Every Monday Senior X-Men Editor Mark Paniccia answers fans questions and shares cool new art from the X-Line. We’ll be here compiling all those hints in one place, alongside the rest of the best stuff in X-Men Social media, so you don’t have to worry about missing a single second of it. This is #XMENMONDAY Round-Up
End of an Era?
This isn’t a #XMENMONDAY spoiler per say but this feels like the right place to address rumors in the X-Universe so it is going here. On Friday Bleeding Cool posted a rumor that X-MEN: GOLD would be ending this summer with issue #30 and X-MEN: BLUE with #28. While Marvel has often rotated titles out this rumor doesn’t jive with what creators have said about the books. In X-MEN: GOLD #17 Mark Guggenheim said that he had outlines through #34.
Cullen Bunn on X-MEN: BLUE confirmed he had plans through #31.
Perhaps these are just weasel words and plans that will never come to be but for now, I’d call this rumor questionable.
Phoenix Rising
We only have one thing have a bunch of stuff (someone jumped the gun posting this) from Mark this week including a fantastic variant cover from PHOENIX RESURRECTION #4 by Mukesh Singh.
HAPPY #XMENMONDAY everyone!!! Sharing this gorgeous PHOENIX RESURRECTION #4 cover by #mukeshsingh pic.twitter.com/vAHKqNk6qk
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) January 8, 2018
We also have a first look at something with two characters who aren’t going to have a book soon.
What’s this??? #xmenmonday pic.twitter.com/aN5AW19cIt
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) January 9, 2018
Is it a crossover? That X-MEN BLACK that everyone thinks is happening regardless of evidence? Only time will tell.
Grand Ole’ Design
X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN has been a stand out comic the last couple of weeks and cartoonist Ed Piskor has been sharing some super cool behind the scenes stuff. First off a look at an early draft of the comic.
A glimpse at my script for issue 2 of X-Men: Grand Design. What you get to read in print is about the fifth draft. It’s a freeing notion to realize one doesn’t have to get it right on the first swing. Keep that in mind if you’re a story-maker and you ever feel daunted. pic.twitter.com/btZoD9hiYY
— Ed Piskor (@EdPiskor) January 5, 2018
He also shared a look at the full cover for the Treasury Edition collection of the first chunk of the series.
The coverspread to the first volume of X-Men: Grand Design. Hits stores April 3rd. We’re sending this baby to press so let your shop know you want it so that we print enough. Thanks @robertliefeld and @JeffLemire for their generous quotes. pic.twitter.com/9NV1tx9j4W
— Ed Piskor (@EdPiskor) January 8, 2018
If you haven’t taken a look at this book you are missing out.
Exiled
We knew we were getting a baby Wolverine in the upcoming EXILES book but I never imagined it would be this.
This isn’t any baby Wolverine, this is a deep cut from the 2009 X-BABIES mini as Saladin Ahmed explains.
for everyone asking about Wolvie from the forthcoming exiles comic – he’s not new. he’s part of a TV show created by Mojo’s rival Veech to be an even more appallingly cute replacement for Mojo’s original X-Babies. https://t.co/V7vDllOb6j pic.twitter.com/DNHF1q5yJd
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) January 7, 2018
one of the things that’s going to make this version of EXILES different Is that it’s going to not only be about Marvel Universe history but also about world history — more of a QUANTUM LEAP flavor than previous iterations of the series maybe
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) January 7, 2018
Some things in this world feel like they are specifically made for me.
Atomic Art
Christina Strain is known for being the writer of GENERATION X (R.I.P.) but before that she was an outstanding colorist. Though she has said she isn’t interested in returning to colors professionally, sometimes you have to scratch that itch and GENERATION X artist Amalicar Pina was happy to help.
Sometimes I get an itch to color something, and luckily @amilcarpinna was able to help me scratch it. Jubilee – Generation X. pic.twitter.com/ZgI08yIy1M
— Christina Strain (@christinastrain) January 8, 2018
Elsewhere on the Twitter, UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL artist Erica Henderson shared her redesign of mutants with gross powers and I absolutely love it. #BringBackMaggott
A while back someone on Twitter told people to design X-teams and @Rockin_DRobbins decided to put all the gross X-Men together and I finally drew them.
Husk, Maggot, Marrow, Skin, Beak pic.twitter.com/EyhX60uwhp
— Beyond Good & Erica (@EricaFails) January 5, 2018
Q’s & A’s
For anyone looking for more New Mutants, Mark has something you might like.
#MAGICXBALL says, “The distant future looks bright”
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) January 9, 2018
If you were missing Cyclops or Multiple Man get excited.
#MAGICXBALL says, “News on one soon.”
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) January 9, 2018
Please let Scott rest…
Shocking no one, there will be new X-Books at some point this year.
Yup! And glad you are excited about our most recent announcements. I’m confident you’ll dig the stuff in development that I can talk about yet.
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) January 9, 2018
Straight from being the best part of THE GIFTED, Polaris is getting a redesign soon.
I’m a big fan of the original but you will see a new costume in the not-too distant future.
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) January 9, 2018
That’s what we got this week! See you next #XMENMONDAY
Zachary Jenkins co-hosts the podcast Battle of the Atom and is the former editor-in-chief of ComicsXF. Shocking everyone, he has a full and vibrant life outside all this.
