... X-Solicitations for March 2018...

X-MEN GOLD #23

MARC GUGGENHEIM (W) • Thony Silas (A)
Cover by David Nakayama
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL Part 1
Kitty and her X-Men Gold team are in jail. While they’re away, who will protect the people of NYC? Read on, true believer, to meet the New X-Men Gold!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

... Phoenix Resurrection Preview ...

Phoenix Resurrection Preview Reunites [SPOILER] with the X-Men.
by Stephen Gerding in CBR Exclusives.

It appears the the X-Men won’t just welcome back the long-dead Jean Grey in the upcoming Phoenix Resurrection miniseries. CBR’s exclusive look at the first issue reveals a second major reunion may also take place — with the original Wolverine.

Though it’s possible the Wolverine in the preview is merely an illusion, he seems real enough. It also just makes sense for the recently-resurrected Logan to factor into Jean Grey’s return. And while writer Michal Rosenberg doesn’t directly confirm Wolverine’s involvement, he does tease some big surprises.

“Yeah, there’s a lot [of X-Men in the series],” Rosenberg recently told CBR. “And we definitely have some real surprises too. Some folks are going to be real surprised.”

“I think we made a good introduction, but for those long time fans there are going to be some real deep cuts,” the writer added. “A couple of the nods and moments in the book will definitely get the X-Men historians going. I think we made something pretty cool and not at all what people are expecting. And that’s scary as hell, but it’s a real thrill. I can’t wait for people to read it.”

... Preview and Review: Phoenix Resurrection #1

Preview and Review: Phoenix Resurrection #1 
by Matthew Rosenberg and Leinil Francis Yu.
Posted by Rich Johnston November.

Courtesy of Marvel’s Legacy Previews, because it seems quite a few folk didn’t get them, here’s a preview of the first issue of Phoenix Resurrection #1, with the Return Of Jean Grey by Matthew Rosenberg and Leinil Francis Yu.

PHOENIX RESURRECTION RETURN JEAN GREY LH #1

She will return, like a Phoenix from the ashes.
Years ago, Jean Grey died and the X-Men mourned her. Since then, the world has changed, her teammates have lived without her and died without her. And now, when strange events start happening all over the world, those teammates can only come to one conclusion – the one true Jean Grey is back!

You can read an advance review of the first issue right here, reproduced below. By Joe Glass:

Just so you know, for this review I will be remaining spoiler-free, so don’t expect to learn anything about the actual events of this book. But I will answer the question that many will want to know: is it any good?

In a word: Yes.

... Excalibur Team Is Finally Coming Back! ...

X-Men’s Excalibur Team Is Finally Coming Back!
By Nicholas Raymond 

Excalibur, an offshoot of the X-Men that had their own series for a decade, is finally reforming after twenty years. Reuniting under their original leader, Captain Britain, the group will appear in X-Men Gold Annual #1. The cover and the synopsis indicates that Captain Britain and his wife, Meggan, have had a child off-panel.

After years of bringing into prominence younger and newer heroes, Marvel promised that the Marvel Legacy relaunch would put a renewed focus on the company’s classic characters. Over the past few weeks, Marvel has announced a number of changes that will help to restore the status quo of the Marvel Universe. Fans of X-Men comics will finally get Jean Grey back, as well as Wolverine and Professor X who were killed a few years ago. Adam Warlock, a key figure in Marvel’s biggest events in the ’90s, will be making a comeback in the pages of Guardians of the Galaxy, and Marvel’s three Avengers titles will be reshuffled under a single series.

Adding to the list of returning characters, Marvel has announced that Excalibur, a team of X-Men characters based in the UK, will reunite in X-Men Gold Annual #1. Written by Marc Guggenheim and Leah Williams, the issue will bring together original team members Captain Britain, Meggan, Nightcrawler, Prestige, and Kitty Pryde, who formed the team in 1988 at a time when the X-Men were thought to be dead. The cover is a recreation of the cover for Excalibur #1. Featured on both covers is an image of Widget, a floating robot head that took the original team on a journey through parallel universes.

...Preview: X-Men Gold #14...

X-Men Gold #14

Written by Marc Guggenheim
Art by Marc Laming
Cover by Dan Mora

LEGACY! BROOD and DARK PHOENIX and MOJO–Oh my! The X-MEN may have bitten off more than they can chew as Mojo-verse continues its bizarre invasion of MANHATTAN! With reality-warping resources at the tips of his gross fingers, Mojo may finally have the upper hand against our beloved mutants…

... Jean Grey Returns To Marvel Comics ...

After 14 Years, Jean Grey Returns To Marvel Comics

by Mat 'Inferiorego' Elfring

In December, the miniseries Phoenix: Resurrection brings back adult Jean Grey for the first time since her death in New X-Men.

Death isn't forever in comics. In 2003, Jean Grey died during an iconic run on New X-Men by acclaimed writer Grant Morrison. Since then, that version of Grey has been dead, but this December, Grey will return in the five-issue miniseries Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey.

The new story written by Matthew Rosenberg and drawn by Leinil Yu will follow--you guessed it--the resurrection of one of the original five X-Men: "Strange events are no surprise to the X-Men," reads the official synopsis from Marvel. "But when events start occurring that are more specific and stranger than usual, the group is forced to confront the truth: could Jean be alive after all? And how will this Jean Grey deal with a world that is now so different from the one she left years ago?"

The story is still a pretty big mystery at the moment, but the upcoming months in the current X-Men titles should shed some light on what's coming ahead. "This is very cool mystery building to a mind-warping climax," said senior editor Mark Paniccia. "And it has plenty of what you’d expect from an X-Men epic of this magnitude. Action, romance, sacrifice, lots of X-Men, and five great artists."

... Preview: X-Men Gold #13 ...

X-Men: Gold #13

Writer: Marc Guggenheim
Penciler: Mike Mayhew
Cover Artist: Arthur Adams

MOJO WORLDWIDE! Part 1

Mojo, the demented creature obsessed with melding deadly television shows with reality, has made Earth his focus and it's going to take the combined might of two X-MEN teams to fight back! But when threats from their past are thrown at them, how will these teams react? With SENTINELS and BROOD and BAD MEMORIES attacking at every opportunity, will KITTY and JEAN and their teams be able to save Manhattan? Or is this the trick that finally boosts MOJO's ratings? PLUS: Includes 3 bonus MARVEL PRIMER PAGES! Story by Robbie Thompson and art by Mark Bagley!

... X-Men: Gold - Bad Mojo ...

X-MEN: GOLD - BAD MOJO By Tim Stevens

Blue and Gold mutants join forces in Mojo World for their first crossover!

Mojo loves entertainment—and, frankly, he does not care who gets hurt when he decides to have some fun. As the era of Marvel Legacy begins, the madman has his sights set on delighting the denizens of Mojo World with the first team-up between X-MEN: GOLD and X-MEN: BLUE!

Beginning with X-MEN: GOLD #13 on October 4, writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Mike Mayhew tag team with their X-MEN: BLUE counterparts Cullen Bunn and Jorge Molina to return these mutant groups to their full-powered might. And when Sentinels, the Brood, and dark histories cloud the horizon, they’ll need all the help they can get.

We asked Marc Guggenheim how it felt to write the two teams’ opening interactions.

Marvel.com: What made Mojo the best villain for the first crossover between X-MEN GOLD and X-MEN BLUE?

Marc Guggenheim: A couple of things…we haven’t seen Mojo in the pages of an X-MEN book for a while, so he has a Legacy appeal. At this point, he feels like he’s been around long enough to be a literal legacy character, right?

... Preview: X-Men: Gold #12 ...

X-Men: Gold  #12

Writer: Guggenheim, Marc
Artist: Ross, Luke
Cover Artist: Lashley, Ken

While on a mission to apprehend the latest incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the X-Men discovered a villain amongst their number who was a complete mystery. * Little did they know, the alien KLEEVUS was on a mission of his own! * Now, they're on the verge of discovering Kleevus' true nature.

...EXCL. Preview: X-Men Gold #11 ...

EXCL. PREVIEW: X-Men Gold #11 Targets Omega Red

Marvel Comics has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at next week’s X-Men Gold #11 from writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Lan Medina. On sale next Wednesday, September 6, the issue furthers the X-Men’s latest exploits in Mother Russia as they face off against their classic foe, Omega Red. Can they take down the savage mechanical villain once and for all?

X-MEN: GOLD #11
MARC GUGGENHEIM (W) • LAN MEDINA (A)
COVER BY DAN MORA

Soviet scourge OMEGA RED has returned! But what does his return have to do with the reappearance of a relative COLOSSUS and MAGIK thought long lost? Can the X-Men trust ANATOLY RASPUTIN to help put Omega Red back in the grave? Or does he have ulterior motives for calling upon the X-Men?

... Preview: X-Men: Gold #10 ...

X-Men: Gold #10

Written by Marc Guggenheim
Art by Lan Medina
Cover by David Curiel
Inks by Jason (Jay) Leisten
Colors by Frank Martin
Letters by Cory Petit


Colossus and Magik return to Russia to help a stranger with ties to their past…only to discover him in the clutches of OMEGA RED! But surely the newly resurrected cyborg serial killer means the X-Men no harm though, right?

... Todd Nauck Art ...

... Preview: X-Men Gold #9 ...

X-Men Gold #9

Story by Marc Guggenheim
Pencils by Ken Lashley
Cover by David Curiel
Letters by Cory Petit

Kitty Pryde has sworn off men named 'Peter.' But when she and her first love - Peter 'Colossus' Rasputin - are caught in dire straits, will she find herself going back on her word?

The Secret Empire has fallen! At least within the pages of Marvel’s X-Men Gold. Kitty Pryde and her team of X-Men made it through the Dark Dimension and emerged on the other side of Marvel’s latest event relatively intact. However, they were immediately given a rude surprise by the government. Congress has introduced a Mutant Deportation act, an anti-Mutant piece of legislation that would potentially strip all mutants of their U.S. citizenship.

... X-Men 'MOJO WORLDWIDE' ...

COMIC-CON 2017: EL CROSSOVER DE LOS X-MEN 'MOJO WORLDWIDE' TENDRÁ 'GRANDES CONSECUENCIAS'

Mojo está de vuelta.

Por IGN LATINOAMÉRICA. Marc Guggenheim reveló algunos detalles del crossover 'Mojo Worldwide', el cual reunirá a los equipos de X-Men Blue y X-Men Gold por primera vez desde su re-lanzamiento.

Teniendo en cuenta el amor de Guggenheim y el co-escritor Cullen Bunn por los X-Men, parece apropiado que "Mojo Worldwide" empiece con los dos equipos jugando softball. Esta es una tradición que se remonta a los tiempos de Chris Claremont en Uncanny X-Men. Después de eso, Mojo arriba a la tierra para ver a los X-Men luchar en contra de sus más grandes enemigos en busca de ratings. Esta es una metáfora de los cómics.

Unión de las portadas de X-Men Blue #13 & X-Men Gold #13 por Art Adams (Marvel Comics).

Tal y como lo vimos en el arte previo, Dark Phoenix, Apocalypse, Brood y los centinelas de Days of the Future Past están dentro de la lista de villanos que se enfrentarán a los X-Men. Guggenheim explicó que todos los equipos estarán dentro de "escenarios artificiales", pero advirtió que habrá "grandes consecuencias" para ambos grupos. El creativo también mencionó que Ink, un personaje de Young Justice, también aparecerá dentro de la historia. Sin embargo, el gran regreso lo protagonizará Longshot, quien ha estado causado problemas dentro del Mojoverse.

"Mojo Worldwide" se lanzará a finales del año y empezará con X-Men Blue #13.


Marvel Legacy’s X-Men Crossover Takes Mojo Worldwide
by Rob Cave

... X-Men Blue y Gold Legacy Crossover ...

COMIC-CON 2017:  X-MEN 'MOJO WORLDWIDE' CROSSOVER LEADS TO SOFTBALL AND 'GAME-CHANGING CONSEQUENCES'

Mojo is back and hungry for ratings. BY BLAIR MARNELL

On the final day of Comic-Con International, Marvel’s ResurrXion panel displayed the mutant ability to be light on new and exciting details about upcoming stories. However, Marc Guggenheim did drop a few hints about the "Mojo Worldwide" crossover that will bring the X-Men Blue and X-Men Gold teams together for the first time since their collective relaunches.

Given Guggenheim and co-writer Cullen Bunn’s obvious love of the classic X-Men stories, it seems appropriate that "Mojo Worldwide" will actually begin with the two teams playing softball. That's a tradition that dates back to the Chris Claremont Uncanny X-Men era. From there, Mojo comes to Earth and pits the X-Men against their greatest foes in a desperate bid for ratings. That’s got to be a metaphor for comics in general.

X-Men Blue #13 & X-Men Gold #13 cover montage by Art Adams. (Marvel Comics)

X-Men Blue #13 & X-Men Gold #13 cover montage by Art Adams. (Marvel Comics)

... Rachel cameo in Uncanny Avengers #23 ...

Synapse tries to help a badly wounded teammate by entering their mind.