X-Men #200

It has taken 16 years but the "adjectiveless" X-Men , started in 1991 by writer Chris Claremont and artist Jim Lee, are reaching their 200th issue. Like X-Men #1, pictured below with it's four connected variant covers, issue 200 will have a gatefold cover featuring every mutant character that has ever gone under the X-moniker.


X-Men #1


X-Men #200

Issue 200 will feature the X-citing return of Gambit, my favorite X-men, who has been on hiatus from the team since his recruitment with Apocalypse to become Death, from the mediocre story arc "Blood of Apocalypse" featured in X-Men 182-187. Gambit is rumored to return as leader of the Marauders, with their target being the current unstable X-Men roaster.

The issue will also feature the first story of X-Men "Endangered Species," this fall's major X-crossover series. "Endangered Species" plans to fully explore the end of the mutant gene and why some characters retained their superpowers, fittingly with Beast as the primary character.

Oh my stars and garters this is going to be X-treme!

-Jon