Is Jonathan Hickman taking over?

[PrezValentine]

My dark lord Cates predicted this, i should have never doubt of his wisdom.

He knew it from the very start. May the God of the Abyss bless him

Also, why in hell did that image come out duplicated, godammit

[Winter_fury]

so how do you guys feel with marvel basically saying new x-men 114 was last milestone of franchise?

[phoenixzero23]

edit: wrong thread

[JaffyJayne]

so how do you guys feel with marvel basically saying new x-men 114 was last milestone of franchise?

I see no lies.

[TheCape]

He knew it from the very start. May the God of the Abyss bless him

Also, why in hell did that image come out duplicated, godammit

Bless him indeed, now if Cates is the next Wolverine writer, he shall ascend to a new plane of existence.

Lol, it happen sometimes.

[Can'tHexTheX]

so how do you guys feel with marvel basically saying new x-men 114 was last milestone of franchise?

Fairly accurate, particularly for me. I find the Utopia/Messiah//Time Travel O5/ Inhumans stuff as something to be put down as a whole, even if there were some bright spots.

This teaser doesn't make it seem like this new era will be worth anything either though, so I'm not sure why the big talk about milestones.

[gifted]

I love how they made Havok a little kid to match his whiny personality.

[spirit2011]

I love how they made Havok a little kid to match his whiny personality.

I laughed ahaha

[TheCape]

so how do you guys feel with marvel basically saying new x-men 114 was last milestone of franchise?

Makes sense, love it or hate it, Morrison's run was the last time than the franchise feel interesting (even if i disagreed with a lot of his ideas).

[PrezValentine]

so how do you guys feel with marvel basically saying new x-men 114 was last milestone of franchise?

No lies. It doesn't mean what came after wasn't good, but it was definitely a result of Morrison's influence. After him, the franchise never had any change of the same level.

[Uncanny X-Man]

I love how they made Havok a little kid to match his whiny personality.

Looks to me like Havok from the X-Babies of Art Adams fame?

[FUBAR007]

"Each series will be released on an alternate weekly schedule, starting with HOUSE OF X, followed by POWERS OF X. Fans will be able to follow along each week this summer and witness history unfold."
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comi...nd-powers-of-x

Pic with good quality:

In the background, from left to right: Warlock, Mr. Sinister, Gateway, AOA Blink, Iceman, Sikorsky (on Apocalypse's shoulder), Apocalypse, Cable, Toad, Archangel, Master Mold, Rachel (as Phoenix)

In the middle, from left to right: Vulcan, Jean (as Marvel Girl), Thunderbird (could be John or James, but IMO probably John), Emma, Jubilee, Logan (in his Morrison-era gear), Cyclops, Magneto, Dazzler, Storm, Firestar, Beast, Bishop, Lilandra, Nimrod

In the front, from left to right: New character #1, Storm (from her kid pickpocket days), Logan (as Weapon X), Bill the Lobster (from Fallen Angels; at Moira's feet), Moira MacTaggert, Morrison-era Cerebro helmet, Professor X, Nightcrawler, X-Babies Havok, Wolverine, New character #2

New character #1 looks like Azazel, but his costume design more resembles Kurt. New character #2 looks like a female version of Colossus carrying Illyana's Soulsword. My guess is we're looking at alternate future kids--Kurt's son and perhaps Kitty and Peter's daughter. The other possibilities are simply alternate versions of Nightcrawler (if he'd been red like Azazel instead of blue like Mystique) and Colossus (if he'd been a girl).

Different characters from different periods of the franchise. In some cases, multiple versions of the same character, each from a different time period. This would also fit with the ongoing theme of altered reality, alternate timelines, and alternate versions of characters that's been playing out in the books over the last year--Extermination (Ahab and the Hounds, the O5), Disassembled (Legion and X-Man), Age of X-Man, and (coming soon) Major X, and now this. Looks to me like some kind of big, cross-time, Exiles-like multiversal event--Crisis of Infinite X-Men?

Or, of course, this poster could just be a general-purpose X-Men pic showing various characters from throughout franchise history and have no meaning whatsoever for Hickman's storyline.

I suppose we'll find out in July.

[Heroine Addict]

Well Age of X-man matters because it's a great story...

That's right, continuity isn't everything.

Man, AoXM really was just killing time until Hickman's master plan was ready...

Or it's part of it.

O hewll. age of x-man is just a filler. ...

Like Uncanny?

[FUBAR007]

so how do you guys feel with marvel basically saying new x-men 114 was last milestone of franchise?

Perfectly fitting. All the creative teams since have been working from the template that Morrison established. The last 15 years of stories have been extensions of his run moreso than extensions of what came before it. Morrison de-aged the characters (e.g. Emma went from late 30s/40ish to 25, Scott and Jean went from mid-30s to mid-20s, and so on), deconstructed and reset many of their personalities and relationships, made the X-Men's identities public, came up with "secondary mutations", and jacked up the size of the mutant population by a couple orders of magnitude (pre-Morrison, X-Men creative teams proceeded on the assumption that there were, at most, only a few thousand mutants worldwide).

All the post-Morrison creative teams have been playing in the X-Men "world" that he built.

Now, if Hickman's really being given that level of creative control, he's being given the chance to reset the franchise to a similar extent--another soft reboot.

[Heroine Addict]

Looks to me like Havok from the X-Babies of Art Adams fame?

It does/is.