Dark X-Men #1 cover

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

So, who do you think the two silhouettes are?

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[thosefew.insanejournal.com]

It's the new hero ManwithMancomingoutofhisheadMan.

[geoffsebesta.insanejournal.com]

I love that guy!

[13thcell.insanejournal.com]

Is that the final cover, or are they just hiding someone until the comic is out?

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

I assume it's the latter.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Those aren't silhouettes. Its two light-based characters!

[tacobob.insanejournal.com]

I'm guessing..Black Lantern Bea Arthur and Brian Boitano..So, what do I win?

[sir_razorback.insanejournal.com]

I'd say Emma and Daken, but I like Tacobob's guesses better.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

That almost looks like a hood on the front female figure, Rogue?

[mrmojorisin1135.insanejournal.com]

Are the supposed to be new members of the team? Cause if not I'm going to say that is Emma Frost and Weapon Omega

[liarashadowsong.insanejournal.com]

I don't know, but the one in front is definitely female, and seems to either have fluffy short-ish hair or be wearing a hood of some sort. Could be Emma if her hair is blowing in a non-existent wind, though. I have no idea who the guy in back could be.

[ulf_boehnke.insanejournal.com]

The Living Laser and The Living Lightning!

[kenn_el.insanejournal.com]

Light-based characters Northstar and Aurora? Of course, the text would have to point out 'CRAZY' and 'GAY' if it were them.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

I think the characters are just blanked out because it would be a spoiler for the Utopia storyline.

[kenn_el.insanejournal.com]

Oh, I know. I'm just bitter that Northstar was finally getting a gig, and he's been used for, like, a panel or two since.

[beastman12010.insanejournal.com]

*yawn*

Someone wake me up when this whole "look at us, we're darkity dark dark dark, grim and gritty villains always win because that's more realistic" thing is over.

It was dull in the 90s, now... they can market it as a cure for insomnia.

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

Yeah--some of the guys there at Marvel can do gritty pretty well, like Brubaker's Cap and Bendis when he's doing crime stories, but Dark Reign's definately not an example of "good grit."

[punishermax.insanejournal.com]

Yeah because the villains sure are kicking ass in Marvel ! It's not like The Punisher is killing villains left and right in his series, Nick Fury is destroying Hydra, The Dark Avengers are falling apart, Emma is clearly going to double cross Norman, The Thunderbolts are being taken down from within and Norman himself is going crzy under the strain !

[comicoz.insanejournal.com]

Why is this tagged with Mimic? As someone only vaguely aware of the X-Men, am I to take it as that's not Angel's uniform and that's not him?

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Yes. Mimic is the member of the Dark X-Men, not Angel.

[comicoz.insanejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm not up on my X-wardrobes.

[kusonaga.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, the only way I recognised it as Mimic is because of the big honking M on his uniform. Bianchi could've made that clearer.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Maybe the public is supposed to think he's Angel, like how they think Dark Beast is Beast.

[comicoz.insanejournal.com]

Going to assume that was sarcasm. I honestly have no idea what the normal costumes for them are, since they all seem to change constantly. Closest I've been to an X-book is Cable and Messiah war, and in there, Angel is blue and purple...

[kusonaga.insanejournal.com]

No sarcasm at all. My first thought was 'what's Angel doing on the Dark X-Men?' as well.

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

Based on the X-men panel, I think one of them might be Nate Grey.

[wtfomfg2.insanejournal.com]

I don't think so.
SPOILERS






Nate's supposed to be the antagonist in this book.

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

Ohh. Makes sense. Putting him on the same team as Dark Beast would probably lead to trouble.

[sir_razorback.insanejournal.com]

Nate Grey... X-Man Nate Grey, the Summers Sprog that disapperated or something in the 90's?

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

he's back? Cool

SOmeone mentioned a hood on one of the characters. Didn't Maddie occasionally wear a hood in X-man?

[novoadonai.insanejournal.com]

are you serious? be still my beating heart. i'm one of the probably five people who really loved that character (bad writing notwithstanding). now i'm torn between being really excited that he'll be back and being completely terrified of how much they can possibly fudge him up this time around.

[wtfomfg2.insanejournal.com]

Yep he's back.
SPOILERS once again, courtesy of Comic Book Resources.


"There was one “Dark X-Men” character that Cornell could talk about in some detail though. He's not a team member, he's a target. His name is Nate Grey AKA X-Man. The son of an alternate reality's Jean Grey and Cyclops, Grey first appeared in the 90's X-Men storyline “The Age of Apocalypse.” At the close of that storyline he found himself in the mainstream Marvel Universe where he put his vast mutant powers to work as a hero. During one of those exploits it looked like Nate sacrificed his life to save the world from alien invasion and “Dark X-Men” marks his return to the Marvel Universe.

“He's near omnipotent, the mutant shaman, and he's terrifying to my cast of characters,” Cornell said. “That’s because he's exactly what they don't want in play right now: a very powerful, charismatic, alternative leader of mutant affairs. And a Summers, to boot. X-Man is dreaming his way back into the world, the deadliest possible hero.”

You can read the rest of the article at http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22476

[novoadonai.insanejournal.com]

*tries not to do little happy dance* *fails*

*random* dude, now i have a craving for Nate Grey icons. i lost my huge collection in the Great Personal Computer Crash of 2008 that not only ruined my PC, but took half my external drives with it. It was freaking epic. *sigh*

[ian_karkull.insanejournal.com]

Oh man, Nate Grey. I used to love that guy when I was a kid, which, in retrospect is probably something you shouldn't admit to, but there you go.

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

So Hank's part of the Dark X-Men? Why?

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

Maybe it's that Age of Apocalypse Beast? Jeez, I dunno. Count me in with the bored.

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

Yep it's Dark Beast.

Notice how he's not a cat. And that's the costume Dark Beast has been wearing during Utopia.

[sir_mikael.insanejournal.com]

Oh Hank... If you wanna wear funky goggles, that's fine. But why did you have to give up the metal pants for an orange/white costume? :(
I miss them pants.
Still yay Dark Beast!

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

Thought we already had the Dark X-men.

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

This is a miniseries starting in November, set after the current Utopia Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-men crossover.

Apparently they're cutting down to 4 team members operating under Osborn's control, and Nate Grey as the antagonist. And the creative team is Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk.

[likeaminx.insanejournal.com]

Why did they put Daken in a silhouette? I thought he was confirmed for this book anyway.

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

I'm not sure he is. Neither of the silhouettes really look like Wolverine's horned mask or Daken's mohawk.

I haven't heard that he was confirmed for the team post Utopia.

[likeaminx.insanejournal.com]

Really? I could have sworn someone said he was going to be in it. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part

[stranger_dan.insanejournal.com]

I am incredibly behind on comics but I stumbled across the Wikipedia entry for the Dark X-Men a week ago which is where I first heard of it and it had the full roster and citations to back it up and a group drawing that has nobody censored out. So why are they acting like it is a mystery? Or is this implying that there are more characters than Emma Frost, Daken, Cloak and Dagger, Namor, Mystique disguised as Xavier, and Michael Pointer missing from that cover?

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

That image was for the Utopia storyline, this image takes place afterwards. I'm guessing there's a change in the lineup.

[kaileighblue.insanejournal.com]

Selene and somehow Ultimate Kurt was saved from being Dead, transported to 616 and brainwashed.

What? I have no idea what's going on.