Marvel All New, All Different - Ongoing Discussion (Spoilers)

X(10) of Swords is just an X-Men event, so it's pretty easy to avoid if you don't feel like another event. Pretty much all of the Dawn of X series have been set up for it, so I don't think it's really interrupting things the way a lot of past events did.

 

Glad to hear it. I'll catch up on a few other titles, then dive in.

I just (eventually) finished Iron Man 2020 and tie ins. It really was worse than I could have imagined.

Really, really, very bad.

 

I abandoned Iron Man 2020 after two or so issues. The new Iron Man #1 I found very appealing, though; it feels like a soft reboot, pretty much ignoring recent storylines and ploughing its own furrow. I like the general aesthetic of the new armour, too.

 

Hoopla has been getting the Dawn of X collection as they are coming out, so once I'm done with Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men, I'm planning on jumping into it. What I've been hearing about it sounds very interesting.

 

When did Staten Island get taken over by monsters ?

Just wandered into a Deadpool run and it had already happened.

 

The Deadpool's the 2019 run, still ongoing.

Currently reading the X Men and related leading up to X of Swords.

I'm enjoying much of it except for Excalibur, which is awful. Disjointed writing, rubbish plot, wasting Captain Britain...ick !

X of Swords is going to stem from Excalibur's story isn't it ?

 

Has Pryde of the X-Men ever been released on DVD or Blu-Ray? Even as just special feature on one of the Animated series DVDs or something, I can't really see it getting a standalone release.

 

But in better news, I'd completely forgotten X Factor, which I'm now catching up on and really loving the team and the writing, despite not liking Mojo stories.

 

Slott thinks that he redesigned the Fantastic Four forever!?

Spoiler

The cosmic rays that gave them powers in the beginning were not natural. It was a weapon trying to kill the intrepid astronauts. So Reed is happy now, that he didn't botch the math, and turn Ben into the Thing.

Which is the opposite of 30 years ago, when they found Reed's diary, which said said that he weakened the shields to mutate the crew on purpose because science is cool.

(I'm a year behind)

On an aside I watched a fake trailer for a Charmed movie on youtube where they stole footage from the Fantastic Four movie, because the Doctor Doom actor is also a demon boyfriend on Charmed. They also lifted new material Greys Anatomy because two of the sister witches where stunt cast on Grays Anatomy last year together. Weird.

 

Correct on both counts.

 

X Of Swords.

A contest of champions. Really ? REALLY ?

Hasn't that been more than done to death yet ? Hell, there's at least one of those in an Avengers spin off every bloody year.

Dire. I expected more from Hickman, I really did.

 

The whole sword thing in general is stupid, and they really had to stretch the premise. Not to mention how stupid what they did to Brian braddock is (I like Betsy, but Brian should be Captain Britain). I'm not a big fan of Hickman or his X-Men run, he's always been a dollar store Grant Morrison to me, but this X of Swords thing is just kind of boring and feels pointless, outside of getting some backstory for Apocalypse.

 

X-Swords is him being a dollar store Neil Gaiman.

 

When Miles Morales jumped from the Ultimate to the 616 Universe was he aware of the change, or did the post-Secret Wars reset make it so he was always in 616?

 

He was definitely aware, but they also tried to be as vague as possible with a lot, too, it was a tad confusing at times as I recall.

 

A couple weeks ago Marvel revealed the next era of X-Men comics following X of Swords, Reign of X.

 

Marvel has been announcing a whole bunch of new books over the last week or so.
Mariko Tamaki and Gurihiru are doing a new Double Trouble book, this time focused on Thor and Loki

Silk is getting a new series written by Maurene Goo with art by Takeshi Miyazawa

Beta Ray Bill will be getting a new book spun-off from his appearances in Thor and King in Black, written by and drawn by Daniel Warren Johnson

They are taking advantage of her raised profile after the announcement of her appearance in Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to launch a new America Chavez book, written by Kalinda Vazquez, who worked as a co-producer on the Runaways TV series and Once Upon a Time, with art by Carlos Gomez.

EDIT: Oops, forgot about the latest announcement.
They are doing a 50th anniversary series for Man-Thing that will be writer Steve Orlando's Marvel debut, and feature art by Francesco Mobili. Each issue will "focus on a different corner of the Marvel Universe", starting with the Avengers for the first issue.
EDIT 2: And another one.
Stormbreaker Peach Momoko will be making her interior art and writing debut in Demon Days: X-Men.

 

I'm definitely interested in a Silk book, I liked her other solo stuff, the rest I don't really care about. I'd be interested in Beta Ray Bill, but if its connected to that stupid Venom event then there is no reason for me to try it.