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

[Snikt 6]

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.

Good call, although I am holding out hope that Malice will take over Emma and she gets stuck with the Marauders for a bit.....

 

[El Bastardo]

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

Bah, Ramos's art has grown on me because he doesn't use perfect proportions. Not that Bachalo's are always spot on. But after reading stuff illustrated by Hitch, Cassaday, and whoever else are considered among the "finer" comic book artists... Y'know, it leaves me liking what Ramos does, which I've started calling "caricature comics art." But that's just me.

 

[Snikt 6]

We have been so spoiled with great art lately, well, except for Ramos.

 

[Havok83]

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

someone just needs to get him off the X-books. Id much rather have Clayton Henry as the perm-fill in artist. Ramos is horrible

 

[Snikt 6]

^There you go, get Clayton a full time gig. Anyone, ANYONE other than Ramos. Please.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I love how you guys hate on Ramos. Now I know how Bachalo fans feel when I rip him to shreds

Oh, click my sig

 

[Snikt 6]

^Yeah, I know, but I actually like Bachalo. ^alright, alright gonna click on your sig now.

 

[04nbod]

i'm not a great fan of bachalo either but he's miles better than ramos

 

[Snikt 6]

^Yes sir.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

^Yeah, I know, but I actually like Bachalo. ^alright, alright gonna click on your sig now.

Gracias buddy

 

[Colossal Spoons]

i'm not a great fan of bachalo either but he's miles better than ramos

Miles?

 

[JewishHobbit]

Yeah... miles. Bachalo isn't as good as he was back in his early Generation X days, but he's at least tolerable. Ramos is just... ouch. Liefield shakes his head at Ramos' art.

 

[Havok83]

Yeah... miles. Bachalo isn't as good as he was back in his early Generation X days, but he's at least tolerable. Ramos is just... ouch. Liefield shakes his head at Ramos' art.

Liefield and Ramos in the same sentence. Let's hope they never colloborate together on any project

 

[Snikt 6]

^Oh my goodness....the 'nightmare' team......Just have Austen write it......

 

[@JeanGrey]

So we get Sunfire along with Marauders. Is it Gambit's leg that on the right? I am not very sure, and it is a question in other forums as well

 

[usagicassidy]

Hmm interesting. Where'd that thumbnail come from?

 

[Snikt 6]

So we get Sunfire along with Marauders. Is it Gambit's leg that on the right? I am not very sure, and it is a question in other forums as well

Looks like it, but as Spec has said that the covers are just of the characters, not the teams. Well see though.

 

[SublimeDelusion]

I'm probably behind on this by a lot, and if the covers are of the teams, apparently, Iceman, Beast, Colossus, Angel, and Wolverine make it onto the one listed opposite that picture shown in the Marvel Previews guide.. Plus if that other female that looks like Emma on that cover IS emma, well, that doesn't look great for Cyke over in astonishing...

 

[Snikt 6]

^But we have not seen Kitty either.....gulp

 

[Gambits' Ace]

I reckon in terms of endangered species the funeral they all go to will be for the death of the youngest mutant alive ala "children of men" and this is what rallies them to realise it could be the end for them as opposed to it being a funeral for someone major

 

[Snikt 6]

^Yeah, maybe some unknown character even.

 

[Specter313]

I'm probably behind on this by a lot, and if the covers are of the teams, apparently, Iceman, Beast, Colossus, Angel, and Wolverine make it onto the one listed opposite that picture shown in the Marvel Previews guide.. Plus if that other female that looks like Emma on that cover IS emma, well, that doesn't look great for Cyke over in astonishing...

Do I have to explain again how the covers mean pretty much nothing?

 

[Snikt 6]

^Nope...you dont.

 

[Specter313]

X-MEN EVOLUTION
With a return to closely connected titles and a massive crossover event on the way, can the X-Men take back their spot as Marvel’s top team franchise?
By Ben Morse

Posted April 23, 2007 3:30 PM​

Whether it’s the world’s mutant population being reduced to 198 or Jean Grey dying (and returning—again), the X-Men have grown accustomed to change over the years. However, one constant for Marvel’s Merry Mutants since the early 1980s has been their status as Marvel Comics’ most successful franchise.

Until now.

While sales of all X-Men titles remain healthy across the board, New Avengers has supplanted Uncanny X-Men as Marvel’s most consistent top seller. Civil War, the most lucrative event in the company’s history, centered on Avengers stalwarts Captain America and Iron Man, and barely featured the X-Men at all.

“When New Avengers first hit, people were running around the office yelling, ‘It’s the new X-Men!’” recalled New Avengers writer Brian Michael Bendis. “And that’s what the Avengers should be: They should be the premier Marvel title.”

“No, I did not see it coming,” said Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada about the Avengers’ ascent. “Did I think it was possible? Absolutely. It’s really cyclical. The [X-Men books] are still doing very well, [New] Avengers is just beyond anything anybody ever expected.”

Quesada admitted that the Avengers and other Marvel properties like Spider-Man had received the bulk of the company’s attention in recent years, in part because of the consistent strength of the X-Men titles over the last two-plus decades. “There’s only so much you can focus on at one time, and X-Men does handle itself in a lot of ways,” said Quesada. “There were other parts of our publishing division that were really injured, in dire straits, and if we hadn’t paid any attention to those, we’d lose them altogether.”

But now, with the Avengers’ position secure, Marvel feels the time has come for an X-Men resurgence. The groundwork will be laid this summer in “Endangered Species,” a 16-part serial that will run as backup stories in Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, X-Factor and New X-Men from June through September. Then in October, a major crossover between the four books featuring every major character in the X-Men Universe will redefine the mutant status quo once more, and clean the slate for 2008.

“I was a big advocate of doing [the crossover this fall],” said Quesada. “[New X-Men Senior Editor] Axel [Alonso] was thinking the same way I was: to tell one gigantic, linear story that ran across all the titles. To me, Axel comes in with a vision of what he wants these books to be. This is the opening salvo to clear things up and get the books more in line with that vision.”

“The big thing we’re trying to do is capture the manic excitement and ‘anything can happen’ feeling the best of the past crossovers had,” elaborated Uncanny X-Men and New X-Men Editor Nick Lowe. “The biggest problem [for mutants in this story] is that their species is slowly dying. No new mutants are being born, and each mutant that dies brings them closer to extinction.”
In one of his first major acts upon becoming Marvel E-I-C in 2000, Quesada made a concerted effort to consolidate the X-Men Universe and get away from some of the negative stigmas that became attached to the franchise in the late ’90s, scaling back on the number of titles and giving each book its own voice. In 2001, Quesada brought in acclaimed writer Grant Morrison (JLA) to steer flagship title New X-Men—the temporarily renamed X-Men—in a different direction owing more to science fiction and even political commentary than straight superhero action, and to bring the book closer in line to the vision of director Bryan Singer’s 2000 film version.

“I had to give the X-Men more of a clean jumping-on point for new readers,” explained Quesada. “Guys like Morrison were instrumental to this. It was important for us to bring in smart creators who could clean up some of the stuff that was around in terms of continuity, which was all over the place. I don’t think [writer] Joss [Whedon’s] Astonishing X-Men would have been possible for us to do six years ago. It was only after Grant cleared the decks that Joss was able to look at it and say, ‘Okay, this is possible now, let me go.’ Astonishing has shown us what can be done with the franchise.”

With Quesada’s initial goals accomplished, the creators and editors behind the X-Men titles have primed themselves to make this fall’s first major X-Men crossover of the 21st century an event that can stand up beside classic events like “Mutant Massacre.”

“There was a time when the [X-Men] books needed to disengage from each other and find their own footing,” said X-Men and X-Factor Editor Andy Schmidt. “They’ve done that and they’ve drifted apart. It’s time to rein them in a bit. The crossover will get everyone—creators, editors and fans—all on the same page at the same time. This story, while big and explosive, focuses every book and each writer. It puts the whole line in a coherent direction.”

While the X-Men titles participating in the crossover boast a diverse writing team of burgeoning superstars (Ed Brubaker on Uncanny X-Men), industry veterans (Peter David on X-Factor), critically acclaimed scribes (Mike Carey on X-Men) and promising newcomers (Craig Kyle and Chris Yost on New X-Men), they lack a proven marquee name like Bendis or Mark Millar (Civil War)—but Quesada doesn’t see that as a problem. “Remember that when we launched the Ultimate Universe, Brian Bendis and Mark Millar were not Brian Bendis and Mark Millar,” noted Quesada. “What we were pushing was an idea, a concept, a feel for a different universe, and then those guys knocked it out of the park. I think what’s going to happen here is the same thing.”

In the end, will big ideas, plenty of enthusiasm and the return to and refinement of a proven formula be enough to knock the Avengers back down to number two?

“The aim is to tell a great story with spectacular art and engaging characters,” said Schmidt. “If we succeed at that, the X-Men will likely be back on top. There are some huge things coming down the pike.”

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/004362801.cfm

 

[Snikt 6]

^Any X-Men title is still tops with me. If this story goes south in a hurry, it still wont matter. I like the X-Men. Period. I get upset when writers come in a jack them up, but they still are the preimer stuff at Marvel. The reason why New Avengers is on top? Lets see Spidey and Wolverine ring a bell?