan's team.
Hope's team has Four of the Five Lights. Idie is set to be on Logan's team if she doesn't die is Schism. Her death could be what starts Schism?
THAT is how Wolverine should be drawn every fu&%ing time. that is logan, not the tall and skinny brooding guy but the short super built and habitually pissed off man.
: Angel looks to be on the "X-Men" team which has Jubilee, Warpath and possibly Magik or Psylocke. Has anyone else noticed that Betsy is possibly on both Blue and Gold teams? Storm was on the alternate cover of Uncanny #1 so she is with Cyclops. Polaris will be on Gold team of course since Havok is. Also, Iceman looks to be on Logan's team. Hope's team has Four of the Five Lights. Idie is set to be on Logan's team if she doesn't die is Schism. Her death could be what starts Schism?
I wanted to say Angel for that team too, but the outline looks odd. I think Storm will be with the Blue Team as well, but I can't see her outline in any of the other covers. I was thinking that Polaris looks like the shadow on Jubilee's team, the one next to her. If Iceman's with Logan, who's next to Emma Frost? And Idie will most likely be with Logan. Good call.
Why do all of the blue team titles start in november, while the gold team is more spread out? I guess it kind of makes sense if Wolverine's followers have a more ragtag/ survivalist/ hit and run feel to them...
@madrid_san: I assume you think that the figure with the spiky head is Iceman? I thought that might be the case, but then thought it might alternatviely by Bling! instead?
I believe next to Emma is Danger. The shape of her face and those designs on her legs look like her. I am hoping I am wrong. I really want Iceman to be on Scott's team. But it does seem like he is on Logan's.
About Idie, does anyone one else think her death could be what causes Schism?
@madrid_san: My best bet? Scott gives Idie the order (behind Wolverine's back) to kill the Junior Hellfire Club. She's gonna do it Either dying in the process or being extremely injured. Logan's probably gonna watch it happen, trying to save her. After that little event, Cyclops tries to give the "By doing that she saved a lot of lives speech" while Wolverine interrupts him and tells him to go (%$& himself.
Gold Teams Uncanny X-Force: Psylocke, Deadpool, Fantomex, and Nightcrawler? (Bringing him back ALREADY?) Wolverine and the X-Men: Wolverine...the rest I honestly can't tell...Rockslide maybe? X-Men Legacy: Rogue, Gambit...dunno the others. X-Factor: Havok, Strong Guy, Madrox, Wolfsbane, Syren.
Blue Teams Generation Hope: Sebastian Shaw, Hope Summers, Primal, Transonic, Velocidad, Zero. X-men: Jubilee, dunno the others. Uncanny X-Men: Emma Frost, Magneto, and...is that the new Colossonaught? (Colossus as the juggernaut?) Not sure with the others. New Mutants: X-Man, Sunspot, Magma, Warlock, Cypher...not sure who that is on the left.
This makes me realize I have no idea who a lot of the "New generation" of mutants are.
You know while these teasers have been fun I didn't have a reaction to them until X-Factor. I love that book and agree with G-Man that it should be kept largely separate from the other X-books. Mostly I'm scared that Madrox is gone and it won't feature Ric/Star. I'm slightly panicked even, in as much as you can panic about a comic book.
@Degalon: I don't know if you can actually call it replacement though. He's a lot different than his 616 counterpart. In fact, if it wasn't for the codename and appearence, I'd see them as two different characters completely.
Ugh this pisses me off so much I loved X-Factor being seperate and i loved it not having Havok.....i hope he is the only addition I love the team as it is, the book made me like characters like Strong Guy Madrox, and Siryn, I never liked them before, and well I love Rahne, M, and Shatterstar they were my fave members of old school x-force, x-factor, and generation-X
Yeah this does smack easily of the Blue/Gold team we had in Claremont/Lee days of the early 1990s. Still, it would be interesting to see how it goes, even if Havok on X-Factor at this point doesn't sit well with me. Just have to see how it goes!
@G-Man: That may be ture, But the Gold team also has the most god awful cover art out of the teasers. Im citing Wolverine, Rogue, and Havok as specific examples
Sebastian Shaw looks way too benevolent in that pic for my taste. It's rather odd looking. Emma must've mind wiped him pretty good the last time. He looks lobotomized.
Well the only real differences are that a) He's more violent, but so is EVERYONE in the AoA, and b) He's an athiest.
I still think it's in poor taste to essentially bring back Nightcrawler already.
Are any of the other AoA characters staying in 616?
Now we've got X-Man, Sugar Man, Dark Beast, Nightcrawler (Is he going by a different codename to differentiate himself?), and who else? Holocaust died during Exiles, and Sabertooth...wasn't he with the exiles?
@Avenging-X-Bolt: oups, i didnt know that. i read very few issues with havok in them so i dont know that much about him to tell u the truth... i just knew that they are brothers ;p
@G-Man: X-Factor is one of the two X-titles that I can bare to read these days because its vastly entertaining and PAD typically keeps the book self-contained. I agree with you that they should keep the team away from these craptastic X-Events.
@spiderbat87: Yeah, and my immense rage regarding that hasn't subsided yet.
November solicits make it sound like Scott will be in Uncanny #1 and the alternate cover seems to jive with that as well.
@The Mighty Monarch said:
Holy crap, I didn't realize there were 8 freaking X-Men series. And people say Batman has too many books.
I'm calling it now, the only two books that will "matter" are Uncanny/Wolverine and The X-Men (which I'll be avoiding like AIDS). With the X books I've come to learn to read them vertically, not horizontally. As much as I loved Carey's Legacy nothing in it "matters", in the truest sense of the term, until it was referenced in the pages of the flagship, parent Uncanny. Same could be said for any of the other spin off books like New Mutants/X-Men/Astonishing. So after Schism my X-Men intake won't change one bit. I read Uncanny now and it'll once again be the only X-Men related book I read again.
I like the Idea the X-men are incorporating Kurt from AOA (and possibly jean). You guys make out they will be the same character. AOA Kurt isn't religious and a whole lot more meaner from that universe, so having him running around with X-Force is perfect & how he will interact will other X-Men will be an interesting plot.
The whole concept of dividing the X-Men in two different Ideas is also perfect. There are so many of them now so what they represent is going to clash. I get the impression one side of the fence will be aggressive (wolverine and the x-men) and the other being defensive (Uncanny X-Men). I hope Cyclops does die as he's changed completely over the past decade and he is basically a young magneto with actually achieving what magneto didn't....Mutant's United
@The Mighty Monarch: To be fair there are a ridiculous amount of X-Men characters that all deserve some exposure. And, as we've learnt from Fraction's run on Uncanny, it's not possible in one book. It makes sense to have this many books focussed on 4-5 members each
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