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Monday, January 27, 2014
Uncanny X Men final issue
In June, Marvel announced that issue #544 of their long running comic Uncanny X-Men (out October 19th) would conclude the series after Adam Kuberts five part X-men: Schism would tear the X-Men apart. But now it appears that Marvel will be regenerating the title and introduces two new series: Wolverine and the X-Men and an alternative version of Uncanny X-Men (lead by Emma Frost), splitting the original series in two.
Above: cover for the last issue of the original run. Artwork by Greg Land and script by Kieron Gillen. While the current artists of the original series will continue working on the new Uncanny X-men #1 (out in November), writer of X-Men Schism Jason Aaron will team up for the Wolverine and the X-men series with artist Chris Bachalo. The first issue will be out October 26th. As you can see from the artwork for both covers beneath, the members of both teams are still cloaked. Marvel will also publish a X-Men: Regenesis one-shot, penned by Gillen with artwork by Billy Tan.
While the original X-Men comic book series was created by the legendary Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, the series changed into the Uncanny X-Men in November 1980 with issue #139 with the numbering continued. Although hugely popular now, the series initially failed to succeed and was even cancelled between 1970 and 1975.
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Above: cover for the last issue of the original run. Artwork by Greg Land and script by Kieron Gillen. While the current artists of the original series will continue working on the new Uncanny X-men #1 (out in November), writer of X-Men Schism Jason Aaron will team up for the Wolverine and the X-men series with artist Chris Bachalo. The first issue will be out October 26th. As you can see from the artwork for both covers beneath, the members of both teams are still cloaked. Marvel will also publish a X-Men: Regenesis one-shot, penned by Gillen with artwork by Billy Tan.
Below left: Cover for Stan Lees first issue from September 1963 with artwork by Jack Kirby with inks by Paul Reinman. Right: The Uncanny X-Men #139 from November 1980 carried the story Something wicked this way comes by Chris Claremont and John Byrnes.
The real succes for the X-Men came when Chris Claremont took on the job of writer and introduced all kinds of new characters and stories, which he continued to do for 17 years, from 1975 until 1991! A spin-off series was introduced in 1991, which was just titled X-Men again. Claremont also scripted its first issue (with artwork by Jim Lee), which is still the best-selling comic book of all time! Below: Artwork by Jim Lee (pencils) and Scott Williams (inks) for the four variant covers of X-Men #1 from 1991.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Let the battle begin Marvels Avengers vs X Men starts tomorrow
The two biggest franchises in comics history go to war! Tomorrow Marvel will start its latest clash of the titans and this years summer spectacle, when the prologue issue #0 of their new limited hit series Avengers vs. X-men (AvX) reaches comic shops everywhere!
Avengers vs. X-Men is a 12-issue series, written by Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction with art by John Romita Jr., Olivier Coipel and Adam Kubert and features a war between the New Avengers/Secret Avengers and the X-Men.
Avengers vs. X-Men starts with the Phoenix Force returning to Earth. Its looking for a new host who will possess all of its power, which may be the mutant teenager Hope Summers turning her into the Mutant Messiah.
The X-Men, believing that the Phoenixs return means the re-emergence of the mutant species, are trying to protect and prepare Hope, while the Avengers, believing that the Phoenixs return means the destruction of the world, want to take her into protective custody before the Phoenix arrives.
In Marvels legendary comic universe, The Phoenix is among the most feared beings in all of existence. It is an immortal and mutable manifestation that has the power to cut and re-grow any part of the universe, as well as destroy it entirely, which is part of the Phoenixs purpose, to burn away the obsolete, known as The Judgment of the Phoenix.
The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #101 (October 1976) and was created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum. In their version, it took on the form of Jean Grey.
Below: artwork for the covers of the first two issues, hitting the stores on April 4th and 18th. Avengers vs. X-men was preluded by the mini series Avengers: X-Sanction, which took off in February and the X-Men: Regenesis storyline that ran through multiple comic titles from Marvel and began in October last year. It followed the earlier 5-part X-men: Schism miniseries written by Jason Aaron.
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