Missed opportunity of a Doctor Nemesis variant cover homage.
Missed opportunity of a Doctor Nemesis variant cover homage.
With X-men missing.I think they should change that to Uncanny
Everything so far points towards this being a "what you see is what you get" deal which seems to be the writers going "How you do fellow kids? Look at these teen heros, they are just as trendy as you but cooler and mutants.".
So this is might all just be to expand on the current trend of taking "elements of civilization", adding the word mutant to it and trying to make it seem like it's something revolutionary. In this case trying to pick up current youth culture trends or what the writers percieve as them. Rather than trying to set up elements for a major story in the core book.
That's quite a claim for characters who are just mutants who happen to have powers similar to those of allready established and well known older mutant characters, especialy in a world which also features all kinds of super natural teens of alien or mystic origins (or even mutants with alien or mystic half parentship. Hello Pixie!).
Last edited by Grunty; 01-21-2021 at 12:26 PM.
We know which heroes they are inspired in, but I don't think we know what their powers are yet.
i know with covid and other unforeseen circumsances some books have to be delayed and shifted around but is inexcusable that there is no x-men book shipping in april ...what does this accomplish besides losing sales and making us lcs unhappy makes no sense i can sure as hell sell a lot more copies of x-men than the garbage children of the atom book or the new way of x religiois nonsense with z list characters . And ive seen early numbers for children of the atom and they are not good and i dont expect way of x to be much better. HOX AND POx overperformed greatly and even the first 6 plus issues of the dawn of x-book exceeded all expectations as well and the trades on each continue to sell. But i think Mr white and company have to be put on notice the honeymoon period is over i know upper mgmt tinkered with the format but and this ive heard from several inside sources with the real numbers that X-of SWORDS sold well well below what they were expecting. Im a huge x-guy and i can even say all the books can defintly be better an for all the idiots that bitched about the double shipping when they first launched Us comic book retailers would much rather have the better books ie x-men maureders x-force and wolvie double ship each month or at least 16-18 issues a year than some of the lesser fringe x-books marvel is putting out and planning to put out, so when retailers bitched about too many x-books they didnt mean skipping the flagship book dammit
Rogue, Mystique and Marrow will be in Women of Marvel
It's not an x-book, but it will feature three female mutants
Oh how uninformed of me. Just a reference flying over my head. Thanks for correcting. Still a bold statement to make, but fitting to them trying to hype that book up.
Marrow? That's unexpected.
I mean i like her (even though she is 20 years behind in terms of good character development and a proper redemption), but she seems to be only valued as c-list "bottom of the barrel" choice by most writers and while she is relatively well know despite said status, (even outside the comic fandom thanks in large part to her appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 i assume), she doesn't seem to have too many fans.
Also it's somewhat questionable given her crimes, which she never had to face any true judgement for (at least at hands of heros) or displayed enough "magnificent" villain qualities (ala Mystique) that the whole subject could be disregarded.
So unless that awareness for the character really does give her enough value to be worth putting into that title, it makes her inclusion in such a book odd. Or because she is an a-typical powered and looking female character.
Last edited by Grunty; 01-21-2021 at 02:16 PM.
Not to disregard Feral but is that even a fair fight? In theory Marrow has much more combat experience (spend her entire youth fighting vicious other mutants), is physicaly equal if not stronger than Feral and has a much stronger set of powers.
Just compare how the two performed in their respective X-force runs.
Though thematically it's interesting. Given that both were Morlocks and Marrow as kid liked Thornn, but would likely have feared Feral.