Marvel.com: After weeks of speculation from comic book fans around the world, Marvel revealed the next monumental chapter for the X-Men during this year’s Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo. During Marvel’s Next Big Thing Panel, critically-acclaimed creator Jonathan Hickman announced two new series: HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X, beginning this July!
Ever since Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the X-Men, fans everywhere have followed the extraordinary stories of the X-Men through seminal moments like GIANT-SIZE X-MEN, 1991’s X-MEN #1, AGE OF APOCALYPSE, and NEW X-MEN. Each of these moments introduced a new era for mutantkind—and starting this summer, the world will experience the next seminal moment in the history of the X-Men with HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X.
“We are excited to have Jon back with the Marvel family, and we could not have asked for a better creative team to help usher the X-Men into a whole new era,” says Marvel Editor in Chief C.B. Cebulski. “While we can’t reveal too much about the story just yet, these new stories will redefine the X-Men and their place in the Marvel Universe. This is a historic moment both new and passionate fans won’t want to miss.”
These two new series—written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Pepe Larraz, R.B. Silva, and colorist Marte Garcia—will build from every major X-Men milestone since 1963 up through the current X-Men series and storylines fans know and love, including some of our most iconic characters from over the decades. Each series will be released on an alternate weekly schedule, starting with HOUSE OF X, followed by POWERS OF X. Fans will be able to follow along each week this summer and witness history unfold.
HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X will go on sale this July!
“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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I... I honestly don't know what to think about this.
I mean, Jonathan Hickman is amazing; I ADORED his run with the Fantastic Four, and while I didn't follow his work with Avengers and New Avengers, I know it got lots of compliments; plus, Secret Wars is definitely the best event Marvel has had in at least the past two decades.
But... we already saw great writers do less than great runs, like Remender with AXIS (and the second Uncanny Avengers series), Bendis in the latter half of his Avengers and X-Men runs, and so on. And if I'm not mistaken, some people at Marvel have commented that working with the X-Men is considered particularly hard, and that the X-fans are particularly hard to please (then again, professional critics have disliked much of the recent X-stories, so I'd say Marvel is mostly at fault here).
Anyway, I'm glad we'll get a Hickman run, I'm optimistic, but I'll be cautiously optimistic to avoid disappointment in case he doesn't deliver the same quality he used to.
As for this illustration, I'm a bit upset that Psylocke doesn't appear on it. But then again, neither do Colossus and Kitty, and we know the Marvel editors LOVE Kitty.
This is quite a weird illustration, in fact... at first, it seems to combine different eras of the X-Men, but then we have... young Azrael (or is it Evil Kurt)? Baby Havok? Brunette Magik with Colossus's powers?
Then again, it's great to see Moira back!
Yeah the characters drawn here are mandated because Mark Brooks LOVES Rogue and Psylocke. No way he would omit both if given the chance.
I didn't know Mark Brooks loved Psylocke... I guess that explains why he frequently shows new art with her.
Still, I guess (and hope) this art doesn't represent ALL the X-Men that will be shown in the new books, so hopefully Betsy will be part of them (and Rogue, and Gambit, and Colossus, and even Kitty who I dislike but is still a mainstay of the X-Books, so she deserves a spot). Hickman did (kinda) show Psylocke in the Time Runs Out arc and used alternate versions of hers in both New Avengers and the main Secret Wars series, so I guess he doesn't have a problem with her.
Is it just me or does it look like Danielle Moonstat, colossus and Magik fused ? Same thing for who what appears to be Nightcrawler and Gambit in one. O am so confused tbh yet thrilled. I wonder what happened to Betsy though or just casually missing ? I mean Archangel is there, Storm is they with a throwbacklook, there's two Jeans and old Cable too ?!
Moonstar*
I noticed that too AKO about the Magik hybrid. I'm curious if maybe AoX may actually have repercussions.
Ther are also a lot of dead characters on this image, so I think it mighy be more like the original dissemination teaser that shower a ton of X-Men who were not featured in the story at all. I hope that Marvel isn’t resurrecting Moira, Gateway, Thunderbird, and Lilandra. Not that I don’t love them... It’s just that their stories came to an end, and it would serve no purpose to undo that closure.
Also. Didn't Charles Xavier become X ? I don't see X
That'd suck tbh.
I count one Jean, and one Rachel Grey... Not two Jeans.
Off topic, but does anyone else play DC Universe Online?
You can make some pretty great versions of Psylocke:
https://marvel-dcuniverse.blogspot.com/2019/03/psylocke-x-men-blue-team.html
I read an interview where Hickman turned in tons of XMen notes in regards to continuity it's nice to know a writer gives a shit and is basically doing these worthless editors job.
You guys did you see the preview image for Uncanny XMen 15? The cover is of Revanche or Kwannon Psy blaring Wolverine.
@Unknown, a more recent one or the previous one from a couple of months ago with Kwannon in the hood and thong?
Same issue we already saw solicited a while back. It's the next issue of Uncanny
Why is it so hard to just put out ongoing, monthly X-Men titles with diverse characters, fresh costumes, and compelling writing?
They still didn't resolve anything with the Psylocke and Kwannon story.
Who actually enjoys buying weekly titles that don't make any changes to canon and really just go backwards to the past?
They are just jumping from multiple event books, to two event books.
Enough with the events.
I was really looking forward to having new ongoing titles.
@Unknown, because current day Disneyfied Marvel cares way more about revenue and mass market appeal than it does for honoring the concerns of its core, long-time audience. Quantity must supersede quality.
The one silver lining with this new direction is that Hickman is a pretty good scripter, so maybe he will make lemons out of lemonade.
Well the next issue of Uncanny maybe will address the whole Kwannon thing. I'm liking this new direction in uncanny. Some of the situations they are put in is a new take on what they've done in the past.
You telling me this dude can make lemons from lemonade? He's that good?
lol
Kidding.
Im excited for Hickman. His Avengers stories are pretty good. The X-men could use some A list writers and artists if they're gonna be back on top again:)
@Vigmed - He is. In my opinion, the two best AvX issues were the ones he wrote (even though he showed a polar bear in Antarctica). His Fantastic Four run may have been the best one they EVER had (yes, it's up there with Kirby's), and his Avengers run was nothing short of amazing - and unlike Bendis, who started great and lost steam after Civil War, Hickman delivered a strong story from start to finish.
Not saying that it's impossible that he messes up, as every writer occasionally does, but there's a strong possibility that he doesn't. And I remember that back in the AvX days, he did say he prefers the X-Men over the Avengers, so that's already a plus.
More insight and conjecture:
https://amp.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/03/jonathan-hickman-might-just-save-the-x-men-from-th.html
thanks for posting in advance about it.
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