This. Figured I’d make my comment as general as possible because people get very triggered over “sexuality retcons” as if that’s not how coming out works.
Also part 3: https://aiptcomics.com/2022/01/24/x-...ndo-questions/
The Q&A is up: https://aiptcomics.com/2022/01/24/x-...ndo-questions/
I'd honestly be excited about either Jessie or Thunderbird. But in terms of other thoughts, my biggest remaining question about the cast members we know of is I REALLY want to know if Wanda's ToM spell enabled a back-up of Kwannon's daughter, because where Kwannon's at emotionally and mentally post-Hellions looks like two extremely opposite ends of the spectrum, depending on whether or not she still has a chance to resurrect her daughter or if she's truly gone for good because of Sinister.
Ouch, that third part of the interview kinda hurts if you like Colossus. Orlando said he was a big fan and wanted to write him but didn't cause he's being used in XForce.
Still not sold on Cassandra being here to save mutants (after committing a genocide on them). They're taking the most dangerous villain and dumbing her down to a weird sort of antagonist instead of flat out evil. I don't know what the X-office seems to want to redeem every villain and take away the threat they used to be.
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He said “ someone who has never been in a main line X-Men book before” so to me that’s not Thunderbird.
That could be lots of people. But here’s who I hope it is in no particular order:
Chance, Skein, El Aguila, or LightBright.
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He said "not only do we get to bring in someone who has never been in a main line X-Men book before — a contemporary X-Men book, I should say — but we get to bring in a character who I believe is pretty historic as far as representation goes and those things are both exciting to me."
So I believe that caveat of it not being a contemporary X-men book is the giveaway that it's Thunderbird. Maybe not, though. That's just the first character who sprang to mind for precisely that reason.
Orlando is also writing the Thunderbird one-shot and before it was announced, he had said in an interview that he was going to write another book for marvel that will eventually connect to Marauders later. Now we know that this other book is the Thunderbird one-shot, so the 9th member is probably Thunderbird.
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Great interview, love Orlando's passion and it's good to have another LGBTQ writer. My first thought was Thunderbird as well; I'd be here for it.