X-Men writers Gail Simone and Jed Mackay and editor Tom Brevoort talk about the future of Marvel's Merry Mutants in the From the
Ashes relaunch.
X-Men: From the Ashes
X-Men writers Gail Simone and Jed Mackay and editor Tom Brevoort talk about the future of Marvel's Merry Mutants in the From the
Ashes relaunch.
> After spending years as a respected leader of the sovereign mutant nation Krakoa, Cyclops is back on the run. With Krakoa destroyed and humanity ready to oppress mutants again, Cyclops has gone back home to Alaska to refresh and regroup.
>And yet, things have never been better for Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops. The upcoming From the Ashes relaunch will force the X-Men back into the world after the end of Krakoa in the Fall of X storyline, with a new X-Men book with Cyclops in the lead.
> “We wanted to start with Cyclops and wanted to bring him back to Alaska,” X-Men writer Jed MacKay tells Den of Geek during an exclusive interview at SXSW. “And from there we started thinking what his mission would be moving forward because he’s Cyclops, he always has the mission.”
>hurr durr, the entire team of other characters needs to go to muh "main" character's home so the main character can "find himself" hurr durr
Psylocke wearing pants
NO THANKS
>humanity ready to oppress mutants again
here we go.... rolls eyes
> Working with artist Ryan Stegman (Amazing Spider-Man, Venom), MacKay will bring Cyclops to the home where he lived with his parents and brother Alex until the former’s apparent death. Throughout his life, Cyclops has returned to Alaska to find direction and it comes in the form of his new mission.
> Despite nearly 15 years of fighting as a mutant revolutionary, even becoming a freedom fighter who gave Magneto pause, Cyke is back doing what he does best: leading a team of mutants that help other mutants live in a world that fears and hates them.
>“The mutants that he assembles with him are parts of that mission,” explains MacKay. “These are a group of people who are not especially well suited towards simply going back to a normal life in the world.”
I'll check out the Mackay book only because I've been really loving his Moon Knight series and I think Alaska is quite interesting as a setting. I expect at least an appearance from the Wendigo while they are there.
>native american monster
you just wait, twitter shits will use it as an excuse to claim cultural appropriation and claim white people aren't allowed to say the word skinwalker even though "skinwalker" is an english word and is basically the same as changeling
that's a possibility but i doubt since wendigo is a classic villain
>classic villain
twitter doesn't care, normies don't read comics
isn't the Wendigo a purely Canadian thing in the Marvel universe?
too cartoonish
>This motley crew presents MacKay with a very different challenge to the one he faces on his other team book, The Avengers. Where Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and Thor all have their own books, MacKay’s X-Men don’t have any solo comics (“For now,” X-Men group editor Tom Brevoort interrupts).
>“X-Men is their home book, so that’s going to associate a very different way of writing a team,” MacKay says.
Baby making sex with Magik and Psylocke NOW
>MacKay is hardly the only one dealing with these dynamics. Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Deadpool) and David Marquez (Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, All-New X-Men) will follow Gambit back to his old New Orleans stomping grounds in Uncanny X-Men, where he’ll team up with Wolverine, Jubilee, Nightcrawler, and Rogue. Over in Exceptional X-Men, Eve Ewing (Ironheart, Ms. Marvel) and Carmen Carnero (Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America) will take Kitty Pryde back to Chicago, where she and Emma Frost try to work together and train a group of new mutants.
>For Simone, Gambit’s retreat to the bayou gives Rogue a chance to rest after the complicated events during the Fall of X storyline. But her retreat gets interrupted, not only by some young mutants who need help, but also by a frightening new baddie.
nightcrawler is a spiderman right now. guess that didn't work out huh? is marvel starting to realize that if everyone is spiderman no one is spiderman? or is nightcrawler going to be spider man in new orleans?
moron
Drater
You could actually read the mini instead of mindlessly shitposting. He borrowed the suit to pretend to be a demon spider-man from limbo and investigate Orchis and that lasted as long as the investigation.
>you could actually read the
no thanks. why would i read soulless garbage and gimmicks?
>will take Kitty Pryde back to Chicago, where she and Emma Frost try to work together
Every time these two end up in close proximity, I can't help but pray that these stupid b***hes finally frick.
With Krakoa over, there's no way the Kitty-Rachel-Magik polycule is going to happen, I will settle for Kitty hatefricking Emma.
and Racheal got together with Betsy for some god-forsaken reason
Even when Tini Howard does something right, she still does it wrong.
>“Besides the Southern Gothic vibes, [Uncanny X-Men is] probably the scariest X-book,” she teases. “The new villain in there is someone that I would put up against any horror movie, psychological villain out there … and the sexiest.”
>According to Brevoort, these various retreats to old, familiar places is a natural outcome of the From the Ashes event, in which Marvel’s mutants must find a way to live without their Krakoa home.
>hurr durr muh sexy horror
>not team up with Man-Thing against forces in the universe that want control of the nexus of realities
>“All of the assorted mutants of the world need to go and reintegrate back into the rest of the planet and live and coexist alongside a whole bunch of people that they just spent the last five years saying that they were the new inheritors of the future and that you have new gods now,” Brevoort says. “People around the planet have not taken that message to heart in a purely positive fashion.”
>As tough as that situation certainly sounds, things aren’t all bad for Cyclops, at least in our world. At times, Cyclops has come to represent the boring leader, a character whose sole function is telling cooler characters to stop being so cool. That characterization didn’t apply to the comics, but the live-action X-Men movies and X-Men: The Animated Series haven’t always given Cyke the most to do.
>“All of the assorted mutants of the world need to go and reintegrate back into the rest of the planet and live and coexist alongside a whole bunch of people that they just spent the last five years saying that they were the new inheritors of the future and that you have new gods now,” Brevoort says. “People around the planet have not taken that message to heart in a purely positive fashion.”
"need to"? They have an entire planet with no humans that they can live on
I don't think that many mutants would want to return to living among humans after being thrown into actual concentration camps
>the need to go back and assimilate
this is stupid, they can literally just join the avengers and shield or frick off to arakko or a job that specific to them, like magik joining dr strange or something
The goal of the X-Men has always been to integrate mutants with other humans. Charles has been working towards that forever. Krakoa was just a necessity to avoid a specific doomsday scenario. Now that that crisis is averted they can go back to their former aim of integrating with other people.
Krakoa never made sense unless you wanted the x-men to be mutant Israelis, magneto should stay as a villain forever btw
Krakoa made sense when Marvel refused to give the assimilation/integration side a fair shake, basically what the X-men were fighting for and instead made it all about how humanity and governments conspiring to get mutants every week. If integration was a dead end as Marvel editorial continued to up the stakes then a mutant Israel was the only logical choice. Which mirrors rl where Israel was only proclaimed in 1948 after the Holocaust where so many of the israelites on the integration side were pretty much murdered.
>Which mirrors rl where Israel was only proclaimed in 1948 after the Holocaust where so many of the israelites on the integration side were pretty much murdered.
Zoinest terrorists were already blowing up Palestinians and British soldiers before and during World War II anon
The UN would never have supported the partition that created Israel if not for the Holocaust and the sympathy israelites garnered. Otherwise they would have voted for the other option for the creation of a single state with israelites and Arabs.
>integrating
okay so join the fricking avengers, shield and other super hero cliques. that's fricking integration
Mutants don't want to assimilate but they also don't want to be told they're not allowed to either.
they've already done it multiple times. beast, scarlet witch, quicksilver and probably wolverine have all been avengers
this is literally trying to but the genie back in the bottle or closing pandora's box. It's pretty much impossible without reality bending and for good reason
>screencapping your own post
Lmao what a b***h
It actually wasn't my own, I just screencapped it because it's eternally funny and true.
>All of the assorted mutants of the world need to go and reintegrate back into the rest of the planet and live and coexist alongside a whole bunch of people that they just spent the last five years saying that they were the new inheritors of the future and that you have new gods now
I doubt this will be explored in any meaningful capacity, but this is really something to wonder about. The superheroes will be fine, but how does all the civie mutant that wre on krakoa reinsert themselves into society.
Also
>The last 5 years [are krakoa]
>Despite nearly 15 years of fighting as a mutant revolutionary [cyclop being an x-men]
They are fricking up their sliding timescale or implying that krakoa was one third of all marvel history.
>They are fricking up their sliding timescale or implying that krakoa was one third of all marvel history.
Lol, fricking knew this was going to happen. This shit was inevitable once Marvel tried to tie the stupid gala shit into real life anniversaries for the sake of sales. Gonna be fun to see how they try to explain this shit away, especially cause it means that mutants have been a dominant superpower for a third of the X-men's whole existence.
No way that makes it into the books. Anyone with common sense knows Krakoa was a year-long experiment at best. Utopia lasted twice as long.
Correct, but Marvel is sticking with the idea that the Hellfire Galas are annual anniversaries, so by proxy until they alter that with yet more retcons, then they’ve fixed this chronologically in place at least for the X-men.
It's likely gonna be quietly ignored, but in universe, there is no getting around the gala, especially since they are all really importnat plotwise.
>But the reboot series X-Men ’97 begins with Cyclops at his strategic coolest, bringing down an army of baddies with well-timed concussion blasts. If MacKay gets his way, Cyke will only get more attention when he gets back home. Maybe, just maybe MacKay can prove Scott’s worth to the greatest Cyclops hater of all: his fellow writer Gail Simone.
>Even if he can’t win over Simone, Cyclops can’t complain. Things are still pretty good for Marvel’s most maligned mutant.
>From the Ashes begins with a Free Comic Book Day special issue Blood Hunt/X-Men #1, coming to shops on May 4.
>one single act makes MUH CHAD leadership material
>shill dumps this an hour ago
>Not one reply
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The sales are going to crash and burn worse than Krakoa. All these gender studies majors are going to do is take the blame for this clusterfrick.
So how IS Krakoa ending?
Krakoa gets destroyed, mostly everyone moves to Arakko. Mostly relegating the other weird mutants into space
when will Arrako job to something then in this new era?
When they somehow want to use the x-villians or to drum up hype for the new badder x-villians under an event "which will shape the foundations of the X-Men forever" or whatever bullshit phrase they come up with.
It won't because no writers wants the flack of annihilating the mutant world full of lgbtpoc coded mutants.
Don't worry. Arrako is going to get fricked over eventually when they encounter anything magic or cosmic again.
And then it was revealed that majority still survived and it made no difference in the end
>X-Men from the Ashes wants to put a younger version of a shitty self insert like they have literally always done since fricking 1963
Are there mutant animals in the Marvel universe? Like a cow that can read minds?
in the AXE prologue the Eternals genocide some telepathic mutant monkeys
>Gail Simone
finally wolverine gays will learn their place and their manlet is going to be relegated as a secondary character for the next 40 years!
At this point with all the Mutant Supremacy, hording of medical miracles, literal resurrection machines, and open sexual degeneracy I think Humans have a justified reason to hate Mutants.
Has there been any retcon about Krakoa like the island was tainting their food/water to make them more debauch and xenophobic?
>think Humans have a justified reason to hate Mutants.
Just mutants existing is a justification for humans to hate them, at least the most powerful ones, there should be a law in the marvel universe to persuade people into aborting babies if they found it is going to a be a mutant, if the parents decide to still have the baby then they'll should be heavily taxed and if their offspring starts committing supercrime or becomes a mutant terrorist the parents are also responsible and would get arrested
keep seething
hey redfred you still didn't draw the sinister drawing you promised
Honestly the only one I'm even remotely interested in is Gambit's, hopefully it'll give my boy Remy a new solo miniseries too
Brevoort has already stated that there will be less team books under him
I’m just here for Jubilee’s bimbo era
Boobilee is back. I thought they flattened her out when she got vampired and repowered.
>got giant booba overnight
>got toned abs overnight
>got an insane hip to waist ratio overnight
>got thick thighs overnight
I don’t remember the last time a character got a complete overhaul like this. Jubilee coomers finally win.
honestly the boobs aren't doing it for me. abs, thighs, absolutely, but giant breasts don't really suit her imo
Every female character once they pass a certain age threshold would be better with gigantic melons and the fact kamala khan never made her breasts huge just to test them out is whats really heartbreaking about modern comics
disagree with you on the first part but I agree with the second part
damn how the frick did I miss that
Built for BBC, Big Brazilian wiener.
>page 7
dead on arrival
It is the thread theme
>X-men in New Orleans
They will be lucky to step out of the Blackbird without getting shot.
/our/girl Magik makes it into a new game!
The magik push is so funny bc there’s like no simple way to do her origin
Yeah, her origin story was as dark as Karma's.
The art kinda look ai generated
>3 gotg characters, 0 FF characters
>Luna Snow
what is happening to my boy Forge
where is he in the ashes
THIS IS FRICKING SHIT. SHIT SHIT SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
no u
>Complaining about Idie and Quentin in 2024
I'll complain about them until I'm dead if they continue to be a thing. They're fricking shit.
thanks werido lefties and feminist like Simone white male characters like Cyclops literally get rescued, beaten up, outsmarted or ordered around by strong wyman mary sues every single issue and never get to be actual heroes or leaders anymore.
>comic book coomers
Yikes