I’ve been reading the Children of the Atoms since the glorious Chris Claremont and John Byrne era (and there was just 1 X-book) and the mutant books have never been better! This week is packed with X-books! Here’s a quick snapshot of why you got to get ’em all!
All-New X-Men #13 courtesy Marvel
All-New X-Men #13 The fallout of the young X-Men versus Uncanny Avengers! What is Mystique’s endgame? Is history repeating itself as young Jean Grey continues to lose control of her powers?! Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen are just a dream team.
X-Men: Battle of the Atom kicks off in September with a special issue by Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho then run through the core X-titles (All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men and Brian Wood’s X-Men) then wrap in a final bookend by Jason Aaron and a “mystery artist.”
Who says you can’t go home again? It’s easy when you have a demon sorceress/mutant teleporter on your side!
Cyclops, Magik, Magneto and Emma Frost arrived at the Jean Grey School in All-New X-Men #10last week. Scott welcomed the staff and students of Wolverine’s school to join the new Xavier School. Some of the Jean Grey School students agreed to join Cyclops and the issue ended with a cliffhanger:
X-Men fans are in a frenzy as the debut of The Wolverine trailer approaches! Have you seen the teaser/trailer on the Vine via Twitter – you can follow WolverineMovie and I’m not going to repost to avoid spoilers!
We see a first look at Viper, the Silver Samurai armor and the surprise appearance of…
The young Scott Summers goes on a solo mission of hope and heartbreak and runs into one of the greatest X-Men’s greatest enemies he hasn’t fought yet in this week’s All-New X-Men #7.
Mystique smells fresh blood and never misses an opportunity to manipulate. The shapeshifter targets Cyclops with unexpected results. There are moments when you think the innocence of the boy who will become Cyclops might just charm Raven. That’s the beauty of Brian Michael Bendis’s storytelling. Bringing the past into the present has infused the X-Men family with fresh energy and emotion. Don’t tell me you didn’t choke up on that final page. Bendis goes right Continue reading First Villain of All-New X-MEN
Beast brought the original X-Men into the Marvel Now hoping their influence could make Cyclops change his ways in All-New X-Men. The future truth may have been took much for the newly telepathic Jean Grey to take. By the end of the first arc a defiant Jean Grey knew her horrible future past and vowed to remain in the Marvel Now.
Marvel shared a preview of All-New X-Men #6 with Comics Newsarama that is frightening for fans of Marvel’s most famous redhead. The original team is staying in their future to make their dead mentor’s dream a reality. Are these images nightmares, reality or hints of things to come?
All-New X-Men #6 courtesy Marvel
Cyclops, Magneto rush into to Jean. Scott, Erik, Emma Frost and Magik are based in the old Weapon X facility and have been recruiting new mutants for a revolution. Logan crashed into the scene killing Jean but not before the haunting image of the Phoenix flares up in her eyes.
I suspect this is a nightmare but who’s to say another telepath could be projecting these images in Jean’s mind?
Artist David Marquez joins Brian Michael Bendis for the next chapter.
Everything old is All-New after the first X-Men arc of Brian Michael Bendis. In this week’s All-New X-Men #5 an original X-Man gets a makeover and two X-Women take charge.
Professor X was murdered by Cyclops. Scott, Magneto, Emma and Magik are recruiting new mutants for a revolution. A dying Beast went into the past to bring the original Scott, Jean, Warren, Bobby and Hank into the Marvel Now. Hank’s dream of inspiring Cyclops takes a dramatic twist in this chapter. In the finale of the first arc Beast is reborn, Jean Grey learns entire truth about her future history and Kitty Pryde takes on a new role with Xavier’s original teenage dream.
Bendis delivers drama, action, intrigue and humor but the most important element is heart. A psychic exchange between newly telepathic Jean and the older Beast shows the sense of love and loss these characters are feeling. The storytelling has inspired great moments of nostalgia while still moving the Children of the Atom forward. There’s just a sense of the writer’s love and awe of these classic characters, their history and their relationships. I think I was in a psychic rapport with Bendis and Stuart Immomen as I read this arc!
In these first five chapters Bendis has established the new mutant order with new leaders, new agendas, new mutants, new powers and the potential for exciting new directions. X-Men really is All-New.
All-New X-Men #5 A blast from the past to save the future of the mutant race! Professor Xavier’s original five students have been brought into the Marvel Now. The young Jean Grey’s telepathic powers are flooding her mind – can she take the terrible truth of how her life turned out? Will the Beast survive his severe mutating mutation? The first arc comes to an end – will it be The End for an original X-Man?
Batman Incorporated #6 Man-Bats! Bat-Robots! Gotham City is ground zero for the showdown between Batman and Talia’s Leviathan. Will this issue be the end of Batman and Damian? Will Bruce let Talia win?
Fatale #11 Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s gritty supernatural noir series exposes dark chapters of Josephine’s past in the first of four stand-alone issues. The first Fatale Flashback takes us to the 1930’s in a revealing tale of the cursed heroine on the run.
Manhattan Projects #8 Jonathan Hickman’s epic of twisted history and weird science takes another dark turn as the secret leaders that run this world turn on the scientists of the Manhattan Projects.
New Avengers #1 Jonathan Hickman assembles a brand new Illuminati! Black Panther gathers Marvel’s most brilliant minds to prevent a cosmic collision of universes.
