Classic costumes. Fastball Specials. A team-on-the-Blackbird scene. What is this, 1975 through 1991?
Yup. We’re going back. Won’t be long now before the softball scene.
Marvel has released unlettered previews of January’s Fall of the House of X #1 and Rise of the Powers of X #1, the two five-issue event series that are expected to put a bow on the Krakoan age. The Fall pages look about as back-to-basics X-Men as you can get, with a strike team consisting of Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Shadowkat, Rogue and Gambit, plus scenes of Cyclops being put on trial for his crimes against humanity and Xavier still sporting his island depression beard. You can pretty much hear the 1990s animated series music as you look it over.
The Rise pages, though, that’s where things get interesting. R.B. Silva’s cover gives us a team consisting of Wolverine, Synch in a Professor X-style hoverchair, Ms. Marvel in the Captain Krakoa costume, Iron Man (still in the stealth suit) and … a giant Shadowkat with Apocalypse-gray skin? It also gives us glimpses of Nimrod, Omega Sentinel and evil robot Moira.
Obviously, it’s too early to know what’s going on in either book, but for now, appreciate this Lucas Werneck (Fall) and Silva (Rise) art, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
For more on upcoming X-Men comics, click here.
Fall of the House of X
FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X #1 (OF 5)
Written by GERRY DUGGAN
Art by LUCAS WERNECK
Colors by BRYAN VALENZA
Cover by PEPE LARRAZ
On Sale 1/3
Rise of the Powers of X
RISE OF THE POWERS OF X #1 (OF 5)
Written by KIERON GILLEN
Art by R.B. SILVA
Colors by DAVID CURIEL
Cover by R.B. SILVA
On Sale 1/10
Dan Grote is the editor-in-chief of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Winston Wisdom.
