Let's talk about X-Men for a minute.
From the
Hunt For Wolverine books, there's three big things that have happened:
-Psylocke is getting a caucasian body back. (Can't wait for the S J W crowd to get wind of this.
) In fairness, Chris Clarement has said that he originally planned for Asian Psylocke to only last a couple of issues, but the story (or rather, Jim Lee's art) was so popular that it stuck.
-Tony Stark has discovered that X-23 is not a full-on clone of Wolverine and that the scientist/handler she had as a child was actually her mother (I thought we already knew this?)
-Tony has also discovered that one of the X-Men is some kind of sleeper agent, is not a mutant, and has been lying about being a mutant for a very long time. This is Mister Sinister-related and makes me think it's Gambit.
Extermination was supposed to have been the big 'X' event happening, where the time-displaced O5 X-Men being time-displaced finally causes a bunch of problems, was being teased as the end of the X-Men, etc. etc. It hasn't started yet and Marvel is already hyping up the next X-Men event after this.
Uncanny X-Men is starting back up with the 10-part
"Uncanny X-Men: Disassembled" story that teases that this is the end of the X-Men, etc. etc. Basically exactly what Extermination is doing...again.
There's some noticeable absences in that teaser image, including the O5 teenage X-Men (who I assume will be gone after Extermination, otherwise...lol), Wolverine, Old Man Logan (who is also expected to be going away with original Logan back), Magneto (likely back to being a villain), Emma Frost (ditto?), Cable, and X (the resurrected Prof. X in Fantomex's body).
Really wondering what the point of all these EARTH-SHATTERING EVENT storylines are with the X-Men lately. Hopefully this is just some kind of clean-up and re-organization to bring the X-Men back into the spotlight and set up teams with characters who will end up popping up in the Marvel movies or something.
