Thursday, March 23, 2023

X-Solicits for June 2023

Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain #5
Tini Howard
(W) • Vasco Georgiev (A)
Cover by: Erica D’Urso
Earth’s Most Furious Heroes Unite!
And the villains alike! Morgan Le Fay has saddled up with her old lover, none other than Doctor Doom! And that can’t mean good things for the old country. But Betsy Braddock has a plan up her sleeve…and a Multiverse of allies even Morgan can’t magic-wand away. The fight for Britain, for Betsy, for Captains everywhere comes to a head!

Immortal X-Men #12
Kieron Gillen
(W) • Lucas Werneck (A)
Cover by: Mark Brooks
Quiet Council Variant Cover by: Phil Noto
Variant Cover by: Inhyuk Lee
Pride Variant Cover by: David Talaski
A Colossal Mistake…
The Quiet Council gather to fill the empty seat. It's the last chance to make a smart, kind decision to prevent the fall. Luckily, the deciding vote is in the hands of trusty old Colossus. Let's hope he hasn't got plans to ruin everything. That would be terrible.

X-Men Red #12
Al Ewing
(W) • Jacopo Camagni (A)
Cover by: Stefano Caselli
Variant Cover by: Rian Gonzales
Pride Variant Cover by: David Talaski
The White Sword Broken!
The White Sword – the mutant Omega healer who could raise the dead and bind them to his service – had One Hundred Warriors. Now the first and last of the Hundred have come to tell the tale of the one who destroyed them…one who is coming to test the mutants of Arakko once again…

X-Men #23
Gerry Duggan
(W) • Joshua Cassara (A/C)
Corner Box Variant Cover by: Mark Brooks
Trading Card Variant Cover by: Giuseppe Camuncoli
Pride Variant Cover by: Lucas Werneck
Variant Cover by: Nick Bradshaw
The Sentinels Get an Upgrade!
Anti-mutant fantasist Feilong has taken control of Tony Stark’s businesses and devoted Iron Man’s technology toward the next generation of Sentinels! These Stark Sentinels are as hard to beat as old Shell-head himself and are fully devoted to crushing the X-Men!

X-Men: Before the Fall – Heralds of Apocalypse #1
Al Ewing
(W) • Luca Pizzari (A)
Cover by: Pepe Larraz
Stormbreakers Variant Cover by: C.F. Villa
Variant Cover by: Leinil Francis Yu
The Origin of Arakko!
In ancient days, Genesis turned back the hordes of Amenth. In ancient days, Genesis forced Annihilationin to a parley. What words were spoken in her mind? Now, finally, Apocalypse will know…and the echoes of those words might destroy him…and Arakko with him.

X-Men: Before the Fall – Mutant First Strike #1
Steve Orlando (W) • Valentina Pinti (A)
Cover by: David Baldeón
Stormbreakers Variant Cover by: Lucas Werneck
Variant Cover by: TBA
Krakoa Strikes?!
Ever since mutants declared themselves humanity’s new gods, certain circles have been waiting for the other shoe to drop - the wrath. When a small New England town is hit by a devastating mutant attack, it seems the wrath is here. But all isn’t as it appears. And Krakoa doesn’t hesitate to save lives - so it’s time for BISHOP to lead Krakoa’s biggest rescue effort yet!

8 comments:

FSaker said...

It's sad to read these solicits and realize that Captain Britain's is by far the least interesting one.

It's been a while since I stopped reading X-books (though I did read the A.X.E. main miniseries). I don't know who are the current members of the Quiet Council, but I suspect Betsy won't even be among the options to fill the empty spot (in fact, I'll be surprised if anyone in the Council even remembers she exists, after she became so distant from Krakoa to deal with Otherworld. And I don't blame them.).

As for Heralds of Apocalypse, hopefully this cover means that Death will rejoin his father and siblings. It's about time.

Kiki M. Ishola said...

Anything BUT purple. Neon pink yuckness for hair. Does anybody know it's Betsy Meggan or Diamondback anymore?

THE FLYING NEGRO said...

Ugh...Steve Orlando (The male Tini Howard). I thought he would be out after he got Marauders canceled. And at this stage with Betsy, she is a non-character. Nobody cares about Captain Britain, Rachel, or Betsy anymore except a few lesbians on Twitter.

Unknown said...

Last edition?

Unknown said...

And again betsy holds a sword and a shield and do nothing

Mixia said...

I gave Marauders a chance, and dropped it after 3 issues. This stuff is a mess. Orlando and Howard are equally horrible writers.

Jaime Braz said...

How embarrassing at this point. A contest of ego and failure on behalf of Marvel continue Tini Howard's lackluster run. I hear a lot about climate change and saving the planet. Therefore is preferred to not waste any more paper and chemicals on bad content.

X-Man said...

@unknown. The way I understand it, it will be the last edition unless the book has good sales.

I'm ready for Brian to take back the mantle and for Betsy to get a new writer.

Does Brian also have duck & dragon versions of himself? Just seems so silly to me looking at this cover.