New Information For The First X-Men Released

The First X-Men #1 Covers

 

During the weekend Marvel teased The First X-Men and said that more information would be given today about the new series that will debut this August. Well now we know who the project will be starring, which is no surprise though.

The First X-Men will be a new series that revolves around before Professor X founded his X-Men that can be described as " the X-Men before the X-Men," which was described by artist Neal Adams.


It's not for sure when exactly The First X-Men takes place, but it is for sure takes place before Professor X's X-men and during his younger years (it is not known whether or not it will be in his teens or younger). At this time though, mutants are starting to appear and they are going to need protection, and that somebody is going to be the one and only first X-Men, Wolverine. Wolverine will team up with Sabertooth and tries to get Charles Xavier to protect the mutants instead.


Magneto will also be in the series, his role is not currently known but a cover image suggests that he is on par with Wolverine and his team. 


The villain for the First X-Men will be somebody going by the name "Virus". No other information was given about him except for his name.


The First X-Men will be out sometime this August with artist Neal Adams and writer Cristos Gage.




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X-Men Regenesis Review

X-men Schism was a starting point that would in the end change the X-Men Universe, it put mutants and readers alike in the spotlight in order to choose a side: Wolverine's or Cyclop's. Who would go with who? And that's what Marvel's X-Men Regnesis One Shot was all about. In X-Men Regenesis, Wolverine goes around recruiting mutants to join his newly formed school.

What I really loved in here was Billy Tan's visual representation of Logan's and Cyclop's battle to recruit their friends to their cause. It was a great visual metaphor, but it took me a few pages to realize that Cyclops was the one wearing the lion head. The artwork in whole was great, but I think the artwork for the metaphor was probably the best thing about the comic.

The writing was nice also, it was straight forward and didn't stray at all. Kieron Gillen wanted to tell the story of how the X-Men will take sides and that's what he did, with each character having their own reasons; Colossus stayed on Utopia in fear that his newly acquired powers would put people at risk, Nemesis is staying because an experiment he's working on can't be moved and Prodigy stays due to ideology reasons.There were more characters that gave their reasons, such as Magneto, Rogue, Danger, Moonstar, Avalanche and ect. Even someone who I haven't seen in a long time has taken a side, Toad begged Wolverine to take him as a janitor.

One thing I didn't like about the comic was the lack of Professor Xavier. The only comics I read X-Men related are Uncanny X-Force, Uncanny X-Men and X-Men, so I don't know if he appears in X-Men Legacy or what but the lack of Xavier in the comics disturbs me, I would like to know what side he would have chosen; he could have chosen to stay with the man he personally put in charge or he could go back to teaching mutants how to control their powers. I really wish Gillen could have put Xavier in and give him a voice.

It does seem like Cyclops has the power hitters on his side; he's got Colossus with the power of Cyttorak, Storm, Namor and Magneto (and Emma if you consider her to be on their power level). Wolverine of course has the children of Utopia, since that's why him and Scott got into a brawl in Schism, but he has also gained the trust of Beast and Iceman; I'm pretty content with that. Hopefully this will allow writers to show Iceman more.

I was happy when I saw Storm about to go with Wolverine, but then Scott had to sweet talk her to staying because he doesn't have pure-hearted people backing him up. I was also happy to see Emma ready to leave Scott also, but Gillen had to tease us by making her stay.

I think the events following Schism is going to be great, the X-Men have split up and Marvel is going back to the classic X-Men in which mutants can go to a school to learn how to control their powers, but at the same time, there modern X-Men is still staying in the Marvel Universe; old school vs new school.

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Newest Point One Teaser Has Unknown Characters

Today marks the fifth day for Point One teaser images and today's is extremely mysterious with five unknown characters. This story comes straight from the Dark Angel Saga going on in Uncanny X-Force and is suppose to give us a real big shock. Either way, I want to know who these guys are; one looks like a Elektra/Hawkeye combo, one looks like she would be Madame Hydra and the other resembles a Crossbones like charter.

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The Jean Grey School Of Higher Learning

Mutants need a place to go to learn how to control their powers, co-exist with humans and feel protected and that's what Xavier was trying to do. But ever since Scott took over, it felt like the goal was to make an army of mutants, but that doesn't sit very well for him; that is why Wolverine has made The Jean Grey School of Higher Learning.

In an unexpected move, Wolverine will be opening a school for gifted youngsters to learn to control their newly manifested powers in Wolverine and the X-Men after the events of Schism.

Going from an anti-hero to a headmaster is a complete change for Wolverine, so hopefully Jason Aaron won't do anything too drastic with this change. I really do want to see how this will turn out, but I'm also afraid that Wolverine will be changing. I also want to see where Xavier falls, he's still alive in kicking it, but I'm pretty sure he'll land on Wolverine's side.

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X-Men Destiny Launch Trailer

Tomorrow X-Men Destiny will be finally be released, and to celebrate that, Marvel and Activision has released the launch trailer for the game. It's a shame I won't be getting the game tomorrow, but I am definitely getting it next month. Once complaint I have is Magneto's voice, I wish it were Tom Kane's voice.

Make sure to catch the game tomorrow, September 27th for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS.

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Cable's Return In X-Sanction

Yesterday, Marvel released an image relating to the Avengers. It has the Avengers logo with a giant red cross-hair hovering over it with "December 2011" under it.

And today, Marvel has allowed Arune Singh, Tom Brevoort, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness to speak about the meaning behind the image.

If you can remember back to San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel released an image with a certain X-Men character, it was actually more of a shining red eye and a metallic arm. The image in question was the teaser image for, what was, the upcoming Cable Reborn "Next Big Thing".

Cable will be returning this December to kick ass with extremely over-sized guns no mutant from this time can hold. But he's not going to be fighting any bad guys, it seems like he's going straight for the heroes, specifically the Avengers.

This new story line changed from Cable Reborn to X-Sanction. Other than the title and who Cable will be going against, nothing much was revealed; Marvel is, of course, keeping their mouth shut on this one. It's going to be an interesting event though, the Avengers and Mutant kind don't interact very much except for Wolverine. So seeing Cable go against Wolverine and his fellow Avengers is going to be a nice treat.

If you want to find out more, Comic Book Resources has a nice detailed article of Cable's return.

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X-Men Regenesis Covers Revealed

All those Regenesis covers that Marvel has been slowly releasing are now fully complete with all characters shown. And one surprised the hell out of me with one character being on a team.
 

The Gold team will consist of the Uncanny X-Force minus Angel but gaining Nightcrawler (AoA), Beast and Kitty will be joining Wolverine's X-Men as Rogue and Gambit are still X-Men Legacy with X-Factor staying the same (by the looks of it at least, I don't read X-Factor but I know some of the characters).

The Blue team is going to be showcasing Hope's team without Idie but with Sebastian Shaw. The new X-Men team will consist of Psylocke (who's on the Uncanny X-Force), Jubilee, Domino, Storm and Warpath who we have not seen for awhile. Now, the new Uncanny X-Men team is what surprised me the most, you've got Emma Frost, Magneto, Juggernaut/Colossus, Danger, someone who I believe to be Colossus' sister and Cyclops. Marvel has been hinting that something is going to happen to Cyclops after/during Schism, but it looks like they completely were yanking our chain; I was not expecting him to be there at all.

You will have to wait two more month before X-Men Regenesis kicks off and wait till January for it to be complete.

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Some X-Men Regenesis Characters Revealed

More X-Men characters have been revealed for the upcoming X-Men Regenesis event for both sides. And notice that Nightcrawler is on the X-Force team, which kind of looks like the Nightcrawler from Age of Apocalypse. I'm surprised that Colossus, the new Juggernaut, is siding with Emma. If Colossus is there, then that must mean Kitty has to be there.

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Magneto Not A Hero

Marvel announced that the Master of Magnetism will be getting a new limited series coming this November titled Magneto Not A Hero.

I hope Magneto doesn't go back to his evil ways and recreates the Brotherhood of Evil or some other anti-human mutant group, because I'm really liking his change, it gives something new to his character; after years and years of fighting the X-Men, he joins them and tried to do good, so I'm really hoping Marvel doesn't make him go back to his evil roots.

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X-Men Schism #01 Review

I just finished reading the first issue of X-Men: Schism, that comic made was full of fun, memories and shock. The prelude to this new X-Men event made it seem like something cosmic was coming for the X-Men, and one theory was that the Dreaming Celestial, Tiamut, was the one watching over them and knowing what they're planning. In reality, they were talking about humanity going back to hating and fearing the entire human race once again.

Schism starts off with Cyclops and Wolverine heading to an Arms Control Conference were Cyclops demands a partition in order to disassemble every Sentinel that every country is holding. Cyclops' demands are cut short when Kid Omega jumps into the conference and a telepathic burst against all the politicians, forcing them to spout out all their personal secrets, trying to show the world that human kinds' leaders are a bunch of no good liars (like we didn't already know that). Due to Kid Omega's interruption, a small army of Sentinels are sent to capture anyone with the descriptions of "male" and "mutant", making Wolverine and Cykes caught in the middle.

This causes a huge spark that creates burning emotions hatred and fear of mutant kind once again. Many leaders of various countries felt as if they were provoked and sends out their various designs of Sentinels to retaliate against the mutant race; North Korea being one of them. After seeing all of the Sentinels being released, Cyclops feels as if he has to fight back.

In the end, Kid Omega's attack is revealed to be provoked by a kid, Kade Kilgore, the son of Carlton Kilgore who is a arms manufacturer against mutants. Kade snuck into Utopia and busted out Kid Omega, but made Kid Omega think that it was himself that escaped. Kade did all this to become the New Black King of the Hellfire Club.

The Wolverine against Cyclops battle is an old thing, but this might be the breaking point for the two teammates. We know that this is what's going to break up the X-Men; Cyclops is going to prepare an army of mutants to prepare against the Sentinels while Wolverine thinks that not every mutant should be a soldier, that not everyone is ready, especially Hope's team. Wolverine wants all the kids to stay away from this battle while Cyclops wants to include them.

One thing I loved about this comic was Wolverine showing affection towards Idie by giving her a doll, reminding her of what she use to have. Wolverine's and Cyclops' different views are clearly different in this issue, and I love it. Jason Aaron is doing an excellent job with this and it's just been one issue, I can't wait to see what he has to offer for the rest of the series. I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to read more X-Men comics, along with the prelude issues.

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X-Men Schism

For anyone who has been reading the latest X-Men event. Prelude to X-Men Schism, and been wondering what the hell is going on, Marvel has finally shown some light for us. X-Men Schism is basically about a mutant related international devastation that tears up the X-Men team and will introduce a fight between the leader of the X-Men and the most feared of the X-Men; Cyclops against Wolverine.

I'm guessing that Wolverine will go against Cyclops because of an extremely tough decision Cyclops makes, which can be seen in the Prelude to Schism. Most likely Cyclops sends hundreds of mutants to their deaths and that doesn't settle with Wolverine. Either way, we'll find out what's really happening July 13th.

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