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by James Hunt ~ January 22nd, 2008
We don’t usually do much in terms of new updates here, but since the April 2008 Marvel Solicits have just been released, and in light of all the secrecy over the casts of various titles, I couldn’t help noticing this Greg Land X-Men poster (top image below, click to enlarge)
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Colossus, Frost, Cyclops, Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Pixie? Odd set of characters to be appearing on a poster together. It doesn’t appear to be the cast of Ellis’ Astonishing X-Men, after all (depicted here) though there is a little crossover. Could it be something to do with the post-Messiah Complex X-Men line? The Uncanny cast, perhaps?
There’s also this leaked Young X-Men cover (bottom image on the left, also click to enlarge.) YXM is, as we know, the successor to the dearly departed New X-Men.
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Clearly no Pixie there. Though I do recognise Wolfcub, Blindfold (in costume!?) Rockslide and Dust, clockwise from the far left, along with an (apparently) new guy on the far right and either Elixir or a new character in the centre. That’s clearly a Dodson cover even before you read the signature, though whether that means he’ll be the regular artist is anyone’s guess.
Still, I suppose we’ll find all this out soon when the full X-Men solicits come out on Thursday.
And, while we’re speaking about the solicits, it’s also good to see this has finally been announced:
X-MEN DIVIDED WE STAND BOOK 1 (of 2)
Written by MIKE CAREY, MATT FRACTION, CRAIG KYLE, CHRISTOPHER YOST and SKOTTIE YOUNG
Pencils by BRANDON PETERSON, JAMIE MCKELVIE, SANA TAKEDA and SKOTTIE YOUNG
Cover by BRANDON PETERSON
*Solicit classified until 1/24/2008*
48 PGS./Rated T+…$3.99
Frankly, that’s going to be worth it for McKelvie’s first mainstream superhero work alone. Excited? Yes sir.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 8:08 am
The guy on the far right looks a lot like Nezhno to me - but without vibranium tattoos. I remember (in Children of X-Men, I think) that he said his tattoos wouldn’t last forever. Then again, he also said that if they gave out he would die.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
The full solicits are out, and they announced that the 2 bald dudes in Young X-Men are indeed new. Carey also mentioned in one of his X-Men Legacy interviews that Pixie would be getting some unexpected focus in another book, so it sounds like she might just turn up in Uncanny as speculated…
February 17th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
[...] Just as a postscript to our original piece of X-Men speculation, turns out that the image of the team with Pixie is apparently promo/cover art for an original [...]
March 16th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
[...] to write with Brubaker. Land and Dodson drawing Uncanny. Pixie joining the Uncanny team (which I totally called). The X-Men franchise hasn’t had this much attention since Quesada first joined Marvel and [...]