We’ve suddenly gone from not all that many X-Men books being out there to all the X-Men books being out there, with the advent of the still-awfully-punned “ResurrXion” — but here’s one more to add to the sudden pile of mutant mania.
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The new series, written by Charles Soule, will bring together an oddball team of Mutant characters — Old Man Logan, Rogue, Gambit, Mystique, Bishop, Fantomex, Psylocke and Archangel — to fight a mysteriously “reborn, renewed, resurrected” X-Men villain currently under wraps.
Whatever it ends up being, Marvel is suddenly pushing Astonishing X-Men as one of its most important new X-books — even beyond its new “main” twin series, X-Men: Blue and X-Men: Gold — promising, well… pretty much everything they can, judging by the ecstatic words of Marvel EIC Axel Alonso:
If you’re going to relaunch a book called Astonishing X-Men, it had better live up to the title. Charles and his soon-to-be-revealed collaborators are about to unveil a story that touches every corner of the X-Men mythology, and the first issue alone will have massive ramifications for the Children of the Atom. We can’t wait to tell you more about this book.
Alonso’s right in a way — the Astonishing name has a very particular legacy to it, having been used for two miniseries in the late ’90s, before titling the ongoing X-Men series first written by Joss Whedon (and later penned by the likes of Warren Ellis, Marjorie Liu, Daniel Way and Christos Gage) between 2004 and 2013. Between that and the big promises of even more huge consequences for Mutantkind (haven’t they been through enough lately?), the new Astonishing X-Men has a lot to live up to already ahead of its launch in July.
[Marvel]
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3 responses to “Marvel’s Newest X-Team Is The Astonishing X-Men”
Must be the 1st of the month, Marvels retooled the xmen team again.
Logan, Rogue and Gambit on the same team, these are desperate times.
Looking forward to their next series, ResErexion.