Marvel Teaser: The First X-Men

*down vote*

@Billy Batson said:

looks bleh.
BB

A teaser cover with 4 different words on it (including the month the book is set to release) looks bleh? Okay. Thanks for your informative opinion.

YAWN

There is no way another x-book can work or could be interesting. Going back in time (lame) x-men hidden years tried that, and that title isn't around anymore. Bendis would be awesome for an x-title and would be a reason to pick it up, but who says its going to be him and how long will he be working on it before he moves on and it becomes another story to buy. I hope this is something awesome and a story with great unveilings of marvel characters. Some of my own thoughts on the First X-men are in line with AVX. The fallout from this event leaves the mutant race to realize they need there own singular team to do what x-men do. The kicker... the first generations of x-men become x-men. So Cyclops, Wolverine, Husk, Beast, Iceman, Rogue, Cannonball, Psylocke, Legion, Magneto, essentially anyone before the Prodigy, Hellion, Surge era, WHILE the Hellion, Surge era and on (new lights and newer new lights) go to school.

Another idea could be the separation of the original x-men and where they are now. Cyclops is running Utopia and after the AVX event who knows what his position could be. Iceman is simply chillen at the school, but again AVX what will happen? Beast is on Secret Avengers and at the school so AVX drama might pull him one way or another. Angel is cuckoo and reverted to a teenaged version of himself with no memory of his days as a first x-men. Jean Grey = Hope in my mind (not just the red hair and green outfit), but the Phoenix Force may imprint Jean onto her giving her the memories and abilities of Jean and possibly the Ms. Marvel version of Jean as well. AND there is Professor X, who made his way into the shadows and could actually play a huge role in bringing mutants back together. They are scattered across so many books and maybe if he was a universal liaison for all there can be more continuity and plausibility to multiple teamed characters like Psylocke, Beast, and of course Wolverine. When you look at where all the first x-men ended up, there is incredible possibilities for where they can go...together?

If this isn't about Marvel officially modernizing the X-men canon then I do not care. The Xavier and Magneto WWII story is getting outdated. You're gonna have to change it one day.

@Calico5: I don't understand your post. You start off by saying how another X-Men title can't work or couldn't possibly be interesting, but spend the rest of the post talking about all the things that could happen that would make this X-Men title interesting.

Jean's returning?

@torzone:oh Lord I hope so! But what makes you say that? Because she was an original member?

@HelloDonatello said:

@torzone:oh Lord I hope so! But what makes you say that? Because she was an original member?

Yeah, I really hope she gets brought back into the X-men storyline it feels like she has been out forever

Hmmm... maybe they're going to reveal who the first mutant hero was or is, like how Apocalypse was the first mutant villain.

Would this show how/where/when when the words xgene, and mutants take place? 'Cause to me, it's possible that mutants and eternals would have any connections from the Celestials.

@torzone said:

@HelloDonatello said:

@torzone:oh Lord I hope so! But what makes you say that? Because she was an original member?

Yeah, I really hope she gets brought back into the X-men storyline it feels like she has been out forever

I couldn't agree more. She's been gone for WAY too long!

This sounds like it would better in trade than single issues, so I will wait

Maybe the first xmen consisted of captain America in the 1940's.

@pspin said:

This sounds like it would better in trade than single issues, so I will wait

How about getting each issue and putting them on the shelf until you get a few collected to read all at one time. This way not only do you not have to wait as long for the trade, but you will also be contributing to the sales of a book that you seem to want to read. Best of both worlds in my opinion.

@HelloDonatello said:

@pspin said:

This sounds like it would better in trade than single issues, so I will wait

How about getting each issue and putting them on the shelf until you get a few collected to read all at one time. This way not only do you not have to wait as long for the trade, but you will also be contributing to the sales of a book that you seem to want to read. Best of both worlds in my opinion.

That is my justification for waiting even though I want to read it, I can't afford another book, even if it is a mini.

@Mega_spidey01 said:

@Mycroftian said:

Would really rather see X-23 come back, if we have to have another x-book. Ah well.

@pspin said:

@HelloDonatello said:

@pspin said:

This sounds like it would better in trade than single issues, so I will wait

How about getting each issue and putting them on the shelf until you get a few collected to read all at one time. This way not only do you not have to wait as long for the trade, but you will also be contributing to the sales of a book that you seem to want to read. Best of both worlds in my opinion.

That is my justification for waiting even though I want to read it, I can't afford another book, even if it is a mini.

That's cool. I completely understand.

I bet this is going to be like when the finally introduced the 3rd Summers brother and they changed the story of how the 'All New, All Different' X-Men came about.

OH well. X-Men books are Marvel's most consistently good titles in my opinoin.

We couldn't get the First X-Man?

A Jean Grey story perhaps?

@Arevish said:

Another X-Men title, just what we need.

@Mucklefluga said:

Sounds sooo interesting *eye roll*

Wow way to steal exactly what i was going to say!

i wonder if this is gonna be connected to the whole "no more avengers" thing. Because cap was the first avenger. i could see if wanda ends up rewriting history again, replacing cap with namor as the first x-man or something.

I stopped reading the X-Men family books years ago. This looks to be yet another attempt to go and shoehorn in another series that time forgot. The problem I have is if this is a prequel is it going to look like it or is it going to be told that it happens in the past but shows actual modern tech.

YAY! another X book, like the other 20 weren't enough. And what are they really trying to pull, we know how the x-men were founded. Maybe it's an Erik and Charles book, who knows.

@Mercy_ said:

Yawn

It's times like these that I miss @xerox_kitty and her awesome rants about stupid, vague teasers.

At this point, why doesn't Marvel just rename itself X-arvel? Because I swear if I see another X-title I'm going to upchuck!

@Omertalvendetta: I also look forward to these previews. I stay positive of new stuff. Love all of it.

Every year we have more teasers than the last year and the stories are always crap from Marvel.

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

Lulz.

Like I told the guy at the comic book store the other day. I refuse to try to get into X-men anymore because they are always doing some twist to everything and I cant tell whats going on with old characters and the new character. I just wish the old team was dead and that there was always a new batch of mutants to grow up with. Its stuff like this teaser and such that kills my hopes of ever liking X men stuff.

Dont get me wrong I have enjoyed uncanny x force(asside from that captain Britain thing) and Wolverine and the Xmen but as soon as those books tie into the X-men continuity Im out of them and spending my money on other stuff.

This better not be a stupid story where it reveals there was a group of X-Men before Scott and Co.

Could be the deadly genesis team. Or not.

@leokearon said:

This better not be a stupid story where it reveals there was a group of X-Men before Scott and Co.

Or since Marvel have no original ideas and just reuse all the ideas they had in the 80s:

@Mercy_ said:

Yawn

It's times like these that I miss @xerox_kitty and her awesome rants about stupid, vague teasers.

seconded

Wooow.....

I smell a First Class-retcon! Maybe it's about a group of X-Men before the original that Xavier and Magneto found. I hope not. And I hope it isn't from Bendis, Fraction or Brubaker. I hope it is from Carey.

@Super_SoldierXII: yes you are the only one. now be quiet. nobody wants dc relaunch marvel style.

pass

Ah, Marvel...can't you just finish A v X before you suggest yet another X-men title...one smelling of retcon!

Yawn

It's times like these that I miss @xerox_kitty and her awesome rants about stupid, vague teasers.

another x-men book

Lol.

I really hope they're not doing the same thing that they did with the 1959 Avengers....

aww jesus ye're all so bitchy!  i hope this is about some secret team that all got killed before scott and the rest showed up!

Ultimate perhaps...

@TheCrowbar said:

Bendis

I just hear that being whispered to me when I read this.

Hm. That's true.

@cattlebattle said:

I smell another crappy retcon......

What do you mean 'another'? Marvel has never really retconned before. "Heroes Reborn", while crappy, wasn't really a retcon and was canned anyway.

I'd love to see new takes, after decades, of some of these characters without them being weighed down by said decades of continuity. Much of which is simply riddled with inconsistency and crappy writing anyway. Some of these icons really do need to be cleaned and polished moving into the second decade of the 21st century. Hold onto the great stories that worked, and dump the rest.

If Marvel does take this route, I hope they bring in top talent, stick with consistent writing and not a plethora of writers each with varying ideas of how it should be done or each with a different idea of what makes, say, Spider-Man tick. The writers would benefit from a quick spin through the Vine's battle forums to see all the various quandaries raised such as;

- Should Rhino really tag Parker outside of plot with a spidersense and reflex speed on superhuman levels (given his power-set why would he)? Would he really 'hold back' to the extent he gets his arse kicked? When he gets tagged (and he should by highly skilled players), Marvel needs to keep it credible.

- Is Wolverine a tank or a martial artist? Does he get KO'd by street levelers or can he stand a round or two with Hulk? Given his power-set and adamantium, why wouldn't he? I'd love to see peak humans hurting their hands on his indestructible jaw again. A dash of realism would really help the franchise IMO.

- Just how powerful is Thor anyway? What are the limits to what Mjolnir can or cannot do?The Mjolnir and Roger's shield plot devices need to be squared away. Is Steve a peak human, or is he enhanced as he was in the recent Marvel movie?

- What are the effects of faster than light speed in battles ... should said speed be ignored or just simply handled better? Ignoring these powers creates huge gaps of inconsistencies, befuddles readers, and removes the immersion.

If they retcon, and I'm all for it, they really need to get it right. (Sorry, guess my rant fell on your post!)