r/xmen • u/VengefulKangaroo Shatterstar • May 18 '22

Comic Discussion X-Men Comics New Releases for May 18, 2022

Wolverine #21

  • GLORY DAZE. DEEPER INTO DANGER DANGER DANGER! Outnumbered and surrounded, Wolverine unleashes his berserker rage, and Deadpool embraces his deadly fighting skills in a last ditch effort to save mutant lives. But what’s with all the Robot X-Men, and what do they have to do with the X-Desk?

X-Force #28

  • CEREBRAX. IT'S QUENTIN QUIRE, #&%$! CEREBRAX stalks the island of Krakoa, and no one is safe! Its hunger for minds is insatiable…but what happens when it absorbs the minds—and powers—of the most powerful mutants?! X-FORCE will have to STEP. IT. UP.—and QUENTIN QUIRE leads the way!

Immortal X-Men #2

  • PART TWO: ALL MANKIND'S WOES. EMERGENCY COUNCIL MEETING! Magneto leaving the council means big shoes need to be filled. Selene demonstrating her foot size by crushing the whole island beneath it is unorthodox, yet compelling. Can the Quiet Council resist?

X-Men: Red #2

  • MAN ON FIRE. WHO CAN TAME THE RED PLANET? The mutants of Mars spent millennia worshipping war—and on what they now call Arakko, they’re keeping up their violent ways. Abigail Brand knows the red planet needs a firm ruler in charge. But Storm has other ideas, along with a broken Magneto in her corner and Sunspot making his own moves. It’s a new world…and someone has to claim it.

New Mutants #25

  • THE LABORS OF MAGIK, BOOK ONE: BEST LAID PLANS... THE LABORS OF MAGIK START HERE! The big two-five is here—and it's the perfect jumping-on point for fans new and old! Illyana Rasputin is the Sorcerer Supreme and the rightful queen of Limbo...but she's been awfully busy on Krakoa. Someone's got their eye on the throne—and Magik isn't the only queen in mutantdom. Vita Ayala and Rod Reis rekindle an old flame for a whole new generation of Magik lovers!

Wolverine: Patch #2

  • MUTANT VS. MUTANT IN MADRIPOOR! What began as simple recon lands PATCH in the midst of a war on multiple fronts! But who is KRASNY BETH, and how does she figure into the plans of both GENERAL COY and DR. MALHEUR? I guess Patch will never know, if she DESTROYS him with her MUTANT POWER!

The X-Cellent #3

  • NEW BLOOD, NEW WORLD, PART 3. THE X-CELLENT DID WHAT?! That's right, you heard it here first—the X-Cellent are taking on Doctor Strange! No one got famous for following the rules, and Zeitgeist knows this. But will this launch them into superstardom, or are they canceled? Zeitgeist will have something to say about that!

Related & Unlimited Releases for 5/18

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u/ghoulieandrews May 19 '22

He already did a lot for Hope the last time he wrote X-Men. And then no one knew what to do with her, again. I do hope he streamlines and clarifies her whole "mutant messiah" thing in this run and leaves her in a good place where someone will actually run with it, because I love the character when he's writing her.

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u/an_irishviking May 20 '22

I think it should relate back to the Stabilizing and Optimizing aspects of her gift. Like helping mutants unlock potential and grow their gifts.

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u/Chrysanthememe May 23 '22

I was curious while reading the issue—what is the difference between her powers and Synch’s? I’m not familiar with Hope but you seem knowledgeable so maybe you can clarify for me.

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u/ghoulieandrews May 23 '22

Essentially she's a power manipulator. She can copy and use other people's powers, like Synch can, but she can also boost people's powers, or stabilize them, as she did for emerging mutants in Generation Hope. It's apparently Omega level, so we don't know the upper limits of her powers or what else she can do with them. She's the lynchpin in the resurrection protocols because she brings everyone else's powers to the level where they can pull it off. Additionally, she was raised by Cable to be a soldier so she's a powerhouse in combat.

We also don't fully know WHY she exists. They've never really dug into why or how she was born a mutant after M-Day, why her powers manifested at birth, or even who her parents were. She's a messiah in Cable's future and a destroyer in Bishop's. She also seems to have a connection to the Phoenix but it's unclear why. So hopefully Gillen will dig into it at some point, he wrote the Generation Hope series which is a fun read.

(My theory is that Sinister actually created her and she's the culmination of his Grey/Summers research but like I said, no answers yet)

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u/Chrysanthememe May 23 '22

Thanks. Fascinating. There’s such a huge chunk of stuff that I missed between the Lobdell era and HoX/PoX.

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u/ghoulieandrews May 23 '22

If you're interested in Hope, definitely read Messiah Complex and Second Coming (and the run of Cable in between if you really want to dig in, but it's skippable I think), that's her whole origin saga. Then Generation Hope is really excellent. Then she plays a big role in AvX, which is not a great book but has some big consequences. After that you pretty much skip to HoXPoX for important Hope stories.

Gillen pretty much defined her voice in Gen Hope so like I said it's great he has her back now. But she's been all over the place with other writers so I don't think everyone likes her as much as I do.

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u/SaltyHoneyMustard Stryfe May 27 '22

I really wish Gillen or Ewing did something with Stryfe. Duggan's Stryfe was really bad.