Which X-book are you most excited about post-HoM?

[Emerald Ghost]

House of M was not only to tear the entire internet in half, but it also seems to me to be a moment of transition from one era to the other; I could be wrong. However, I see changes coming, new books, perhaps new directions in some cases.

Which book are you most excited to read of them all, given what we've been told already?

I say Astonishing X-Men. I am excited to see if Joss' second year can be as good as his first.

[Doom Hammer]

X-Factor!

Please, let it restore my faith in the X-books!

[fishtaco]

Uncanny X-Men
New Excalibur
X-Factor
Cable and Deadpool
New X-Men
X-men: The End book 3

[Emerald Ghost]

Uncanny X-Men
New Excalibur
X-Factor
Cable and Deadpool
New X-Men
X-men: The End book 3

That word "most" really flew past you, didn't it? ;)

[Sean Whitmore]

New Excalibur is the book I'm most looking forward to as a RESULT of House of M.

I'll still like the core books better, I just don't think they'll be all that different afterwards.

X-Factor is a close second.


SEAN

[Quarterwolf]

Uncanny X-Men
New Excalibur
X-Factor
Cable and Deadpool
New X-Men
X-men: The End book 3

Ditto. Plus any minis there may be out as well.

I am such a Marvel junkie. It is hard to chose just one to "Most".

[fishtaco]

That word "most" really flew past you, didn't it? ;)Nope, it didnt. Im excited for post-Hom. Cant pick one over the other.

[Dizzy D]

New Excalibur is the book I'm most looking forward to as a RESULT of House of M.

I'll still like the core books better, I just don't think they'll be all that different afterwards.

X-Factor is a close second.


SEAN

Switch X-factor and New Excalibur (though I'm not looking forwards to either as a Result of House of M, but more based on the creative team, theme and line-up of each book.)

Cable&Deadpool and the core books seem to be mostly the same pre- and post.

New X-men will have to work very very hard to convince me that it is better than the previous incarnation.

[Beast]

New Excalibur, in regard to books related to the HoM storyline directly.

But there's a ton of stuff coming this fall that has my blood pumping for November. :)

[jcp011c]

X-Factor. Close second is New Excalibur.

[xakko]

X-Factor for me. I just want to know what PAD does with this crew. New Excalibur would be there, but there's no Meggan and there is Pete Wisdom. So, well, it scores under X-factor.

Looking forward to Colossus:Bloodline very very much.

[Emerald Ghost]

..there's no Meggan and there is Pete Wisdom. So, well, it scores under X-factor.

I concur with this wholeheartedly. :)

[streator]

x-factor, followed by x-men: deadly genesis.

[ibrakeforchinwe]

X-Factor. Close second is New Excalibur.

Same here.

[Ryan K]

X-Factor. New Excalibur and the new direction of New X-Men follow.

[DDM]

X-Factor
New Excalibur
Uncanny X-Men

[Nobbel]

Looking forward to:

the new New Mutants,
X-Men Genisis
Demutation (or something)
The End, book III
Uncanny
X-men
New Excalibur (will be a try out thou)

[Flight]

.X-Factor.

[Rachel Grey]

Uncanny X-Men.
Astonishing X-Men.
Cable & Deadpool.
New Excalibur.

[larroca fan]

I'm looking forward to



:X-men (salvador larrocas art and milligans story) love this comic

:astonishing x-men

:Uncanny x-men (the end of greys and so one dies in this arc cant wait)

maybe x-factor

[Emerald Ghost]

Eh? What New New Mutants?

[Nobbel]

Eh? What New New Mutants?

Yup, (where have you been the last couple of weeks, it's been mentioned in over 5 threads) the old team is kind of history after HoM, there will be a new line up, only 2 remain: Surge and Elixer. Dust, Mercury, X-23, Rockslide and Hellion will be added to the team. Wher the others will end up:.... no one knows,... yet...!

[fishtaco]

Looking forward to:
Demutation (or something)I think you mean to say Decimation. It's Marvel's next big crossover hype-fest.

[Vicious X Assassin]

I'd have to say X-Factor, is the book Im most looking forward to post-HoM.

[Beast]

I think you mean to say Decimation. It's Marvel's next big crossover hype-fest.
It's not really a crossover, just the tentpole title for everything coming out of HoM.

[DavidQ!]

I for one am not optimistic about Post HOM. I am sad.

[Vegetarian Goat]

Excalibur, 100%!!!

Just in case anybody's wondering why....

BECAUSE IT HAS DAZZLER IN IT!!!!!! I've waited so long for Dazz to be in a monthly book again, and if anybody beats me out on doing the review/spoilers thread, i'll eat their face with A1!

*ahem* Now that THAT unpleasantness is behind us... I'm also looking forward to it, because it has many other characters i enjoy- Juggernaut, SAGE, Captain Britain, (I'm hoping that this will restore a little bit of his quirkiness) and Nocturne (who you know will play up Dazzler pretty well). I'm also looking forward to the inclusion of Wisdom, who i may end up enjoying under Claremont's pen. Claremont always seems to make me like characters that i either don't care about, or downright LOATHE. (Like Bishop and Gambit) Plus, i think Sage and Wisdom will prove to be an interesting pair.

Throw in some London chapter of the Hellfire Club, (maybe?) And this looks like it's shaping up to be a mighty fine book.

However, X-Factor is a close second. I loves me some PAD comics.

[jetter_cheeze]

X-Factor, followed by Astonishing.

Mostly X-Factor.

[Twigglet]

X-men Deadly Genesis.

AXM will be great as well.

[Babylon23]

As long as Claremont continues to write Uncanny, I'll continue to be excited about it.

As for the new books, I'm equally excited by Excalibur and X-Factor. I'm really happy to see the real Captain Britain returning to a regular title.

[Sean Whitmore]

I'm really happy to see the real Captain Britain returning to a regular title.


The "real" Captain Britain? Do I take that to mean you didn't like Austen's female Captain Britain?

The one who...y'know...lived in America for no discernible reason?

Sacrilege!


SEAN

[SUPERECWFAN1]

New X-Men : Academy X and Excalibur. Both are being revamped thank god. NXM read like the X-Men: The Legion of Superheroes with 20 main charactors tossed out and it needed to be paired down.

Thier keeping the ones I wanna read about like Julian and Dust.


Excalibur is being revamped from that godawful mess that was the previous series. Hopefully Claremont doesn't write anything boring. Thats my wish. Look at what made the previous series suck and don't do that. ;)

[Babylon23]

The "real" Captain Britain? Do I take that to mean you didn't like Austen's female Captain Britain?

The one who...y'know...lived in America for no discernible reason?

Sacrilege!


SEAN

Well, Austen's Cap was a worthy successor to the mantle of Captain Brit.....

Sorry, I couldn't keep it up :) . Let us never speak of sacrilegious female Captain Britain again.

[Sean Whitmore]

Sorry, I couldn't keep it up :) . Let us never speak of sacrilegious female Captain Britain again.


Agreed. Writer's who can't tell the difference between England and Britain shouldn't be mucking about with the Captain Britain mythos. :D


SEAN

[bagheera]

:rolleyes: Thirty-four posts and I'm the only one looking forward to Wolverine post-HOM???


I am optimistic that Wolvie will really have some major changes, hopefully the permanent retention of his memories. Man-oh-man, there could be some really interesting storylines as he tracks down his past. The previously-unremembered wife! How about some grown kids who have issues with Daddy Dearest disappearing for a few decades! Then there were those years he was a roadie for Kiss!


Bring it on, Marvel. Let's expand on Wolvie's long and intriquing life.

:cool:







Man, I hope they don't disappoint!

[streator]

:rolleyes: Thirty-four posts and I'm the only one looking forward to Wolverine post-HOM???


I am optimistic that Wolvie will really have some major changes, hopefully the permanent retention of his memories. Man-oh-man, there could be some really interesting storylines as he tracks down his past. The previously-unremembered wife! How about some grown kids who have issues with Daddy Dearest disappearing for a few decades! Then there were those years he was a roadie for Kiss!


Bring it on, Marvel. Let's expand on Wolvie's long and intriquing life.

:cool:







Man, I hope they don't disappoint!
i am dropping wolverine after issue 32, millar's last. i have been collecting wolverine monthly since around 1997. to be honest, i have just lost interest in the character and the upcoming creative team does not make me want to stick around whatsoever.

[Beast]

See, that's part of the problem with Wolverine. Even Claremont has said he's become less intresting to write after all the recent changes. He's no longer the mysterious clawed canuck who was like 'The Man With No Name'. So he's lost a little of what made him so special and intresting to read about. And given CC's recent comments, I think that HoM will make him even less special.

[DDM]

Well, Austen's Cap was a worthy successor to the mantle of Captain Brit.....

Sorry, I couldn't keep it up :) . Let us never speak of sacrilegious female Captain Britain again.

The only other legitimate female Captain Britains are Captain UK, Justicer Bull, & Psylocke as Captain Britain. There is also an alternate female Captain Britain who was Franklin Richards bodyguard...

The Chuck Austen Captain Britain did not have too much thought put into her characterization.

Even in Uncanny X-Men #462, Brian Braddock resumed his Captain Britain--not Kelsey Captain Britain...

[Sean Whitmore]

The Chuck Austen Captain Britain did not have too much thought put into her characterization.


She didn't need characterization! She had pathos! She couldn't reveal her identity to her children...

.......

...for some reason.

Hmm, maybe you've got a point after all.


SEAN

[bagheera]

See, that's part of the problem with Wolverine. Even Claremont has said he's become less intresting to write after all the recent changes. He's no longer the mysterious clawed canuck who was like 'The Man With No Name'. So he's lost a little of what made him so special and intresting to read about. And given CC's recent comments, I think that HoM will make him even less special.


After which "recent changes", Beast? I don't think he need be less interesting. What he needs are more creative writers who know how to expand on the character. Evolution is necessary, not stagnant repetition of the same stories.

I often reach back and reread old storylines (due to my search of recent times in trying to work superheroes into some mode of therapy/character-building exercises for my patients) and that deepens my appreciation for the growth Logan has gone through.

Streator, I'm sorry you've been so disappointed that you're dropping the title. I hope they give you reason to come back to the fold.




(It's funny how humans tend to get very connected to their chosen legends/symbols/archetypes whether it's a comic character, a basketball team or a rock star.)

[BlackKnight]

I have to go with New Excalibur followed by X-Factor.

I am droping New X-Men as in my opinion the comic is just going to become the X-23 and the New Mutants book. I know that the writer said it wasn't but I just can't imagine them having her in a book and not trying to make it all about her. Again my opinion.

[Beast]

But Wolverine doesn't really evolve. Just some of what makes the character intresting is the fact that his past isn't fully known to the reader and especially the character. But Marvel's been deconstructing and revealing so much about Logan, that many writers don't seem to like using him much anymore. Just look how little he shows up or is actually used in the core X-Books anymore. Here's what CC said about it.
Dear David:

Actually, the "Doc McKenna" story was proposed by Mike Marts, based on the info provided in Uncanny #444 (amazing what a single page can accomplish.) We just haven't got around to (a) sorting it out, (b) getting approvals and (c) overcoming (and I'm afraid this is my personal bugaboo) all that Logan is going through lately, not to mention the after-effects of HoM. To me, he's lost / losing a lot of what made him fun to write as a character.

Cordially,

Chris Claremont

[Cayman]

Probably X-Factor and Son of M, assuming it's about Quicksilver.

Cay

[Crimson]

New Excalibur
Wolverine (If it is what I think its about)
Son of M (If its about Quicksilver)

[Titan Slade]

See, that's part of the problem with Wolverine. Even Claremont has said he's become less intresting to write after all the recent changes. He's no longer the mysterious clawed canuck who was like 'The Man With No Name'. So he's lost a little of what made him so special and intresting to read about. And given CC's recent comments, I think that HoM will make him even less special.

I agree Beast. Wolverine has not been written well since Claremont's *0's Wolverine stories :( . And yet he is still the most interesting X-Men character because the other X-Men have been written no better since the 80's as well.

[Titan Slade]

After which "recent changes", Beast? I don't think he need be less interesting. What he needs are more creative writers who know how to expand on the character. Evolution is necessary, not stagnant repetition of the same stories.


I'll tell you which ones. When other writers besides Claremont got their Hands on Wolverine in the 90's, they took him in a completely different direction as a character than Claremont had established and ruined him :( . His totally cloudy past, was slowly revealed and it really got crappy with Origin's revelation that Logan is a back woods hick :mad: . Instead of adamantium implanted claws, they were revealed to be bone, and Wolverine was turned into a bandanna wearing half man, half Wolverine creature. His master Samurai Warrior persona, has been all but phased out completely. His bar room brawling, beer drinking, cigar smoking, lady pleasing, adventures are all gone as well. Wolverine is now as generic a character as Spider-Man, Batman, and Superman. What a waste of a great character.

[DavidQ!]

New X-Men : Academy X and Excalibur. Both are being revamped thank god. NXM read like the X-Men: The Legion of Superheroes with 20 main charactors tossed out and it needed to be paired down.

Thier keeping the ones I wanna read about like Julian and Dust.


Excalibur is being revamped from that godawful mess that was the previous series. Hopefully Claremont doesn't write anything boring. Thats my wish. Look at what made the previous series suck and don't do that. ;)

Another exaggeration as an excuse.

[DavidQ!]

I have to go with New Excalibur followed by X-Factor.

I am droping New X-Men as in my opinion the comic is just going to become the X-23 and the New Mutants book. I know that the writer said it wasn't but I just can't imagine them having her in a book and not trying to make it all about her. Again my opinion.

sad to say this, but I agree with black knight. I wish both writers good luck, but the temptation is way too great.

[Babylon23]

The only other legitimate female Captain Britains are Captain UK, Justicer Bull, & Psylocke as Captain Britain. There is also an alternate female Captain Britain who was Franklin Richards bodyguard...

The Chuck Austen Captain Britain did not have too much thought put into her characterization.

Even in Uncanny X-Men #462, Brian Braddock resumed his Captain Britain--not Kelsey Captain Britain...

It looks like were on the same page, DDM. I love Captain UK and the Corps. I was ecstatic when Brian returned, especially with Alan Davis on art. It's a shame Davis isn't pencilling new Excalibur. I'm hoping we'll see a bit of the multiverse, Otherworld, Saturnyne, the Corps, etc. in New Excalibur.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Austen's Captain Britian did have some charactization. In fact I think had they not " chucked it all" to do Avengers : Diss-Assembled plans were to expand on the female Captain Britian and her sad fate of not showing her idenity to her children.

I was really excited for Chuck's Avengers. He was bringing in a new attitude and hell , interesting setups. Sadly it was all tossed...damn.

[cable guy]

Cable/Deadpool
Astonishing X-Men

[thik_3rd]

well, deadly genesis if you count minis. otherwise x-factor.

any word on when astonishing will continue?

[Beast]

well, deadly genesis if you count minis. otherwise x-factor.

any word on when astonishing will continue?
So far, all we know is Early 2006.

[thik_3rd]

I was really excited for Chuck's Avengers. He was bringing in a new attitude and hell , interesting setups. Sadly it was all tossed...damn.
his action scenes were great. all the character moments were trash though. i hope we at least get an explanation of what happened to kelsey captain britain, she had potential.

[thik_3rd]

So far, all we know is Early 2006.
where did you hear that?
that's cool though, i was having these nightmarish thoughts of it going on a year long hiatus so whedon could write the wonder woman movie.
is it relaunching with a number 1 or continuing with 13?

[Beast]

It's what Quesada said recently about Whedon's Astonishing.
And it's continuing from #13, at least that's the plan that's been mentioned.

[Brian M.]

All. I look forward to them all.

[Archer]

New Excalibur - gotta love Captain Britain.
Son of M (even though the first I heard of it was in this thread).
Anything with Magneto in it.

[Mariah]

By far...Uncanny, New Excalibur, New X-Men and X-Factor. The other ones' i'm excited about, but these are the ones i'm most excited for.

[Edman]

New Excalibur will be interesting.

Someone else mentioned Cable/Deadpool. I'm not sure it if really ties into HoM that closely, but nevertheless it has been solid all the way, so I'll stick with that.

But the top for me? I can't wait to see how this shakes up Astonishing and Uncanny.

[Hombre]

His master Samurai Warrior persona, has been all but phased out completely. His bar room brawling, beer drinking, cigar smoking, lady pleasing, adventures are all gone as well.

On the other hand, he's devoting his energies to leaving a trail of, what, eighteen hundred corpses from Jersey to Japan to find out the burial place of a poor kid. He had to kill them, evidently. And, after all, they were only lowlifes.