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X-MEN ResurrXion Books For Your Consideration Updated

X-Men: Gold courtesy Marvel
X-Men: Gold courtesy Marvel

ResurrXion marks a rebirth for the X-Men books in 2017.

Marvel announced new titles starring Iceman, Jean Grey, Cable, Weapon X, Generation X and two flagship books: X-Men Gold, X-Men Blue.

If the news has your feeling nostalgic for more ’90’s excitement we’re with you. After all Blue and Gold teams were the stars of the first X-Men #1 by the legendary team of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee and Uncanny X-Men #281 by Claremont and Whilce Portacio.

As the mutants experience a rebirth next year, we can’t help but hope for a return of more mutants, books and teams. Here are our more ResurrXion X-books for your consideration:

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X-MEN GOLD And BLUE New Leaders & Changes

X-Men: Gold courtesy Marvel
X-Men: Gold courtesy Marvel

The X-Men evolve in 2017 with big changes. Marvel announced the team lineups and creators behind X-Men: Gold and X-Men: Blue.

After a year of fighing for survival against an extinction-level threat and the Inhumans, Xavier’s students are back to being super heroes for everyone.

Marvel revealed more information about the next stage for the Children of the Atom including new team leaders, returning X-Men, a classic character with a new code-name and old school villains.

Let’s go for the Gold first:

X-Men: Gold by writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Ardian Syaf welcomes Kitty Pryde back to Earth and to the mutants after her time in space with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Kitty will become team leader with Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Old Man Logan and Rachel Grey. Continue reading X-MEN GOLD And BLUE New Leaders & Changes

X-MEN GOLD, BLUE And Creative Teams Revealed

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courtesy Marvel

X-Men: Gold & Blue, all new in 2017 as part of the ResurrXion.

Marvel revealed the team rosters and creative teams via IGN for the two flagship titles coming in April 2017.

X-Men: Gold by writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Ardian Syaf starring Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Old Man Logan, Rachel Grey and Kitty Pryde named as team leader. Pryde will be leaving the Guardians of the Galaxy to come home to lead her fellow mutants. It appears Storm is returning to her classic look from the Chris Claremont/Dave Cockrum/John Byrne era. Guggenheim told IGN the team will face off with a new version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in the first arc. Continue reading X-MEN GOLD, BLUE And Creative Teams Revealed

X-MEN Traitor, ELEKTRA Solo & More Marvel February Picks

Elektra #1 courtesy Marvel
Elektra #1 courtesy Marvel

If you love Daredevil’s infamous supporting cast then Marvel has a dangerous Valentine with a trio of Matt Murdock’s cast members in brand new books.

Here are our Marvel February 2017 books to watch starting with three new number one issues:

Kingpin #1 Wilson Fisk is back. Is one of Marvel’s biggest bad guys going legit in this new ongoing by Matthew Rosenberg and Ben Torres.

Elektra #1 The former assassin hits Las Vegas and becomes the target of Arcade in this new series by writer Matt Owens (Marvel’s Luke Cage on Netflix) and artist Alec Morgan. Continue reading X-MEN Traitor, ELEKTRA Solo & More Marvel February Picks

X-MEN Annual Reveals ResurrXion Origin?

Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 courtesy Marvel

ResurrXion is the big X-Men even in 2017 following Inhumans vs. X-Men.

But is the seed of ResurrXion and savior of a doomed mutant race found in this week’s Uncanny X-Men Annual #1?

Over the years, Annuals seem like bonus issues that may be good reads but not critical to an ongoing or future storyline.

You may want to run back to your comic book shop if you skipped this issue thinking “it’s just an annual.”

Writer Cullen Bunn re-teams with artist Ken Lashley for a story that resolves a big event from the current Uncanny X-Men run and may be even bigger for next year’s entire X-line. Continue reading X-MEN Annual Reveals ResurrXion Origin?

DEATH OF X Surprise X-MEN Comeback

Death of X #3 courtesy Marvel
Death of X #3 courtesy Marvel

Who is that?!

Even this lifelong X-Fan was scratching my head with this week’s Death of X #3 as a minor character the past is recruited by Cyclops for a big league return and will play a huge role in the upcoming war between the X-Men and Inhumans.

Death of X is revealing the origin of the IvX conflict, the fate of Cyclops and Emma Frost and more of what happened in the eight months following the Secret Wars finale and All-New, All-Different Marvel Now Extraordinary X-Men launch.

The four-part series by Charles Soule, Jeff Lemire and Aaron Kuder already featured the return of several missing in action mutants and the death of a fan-favorite. Along with Cyclops and Emma Frost we have witnessed the return of mutants from multiple eras including Wolfsbane, Warpath, Goldballs and the Stepford Cuckoos.

In part three Cyclops recruits a character not seen in decades for his master plan to save the mutant race. Who is this mutant? Continue reading DEATH OF X Surprise X-MEN Comeback

More X-MEN ResurrXion Books For Your Consideration

courtesy Marvel
courtesy Marvel

ResurrXion marks a rebirth for the X-Men books in 2017. Marvel announced new titles starring Iceman, Jean Grey, Cable, Weapon X, Generation X and two flagship books: X-Men Gold, X-Men Blue.

If the news has your feeling nostalgic for more ’90’s excitement we’re with you. After all Blue and Gold teams were the stars of the first X-Men #1 by the legendary team of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee and Uncanny X-Men #281 by Claremont and Whilce Portacio.

If was the age of a new mutant genesis, Claremont brought all the long lost X-Men and their allies together and launched the first “second” X-Men book. Fans also welcome a new X-Factor (a government backed mutant team) by Peter David, New Mutants become X-Force and Excalibur by Claremont and Alan Davis merged X-Men and Marvel UK heroes into a new team. As the 1990’s continued Scott Lobdell joined and co-created Generation X. Cable, Bishop and Gambit scored solo books, Age of Apocalypse was born leading to the introduction of X-Man.

As the mutants experience a rebirth next year, we can’t help but hope for a return of more mutants, books and teams. Here are our more mutant books for your consideration: Continue reading More X-MEN ResurrXion Books For Your Consideration

New Book On CHRIS CLAREMONT X-MEN Era

If you an old school X-Fan, Generation X member or New Mutant fan because of the film series, then you must realize staggering power and influence of living legend Chris Claremont.

This writer’s uncanny collection of co-creations include Rogue, Gambit, Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, Mystique, Phoenix, Psylocke, Sabretooth and Mister Sinister. Claremont’s characters and epic stories Dark Phoenix Saga, Days of Future Past and God Loves, Man Kills have been the canon which inspired the X-Men and Wolverine film franchise.

Now there’s a new book celebrating the writer who literally wrote the book that made the X-Men a phenomenon.

courtesy Sequart
courtesy Sequart

Sequart Organization has published The Best There is at What He Does: Examining Chris Claremont’s X-Men, by Jason Powell.

Claremont was the first X-writer for generations of X-Men fans including this one.
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