Wood and Coipel Mutate "X-Men" for Marvel NOW!

[CBR News]

Writer Brian Wood and artist Olivier Coipel take on a cast of female mainstay mutants in "X-Men," the latest series to launch as part of Marvel Comics' Marvel NOW! publishing initiative in April.


Full article here.

[Leocomix]

I guess Wood is trying to reclaim "men" for women?
K. Immonen in JIM went the other way, claiming Sif isn't part of mankind. Johnston didn't mention that...

[Moose100]

Whoooaaa!!!

[sage6paths]

while i do like the fact that storm and psylocke are in this i would rather have had wood on x-force then humphries while also on adjectivless x-men.

[Mundungus]

while i do like the fact that storm and psylocke are in this i would rather have had wood on x-force then humphries while also on adjectivless x-men.

Wood on X-Force. Yes! I agree. I wonder how this will relate to Psylocke and Storm's activities in X-Force.

[Maestro]

*mind blown*



Yes! Yes! A million times yes!!

[randomengine]

Where is the gender diversity?

[KryptonSite]

This is an incredibly talented creative team, so I'm sure it'd be a good book, but do we really need yet another X-Men series?

Even the female angle is mostly covered with Uncanny X-Force already.

Worse is that it seems that 4 of them all end up shipping the same week... I know, "if you don't like it, don't buy it," but it'd be a heck of a lot easier and more fun to keep up with everything if the total amount of books was just two. Even if they were biweekly. But now, let's see what we've got...

X-Men (this)
Uncanny X-Men (the Cyclops/Magneto thing)
All-New X-Men (loving it)
Wolverine and the X-Men (which sometimes doesn't even feature Wolverine)
Astonishing X-Men (good book, but why is it necessary?)
X-Treme X-Men (not buying it, liked it better before when it was called Exiles)

And then the two X-Force books and X-Factor, which I assume is continuing as soon as Peter David is able.

This means that, no matter what, we're sure to get multiple X-books in most weeks. At $3.99. And they wonder why sales are going down...

[Marveluted]

I'm very excited about Marvel giving Brian Wood to truly steer the adjectiveless X-Men ship, rather than serve as a fill-in writer as he previously did (and did well). If you have any reservations, pick up an issue of DMZ; he's great, and he writes strong female characters.

His line-up is great too! Storm, Psylocke, Kitty, Rachel, Rogue and Jubilee. These are all great characters in stages rife for further development.

It's surprisingly balanced as far as skills and power sets: Storm, a leader with a fantastic power set; Psylocke a melee fighter with the benefit of TK and telepathy (I guess dependent on how Wood wants to use her); Kitty, a Tony Stark-acknowledged genius with a stealth ability; Rachel, one of the world's most formidable psychics and chronically underused since Rise & Fall of the Shi'ar Empire; Rogue, a tank with a power mimicry; and Jubilee, who desperately needs some help with the whole "no fireworks, all vampire" debacle (maybe we can finally have her age up to some degree of maturity too).

All in all, very exciting stuff. I don't care if it's all female or not. Those are just great, compelling characters with a lot of story to tell.

[Maestro]

more like "X-Women", amirite?

ugh... I just noticed Rachel Grey. Dammit.

[B. Kuwanger]

Speaking of Astonishing, I wish this team had Warbird so I could stop glancing in that direction.

now we wait for Jubilee to come back....

[streator]

there seems to be a lot of marvel now x-men titles with the same characters featured in all of them, which i guess is kind of how things were before anyway.

what was really the big change then? bendis?

[Hariel0079]

I had so called this!!

Woods and Coipel.... very strong start!!! vs Remender and Cassidy

[zipppoww]

(Double Post)

[motherofpearl1]

As long as it doesn't revolve purely about their sex lives it sounds good. I have faith in Mr Wood.