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Questions about X-Men

  
 
deja_vroom
13:30 / 21.02.03
I tried to search for the old thread, but I only got the first 10 results, and there's no "next 10 results" button...

If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate:

New X-Men, Grant Morrison's run
1) In which number does it start?

2)What do I need to know about the previous run to appreciate and understand what's going on?

3)Why Emma Frost is no longer a villain?

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X-Statix
1) What was called the title that Pete Milligan and Mike Allred were doing BEFORE X-Statix?? X-Force?


Thanks.
 
 
sleazenation
13:51 / 21.02.03
Before there was x-statics there was X-force

Morrison's run on newxmen stated on 114
You don't need to read the previous run to understand what's going on
and Emma frost has been a non-villaness for a while now but all you really need to know is in the book.
 
 
doughnut
13:56 / 21.02.03
Errrm...okay...

1. Starts at Issue 114 with the start of the story "E for extinction". The trade of the first story is already out under the same name.

2. You don't really need to know anything. Grant writes so all the convuluted back story is forgotten and in it's place is a good story (in my opinion). Occasionally he'll refer to what went on before, but not a lot.

3. Off the top of my head...after being injured and put in a coma by Trevor Fitzroy (???) she was recruited by Xavier to be headmistress at his new school, which incidentally was the one Emma used to run. She stayed there for ages (dealt with in the GenerationX book) until it was closed (blown up??), upon which the Prof invited her to teach in the Xavier Institute.

4. Yeah, X-force. The old team got replaced with the media savvy bunch we have now at some point (can't remember the issue number) then at #129 Pete Milligan and Mike Allred's team got their own book and X-force was cancelled, replaced by X-Statix.
 
 
deja_vroom
15:26 / 21.02.03
And what # is the current issue?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
15:37 / 21.02.03
The current issue of New X-Men is #137. The current issue of X-Statix is #7. Both comics are in the middle of storyarcs at the moment.
 
 
Simplist
16:58 / 21.02.03
Maldito: Assuming you know about Genosha (short form: small island nation populated almost exclusively by mutants; Magneto is president, with predictable repercussions), you really only need one other bit of info: At the end of the previous arc, Magneto (having been up to the usual epic-scale misbehavior) was gravely injured by Wolverine (gutted, in fact), and as Morrison's run opens Magneto is in a very weakened state, wheelchair-bound and recuperating. Without knowing that, you might be scratching your head at a certain point in issue 115. Everything after that is pretty straightforward.
 
 
deja_vroom
19:09 / 21.02.03
So... mmmm... *that* guy in a wheelchair that gets wiped along with an entire hospital by an airplane shaped like a fist was Magneto, huh? The guy knows how to leave scene, I tell you.
 
 
electric monk
15:50 / 01.09.06
There is a one-panel flashback in GM's NMX run that shows Cyclops in "the black bug room" during his possession by En Nabah Sur (it may have appeared during the "Assault on Weapon Plus" arc). I realize this is a reference to another X-Men storyline, but is the "black bug room" and the way it's depicted in that panel a reference to something else? A scene in a book or movie perhaps? I ask because I had a recurring fever-dream when I was very young that matches this panel almost exactly and am curious as to where I would have picked up that image, not to mention how the hell it could appear in a comic book twenty-odd years later.
 
 
Mr Tricks
16:35 / 01.09.06
I think the point of the BLACK BUG ROOM is that everyone has one locked away in their minds...

The art and story moment seesm to have tapped into that archtype for you. Probably not just you.
 
 
Mr Tricks
16:47 / 01.09.06
BTW I understand Marvel is porducing a single hard cover collection of the entire New X meN run.

    NEW X-MEN OMNIBUS HC
    Written by GRANT MORRISON
    Penciled by FRANK QUITELY, ETHAN VAN SCIVER, IGOR KORDEY, TOM DERENICK, JOHN PAUL LEON, PHIL JIMENEZ, KERON GRANT, CHRIS BACHALO, MARC SILVESTRI & LEINIL FRANCIS YU
    Cover by FRANK QUITELY
    Sixteen million mutants dead - and that was just the beginning! In one bold stroke, writer Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, JLA, FANTASTIC FOUR: 1234) propelled the X-Men into the 21st century - masterminding a challenging new direction for Marvel's mutant heroes that began with the destruction of Genosha and never let up. Regarded as the most innovative thinker of the current comic-book renaissance, Morrison proceeded to turn the mutant-hero genre on its ear. Gone were the gaudy spandex costumes - replaced by slick, black leather and an attitude to match. Now, his entire Eisner Award-nominated run on NEW X-MEN is collected in one deluxe hardcover! Collects NEW X-MEN #114-154 and ANNUAL 2001.
    1096 PGS./Rated T+ ...$99.99
    ISBN: 0-7851-2326-1
    Trim size: Oversized
  
  
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