Free Comic Book Day: X-Men

[superboyprime]

"The way we see this is, 'It's a crossover, it's not an event.' 'Event' has taken on this meaning of certain things. People use it almost every month, 'There's an event!' But it's not. This is really truly going back to those classic — especially in X-Men — inter-series crossovers." - C.B. Cebulski

Comments

[icon_uk]

Well, it's certainly... Hickman-y....

New bizarre alien enemy no one has heard of before (The X version of the Black Order?), and deep cut continuity...

I'm guessing that's Doug in the last image, standing centre back, and probably to do his best "I HAVE THE POWER!" shout, because how could he resist?

[cainofdreaming]

One of those shadowy shapes seems to have a bucket on their head, too. Dunno who the others could be.

Edit - though I wiill be disappointed if one of them isn't Shatterstar.

[icon_uk]

Magneto perhaps? Or Brian Braddock?

Shatterstar's not a mutant, so it's unlikely to be him, alas.

[scorntx]

"It's not an event. It just looks like an event, reads like an event, and we're hyping it like an event. But it's not an event!"

-"People use it almost every month."-
...
Well, given Marvel tends to have an event almost every two months, and right now there's Empyre AND Outlawed going on... can't imagine why they'd say that.


At least Sat didn't draw the Happy Squirrel.
Last thing you need in your prophecy of doom is romantic entanglements.

[strejdaking]

No, I get it, he means it's a line-wide crossover like Messiah Complex, not a MU-wide event like Age of Apocalypse. There is a difference.

[silverhammerman]

X of Swords looks weird because I don't think it's the event that most people were expecting/looking forward to after the Dawn of X relaunch. X-Men vs the world, X-Men vs machine intelligence, X-Men vs those weird alternate timelines we saw through Moira X (like, Cardinal and Rasputin are definitely coming back after they fell into Xorn's black hole head, given how Powers of X talked about black holes), all of that seemed more pressing. X-Men vs tarot-reading mysticism seems like a sideshow, a distraction.

Maybe it will end up being really interesting and tie things together, but the central premise doesn't sound related to what made HoX/PoX so interesting nor does it pick up on any of the huge plot points it laid down. There's potential here for this to be really disappointing, I think.

[scorntx]

-Cardinal and Rasputin are definitely coming back after they fell into Xorn's black hole head-

Wouldn't be the first time that's happened, either.
(Like during the Austen days, when Nocturne and the Brotherhood got sucked in. They came back eventually.)

[icon_uk]

Saturnyne seems an odd choice too.

She's not normally mystical based, that'd normally be Roma's role. Saturnyne is Omniversal Majestryx, the admin side who can wipe out entire realities with a flick of switch.

So she's not quite the right fit, and at the same tme, operates on such a grand scale, that Apocalypse would be waaaaaay beneath her notice.

[scorntx]

... where is Roma anyhow?

(Wikipedia says she was alive before Secret Wars. So is she dead again, or having an extended vacation in the Nice Beach Reality?)

[iamrman]

I'm still not sure how I feel about this event. Will it be pretenious guff like the main X-Men title?

[scorntx]

Given Hickman is one of the main writers on it...
Chances of pretentiousness are high.