.... so what's his history with Nightmare, or Sleepwalker? I guess we'll eventually find out... or not?
I'm not super-into the trend of retconned "forgotten" new characters, but hopefully he'll turn out to be interesting.
.... so what's his history with Nightmare, or Sleepwalker? I guess we'll eventually find out... or not?
I'm not super-into the trend of retconned "forgotten" new characters, but hopefully he'll turn out to be interesting.
Looks great!
Is there a who’s who for the characters on the cover? I recognize about half of them.
Because that kind of introduction for brand new characters has such a good track record of making them relevant, interesting or giving them any staying power. *sarcasm*
They didn't even stop making new mutants when the EIC decided that there were far too many mutant characters and ordered a story in which Wanda destroyed every mutants X-gene except for (officialy) 198.
The irony in that kind of reaction is that judging by recent history, this character has a high probability of just joining these pre-existing characters in that fate quickly anyway.
This doesn't feel quite as much like that to me, since there's no indication he'll be retconned into modern comics history and not say, Daken's mostly unseen past.
Would love to see Graymalkin explored more. Wonder if he'll be part of this?
Starting at top left and working down from there:
Northstar
Iceman
Daken
Christian Frost
Bling!
Mercury
Rictor
Shatterstar
Mystique (holding Destiny's mask)
Karma
Anole
Striker
Julie Power
Tong
Quasar III (Avril Kincaid)
Moondragon
Phyla-Vell
Hercules
Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr)
Hulkling
Wiccan
Speed
Prodigy
America Chavez
Alloy
Fuse
Aaron Fisher (Captain America)
Victoria Montesi -- I think. This is the only one I am uncertain of
Viv Vision
Dr. Charlene McGowan
Nico Minoru
Karolina Dean
Dr. Toni Ho (Iron Patriot)
Pod II
Giant-Man
Ayo
Aneka
Black Cat
D-Man
Valkyrie (Runa)
Sera
Angela
I love new characters. But I don't necessarily need all characters to be the protagonists in a comic book. Some of my Marvel's favourite characters are part of the support cast, actually.
Not saying it should be the case for this one in particular. It really depends on their personality and how the writers will develop them.
I'm just saying not having space for all the characters to be protagonists shouldn't be a problem. The problem is that they are created to be protagonists and then writers forget they exist when they’re not.