So far, what are the confirmed matches?, besides Magik and Pug the Croc
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We're about half way though and I'm pretty comfortable already calling this the best X-Men event of my life time and potentially my full on favorite Marvel crossover if they manage to stick the landing.
If you had told me two years ago that the next big X-Men story was about reconciling the various kingdoms of Otherworld, the ancient history of Krakoa, the original Four Horseman and told in the same structure as an anime-style tournament arc my first thought would be that it would be too much going on and wouldn't make any sense. Big testament to all the writers, editors and artists involved for nailing it thus far!
Only two are confirmed, the rest are guesses.
X-Men 14
Marauders 14 Storm versus (Death?)
Marauders 15
Excalibur 14 - Cypher versus ?
Wolverine 7 - Wolverine versus (Solem?)
X-Force 14 - Magik versus Pogg
Cable 6 - Cable versus Bei
X-Men 15 -
Excalibur 15 - Betsy versus (Isca?)
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I'm also happy with the build up of this event. If we were just quickly thrown into a series of battles there'd be little idea of the stakes or personal drama of the combatants. Also, it's only actually been going a month now - in the 80s, we'd only be getting onto the second or third issue of the event by now, so the story obviously had to be way more dense back then to keep interest going. Lord Claremont was the king of long range set up and we'd have had elements of the story set up months in advance, which with this event we have actually had too.
Is simply astonishing that in so little time hickman and his team have created a new x universe that feels more expansive than the entire marvel universe and we haven't even been to a lot of these places her. I mean there is enough story every mutant can have a mini or series exploring something new. It's simply fascinating. Marvel has a treasure trove to dive in for any number of movies.
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Yeah I think a lot of ppl look at "22 parts!" and think the event a lot longer than actually is but 2 months is actually a pretty short for an event time-wise
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Pogg ur-pogg should live and become magik's friend. Having her teleport riding a 4 armed crocodile fits her
I want to like "X of Swords" more than I do. I feel like so many issues are a waste of time and do not really moving the story forward. Quite disappointing. I expected something great like House of X/Powers of X but so far I'm not particularly impressed. The art is gorgeous though!!