*Excalibur, X-Force and S.W.O.R.D. are all skipping the month.
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X-Men
#20
Jonathan
Hickman
(W) • Francesco Mobili (A)
Cover
by:
Leinil Francis Yu
Variant
Cover by:
Mike Del Mundo
Predator
Variant Cover by:
TBA
System
Online.
Processing.
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Marauders
#20
Gerry
Duggan
(W) • Stefano Caselli (A)
Cover
by: Russell
Dauterman
Eye of
the Storm!
As the
preparations for the Hellfire Gala come to a head, Ororo’s eyes are pointed
to the future, a future that takes her off the seas and over the horizon.
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New
Mutants #18
Vita
Ayala
(W) • Rod Reis (A)
Cover
by: Christian
Ward
Looking
for Love in All the Wrong Places!
The New Mutants’
path seems simple: train, guide and mentor the youth. Sure, they didn’t ask
for the job, but they’ve been figuring it out together, right? How wrong
could it go?
The New Mutants
are about to find out.
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Hellions
#11
Zeb
Wells
(W) • Stephen Segovia (A/C)
Sometimes
a Fantasy…
Psylocke
vs. Betsy Braddock in a 30-year-long battle! Empath’s misdeeds come back to
haunt him! And Mr. Sinister’s teeth hurt. What is going on here?!
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X-Factor
#9
Leah
Williams
(W) • David Baldeón (A)
Cover
by:
Ivan Shavrin
Best!
Concert! Ever!
The
Morrigan needs to be destroyed!
The
answer lies in the Mojoverse.
Looks like
we’re getting the band back together.
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Children
of the Atom #3
Vita
Ayala
(W) • Bernard Chang (A)
Cover
by:
R.B. Silva
Variant
Cover by:
Bernard Chang - APR200894
Origin
Revealed!
Who are
the X-Men’s sidekicks behind the masks? Meanwhile, a brand-new alternative
medicine is changing lives at school, but who’s recruiting the victims – I
mean patients?
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Way
of X#2
Simon Spurrier (W) •
Bob Quinn (A)
Cover
by:
Guiseppe Cammuncoli
Variant
Cover by:
Christian Ward
A
Villain Revealed!
The dark
force hiding within Krakoa begins to show its true form.
The
answers are hidden…within the mindscape. Kurt’s – and…others.
One of
the most dangerous mutants is reborn!
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X-Men
Legends #4
Louise
Simonson (W)
• Walter Simonson (A/C)
Deadpool
30th Variant Cover by: Rob Liefeld
Action
Figure Variant Cover by: John Tyler Christopher
With a
Vengeance!
Things
go from bad to worse for X-Factor when they must save the baby Nathan
Christopher Summers from the clutches of a deadly robot attacker. But who is
really at the helm, and what will this mean for the Future of the team and
the Summers clan?
Return
to this classic era with legends Louise Simonson and Walter Simonson in this All-New
tale set before the original X-Factor #43!
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“For so long, my life has been out of control. Chaos and serendipity, wrapped in insanity. I have suffered, I have lost. Not just my life, but my very soul, my self. But no more. Now I know who I am.” – Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Braddock, daughter of Otherworld, mutant, telepath, telekinetic, defender of the realm and, above all, X-Man.
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No Excalibur this month then?
I really hope that Betsy and Kwannon have a big cathartic battle and then they can move forward as close allies and stop being pitted against each other. A “Psylockes” mini series would be cool
I'll only be picking up Hellions and Way of X that month
Since Excalibur won't be published in May, is there any chance that Betsy will be back in her own body before the hiatus or will we have to wait until June for that to happen?
And if the Betsy Braddock mentioned in the Hellions solicitation is the real one, I hope she gives Kwannon a good beating and only gets defeated by someone else (Havok, maybe). But hopefully it's just a robot pretending to be her or something.
I feel sorry for Betsy that it seems she can never has a body of her own. Not long ago she created her own body with the soul energy then it got shattered into pieces. And it seems this new clone body she is going to enter would be another 'adjusted' version by her brother Jamie or Mister Sinister so she is will be manipulated again in the future much like in the past and she can never break free.
Skip the Excalibur writer altogether. Not the month.
I think the reason for Betsy having guilty on body swap issue because she is a nice person while Kwannon is not.
We all know the body swap is more on Kwannon's fault(even she has no say in it) because it was her boyfriend doing such thing to try to save her when she was almost dead and Betsy is clearly a victim in it.
Both girls knew it but Betsy feels sorry because there was a time she used the Asian body to live on while Kwannon died in her body. She is a nice person and has good teaching when she was young so she knows what is right or wrong and has such guilt and try to apologize.
However, Kwannon is clearly on the opposite side. She was a trained assassin at young age and we knew her first boyfriend was killed and her baby was took away from her in Fallen Angel. Also, she joined The Hand and do a lot of crime work for them. She was clearly a villain and had a bad personality if not for Betsy involvement.
I think because of their background, one is being guilty and want to apologize and one is being angry and want someone to revenge on. Also, maybe Betsy's apologize is more than just the body swap issue but more like a pity on Kwannon's life because it is clearly worse than Betsy's(even though Betsy is still such a poor girls in our eyes like she got her eyes scratched out, cannot be a hero like Brian, body swap, died a few times...etc).
At the end, I think it is more like Betsy changed Kwannon's life up to this moment and actually saved her from continue being a villain. However, Kwannon just still cannot admit it up to this point. But maybe in the end, She will express her feeling that she should be the one that needs to apologize.
Good point I like this logic
I like that Logic Psi-Psi,
The problem is, Marvel is making Kwannon-Psylocke a straight up hero post HOX/POX - supervising problematic mutants including Havok. Just because, she took Betsy's identity as Psylocke - down to the costume and power signature.
It's just very unlikely for the Krakoan to take Kwannon very highly for that role considering she's shown to be a wildcard in Rosenberg's UXF - a role that are more suitable for her IMO.
I think just like Betsy has all the memory of Kwannon, Kwannon has all the memory of Betsy when she was in her Asian body. So, even though the consciousness is Kwannon now. She has the 'knowledge' of Betsy on those mutants and was given the job to supervise them. Also, that would explain why she seems to have relationships with other mutant that she have never known before. It is all Betsy's memory.
And I don't think other mutants are considering her as Betsy exactly but just trying to treat her like Asian Betsy(as she got the memory) in order to give her a chance to live among them.
@Psi-Psi, your last observation is very interesting to me; I'm just getting the chance to read the Dawn of X stories now (I'm currently waiting for the issues #6 for each X-book), and Fallen Angels #5 actually has a couple moments where both Kwannon and X-23 point out to their teammates that they're used to her body but not to the consciousness occupying it. So yeah, what you said is spot on.
That said, it's probably the only thing I've enjoyed so far in Fallen Angels. I don't know, it just feels too detached from the other series, and the characters aren't portrayed in a charismatic way. Though, to be fair, I didn't see all the jabs people said Kwannon threw at Betsy; she made one or two comments that showed she was very upset with everything she's been through, but not blaming Betsy for that (at least not directly).
Then again, I must admit I thought the X-books would be better than they turned out to be. Hickman's X-Men is by far the best book (though surprisingly his work with the New Mutants is quite uninteresting, especially in comparison with Brisson's simultaneous arc for Hisako, Beak and Angel), followed by Marauders (Pryde for once is delightful to read, as a messy pirate captain rather than the Mary Sue she's always been). Excalibur is okay, but could have a little less bickering among the characters.
The explanations are good. Betsy has memories of her in the original body and the Asian body. Kwannon is a way Marvel have the original Betsy and the sexy Betsy around at the same time.
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