Marvel Comics’ Designing the X-Males panel at Comedian-Con Worldwide: San Diego launched some new X-Males tales deliberate for the upcoming ‘Fall of X’ period, which is able to shake up the mutant established order on the island nation of Krakoa, together with two entire new groups of X-Males and a “definitive” origin story for a fan favourite mutant.
First up, there’s X-Males Blue: Origins #1, a one-shot by author Si Spurrier and artist Wilton Santos that tells the true origin of traditional X-Man Nightcrawler.
“You assume you know the way the beloved blue satan got here into this troubled world? You assume you understand the story of his mendacious mamma Mystique? You do not!” reads Marvel’s official description of X-Males Blue: Origins #1. “Mom and son reunite in a mold-shattering story that exposes secrets and techniques held for many years and redefines each characters ceaselessly. A collector’s merchandise within the making.”
The one-shot, which releases in November, additionally contains a uncommon Marvel cowl by artist Frances Manapul.
Marvel additionally previewed December’s X-Males #29, which introduces the X-Males of Latveria, Physician Doom’s private squad of Latverian mutants who’re aiming to take the place of the Krakoan X-Males because the world’s high mutant staff.
“With the X-Males at their lowest level, yet one more group has moved to assert their title…this one a band of patriotic Latverian mutants loyal solely to the nice and horrible Physician Doom!” explains Marvel’s official description.
“Beloved and celebrated by the nation they’re sure to guard, that is one squad of X-Males for whom the Fall of X has given technique to wonderful summer season.”
And at last, Marvel foreshadowed one other new X-team with a teaser merely studying “Who’re the brand new X-Males?”
Although the writer hasn’t launched every other information about who these new X-Males are, Marvel guarantees the staff will get an early look in November earlier than absolutely debuting in 2024.
Will these be model new characters, or a brand new staff of heroes we all know? The font used within the teaser is harking back to the font used to have a good time the X-Males’s thirty fifth anniversary in 1998, which included the introduction of an entire new staff of X-Males who had been created by Cerebro.
Is that related? Who is aware of, however the timing of the brand new staff’s introduction might additionally point out the rebuilding of the staff after ‘Fall of X’ wreaks havoc on the mutant established order.
Keep updated on all of the new X-Males comics Marvel has deliberate for 2023 and past with our helpful itemizing.