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X-Men X-Over with Referential’s Dr. Khaliden Nas

A Team-Up with Referential Podcast‘s Dr. Khaliden Nas to talk through our feelings about the state of X-Men comics. The first half, taped in September covers the Fall of X and the end of the X-Men’s ‘First Krakoan Age‘. In December we met again to talk about the state of the X-Office and relaunched slate of X-Men comics under the ‘From The Ashes‘ banner. 

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In This Episode:

  • Fall of X (also hear my earlier coverage of here)
    * From the Ashes (Spoilers starts at 47:46)
    * Kieron Gillen & Lucas Werneck Immortal X-Men, X-Men: Forever & Rise of the Powers of X
    * Gerry Duggan and Russel Daughterman’s Fall of the House of X, Hellfire Gala 3
  • Invincible Iron Man & Uncanny Avengers
    * Al Ewing & Luciano Vecchio Resurrection of Magneto & X-Men: Red
    * Si Spurrier’s X-Men Blue: Origins
    * Jonathan Hickman
    * Gail Simone & David Marquez Uncanny X-Men
    * Jed McKay & Ryan Stegman X-Men
    * Jackson Lanzing / Collin Kelly & Francesco Mortarino NYX
    * Eve L. Ewing and Carmen Carnero Exceptional X-Men
    * Solos!
    * No, we will NOT call Ide “Temper”
    * Democracy in the 2nd Krakoan Age
    * The End of Hope [Summers]
    Kate Pryde and the gates as bi metaphor revisited
  • Reading Warden Ellis
    * Remembering Dr. Moira MacTaggart
    * Assimilation Or Unity
  • Marvel not understanding why Hydra!Cap failed but Gerry Duggan makes the best of it
    * #XSpoilers and fandom meta

    One more time, Krakoans. For the children!

Learn what’s next in X-Men’s From the Ashes Era with new cover reveals

 Mutantkind no longer has Krakoa, but they still have the X-Men!

Over the last few months, new series announcements have revealed what awaits in the X-Men’s From the Ashes era. Set around—and beyond—the globe, the upcoming titles see new teams assemble to take on emerging threats to mutankind, beloved characters fulfill their long-awaited destiny as solo heroes, and other groups of mutants come together to survive a world that fears them now more than ever. They may share the same dream, but they have different missions. Harkening back to classic X-Men storytelling while embracing the franchise’s modern evolution, From the Ashes is an exciting fresh start for longtime fans and newcomers alike!

Get a peek ahead at what’s to come in these first set of launches in August. 

NYX #2

Written by COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING
Art by FRANCESCO MORTARINO
On sale: August 28, 2024

FROM THE SHADOWS COMES WOLVERINE!

Every day, mutants are being stolen off the streets of Manhattan – unprotected and forgotten by the human world. Now a war-worn Wolverine will descend into NYC’s criminal underworld to bring them back into the light. Who is the mysterious mutant fixer known only as Local? Can Laura stand alone against the dangerous forces working to control the future of New York’s mutants? What reality-bending threat waits in the night, already ten steps ahead? The shadows of NYX are calling. What secrets will you find lurking in that neon darkness?

NYX #2

PHOENIX #2

Written STEPHANIE PHILLIPS
Art by ALESSANDRO MIRACOLO
On sale: August 21, 2024

FAMILY REUNION IN THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE!

Jean Grey is dedicated to protecting innocents in deep space! Yes, space is vaster than imagination, greater and darker than the mind can comprehend – and yet, not big enough to stop family from dropping by without warning… But that’s how it goes when your father-in-law is Corsair of the Starjammers! Leaving the pirate life behind, he’s got the inside line on huge news, and Phoenix is the only one who can act to save untold lives – that is, if she can believe he’s telling the truth…

PHOENIX #2

X-FORCE #2

Written by GEOFFREY THORNE
Art by MARCUS TO
On sale: August 28, 2024

WARFARE IN WAKANDA!

Forge leads X-Force in their new, custom Blackbird to the next world fracture in Wakanda. But as the ground literally changes under their feet, the team will have to stop…the Black Panther?! That can’t be right, can it?! And what secret is bubbling under the surface that just might tear the X-Force team asunder?

X-FORCE #2

X-MEN #2

Written by JED MACKAY
Art by RYAN STEGMAN
On sale: August 14, 2024

INVASION!

The X-Men fly to the rescue of a mutant in crisis in San Francisco. The problem? Alien invaders seem to have a similar idea. Six X-Men vs. an invading alien fleet? Sounds about right.

X-MEN #2

X-MEN #3

Written by JED MACKAY
Art by RYAN STEGMAN
On sale: August 28, 2024

SCOTT SUMMERS VS. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

How did the X-Men come to possess their HQ, the Factory, and how difficult a position does that put them in? As Cyclops meets the implacable Agent Lundqvist, the X-Men come to find that their new home may not be as secure as they had thought…

X-MEN #3

Rogue leads a new team of X-Men in New Orleans. Get the scoop on Gail Simone and David Marquez’s Uncanny X-Men!

Mutants may no longer have a homeland—but they’ll always have a home!

Announced last month and launching in August, celebrated writer Gail Simone and superstar artist David Marquez’s Uncanny X-Men will be the second of three flagship X-titles set in the upcoming From the Ashes era. Marvel has revealed the main cover and more details about the series!

With Professor X gone and his school transformed into a nightmare reflection of itself called Graymalkin Prison, the series sees Rogue step up to be the pillar of Xavier’s dream alongside Wolverine, Gambit, Nightcrawler, and Jubilee. From their new base of operations in New Orleans, the Uncanny X-Men are back to being the outlaw heroes the world hates and fears—and the light in the darkness for mutants everywhere! Mutantkind made a big statement with Krakoa, and now, life is harder for them than ever before, but Rogue’s X-Men will be there to welcome mutants to their new found family.

A core group of essential X-Men rise From the Ashes to face a world without a home – and without Professor X! All bonds among the mutant community seem to be slipping away, and Rogue reluctantly finds herself as the hero designated to bring them back together…but a fearless, malignant power is out there hunting mutants, and it has a terrible secret that may destroy what remains of the X-Men.!

Check out Marquez’s main cover below, and stay tuned tomorrow for Uncanny X-Men #1 variant cover reveals!

Uncanny X-Men #1 David Marquez cover