Category Archives: X-Men
They Did It, They Killed Him – X-Factor #227
Who dies in X-Factor #227?
It's definitely one of the characters on this cover
The answer will shock and sadden you! It’s definitely saddened me. Longtime readers of this blog will know who I feared it would be, and who I didn’t want it to be…well, they did it anyway. My favorite comic book character is dead!
Cue world’s smallest violin.
But all hope is not lost. Because even though the character dies in today’s brand new issue, the issue actually ends with a rather curious and hopeful epilogue. We all know that comic book characters don’t stay dead. Even Bucky came back from the dead, and the story was great! So there is a lot of hope for this character’s return. In fact, based on solicitations for the X-Factor issues in December, January and February, there’s a lot of promise over the next several months that this death isn’t final.
Still, this sucks. My favorite comic book character, nay, my favorite fictional character ever, and he’s dispatched on the page! Dead and gone. His friends will mourn. I will mourn. But I won’t spoil who it is in this opening.
You’re going to have to hit the jump to find out who was killed in X-Factor #227!
I Must Have the Evil Touch – Goodbye X-23
No more team-ups with vampire Jubilee
No sooner do I announce on my blog that I’m going to be buying my first ever issue of the comic book X-23, than Marvel announces that they’re cancelling the title! ComicBookResources has the scoop. It seems that January’s issue #20 is going to be the last one. How is that fair at all? What if I really like the book? What if X-23 becomes a new favorite character of mine? Why announce the cancellation today of all days?
What the hell, Marvel!? Don’t punish the world for my hubris!
This is like that time I panned the new Green Arrow, only for the writer to almost immediately announce he was leaving the title.
So I’m sorry, X-23 writer Marjorie Liu. I must have done something somewhere to someone to warrant such violent reaction to my blog posts from both Marvel and DC. This doesn’t bode well for my eventually working for one of them someday. I’m still going to buy the super adorable X-23 issue tomorrow, even if the book is on its way to cancel-ville. It’ll be my way to stick it to the man.
Fans of Liu should know that Marvel said she’ll be moving on to other projects. And X-23 will become a reoccurring character in the Avengers Academy series, which I think is a neat place for her. Much cooler teen school setting for her to join over Wolverine and the X-Men’s teen school setting.
I Am a Sucker for Adorableness
I have zero interest in the character X-23. She’s a young, female clone of Wolverine that skirts around the edges of the X-Men franchise. I just don’t care about her at all. She’s a silly idea that has somehow gained enough traction to warrant her own series. I guess she’s got fans somewhere…(says the guy who loves Multiple Man and the Mimic).
But despite my disinterest in X-23, I’ll definitely be buying her new issue Wednesday because she’s going to be baby-sitting Franklin and Valeria Richards, the children of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman from the Fantastic Four!
The preview pages for this issue, written by Marjorie Liu and drawn by Sana Takeda, are too adorable for me to pass up.
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Playing in the X-Men Toy Box
Can you imagine how much fun it must be to write for the X-Men? To be allowed to pick whichever characters you want and come up with some cool new setting or story to put them in? To have the freedom to just create adventures and relationships using some of the coolest characters ever?
That’s why I want to be a comic book writer.
And that’s what it must be like to be a part of the current Regenesis story event.
It's a brave new world
Mimic to Return to Comics; All 6 Fans Rejoice!
So this is some comic news that will excite all half a dozen fans of The Mimic, myself included. The Mimic will appear in an upcoming storyline of X-Men: Legacy sometime in 2012.
Long thought lost and forgotten after his Dark X-Men appearance, the Mimic’s upcoming issues were announced by X-Men: Legacy writer Christos Gage in an Oct. 16 interview with iFanboy. X-Men: Legacy stars Rogue as a teacher to young mutants, and she has taken Wolverine’s side after X-Men: Schism. Here’s what Gage had to say:
In my second arc, we’ll see Mimic and Weapon Omega show up, and chances are good that at least one of them will be around for a while.
Exciting news! Mimic is one of my all-time favorite comic book characters. He has appeared in comics only a handful of times since his debut in the 1960s. So every little appearance is something to be celebrated. As I said, this news isn’t very interesting to anyone except Mimic fans. And this blog post is for them.
I’m not foolish enough to get my hopes up that Mimic will be the one of them sticking around for awhile.
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