The Revenge of Sarah Gaunt!Comics in this thread:>Uncanny X-Men #37>X-Men United #8>Inglorious X-Force #10
Bump if you're reading.We're back again after the PHPanic forced this site to go read-only for the day.
It’s been 30 issues coming, but it’s time to deal with you.
>Weapon X-Finity ended up creating 4 bootleg Wolverines that Sarah is going to take for herselfWhat happened to her army of cultists >>145952866? Are these knock-offs that neither have proper healing factors and permanently unretractable claws not made out of adamantium because they cheaped out on both aspects that better?And if Fawn (who last appeared during #30 >>154256561) ended up as one of the test subjects and Ezra claimed that they WERE going to make these experiments, that means these experiments happened after Monet left Graymalkin and took over the X-Men, which was confirmed to be less than a week. Did Fred Dukes end up doing these or what?
I also forgot to mention this last time, but Adjectiveless and Uncanny X-Men are going back to their regular 18 issues/year schedule starting this month. Wolverine seems to be back on a 12 issues/year schedule again though, which is weird since I personally think that the 18 issues/year schedule that it had when Shadows of Tomorrow kicked off actually helped the title a lot.
We’re directly picking up from where the last issue left off with Rogue and Gambit. Although it doesn’t match the ending… >>155674782
>They already made it to New Orleans that fastKind of funny how we spent a bit of the last arc of going from point A to B using regular methods instead of just flying directly because Gabriel kept whining about it.
Looks like they’ll be staying in a hotel for now.
>>155994306Buno
Did she kill Dazzler?
>”Maybe it’s a bluff, guys. Maybe she’s not coming at all, right?”I don’t want to alarm you Jubilee, but…
She’s giving a lot of stranger danger vibes here.
>Sarah wants everything that was Xavier’sHe didn't even marry you woman, get your own shit. You can have the mansion if that’s what you want.
>The bootleg Wolverines can talk and are aware of what they’re doingSo I guess Sarah decided to turn off the mindless killing machine option when freeing them.
Alright, let’s just give her the snikt and move on.
Oh come on Rogue, you just interrupted Logan from his round 2.
>Sarah is returning in one week to kill themTime to prepare then…
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And now for X-Men United.
Previously in X-Men United, the X-Men were recovering from the fallout of the attack by the mysterious entity believed to be Shadow King when Wither and Blade suddenly came to visit. While Nightcrawler, Magik and Iceman decide to hold a class to try to distract the students from the attack, Wither reveals that following Krakoa, he had been turned into a vampire and became friends with Blade’s daughter Bloodline. However, she was recently kidnapped by a group of vampires which led to him contacting Blade and his investigation revealed that Bloodline’s kidnappers were in reality working for a mutant who wasn’t actually a vampire themself, but had instead copied vampire powers to turn humans into vampires loyal to them. As they suspect that the kidnapper had a hand in the attack on Graymatter Lane due to the timing of the events, this leads to Dani Moonstar and Prodigy agreeing to help them to find Bloodline.Elsewhere, the mutant known as Superior reveals to her ally that now that she has kidnapped Bloodline, Blade will fall into their trap and in return she’ll get the money and classified intel needed in her master plan to bring control and order to mutantkind. Her ally? Lucas Cross – Blade’s father!
Smaller cast again…
You know, it would have been much more funnier if the last page made you think that Blade was here and going to kill the vampires, only for this spread to show that it was Jubilee or something.
Got to remind people that this is an X-Book and Blade is only a guest star.
Crusader jumpscare
>Bloodline has been taken to a private vampire estateNow that I think about it, it seems like a waste to not use that Blade is still the sheriff of the vampire nation in Chernobyl for a story like this.
Oh shit, Chamber!
>>155994387>>155994391These guys seem weak as shit, how are they meant to be threats if they're just worse Wolverines
>”Can’t let anybody mess with your kid. Take it from a mom.”Jubilee. The giant dragon in this room is still waiting to be addressed.
Thanks Dani for the save.
Family reunion time!
>Lucas Cross’s plan was to sacrifice both Blade and Bloodline for infinite money…That’s it? Was that why you decided to work with Superior?
>"Hey, Logan. Not to be the guy who brags about his kid, but...check out my baby girl."Eh. She still needs work.
That was easy.
>Blade stole the house from his dadUnless this arc was actually a stealth prequel to a new Blade comic, who knows if this place will ever be brought up again.
>Superior stole all of Cross’s money that he was going to regain from the ritualShe didn’t get the intel though, but I guess she can just buy that now she’s rich.
And now for Inglorious X-Force.
Previously, the entity manipulating Cable attempted to make X-Force believe that Kamala’s future assassin was Domino, before Domino and her own X-Force invaded the base to stop Cable. Cable immediately led Kamala to a machine that she needed to power using her mutant powers so that it could teleport them away, while the rest of the team had to hold off the attack. During the battle, Boom-Boom ends up accessing the tape recorder that Cable was using which revealed about Cable’s true nature and how the entity possessing him would use Kamala’s assassination to rule the world in the aftermath of the war caused by it. The entity, revealing itself as Catharsix, uses the machine to timeslide to the date of Kamala’s assassination to finally finish the timeloop! But can X-Force prevent it before it’s too late?
There he is! Stop him before it’s too late!
>Catharsix is using Cable’s telepathy to distract the team from stopping himOh come on.
>Resonant left a dead man’s switch in Kamala’s bangles on how to stop CatharsixWell that’s rather convenient.
Alright, final push to defeat this guy. Go go go!
>”Assassin. [Catharsix] is murdered.”Phew, now that annoying shit is gone. Let’s go home.
>Cable is going stay behind and repair the damages that he causedOh well. Bye Cable!
So far everything about this issue has gone smoothly. Catharsix got killed, the assassination got prevented and the team has returned back to the present.So why is there a sequel miniseries to this…?
>26 mutants died in an attackThat’s awful. Was no team around to deal with this?
>Catharsix used the robots from Issue #8 to make them impersonate X-Force and frame them for mass murderOh motherfucker.
The story continues in Fugitive X-Force! Next week: X-Men #40, Fantastic Four #18, Gambit Gone #2, Tomb of Apocalypse #3, Bishop #5, Punisher #9.And that's it! If you liked these, support your LCS or whatever.
>>155994551What was Brevoort even thinking with this titleHe advertised this as the center point of the X-Line, but so far it feels like X-Men Team-Up
>>155994463Didn't Vampires get classified as redeemable lately? So Blade just killing them left and right seems psychotic.
>>155995179They were classified as redeemable post-Blood Hunt, but that didn't stop Marvel from publishing more comics that were about killing vampires
>>155994541Says the woman who just murdered a half a dozen people.
>>155994648>>155994651Everyone thinks Kamala is a mutiekiller...
>>155994412Man Simone really likes to drag things out, seemed like a good time to finally wrap up this Sarah arc but then she decides to just leave and the Uncanny team just let them? Especially when they make a remark how the Wolverine clones are still inexperienced with using the claws, they are gonna let them train and prepare? I hope someone from the team actually dies to this dumbass decision.
>X-men United is doing a vampire storyline whilst Midnight X-men is all about vampiresWonder if this would cause confusion for some readers who might mistake both as connected.
>>155996051If we take the solicits for the next issues seriously, the next 3 issues seem to be about the bootleg Wolverines deciding to go after one of the Outliers (probably Howler) while the 2 issues after that is Sarah's returnSo clearly she's the only one that's going to live up to her promise while the others don't give a shit
>>155994557Nice tits
>>155994306Dazzler grew her hair back quickly from the cancer she had
>>155996139That was just stress thoughAtleast it means that Corinna was nice enough to let her keep her wig while she was in jail
>>155994306>>155994311>>155994312You know... For a woman who swore to burn this prison camp to the ground upon discovering its atrocities, Monet's taking her sweet goddamn time
>>155994383>>155994412So given the underlying Monster Mash theme of this run, Sarah Gaunt is both the White Lady AND a J-Horror yokai?
>>155994497What's even stupider is that they're supposed to be Anti-Avenger level threats
>>155994663I think they just needed another book on the Shadows of Tomorrow soft relaunch to keep up appearances and disguise the failure of From The Ashes but since Gail and Jed's direction are so divorced from one another there was no easy place to wedge in another team book... So we get this timey-wimey mind palace conceit
>>155995925>Character created to push back against Dubya Era Islamophobia>X-Office frames her as a durka durka terroristTruly the Mutant Metaphor is a universal civil rights allegory
>>155996245They either should have made it the JLU of the X-Books and have all the titles tie-in to the events, or go all-in on the Avengers: The Initiative and have focus be on all the new mutants of this era training with the Exceptional X-Men castBut because both of these requires Brevoort to actually do his job and have constant communication with the writers and editors of the books, he basically went the lazy route of creating a bootleg Krakoa with almost none of the strengths and features that people actually liked
>>155994551>Let us make out own athena asamiya, but she is a frog and evilHouse of the ideas....
On a side note, did Brevoort stealth cancel X-Men Outback?Issue five came out this week and said it was the final issue but I could have fucking sworn that the book was solicited to run eight issues. Did it sell that fucking ad that they shelved the release of the last three issues?
>>155997069It was always solicited to be 5 issues. Only 8 issue X-Book we got coming is Magneto: End of Days.https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-outback-limited-series-announcement-uncanny-variant-covers
>>155994412I do not care for Sarah Gaunt or this lingering Greymalkin plotline.>>155994497Agree.>>155994629>>155994631Its rare to see Cable get called out for his hypocrisy.>>155996073Oddly enough, the vampire issues of X Men United are the first time where the book has been readable.
>>155994353ROUGE GOT A FATTY, FUCK
COMING IN HOT
>>155994353Remy is so lucky. Fuck him.
>>155994412Rogue has a long neck here
>>155994311Shouldnt Monet here to prevent things like this?
>>155997203>Oddly enough, the vampire issues of X Men United are the first time where the book has been readable.It was still a bad issue (hurhur lets kill every vampire but not the big bad we know the name)
>>155994306>>155994311Look man I don’t actually think DC’s comics are great on the whole but ffs their stable of artists is so much better than marvel at the moment. And really for a few years now. All of the art in marvel’s ongoings is absolutely fucking hideous. I can’t name a single one that isnt just as ugly.
>>155996196>>155997999Simone didn't really want to write Monet. She just threw her in so no one asks her about the lack of any established black characters in New Orleans. She does not give a fuck about Monet and Rogue will be the one to end Greymalkin while Monet and Pietro look like shitters who got nothing done.
>>155998093I think Juan Frigeri is as good as Luciano Vecchio and better than Netho Diaz even though he's clearly aping David Marquez. For a marvel style guy he's not so bad but he gets fucked mogged by C list DC artists.
>>155998093Mora (on multiple books a month), Sherman (on multiple books a month), Jimenez (even if he’s been pumping out lazy trash for the past few years), harren, dragotta, corona.Sure they have ugly books like zatanna, deathstroke and a few others but marvel doesnt have a single one that looks even pleasant.
>>155998128His art here is fucking atrocious. That being said marvels major weakness is also their stable of colorists. The colors are absolutely eye-raping on every page ITT. It’s been a problem for years. It’s what sets momoko’s watercolors apart so much. They have awful colorists and it seems they oversaturate company-wide. Idk if it’s for their printer but they’d be better off telling every colorist to flatten their colors to one layer, reducing them to 70% transparency and then submitting. They’d at the berry least be less muddy.
>>155998219Very least*
>>155998109>She just threw her in so no one asks her about the lack of any established black characters in New Orleans.Nah I reckon its damage control for how one of the criticisms a while ago about how the fuck did Greymalkin catch Monet, so she made it turn out that Monet got herself captured and is somehow "friendly" with the warden, despite the issue where it happened was the warden unceremoniously walking past Monet who wasn't even the focus of the panel.
>>155994370Graymalking is just down the street from New Orleans
>>155998314Monet appeared in the first issue where she was shown fighting the Outliers. I think she was gonna be brainwashed like Siryn before being freed or breaking off on her own then Simone dragged her fat ass for nearly two years instead of working on her main plot. So Monet just awkwardly skipped a bunch of the arc she was gonna have in this book.>>155998180>Sure they have ugly books like zatannaZatanna's a gorgeous book. The story is mediocre. If Campbell wasn't a Black man you'd glaze him more than Nick Dragotta and James Harren who are both terrible artists.
>>155994359Dazzler with the big puffy hair.
>>155994608why doesn't old Kamala use her powers
>>155994359Why is Monet with Pietro? She is 23 while Pietro is 45 lmao.
>>155998653she too tired..
>>155994333Is this before or after he told his AoA self to fuck his wife?
>>156000976>One week deadline ie. Enough time to meet the other Gambit and swap places with him >Graymalkin is placed on high alert again, meaning that the scene in XoA #3 where they visit Graymalkin with tanks outside has a reasonable explanation and isn't a continuity error>no Eye of Agamotto in either seriesHmmm
>>156001330Simone should just end her run with AOA Gambit fucking the shit outta Rogue while she moans about how he's so much better and fucking her like a different man
>>155994359Isn't dazzler immortal functionally
>>156001687she was, but she still died a few times on Krakoa and got resurrected with their not!clone bodiesSo who knows what's going on with her at this point
>>156001882Didn't they do the same with Bobby and he's basically got the same deal. I mean he did supposedly die and came back in the last Krakoan gala. There was some gay arctic adventure or something, but I didn't read it. He appears fully healed now.
>>155994387Jesus, woman, wash your damn undies.
>>155994470NOBODY EXPECTS THE - oh shit, they're sacking their own holy city again. Fuuuck, I did not expect that.
>>156002137As far as I know Bobby never got a Krakoan resurrection, he always just rebuilt his own body from scratch but had trouble maintaining it after the last Gala because they hit him with some power dampening shit, so it took him longer to fully recover
>>155994485Someone's been pushing ol' Jono recently.
>>155994514Do you have any idea how much it sucks being poor as a vampire? All the ancient bloodsuckers have these massive gloomy castles form hundreds of years ago and, sure, the modern generation gets sexy leather dance clubs but all of that costs. The goddamn bloodsprinklers alone keep clotting and you need to call out Roto Rooter, and then you keep having to call Roto Rooter from further out because you ate the last guys who showed up. It all adds up.
>>156002304It's hard to remember who all got rezzed since it was such a revolving door. Except for Pixie's death, that was so fucked up.
>>156002359Thinking about it, he's probably not the worst to bring on a vamp hunt. I'm not sure he has a neck to bite anymore, but if he does they sure ain't finding blood under the skin.
solicits are outMASSIVE SPOILERS for the new Adjectiveless team line-up post-DNX
>>156003808>No PsylockeAw, that sucks.
>>156003808>Cyclops actually dies in DNX and the cover to X-Men #42 was actually a fake out the whole timeUh oh
>>156003808>>156003880If X-Orcists is an ongoing why couldn't we have dropped Magik and Juggernaut
>>155994292How did she manage to nearly kill Wolverine before?
>>156004176logan got the jobber debuff
>>156004176The metal in her nails probably have some magic property to them since they're made of blades used by murderers only
>>155994359I want to say that Pietro is squandered on this book but without it he just wouldn't be used
>>156004903He does tend to get squandered. Last I remember him in anything was Wanda's death. I'm sure he's shown up after, but that's the last "big" thing I'm aware of.
>>156006598Uncanny Avengers 23 and Wanda had a mini with him in 24
>>156003999Surely they wouldn't have ol' Slim dying to a plague twice now, would they? They did that with the terrigen cloud shit pre-Krakoa.
>>156006610Right, he did show up to snark with Darcy at one point.
>>155994492Not the first time a black man impersonated him.
>>155994412Christ has there been even one genuinely good issue of this comic
>>155996867When they wanted to make a character like Athena for Korea, they made May Lee who has a frog motif. Actually, an evil savate practitioner who idolizes Batroc might be interesting. Marie might be actually dead since she didn't appear again like the Tarantula she was partnered with, so the space is open.
>>155996867This chick is Italian, Justina LaGuardiaAnd her power is the Hope Summers thing. She copies mutant powers and immediately uses them better than the ownerThere was a backup story in one of those shitty Giant Size X-Men oneshots last year starring Kamala jumping through X-Men history.This woman met Xavier when he was recruiting the ANAD X-Men to save the O5 from Krakoa, and she overpowered Xavier with his own telepathy. She read his whole history and decided she didn't want anything to do with him
>>156009285Maybe, maybe not. Depends on who you ask since that's subjective as hell. However I am a firm believer that the villain is a wash. They tried to bust out a brand new super strong villain who nearly killed Wolverine of all people. Unfortunately to try to build her up they backgineered her into Xavier's past as some smitten lover we never knew existed who just happens to be a super powerful swamp hag now.The end result feels very trite and uninteresting. But then I felt the same about Graymalkin prison run by a nobody who nevertheless had enough resources to take down very powerful mutants AND had her own goddamn Sentinel program. After all the shit with Orchis this felt extremely improbable. Third parties dabbling in super robot anti-mutant tech that nearly wiped out the goddamn planet? At least ONE has more history and is part of the government. Stupid as they are, they're at least in-house and it's easy to believe the Marvel US gov is that dumb. To put it simply, we're supposed to believe that Wolverine can stab the swamp bitch but not just hack off her limbs and then her head. Problem solved. Just snikt a bub already, Wolvie.
Gaunt might have made more sense if they tried to tie it into more recent events, like something left over from Mommy Righteous (I only pick her because they went with a magical based threat). Either something made as a "fuck you" contingency against mutants or something powerful Mother Righteous added to her magical collection which got out after her defeat. Right or wrong, it blames mutants for being imprisoned. It can even blame Orchis too for all I care, but with Orchis gone it turns its full attention to mutants. That feels like it has more weight by building off of recent material while allowing the story to move in new directions.Not sure why the writer went with Xavier having another crazy ex girlfriend. Poor Moira really got the shit end of the stick already. Talk about character assassination, right down to killing Banshee and wearing his skin.
>>156000976>>156001330Speaking of XoA, Sabretooth and Wild Child are confirmed to be showing up in Wolverine
>>155994545>SayonaraShe's Chinese.>Inb4 American Born Chinese can't use Japanese loan words?Then>Seeya wouldn't wanna be ya would have been more in line for her mocking goodbye, it's not like Cross displayed familiarity with Japanese.
>>155994503Not that I want to see Shogo again, but it's weird that he isn't around and is almost never mentioned.
>>156003808>>156003999>>156006616The solicits for X-Men #45 and the X-Men #42 variant just dropped, seems that Cyclops actually survives but is going to be booted off the team as a result of DNX. His outfit looks similar to the other variant of this issue, so he's getting a new outfit to go
>>156010873A stupid complaint for a stupid book
>>155994536Dad joke proud papa Blade and his Kid being an anti-vampire blender is all I really fucking wanted out ANAD Blade. This page, this page makes me happy.
Ah, the thread is still up. We got the first lettered preview of Maximum X-Men #1 along with an interview with Yost and Daniel.>As the dust settles on the Marvel Universe, who will fill the Avengers-sized void left in Armageddon’s wake? The answer lies in MAXIMUM X-MEN #1, where writer Christopher Yost and artist Tony S. Daniel assemble an all-new X-Men team that will step up to the plate as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Led by Storm, the elite team brings together mutant Avengers and X-Men mainstays to stop a full-on invasion from the Negative Zone. >Dubbed “The Avenger Situation,” the series’ first arc pulls no punches as the X-Men battle hordes of inter-dimensional invaders. Get an exclusive first look at MAXIMUM X-MEN #1 with the lettered preview and read on as Yost and Daniel tease what’s in store for the upcoming series!>MARVEL.COM: Tell us more about the mission statement of the MAXIMUM X-MEN team in a post-Armageddon world.YOST: It’s a much harder world for Super Heroes after the explosive events of Armageddon. And while Wolverine’s got his team of street-level heroes, the days of Captain America, Iron Man and Thor seem to be over. So, who steps up to fill the void they left behind when world-ending threats arrive?The 1984 Secret Wars series was foundational for me. And one of my favorite moments in it was when the X-Men volunteered to deal with Galactus as Captain America and the rest of the heroes went to take down the various super villains. And I loved that. In my mind, that’s what MAXIMUM X-MEN is, the X-Men reminding the world they’re heroes. It’s not about mutants or humans; it’s about saving the world.
>MARVEL.COM: Storm is the leader of this X-Men team. What parts of her character do you hope to explore in this role as MAXIMUM X-MEN unfolds?YOST: Storm’s led the X-Men before. She’s been a thief, queen, sorceress, and a goddess even. The hope here is to fuse all those things together into a kind of Maximum Storm. If you read my X-Men: Worlds Apart (2008) mini-series, you’ll get a pretty good idea of what I think of Ororo. She does not compromise.>MARVEL.COM: MAXIMUM X-MEN enlists many mutant heroes. How did you decide who made the cut for this roster?YOST: Tom Brevoort and I talked about the team and what vibe we were going for. Classic Claremont/Lee era is where we landed. Characters like Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Psylocke, Bishop, it feels like classic X-Men. Adding in a few new additions and some of our favorites like Firestar and Justice, and even introducing a new character in issue #2. We wanted a good mix of powers and personalities and I’m excited to be able to write this team together.
>MARVEL.COM: The roster assembled in MAXIMUM X-MEN packs quite the punch. Were there any characters whose powers you were excited to show off with your art in this first arc?DANIEL: There are so many of them, it’s a bit hard to say just one. I’m just drawing most of these characters for the first time, save for Wolverine, who I’ve been able to get a couple variant covers for in the past. But I’m loving Storm’s effects and her flowy hair, the billowing cape and electricity around her. She’s been fun.I also am having a wonderful time drawing Betsy. We’re seeing a lot of her butterfly effects throughout the issues, and she has that sword and shield. I think I’ll work in her staff at some point, it’s too cool not to. I’m having a ton of fun with everyone though; I couldn’t be more excited to work on these characters with Christopher.
>MARVEL.COM: What was it like working together on MAXIMUM X-MEN?YOST: It’s a dream come true. Tony’s so excited to be on X-Men, and that excitement is coming through in the pages. This was always meant to be an action book, and the first two issues are basically nothing BUT action… and Tony is delivering in a way that makes me literally giddy. Just you wait.DANIEL: I’ve been a fan of Christopher’s for some time. He thinks so big, and so cinematically, it’s fun to read and work from his scripts. He’s a very visual writer. Every description, to me, it’s as if I’m working with a writer/director, I can see what he’s trying to convey clearly. A lot of his scenes read like a big-budget movie; his action scenes are very large and epic. But his quiet scenes have a lot of movement in them as well. It’s as close as I’ve come to drawing a movie. It’ll be worth all the work we’re pouring into this series, and I think fans will be excited to see what’s in store!>https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/maximum-x-men-1-previews-assembles-a-mighty-roster-for-the-avenger-situation
>>156014743I miss this level of banter
