Comics The '07 X-Event: Endangered Species, Messiah Complex, & Disassembled

[Colossal Spoons]

I'd guess the story continues in one of the X-books.

 

[javon]

I think it's most likely gonna be Uncanny.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I hope so. I'm so over this Shi'ar business

 

[AndThePickles]

I hope so. I'm so over this Shi'ar business

Gawd, me too. Too Sci-Fi for my tastes.

 

[Specter313]

Question: After the Endagered Species One-shot, whats after that?

After that, there's 17 back-up stories featured in X-Men, Uncanny, New, and X-Factor over the next several months until November. After that, we don't know yet.

 

[Specter313]

NRAMA: Endangered Species?

JQ: This is the place to be, the ground floor, where the groundwork will be laid for this November's X-Men event. It will run across 17 consecutive weeks and it leads to, yeah like I'm going to tell you yet, but let's just say that Endangered Species and the event it leads into will be the thing X-fans (and comic fans) will be talking about in way they haven't since the days of Mutant Massacre, Inferno, and Fall of the Mutants!


Q: AreJaye 03-20-2007 11:01 AM
Sorry in advance if this question runs a little long, but: by "putting the genie back in the bottle" post-House of M/Decimation, and given the events of Civil War, have you ever stopped to consider that perhaps you may have, in effect, neutered the X-Men to the point of irrelevance?
There are, give or take, 200 or so Mutants on the planet. Most of them, in one way or another, accounted for by being part of the 198, the X-Men, or as registered super-heroes (Wiccan, Speed, Justice, etc.). Additionally, there are no more Mutants being born (unless this year's X-event changes that). On a planet of over 6 billion people, 200 mutants is a small drop in the bucket.
If the whole point of the X-Men is to be "feared and hated by a world they've sworn to protect", and the message has always been "peaceful co-existence", how can the drastically reduced number of mutants play any sort of relevance in the post-Civil War world? The world at large no longer has to fear that their son or daughter may grow up to be a mutant, they no longer have to fear that the new neighbors down the street are mutants, and with government oversight over super-beings including the remaining mutants, what, honestly, does the general public have to fear from the X-Men more so than they do other super-heroes, registered or not?
Maybe, hopefully, this year's X-Men event will address some of these questions, but from where I sit now, it seems like the reduction of Mutants to make them "relevant" and/or "special" has instead made them pointless. 200 individuals is not a minority, it's an almost ignorable anomaly.

JQ: Great question, AreJaye, and we will address it because this is exactly the reason the mutant population has been whittled down. The clock is ticking and pressure is one. Also, remember, as far as the general population is concerned, there could be new mutants being born today, nothing is for certain and that to me makes for some interesting story telling. With the every growing mutant population there were two ways to go, one was just have mutants take over and eventually be the only species which I think would eventually get pretty dull or the second would be to put them in a pressure cooker where time is literally running out. We chose the latter.

Q: Dalarsco 03-18-2007 11:36 AM
I don't like coming into a story mid-arc if it can be avoided, so could you please reveal exactly what issue numbers in Uncanny X-Men, New X-Men, and X-Factor will be starting the Endangered Species backups so that those of us not getting them currently can know when exactly to start reading them?

JQ: Sure thing, Dalarsco. First you're going to want to pick up the Endangered Species On- Shot on sale June 20th. The back-up stories begin in the huger than huge X-Men #200. After that it goes in Uncanny X-Men #488, X-Factor #21, and New X-Men #40. And then so on and so forth.

Q: MazingMan728 03-19-2007 11:52 AM
How does Namor fall into the ranks of the 198 or Endangered Species being as Namor has been called Marvel’s First Mutant? Is he an X-Men type Mutant to where he could join the X-Men if he wanted or does Namor fall into a different definition of Mutant as he is half-Human/half-Atlantean so he is more of a mix breed and not a power manifested Mutant?

JQ: Namor is a mutant and one of the 198. His mutant power is the wings on his ankles. Every other power he has is due to his complex nature as a hybrid of human and Atlantean.

Q: RunawayMouse 03-17-2007 10:43 PM
It was announced that the Endangered Species one-shot will be followed by a 17-part back up story in the various X-Men titles.
Are there any plans to collect these stories or will we have to buy all of those books to read it?

JQ: While we're still working on how it will all get collected, RunawayMouse, it wont be until after the events that the back up stories lead to.

http://www.newsarama.com/NewJoeFridays/NewJoeFridays40.html

 

[Snikt 6]

Okay, so can we now say that Namor is the lamest "Mutant" ever? Wings on his feet.......ha

 

[javon]

After that, there's 17 back-up stories featured in X-Men, Uncanny, New, and X-Factor over the next several months until November. After that, we don't know yet.

Thanks, you always have the goods t:

 

[KingOfDreams]

personally I can't stand Larocca and do not look forward to him being back for the Morlock story.

At least you can understand what's going on in Larocca's art. Bachalo's is all over the place and confusing. I liked him in his earlier days, in the beginning of Generation X and the Sandman and Death stories he did, but he's just gotten sloppy over the years. As others have said, I believe that the coloring/inking was a problem in some of his "Adjectiveless" run.

 

[KingOfDreams]

Gawd, me too. Too Sci-Fi for my tastes.

For me you can never be too sci-fi. However, I don't want them to be up in space forever. But since it's been said that some will be left in space I'd like to see a Starjammers title with whichever X-Men don't return to Earth.

 

[Valechan]

Okay, so can we now say that Namor is the lamest "Mutant" ever? Wings on his feet.......ha

Yes, because his mutant power is to have wings on his feet :rolleyes

 

[Brainiac 8]

For me you can never be too sci-fi. However, I don't want them to be up in space forever. But since it's been said that some will be left in space I'd like to see a Starjammers title with whichever X-Men don't return to Earth.

I'm loving Uncanny because of the Shi'ar story...and I would also love to see a Starjammers series.

Can't wait for Annihilation II.t:

 

[mightiest_mortal]

Q: AreJaye 03-20-2007 11:01 AM
Maybe, hopefully, this year's X-Men event will address some of these questions, but from where I sit now, it seems like the reduction of Mutants to make them "relevant" and/or "special" has instead made them pointless. 200 individuals is not a minority, it's an almost ignorable anomaly.

Sums up my feelings completely. The Decimation was pointless, especially as no more mutants are being born now.
Theres more people born with tails in the Marvel world than mutants now. There are more people with just extra fingers and toes. There seem like quite a lot of mutants in the MU, but thats just because there are so many comics about them. Compared to the entire world, the mutant population is just a statistical anomaly and makes half the point of the comic moot.

 

[Snikt 6]

I'm loving Uncanny because of the Shi'ar story...and I would also love to see a Starjammers series.

Can't wait for Annihilation II.t:

Really, you like it? I think if it was a 6 part series that would have kept me more interested. 12 issues is just...to much. If there will be a Starjammers series it would depend who is on the team to catch my intrest. My guess is Havok and Polaris leading this team by the end of the current arc......

 

[Specter313]

 

[Snikt 6]

^I guess I have read enough about Random, but it just does not seem like he should be with the Maurauders.

Bachalo's cover is so much better. Look as the size of Vertigo's paws....And that sure looks like Emma Frost in the middle there.....

 

[04nbod]

Get ramos some life art lessons already- people don't have proportions like that!!!!

 

[Snikt 6]

^Thank you!

 

[04nbod]

if my comic shop only gets that cover in i'm going to flip- they always get the awful varients

 

[Snikt 6]

In Dallas they usually get the good stuff.....I hope it continues.

 

[javon]

Wow, thats some pretty crappy art IMO.

 

[Specter313]

^I guess I have read enough about Random, but it just does not seem like he should be with the Maurauders.

Bachalo's cover is so much better. Look as the size of Vertigo's paws....And that sure looks like Emma Frost in the middle there.....

Well, from the looks of it, and with what Marvel usually does with most of the wallpapers online, that's not the full cover, so it will likely include the Marauders, the Acolytes, and the X-Men.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Can't forget this:

This is an awsome pic of everyone whose ever been in the X-Men (even small timers like Changling and Revange)... but whose the flying girl in the background by Angel? That's the only one I can't think of.

(though even smaller X-Men aren't included, such as Fitz, Paulie Provenzano, Wraith, and Sunpyre.)

 

[Valechan]

Who is the blonde chick with the MArauders? And will they explain why Vertigo was working with the Savage Land Mutates in Uncanny 455-459? I'm not holding my breath on that one, but it'd be nice to know

 

[JewishHobbit]

She was working with them in New Avengers too.