Every Monday Senior X-Men Editor Mark Paniccia answers fans questions and shares cool new art from the X-Line. We’ll be here compiling all those hints in one place, alongside the rest of the best stuff in X-Men Social media, so you don’t have to worry about missing a single second of it. This is #XMENMONDAY Round-Up
X-FACTOR Lives Again?
EXILES writer Saladin Ahmed shared some interesting history about how the book came to be during a live panel. The whole interview is great but Ahmed subtly dropped something extremely interesting along the way. The EXILES pitch was asked for by Will Moss, editor of some of Marvel’s best titles but not someone who works in the X-Office. He didn’t ask Saladin for an EXILES pitch, but one for X-FACTOR that evolved into something else. Ahmed went on to say that X-FACTOR ended up happening for a different writer along a different thread. We have been saying for a couple months now that Jamie Madrox would soon be resurrected, but could a new X-FACTOR book be coming with him? It sure sounds like it.
Plus there is also this
UTT (unidentified twitter tease) #xmenmonday pic.twitter.com/ftL154IsMQ
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) February 6, 2018
Loose Ends In Phoenix
The end of PHOENIX RESURRECTION left fans with a ton of questions including one that X-MEN: RED writer Tom Taylor gave an answer to.
@MarkPaniccia @TomTaylorMade Are we gonna have more of Jean reuniting with her friends? We technically didn’t saw her talking to everyone, their reactions to her being back, talks, hugs, anything!
— Wiccan (@billyvell) February 1, 2018
Yes. We leap into the action in X-Men: Red, but something will be announced for May, where we get to go back and see a lot of this. https://t.co/4EBQZaVcY5
— Tom Taylor (@TomTaylorMade) February 1, 2018
Can X-Men fans be expecting a summer even of some sort of one-shot? I don’t know, maybe?
PHOENIX RESURRECTION writer Matthew Rosenberg and JEAN GREY scribe Dennis Hopeless fielded some questions about loose ends in the book as well thanks to a Tweet from friend of the site Daily X-Men Facts.
@MarkPaniccia @AshcanPress @HopelessDent#XMENMONDAY #xmen #marvel #MutantsUnite
(1/2) It’s interesting to see events referenced between titles, but there is a gap of understanding presented here in terms of characters peripheral to young Jean: pic.twitter.com/NSTOMoZejV
— Daily X-Men Facts (@DailyXMenFacts) February 5, 2018
The very simple in-story answer is that the other psychics got knocked out then woke up and moved on sometime later after Jean and the Phoenix were gone.
— Dennis Hopeless (@HopelessDent) February 5, 2018
Equally boring real world explanation: Jean Grey #11 was originally plotted to spend more time with Jean after she gets home. That plot is what the solicit and teases were based on. We eventually decided it worked better to end it earlier with Jean and Jean’s first face to face.
— Dennis Hopeless (@HopelessDent) February 5, 2018
I’ll say that part of the reason we ended Jean #11 where we did was to leave the opportunity open for a longer version of that conversation.
— Dennis Hopeless (@HopelessDent) February 5, 2018
So I asked to cut it and have her be more aloof. A lot of things happen between the panels and issues of books like these. And those are stories for another day.
— Matthew Rosenberg (@AshcanPress) February 5, 2018
So there you have it, comics pros reaching out to fans and explaining their side of the story.
What’s Panic Up To?
X-Men Group Editor Mark Paniccia, who’s friends all call him Panic (and we’re all friends here right?) shared a page from X-MEN: RED that just looks killer.
HAPPY #XMENMONDAY!!! Great buzz on X-MEN RED so far. Hope everyone enjoys issue 1. Here’s a cool interior page from issue 2 by @MahmudAsrar @TomTaylorMade pic.twitter.com/VfMNi6rI7w
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) February 5, 2018
As Matthew Rosenberg continued to connect with fans, Panic dropped some great news for anyone who liked PHOENIX RESURRECTION, SECRET WARRIORS, and 4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK. Rosenberg has projects in the X-Office that we don’t even friggin’ know about.
Nah. You’re looking at it all wrong. The joy of working at Marvel is picking up the threads of what came before and leaving good threads for those who come after. I’m so excited to see what Tom does. I get to step back and be a fan again.
— Matthew Rosenberg (@AshcanPress) February 1, 2018
More Matt to come! #xmenmonday
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) February 5, 2018
We got an increadibly obscure tweet about making Johnathan even cuter but I am VERY excited about it.
Yes! In the works! Can’t tell you where this is going to be or who drew it but keep your screen-weary eyes pealed and your interweb ears open! #xmenmonday @Coelacanthkiss pic.twitter.com/vBNCoaKp6v
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) February 5, 2018
Plus art of the constantly amazing boy himself
Uhhhhh…YEaAHHHH! #xmenmonday ALL-NEW WOLVERINE #31 on sale 2/28!!! An ALL STAR CAST: Laura! Gabby! Deadpool! Jonathan the actual Wolverine!!! pic.twitter.com/iqf7JWVE8L
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) February 5, 2018
He also teased some X-Work by Mariko Tamaki
@DiegoO8844 did a nice job on this issue! Gonna miss Jen, too, Mariko. But I won’t miss you (because I don’t have too;) #xmenmonday
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) February 6, 2018
Oh and some WEAPON X
Thanks! Bad ass crew indeed! And want to give credit to @chrisrobinson @gregpak @fredvanlente #darrenshan #WEAPONX fires on ALL CYLINDERS! This hear’s a fight book #rolandboschi #frankdarmata pic.twitter.com/8HMXhuIDP7
— Mark Paniccia (@MarkPaniccia) February 6, 2018
Just A Ton Of Dead Souls
NEW MUTANTS: DEAD SOULS artist Adam Gorham gave us some Magik, some Boom Boom, and some hints on the most important topic. Casual wear.
Yes. There’s great scenes where the team hangs out and bounce off each other. Matt writes great banter. I crack up reading his scripts.
— ADAM GORHAM (@AdamTGorham) February 2, 2018
Boom-chick-a-boom-boom#NewMutants #Marvel pic.twitter.com/0v4zp6j79c
— ADAM GORHAM (@AdamTGorham) February 2, 2018
The colour art on New Mutants: Dead Souls by @MichaelGarland is knocking me out, gang! @Marvel #NewMutants pic.twitter.com/V6sCiwtZ0g
— ADAM GORHAM (@AdamTGorham) January 31, 2018
Magik #NewMutants #Marvel pic.twitter.com/ICzJbLgOii
— ADAM GORHAM @ ECCC CC13 (@AdamTGorham) February 3, 2018
Unsorted Art & Swimsuit Balls
We got a smiling Sabretooth thanks to WEAPON X artist Yildiray Cinar
Brushin’ the teeth #weaponx pic.twitter.com/ElSYJjPRKJ
— Yildiray Cinar (@ycinar) February 1, 2018
GENERATION X artist Amilcar Pinna showed off his chops with a fabulous group shot from that book
#generationx <3 pic.twitter.com/emQOec1YuY
— Amilcar Pinna (@amilcarpinna) February 2, 2018
Rumored STORM artist Jen Bartel dropped this bomb of a beautiful Jubilee print
Jubes ? pic.twitter.com/uiKlSjE17p
— Jen Bartel – ECCC V8 (@heyjenbartel) February 2, 2018
X-MEN: RED’s Mahmud Asar showed us some Gambit
Smile #xmenred #gambit pic.twitter.com/KjRjC3OBuD
— Mahmud Asrar ☠️ (@MahmudAsrar) February 5, 2018
Speaking of which, Kelly Thompson revealed that we are going to be seeing a unique side of him in ROGUE & GAMBIT #3
David Marquez teased some Logan from THE HUNT FOR WOLVERINE
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