X-Changes

In X-Men news, there are going to be some major changes to all the X-books after Messiah Complex.

First, Uncanny X-Men will become the main X-book again, as "adjectiveless" X-Men will become X-Men: Legacy, beginning at issue 208. The series will continue to be written by Mike Carey, with John Romita, Jr. and Scot Eaton taking over as artist. Carey explains on comicbookresources.com
that fans should not confuse the word "Legacy" in the title to have anything to do with the legacy virus from past X-Men story-lines. Little other information has been released in the Marvel February solicitation about "Legacy" with Carey only briefly commenting, "It relates to the X-Men's past in a very broad sense, but it's set in present terms."

Cable's miraculous return in X-Men 205 will also introduce a new ongoing Cable series, unfortunately ending the great Cable/Deadpool series running since 2004. Novelist Duane Swierczynski will be writing the new series about the time-displaced mutant. What will happen to poor old Wade Wilson and Bob, Agent of HYDRA, is yet to be revealed, but I'm sure it will be zany.

It also looks like New X-Men might be folding since there is no solicitation for it in the February previews, leading me to guess that many of the young students will die during Messiah CompleX. It's replacement will likely be the relaunched X-Force, staring Warpath, Wolfsbane, Wolverine, and X-23 (everyone basically has claws!). To hype the series Marvel has described "There are lines that the X-Men have sworn never to cross. But after the shocking events of “Messiah Complex,” Cyclops realizes that some enemies need to be dealt with permanently… and the X-Men can never know about it."



Finally, spoiler alert, here is the most recent update on Messiah CompleX.

Nuff Said!

-Jon