Marvel Comics

[tyven]

If i want to get into New Mutants and X Factor how far back should I start?

[Kaslo]

I don't see Cyke losing it, they have been training these kids for situations like this for years now. The only "kids" in my mind are the Generation Hope team, where Wolverine has a point (especially with Oya who is like 12/14/16/18 [depending on the artist/writer]). However, they are training with Hope who is probably the most militaristic x-man.

[Delirium]

New Mutants you can prolly start around....25 I think? Right after Age of X. The series assumes you know about all the characters since issue 1 of volume 3. If you don't wikipedia is your friend
X-Factor you can jump into it right now. 224.1 gives a good intro to all the major characters and sets up the next arc(which has only seen 225 so far). If you can find issues 1-50 of volume 1(which is in TPB and marvels digital comics site), I would suggest doing so. Volume 3 of X-Factor goes 1-50, then went back to the old numbers starting with 200.

[grantlogan]

Holy eff at Ultimates #2. Hickman combined the Future Foundation and The World from 616 into a force that decimated Asgard. Bad ass.

[Sumiko]

Hope you guys are looking forward to Wolverine and the X-Men XD! It's lots of fun.

[Delirium]

Hope you guys are looking forward to Wolverine and the X-Men XD! It's lots of fun.

I think I'm more interested in X-Men, it is an interesting team. Of course, I want to see how Peter David handles 2 more characters in X-Factor when they have a ton already.

[Delirium]

just looked at what is coming out this week, it is pretty light for my interests. X-23, Schism 5, maybe Tbolts.
Next week is really X-Men heavy with Generation Hope(with insane looking Hope on the cover), Uncanny X-Force, Regenesis, Legacy, as well as Alpha Flight. Because Marvel wants me to spend a lot of money right before NYCC apparently

[Katlan]

is Regenesis going to have its own mini series, or will it just be tie-ins w/comics all under the same heading? And is there a site you recommend for finding when certain comics are going to be released. Tried certain online comic stores but their search engines are terrible

[Kaslo]

It should just be issues of current series under the Regenesis banner.

Marvel.com has a decent release database, I usually use that. Comicvine usually tweets a post every monday with all the week's releases. But that's all I got.

[Delirium]

Regenesis will have a one-shot called X-Men: Regenesis #1, and then later in october Uncanny #544, Wolverine 17, and Wolverine and the X-Men will be out. November starts Uncanny X-Men #1 and everything else.

you can use comixology.com, midtowncomics.com, and prolly more to find whats coming out the next week and, to a lesser extent, in the future.

[Delirium]

Schism and X-23

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Schism - when everyone knows what is going to happen, I feel the writer really has to "wow" with why it happens. Instead, Cyke and Wolvie fight a few pages, the kids beat the Sentinel, then its Wolvie and Cyke arguing and splitting. It's why Second Coming has been the best X-Men event in a long time. Oh well.
X-23 - The most important part of this issue, and maybe the entire arc, is that Laura is evolving. Also, Phil Noto really draws Laura well. She actually looks 16, for awhile she was looking a lot older in X-Force(which was prolly intentional cause a 16 year old killing that many people would not have gone over well).

[Kaslo]

Quesada cover for X-Sanction:

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[Delirium]

X-Men Regenesis #1

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This really felt like the missing part of Schism #5 to me. It shows why a lot of the team members chose to follow Cyke/Wolvie. The artwork was really well done as well. I just wish that it had been part of Schism #5 instead of 2 $4 books.

X-Men Legacy

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There is nothing really wrong with this book and it has some of my favorite X-Men characters in it(Gambit, Magneto, Polaris, Marvel Girl), but it just fell very flat to me. Maybe I just dont care about Friendless that much as a villain. Not to mention it is behind the other X-Men books as Regenesis #1 already showed all the characters back on Earth and I read Regenesis first.

Generation Hope

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I kind of like Pixie being on the team and I didnt really like Oya as a character anyway. I felt Kenji serving Kenji-burgers tried too hard to make him creepy. I think this book isn't going to last. It just can't seem to find its stride

ASM #really large and I forget

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I like Spider Island. It is silly, it's over the top, it's all ages fun. The tie-ins are good, unlike a lot of Fear Itself's tie-ins. The art is a little weird at time, MJ on I think it was page 4 looked strange.

Avenging Spider-Man

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YAY FREE COMIC! Art is awesome, worth getting just for the art alone.

Sadly my subscription to uncanny x-force takes like 3 weeks after it hits the shelves to get to me /lesigh

[Delirium]

God, I want The Dark Angel saga to end just so I can find out what happens! Every new issue of this is KILLING me waiting to see how it all ends up.

Ya, I do want to see how what is going to happen will happen

I think that

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Warren is going to die. Betsy is going to kill him. We already know the X-Men know Warren is gone because of Regenesis #1. I wonder if they will realize that X-Force has continued? I sort of want to guess no because of the conversation Wolverine and Psylocke had. But then, how do they explain Angel going missing all of a sudden?

[Katlan]

oh nvm... answered my own question

[Kaslo]

Did not like Teon in Gen Hope this week, seemed way out of character.

Wished Regenesis would have said where Chamber sided, we know Husk, would like to see where her soulmate goes

Ultimate X-Men is getting better, but just get the full freaking team together already.

I like how Ultimate Spiderman is setting up everything that happened before the death of spiderman.

[grantlogan]

I know I sound like a broken record but OMG UNCANNY XFORCE RAGHUFHFASHODHF! The story just keeps adding layer after layer of pure awesomeness. Not to mention, one of the funniest issues I've read in any comic for a long time.

[Vagrant]

Did not like Teon in Gen Hope this week, seemed way out of character.

Wished Regenesis would have said where Chamber sided, we know Husk, would like to see where her soulmate goes

The breakdown of the teams at the end of the issue has Chamber listed on Wolverine's side.

[Kaslo]

The breakdown of the teams at the end of the issue has Chamber listed on Wolverine's side.

Hmm I thought I checked that and didn't see him... my bad... he probably followed Husk there

[Vagrant]

Yeah his name is conveniently located right between Cannonball and Husk. I was wondering about him before seeing that also as I couldn't figure out why they would re-power him through Age of X and then proceed to do nothing at all with him since.