r/xmen • u/VengefulKangaroo Shatterstar • Apr 10 '24

Weekly Discussion X-Men Comics New Releases for April 10, 2024

Ultimate X-Men #2

  • THE ULTIMATE X-MEN GO BACK TO SCHOOL! High school, that is! It's a new school year for Hisako as she tries to get a grasp on her new powers… Where she meets a cool, white-haired punk girl named Mei (A.K.A. Maystorm), who understands all too well the challenge Hisako faces. And they team up to embark on a creepy adventure to learn who is behind the creepy shadow that has been haunting — and taunting — them!

Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #2

  • THE (IN)FAMOUS X-MAN! Now that Kamala is very notably and very publicly an X-Man, she is attracting all sorts of attention…and you know who uses attention as currency? That's right — it's the return of the X-Men's old media mogul mastermind — MOJO!

Resurrection of Magneto #4

  • RETURN OF THE KING! The Master of Magnetism has returned to the world… but it is not the world he left. Nor is Magneto the same man who left it. Has death changed him for the better, or for the worse? And when he sees what ORCHIS has done to mutantkind… will it change him again?

Wolverine #47

  • SAVAGE ESCAPE! LAURA KINNEY must escape the clutches of the SAVAGE SABRETOOTH! Will VICTOR CREED'S WEAPON spell the end for LOGAN? LEGACY #389

The Invincible Iron Man #17

  • Iron Man is mutantkind's last hope! Tony Stark's greatest accomplishment may have just become the world's most advanced coffin. Trapped within a deactivated armor, Tony must face down his demons and his legacy. Can Iron Man escape, or will mutantkind's hopes die along with him? LEGACY #667

X-Men '97 #2

  • SABRETOOTH STRIKES! …and he's not the only threat the X-Men are facing! As Jean Grey and Cyclops prepare to embark on a bold new adventure, a sinister foe makes his move from the shadows, unleashing a torrent of new terror. Can an old friend turn the tide — or will it be too late to save Wolverine from being ripped to shreds?!

Weapon X-Men #2

  • ONE HAPPY WOLVERINE! Across almost every universe in existence, Wolverine is driven by pain, by the sins of his past and his future. But in one world — the very one that Onslaught has targeted next for annihilation — has a Wolverine unlike any other. A Wolverine… who got what he wanted. And for the Logan from Earth-X? That news just might be the claw in the coffin. The Phoenix's handpicked Band of Logans go to war!

Related & Unlimited Releases for 4/10

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u/VengefulKangaroo Shatterstar Apr 10 '24

The Invincible Iron Man #17

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u/ajdragoon Nightcrawler Apr 10 '24

This run started pretty strong, but now it’s sputtering as much as the main X-Men book. I know the last two issues have been tributes, but it means the story has just absolutely crawled. I dunno why we needed an entire issue dedicated to Tony facing his demons. Again. I also will never get over how the super armor that took up a significant portion of this arc lasted just one issue because he didn’t think to power it up sufficiently.

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u/YourEvilHenchman Apr 15 '24

honestly that bit about tony not having enough time to find a proper power source for the sentinel buster because they were rushed into fighting this war almost reads like meta commentary by duggan about how this entirely storyline was rushed to have a conclusion six months earlier than originally planned.

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u/ajdragoon Nightcrawler Apr 15 '24

Bwahahah you're so right. I love it. I hate it.

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u/Blitzhelios Magik Apr 10 '24

I enjoyed this issue but its got the exact same as duggans x men it feels like a filler issue overall and just connecting to fall of hox and rushed.

Feilong's final breath is weak him finally realising orchis humans aren't calling the shot feels rushed and isn't satisfying for me. Feilong has been ruining starks life and that of his friends and family and whilst tony not taking his shot is a good hero move it doesn't feel very tony.

Tony going through his demons again is a very typical tony plotline and is a fun homage to iconic tony plotline and specifically armour wars in this case which is fun for me as an iron man fan but we have already seen tony do this during this run do we need it again.

Magneto rescuing tony is fun at the end as is a good connection to ROM at the end and tony saying oh great someone i hate is rescuing me and having to change his opinions on mags is fun.

Overall its a fun issue but it just feels like filler.

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u/DeltaTester Cypher Apr 10 '24

This one is something of a tribute to Invincible Iron Man #232, as the credits page implies!

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u/1204Sparta Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 10 '24

Didn’t Fei Long introduce himself to the Techno organic virus? Edit: I’m serious, why is he acting like he’s fully human and ratting out AI? Am I crazy? Wasn’t there a shot of him taking the virus to the chest?

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u/mechamechaman Rogue Apr 10 '24

I know he introduced himself to cosmic rays like the FF. Not sure about the techno-organic virus.

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u/antsinmyeyesmauger Nightcrawler Apr 10 '24

Maybe it's because I'm checked out but I didn't see the AI taking over the stark sentinels to kill both humans and mutants coming. I think it would be interesting to explore that possibly before the last 4 or so issues of Duggan's work.

I liked the issues but as other people said it seems like fillar for Fall of House of X.

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u/shineurliteonme Cyclops Apr 10 '24

Hickman was definitely setting that up but they let that thread linger in the other books a little too long without much reference to it

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u/wowlock_taylan Apr 10 '24

Well we go on a 'near death' journey with Tony's concussion memory trip though this could've been done with the previous issue honestly. Disappointing Feilong is left alive. And they keep trying to make this ''AI was planning to kill both humans and mutants!'' reveal as some big twist...when we knew that since the whole Orchis stuff began. And hell all these characters should be aware of that too. Maybe not arrogant idiots like Feilong but surely mutants and heroes like Tony would've guessed this.

Well, the next issue team up with Magneto gonna be fun I guess. Did Emma told Magneto that she 'married' Tony? Because I doubt he got gossip while he was dead and he just recently returned. Either Emma told him while sending him to help Tony or someone just gossiped to him about it behind Emma.

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u/trawlse Apr 11 '24

Every scene of the orchis humans finding out about the orchis robots has been so lame. You’re right, we’ve known the robot secret for a long time. The only payoff, in my opinion, was going to be the moments of the other shoe dropping where the humans realizing what’s happened and how screwed they are, and those scenes have all been total flops.

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u/Expensive-Baby-1391 Apr 11 '24

Hoping the humans orchis gets wiped out. If the xmen just forgive them after everything thats happened and editorial's stupid "mutants and ai become friends" becomes official, I will be pissed and pray for the idiots in charge of Marvel's fascist editors to be dropped.

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u/RodrigoZago Apr 12 '24

Emma being married to Tony is referenced on "Ressurection of Magneto #4". Ororo tells Magneto that Emma Frost is asking them to save her "husband". That's when Mags is told that they are married. He doesn't seem to be in any way fazed by that information and focus on the irony of having to save the one who designed the anti-mutant technology.