I didn’t even want to report this comic book news, because it just makes me shake my head and sigh. But I might as well, in case any of you are interested. Though turn back now if you don’t like listening to nerds bitching about stupid comic books on the Internet.

Marvel Comics is going to release a new mini-series in August entitled The First X-Men. It’s going to star Wolverine. And it’s going to involve a stupid retcon in which Wolverine put together a team of mutants before Professor Xavier.

With Wolverine, Sabretooth, Magneto, and token black and female characters

The worst thing is that the idea behind the series actually sounds pretty fascinating, but then Marvel go and mess things up by just making it another Wolverine book. Which is obviously done because Wolverine is a high-selling character, but c’mon! Can’t you guys just publish a cool X-Men book without jack-knifing Wolverine into it?

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