X-Men in pissing all over everybody shocker!

I guess DC are where it's at these days.

the bit where the xorn mask starts talking to magneto leaves it v open to bring back xorn, mind you: if magneto was under the influence of "sublime" or whatever - i didn't get four issues somewhere in the middle yet and am quite unclear on what that is - you could do an actually-magneto-totally-reformed-and-his-personality-as-such-is-resident-in-the-mask thing. dammit that OUGHT to be followed through on. is there a thread about the end of morrison's new x-men yet?

i saw an issue of wizard last time i was in a comic store that i swear had the name "joss whedon" in connection with the x-men and thought, hey, he might actually make a decent job of it, did i imagine that?

The Joss Whedon series (Astonishing X-Men) comes out tomorrow! I have high hopes.

I wonder what series they would've given Kevin Williamson if he hadn't stopped being hot/burned out/disappeared before the "let's get Hollywood guys to write comics" thing.

Is Ultimate X-Men any good? I really disliked the first two arcs, and haven't gone back since.

The Day of the Atom X-Men TPB seems quite good so far. "Gambit's gone blind" "oh dear! that sucks, sorry dude", they are getting a bit callous. Has X-Men finished? I'm confused.

I liked the Astonishing X-Men, as it was less confusing, coz they didn't seemed to be getting bogged down in CONTINUity! i might just stick with this one.

Questions:

When did Ice Man get stuck all icey?
When did Rachel come back?

Iceman's secondary mutation was to turn completely into ice. This happened during Chuck Austen's ridiculously awful run on Uncanny X-Men.

Rachel came back at the very end of Claremont's X-Treme X-Men. No idea how, and it's not very important so don't stress about it. She's basically there to fill the red hair Phoenix quota.

(I don't think this.)

Editorially, I'm sure it's so Jean Grey can call herself Phoenix and no one has to come up with a new name like Headtrip or Mento-Girl.

Mind Mistress
The Telekinudist
Anachronabortion
Buffy [Rachel "Buffy" Summers] [This reminds me of the friend of a friend who argued, in perfect sincerity and getting slightly pissed off when she was dismissed, that Buffy was obviously related to Cyclops and Havok and etc. because Joss Whedon had read the X-Men and "wouldn't have been stupid enough" to use the Summers name without intending it to be a connection, ergo Buffy was a mutant, ergo Mr Sinister was "probably" a Watcher.]

Or she could put pi on her costume: "Irrational Girl, behind you!"

Ha ha ha! OTM!

"When I was appointed the new regular writer for DC's Action Comics, just over a year ago, I set out with three very specific goals in mind. They were: 1) Skip ten years' worth of continuity involving Lana Lang. 2) Create a love triangle between Lois, Clark and Lana. 3) Get fired and have the next guy clean up the mess. I think I succeeded quite nicely, don't you think? What I didn't know, was that this would effectively end my career at DC. I have a better chance of getting work there if I'd change my name to John Byrne. Somehow, that makes me really, really sad."

"What's the big deal about Craig Thompson? So he wrote this book. Blankets, it's called. It's a blubbery blubfest about a nerdy guy who desperately wants to get laid with this girl, who desperately wants to do other stuff but humors the nerdy guy because he reminds her of a dying puppy or whatever. Then they break up and the nerdy guy whines about it for about six hundred pages. I write stuff like that in under thirty minutes. Every. Single. Month. And yet, you don't see people worship the ground I walk upon or beg for my love child. Really, I write stuff like that during breakfast. Only with more sexual innuendo in it. And big-ass fights. Every good comic book has to have big-ass fights. Craig Thompson's comics don't have big-ass fights. QED."

Did that really happen with Action Comics? Why did DC let him do that stuff?

They've both drawn Alan Moore stories! The confluence grows.

So, as part of the House of M hoowah (OMG 1st issue sold out before hitting shelves - PRINT MORE NEXT TIME YOU TURDS), Excalibur (that super-terrific Claremont / whomever series where Magneto and X are doing an Xtreme House Makeover on Genosha while dealing w/ stupid pirate turds and Arcade or some crap) is getting canned. Well, hell yeah, score one for Quality Control, and get CC away from any Dino-Rachel boggins.

BUT WAIT - once House of M is done shaking the foundation of the Marvel universe to its joists and unadorned drywall, a NEW title will rise in its place, featuring a NEW set of challenges, a NEW set of danger, opening a WHOLE NEW WORLD of adventure for (I presume) the SAME OLD CHARACTERS. And the name of this NEW title is ...

NEW EXCALIBUR