A More Threatening Team of X-Men Gathers in UNCANNY X-MEN #1 First Look

So why aren't they using the X-Force name? If Extraordinary is the new flagship, then Uncanny needs to be retired from service for a while. And honestly, Extraordinary is turning out to be very ordinary. The terrigen mist thing needs to be rethought. How are these Uncanny X-men, plus the All new X-men operating on Earth, without issues and Rogue is suffering from contact with the mist over in Uncanny Avengers. You can't tell me they're just avoiding the mist? And really, Limbo for the relocation of the school, isn't that the same thing as building a house on top of a volcano and calling it safe? why not the blue area of the moon? Oy, well this post took a serious tangent lol. I miss when the X-men mean't all new and all different all exciting.

Why are sabertooths claw inside the gloves

What blackmail material does Greg Land have on Marvel to continue getting work from them?

There are entire sites and forums dedicated to showcasing his plagiarism and repeated porn poses. The quality of his work is distracting.

And why sweet lord do they keep throwing him back to the X-Men? It's disrespectful to the franchise.

@tony_shark: Sabrethoot was good in Rage of ultron,that is post-sw so i dont think everyone was reversed

Is magnetos powers restored back to full?

Porn is better without the clothing that Greg Land draws over it to block the view.

@tony_shark: Pichelli isn't great, and Alex Ross is as overrated as they come. If you want to talk about faces and expressions looking the same, look no further than Ross. His DC work is notorious for this aspect. Superman looks just like Batman, and Wonder Woman has a jawline that would make either one jealous. Everyone looks interchangeable in Ross' work. He's a hack.

That's one badass collection of Mutants. Now that's what a team of X-Men should be, fighting back against all the bigots that would enslave or exterminate mutantkind, and showing no mercy. Look forward to see this Mutant version of Stormwatch or the Authority. Glad to see Magneto is young again.

@outside_85:

Jerks & villains? First of all Magneto is both a hero & a villain, at his worst he's like the Mutant counterpart to Dr. Doom. Tortured past, noble with his own code of honor, doing what he does to protect his people - with ambitions of global conquest. At his best he is a mentor, martyr, freedom fighter, loving husband, & Messiah. Fantomex was never a villain, Psylocke was a killer for decades, and Sabretooth was retconned into a patriot who was betrayed (not to mention the heroic version of the Exiles & Age of Apocalypse).

@the_impersonator: but they have associated themselves with ALL of them at one point or another...

@mark_stephen:

It's more realistic. The world is rarely black & white. The whole turn the other cheek doesn't work for most. Only reason the X-Men under Xavier lasted so long without being wiped out by more ruthless enemies is because its fiction. To defeat those who wish to enslave or exterminate mutants, and have the backing of governments or wealthy requires extreme measures. A team of top notch mutants led by the classic villain / hero Magneto is just what the doctor ordered.

@mutant_god:

It's the new grittier, darker Marvel and I like it. Guardians of the Galaxy are Killers. There was X-Force under Cable in the later years and of course the Wolverine-led strike team, X-Force. The multiversal X-Men, X-Force, & Exiles were Killers. Wolverine & Deadpool obviously. Last I saw, the post-Secret Wars Avengers have Deadpool in their ranks.

Besides neither Psylocke nor Magneto are animals. Magneto is a hero to most mutants, willing to fight fire with fire (never again as the mantra goes). In fact he is like the Mutant version of Dr. Doom, world conqueror with a code of honor and a sense of nobility. Both him & Magneto have proven themselves heroes many times.

How many times in the past has Magneto succeeded in anything for very long? Think of the body count you have on this team. Sabertooth alone, when I first read him in Power Man/Iron Fist he was killing prostitutes because he was bored. Mystique's crimes are well known. It's easy to play moral equivalency games and say that one group is just as bad as another, but it falls flat when you consider the innocents that have been killed by these characters. It's not black and white, it is a question of is there any justice for violent and murderous acts and for this group there never has been and I doubt there ever will be. The writers at marvel seem to consider a high body count a pre-requisite for heroism and victims are just yesterdays garbage to be tossed away and forgotten.

@mark_stephen:

Retcon. Sabretooth was an animal true but in Origins they showed he wasn't always like that. Manipulations of the U.S. government and Sinister played a role. Magneto was a murderous megalomaniac 1960s-80s but then in the 1990s they gave the man a tortured history, nobility, honor, and the willingness to sacrifice himself for mutants. In other words a hero / villain. We've seen what Magneto the hero is capable of over the last couple of decades and even when he plays the villain (e.g. House of M), he's a relatively benevolent tyrant.

Retcon: the whitewash of the comic book character. Benevolent tyrant? I guess he made the trains run on time. If a man takes ultimate power and is occasionally benevolent that doesn't really make him any better than he was before. What ever Sabertooth was/is/will be he still murdered innocent women because he was bored. If life means that little to the writers that such deaths can be easily ignored then how do they define heroism? Not killing because you are bored?

@mark_stephen:

You are asking for continuity, decades worth. Not possible in comics. You either do stories like in Japanese manga that have a beginning & an end, or you keep the franchise alive for decades by doing the retcons (Marvel) or the reboots (DC). The days of mom & applied pie, flag waving & Uncle Sam, black & white in comics ended decades ago. Started with the darker Batman, Wolverine, Punisher, Lobo and so on. Those are the comics I started out with. Never was into the more wholesome Fantastic Four, Captain America, or Superman. Simple evolution that has made comics grittier over time and the characters more complex.

Meaning they can get away with murder. Sorry, don't agree.

Magneto earned his terrorist badge ages ago and nothing has really changed in him there. Even worse really because he is definitely a case of a man having become what he's fought so long against.

Depends on which of his brains you ask. But he was always a thief.

That is true, but she usually has her morals on straight.

Yet most people know him as a vicious and sadistic mass murderer that even eats his victims on occasion.

I love Greg Land art... And I love villainous heroes who kill or are actually trying or pretending to be heroes when they are actually evil... I just hope Sabretooth is good... Cause of AXIS... Even though I hate that Magento only has Polaris for family, but it can still be retconed that the twins were born in other families like Wiccan and Speed...

All you people do is complain, complain, and complain about art, writers, team, and about EVERYTHING. Jeeezzz Ya think ya can draw better then Greg Land? I think not.

The art is amazing and I can't wait for this book. These were X-Men member before especially Magneto, Psylocke, Monet, and Fantomex. Sabretooth was an Avengers as well. So stop blabbing about nonsense. This is going to be the best book ever since SW.

Where is cyclops? Iceman is gay? Beast has one furry foot in the in the mad scientist department and still hates Scott?? Mystique, the murdering backstabbing, race traitor is on the team, but everybody still got a problem with solid Scott Summers???? WTF???? Whats the one thing we learned at the end of AvX, besides the fact Logan was the biggest hypocrite in the marvel universe? Cyclops was right folks, nuff said...

@outside_85: mystique is is still fresh from the kidnapping and torture of dazzler to supply her illegal MGH harvesting operation in Madripoor and unlike Sabertooh, she reverted back to scum of the planet at the end of A+X, so she is the exactly wrong choice for membership to any team, especially the X-men.

@brokage: I know, and thats why her presence is only odd in the sense that Magneto totaled her gig in Madripoor, unless SW made that go away, neither of them should have forgotten this..

I wish the X-Men were still about changing minds by example, rather than being a surgical strike team to remove perceived threats. That was always what X-Force was about to me... Now I don't really get the difference.

Skipping, aye aye cap'n.

Ok I am just going to say this and I know It seems like I am trolling but...... the X-men are dead! They lost their hope they are no longer trying to make a difference and show that mutants aren't a problem to be dealt with. The x-men have embraced magneto, committed acts of quasi genocide, phoenix force excuses are irrelevant, and the man who founded them has turned out to be a secret manipulating douche. I find it hard for the x-men to exist as a team. who wants to be a part of a "super team with a guy who raped one of your close friend's girlfriend," I'm looking at you psylock, (caugh....sabretooth). A side note that is one of the reasons I love to hate sabretooth. There should be stories about awesome heroic mutants but the x-men are dead. Every new comic that features them is like the Alexandrians from the walking dead, marvel just doesn't get it. Most of the x-men are villains. If marvel was brave enough to write the x-men that way we would still buy the books because the stories would become original like the original x-men were. I don't want rehashed stories I want good ones. If you are going to break my heart and make Bishop a sociopathic terminator than keep him that way. But that also means Scott is a totalitarian who is whole heartedly willing to raise child soldiers. I could keep going but I won't cause I know everyone is like "this isn't even a take on the comic at hand." In short there is no longer an Uncanny x-men or fill in the blank x-men, there is only a league of well intentioned morons and dynamic super villains, the best way to tell their stories is to TELL THEIR STORIES and give the team a different name.

Bravo... I was saying the same thing, the X-Men are dead. And everyone is going to embrace Magneto... exactly. For what is happening to the mutants, Magneto is going to avenge and definitely he's going to need tough, badass, strong (villains or anti-heroes) mutants to accomplish whatever is necessary. Magneto is the leader and he has his powers powered-up and he's no longer like he was in his solo mission. He's powerful as always.

@clobbermatic:

They lost their hope they are no longer trying to make a difference and show that mutants aren't a problem to be dealt with.

Have you read the last three years of X-Men comics? That simply isn't true. At the moment, the X-Men are focusing more on survival given the situation they're in, but that doesn't mean they've all abandoned the dream.

The x-men have embraced magneto, committed acts of quasi genocide, phoenix force excuses are irrelevant, and the man who founded them has turned out to be a secret manipulating douche.

You just described the 80s X-Men, which is when they were at their best.

I find it hard for the x-men to exist as a team. who wants to be a part of a "super team with a guy who raped one of your close friend's girlfriend," I'm looking at you psylock, (caugh....sabretooth).

They look more like a pseudo X-Force than a "super team". Some of the best X-Men comics have members who utterly loathe each other. Tension between characters is good, and I'm excited to see Psylocke and Sabretooth interact.

Most of the x-men are villains.

Really? So you consider Storm, Colossus, Iceman, Psylocke, M etc. to be villains? By that logic, so are the Avengers and Fantastic Four: Black Widow was an assassin, Hawkeye was a criminal, Thor has probably killed thousands, Reed Richards has committed genocide, and how much death and destruction has Hulk caused? Every Marvel character has blood on their hands.

If marvel was brave enough to write the x-men that way we would still buy the books because the stories would become original like the original x-men were.

If Marvel was stupid enough to write the X-Men as villains, then most of them would be out of character. Also, X-Men comics still sell like hot cakes.

In short there is no longer an Uncanny x-men or fill in the blank x-men, there is only a league of well intentioned morons and dynamic super villains

Which is what the X-Men have been for decades....

the best way to tell their stories is to TELL THEIR STORIES

Yes, and I'm pretty sure X-Men comics are telling stories about the X-Men.......

give the team a different name.

Ah, this will solve everything.