X-Solicits for January 2018

	Astonishing X-Men #7 Charles Soule (W) • Phil Noto (A) Cover by: Mike Deodato Jr. Variant Cover by: Phil Noto Variant Cover by: Chris Stevens Avengers Variant Cover by: Marco Checchetto LH Variant Cover by: John Cassaday Legacy Headshot Variant Cover by: Mike Mckone Trading Card Variant Cover by: John Tyler Christopher A Man Called X Part 1 • Charles Xavier has a plan. He’s going to save the world...whether you want it or not. • Act II of the Astonishing X-Men saga begins here, as a long-lost mutant returns to the world of the X-Men, Fantomex offers a kiss and Bishop discovers the Mindkiller.
	Phoenix Resurrection #2-5 Matthew Rosenberg (W) Carlos Pacheco, Joe Bennett, Ramon Rosanas & Khoi Pham (A) Covers by: Leinil Francis Yu Connecting Variant Covers by: Victor Hugo • A light in the darkness is not always welcome. • Kitty Pryde, Old Man Logan and Cyclops are leading teams of X-Men all across the globe, chasing events connected to the Phoenix. But with teammates disappearing and familiar enemies returning, the X-Men are fighting a losing battle. Beast doesn’t know how or what shape it will take, but he knows they are running out of time before the Phoenix makes its true presence known. • Meanwhile, a young woman named Jean is starting to go insane in her peaceful, suburban life. Nightmares and daydreams are spilling over into the world and revealing cracks in her reality. Jean’s life and everything in it may just be a facade, but made by who? And why? • Jean needs to escape. The X-Men need to stop the cycle of death the Phoenix brings. Their worlds will violently collide as Jean searches for an opening and the X-Men fight for closure. But when they are brought together, will the X-Men be reunited with their long-lost teammate – or something darker?
	Jean Grey #11 Dennis Hopeless (W) • Victor Ibanez & Alberto Alburquerque (A) Cover by: David Yardin Connecting Variant Cover (1 of 5) by: Victor Hugo Variant Cover by: Elizabeth Torque Psych War Part 4 • It was all leading up to this…young Jean Grey vs. the Phoenix! But after all her training, this might be a battle that she wasn’t prepared for at all. • Now, trapped in a prison with former Phoenix hosts, Jean must use everything she’s learned to bust out! All this, plus what was up with that ghost Jean Grey?! • Guest-starring Rachel Summers, Emma Frost, Quentin Quire, the Cuckoos and Hope!
	X-Men Gold Annual #1 Marc Guggenheim & Leah Williams (W) • Alitha E. Martinez (A) Cover by: Alan Davis Twentieth Anniversary Excalibur Reunion! • A brand-new Braddock bundle of joy! • The return of a D’Bari hero!           • Kitty’s Shadowcat costume! • ’Nuff said!
	X-Men Gold #19 Marc Guggenheim (W) • Ken Lashley (A/C) The Negative Zone War Part 4 • The X-Men fight a god. (No, really.) • Can the X-Men defeat a god with the fate of an entire world hanging in the balance? • What are the X-Men willing to sacrifice to save a planet?
	X-Men Gold #20 Marc Guggenheim (W) • Lan Medina (A) Cover by: Ken Lashley The Negative Zone War Part 5 • The X-Men’s victory against the might of Scythian has come at a cost…which might kill them all! • How can the X-Men survive on a barren planet? • You DO NOT want to miss the status quo-altering final page!
	X-Men Blue Annual #1 Cullen Bunn (W) • Edgar Salazar (A) Cover by: Nick Bradshaw Variant Cover by: Pasqual Ferry Venomized Variant Cover by: TBA Poison X Variant Cover by: TBA The Crossover Between Venom And X-Men Blue Starts Here! • Spinning out of the events of Venomverse, the Children of the Atom and the Lethal Protector team up to take down an extradimensional threat! • This is it, folks, the team-up you’ve been asking for: X-Men Blue and Venom must band together in the cold reaches of space to protect our universe from a threat more diabolical than you can imagine. • But will Eddie Brock, his faithful Symbiote, Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Iceman, Beast and Angel be enough to save this universe? I really, really hope so.
	X-Men Blue #19 Cullen Bunn (W) • R.B. Silva (A) Cover by: Arthur Adams Cross-Time Capers Part 3 • The timestream is in ruins... And it is the fault of The X-Men! • Can the X-Men fix everything that has gone wrong...even if it means battling against themselves? • At long last, the original X-Men are reunited with Professor X!
	X-Men Blue #20 Cullen Bunn (W) • R.B. Silva (A) Cover by: Arthur Adams Cross-Time Capers Part 4 • The X-Men have traveled back in time to encounter...themselves! • But why are the X-Men of the past acting like such jerks? • The X-Men have allied with Magneto in the present, but what happens when they team up with the villainous Master of Magnetism?

Phoenix Resurrection Goes Weekly

Phoenix Resurrection: This January, fan-favorite mutant Jean Grey returns to the X-Men and the Marvel Universe…and she’s not alone. Do Jean and Phoenix bring the world life? Or is the destruction of the universe imminent? The mystery unfolds in this five-part epic from blockbuster writer Matthew Rosenberg, featuring five different superstar artists, including startling 3D motion covers with art by Leinil Yu, Carlos Pacheco, Joe Bennett, Ramon Rosanas and Khoi Pham! 

And what about young Jean Grey, currently time displaced in the Marvel Universe and battling her own Phoenix visions? It all culminates in Jean Grey #11, the critical Phoenix Resurrection tie-in which will see young Jean fighting her biggest psych war yet – against the Phoenix!  – written by Dennis Hopeless featuring art by Victor Ibanez and Alberto Albuquerque.

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Jean Grey #5 Spoilers

Spoilers: After her encounter with Thor, Jean Grey decides it’s time to wield weapons, as such she seeks the world’s foremost psi-weapon expert: Psylocke. Betsy takes Jean to meditate and to a loud rock concert to help her focus her powers on psychic weapons, to no avail. Psylocke then takes Jean to subterranean caverns full of mole monsters. Jean manages to create psi-weaponry, and Betsy learns that fear is what makes Jean draws her inner weapons. Psylocke then takes Jean to Madripoor and assign Jean a black-ops mission: to sneak in the Hand’s resurrection chamber, set explosives and clear the ninjas she finds on her way. Psylocke mentors Jean from afar, while Jean manifests different weapons, a club, an axe, claws, chains, a mace, shuriken, clearing all the ninjas who come across her. Meanwhile, a voice inside Jean’s head keep telling her to ignore Psylocke’s advices and be reckless. When Jean is overwhelmed by dozens of ninjas, Betsy comes to her rescue, and both defeat all the ninjas and meet each other again. As they exit the Hand building, Psylocke tells Jean she heard the voice in her head and that it sounded familiar. Betsy implodes the building and tells Jean to find out who that voice belongs to.

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Jean Grey #5
Writer: Dennis Hopeless
Art by: Anthony Piper
Cover by: David Yardin

The Story:
After an adventure with the legendary God of Thunder himself, Jean Grey realizes that fighting the Phoenix will take more than just mettle - it will take metal. Luckily, there's an X-Man who knows something about turning resolve into ordnance - Enter: Psylocke!

In Stores: August 9, 2017

X-Solicits for August 2017

	Astonishing X-Men #2 Charles Soule (W) • Mike Deodato Jr. (A/C) Variant Cover by: Ryan Stegman Character Variant Cover by: Elizabeth Torque Villain Variant Cover by: Leinil Francis Yu Enter: The Astral Plane! In the next chapter of this action-packed X-Men epic, Psylocke, Rogue, Old Man Logan and the rest of their impromptu team travel to the astral plane in pursuit of the dastardly Shadow King. But on the astral plane, not everything is as it seems, and reality is only as reliable as what you think it is… Will the X-Men be able to contain the chaos from spilling out into the world? From superstar writer Charles Soule and rock-star artist Mike Deodato Jr., Astonishing X-Men is the book you cannot afford to miss!
	Jean Grey #5 Dennis Hopeless (W) • Anthony Piper (A) Cover by: David Yardin • After an adventure with the legendary God of Thunder himself, Jean Grey realizes that fighting the Phoenix will take more than just mettle…it will take metal. • Luckily, there’s an X-Man who knows something about turning resolve into ordnance… • Enter: Psylocke!
	X-Men Blue #9 Cullen Bunn (W) • Cory Smith (A) Cover by: Arthur Adams Secret Empire Tie-In! • Jean and Jimmy continue their assault on Emma’s stronghold, trying to free their teammates… • ...Meanwhile, Cyclops must fight to free himself from a particularly hellish mindscape. • Can the X-Men win against Hydra when all hope is lost?
	X-Men: Blue #10 Cullen Bunn (W) • Julian Lopez (A) Cover by: Arthur Adams Now, Watch As I Pull A Beast Out Of My Hat! • When BEAST’s meddling with magic catches up to him, what nightmares will the X-MEN be forced to deal with? • There is a cost to hexes and spells, and Hank McCoy is about to pay it. • Will Cyclops, Iceman, Angel and Marvel Girl be able to save their teammate from himself?
	X-Men: Gold #9 Marc Guggenheim (W) • Ken Lashley (A/C) • Kitty Pryde has sworn off men named “Peter.” • But when she and her first love – Peter “Colossus” Rasputin – are caught in dire straits, will she find herself going back on her word?
	X-Men: Gold #10 Marc Guggenheim (W) • Lan Medina (A) Cover by: Ken Lashley • Colossus and Magik return to Russia to help a stranger with ties to their past… • …only to discover him in the clutches of Omega Red! • But surely the newly resurrected cyborg serial killer means the X-Men no harm though, right?