Cyclops is running the school? Doesn't he have to have X-ier adventures?
Pfft.
Hmm. Well, I'd like them to keep the existing students and teachers and relationships. God, I missed Dani.
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Cyclops is running the school? Doesn't he have to have X-ier adventures?
Pfft.
Hmm. Well, I'd like them to keep the existing students and teachers and relationships. God, I missed Dani.
Does she still have the Valkyrie crap tacked on to her original character concept?
Whatever happened to Banshee?
I don't think they've mentioned it. She's barely even used her powers -- she's coming back to teach at the Academy, and dealing with being adult. Shan's back too.
If only they could resurrect Cypher. It wouldn't be cheap at all, I swear.
Cool. Xi'an was supposed to be potentially more psychically powerful than Xavier, wasn't she? (I know she once managed to break through Illyana's psychic defenses to possess her, something that Xavier wasn't a strong enough telepath to do.)
I think she was the sledgehammer to his scalpel.
Yeah, she had the one thing she could do supremely well, and only the potential to expand her range of talents. But she was able to kick Amahl Farouk out of her mind in that New Mutants story, which is a not unimpressive feat in its own right.
I've read that Astonishing (not Astounishing, I have to keep reminding myself) can be considered the replacement (not the right word, but continuance is probably wrong, too) for Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men. (To confuse matters further, Marvel will be coming out with a title called New X-Men: Academy X that is supposed to be a continuation of New Mutants. Gotta love Marvel).
OK - key question: how many titles does this mean I'm going to have to keep up with just to keep up with Joss' run? Is Joss on for X (heh) number of issues, or is it open-ended? If anyone knows. Including Joss.
I believe it's a 12 issue run. (For Joss at least. Not sure about the title.)
Marvel has stepped away from massive X-title crossovers, so you probably can get the full story without scratching your head too much just by reading Astonishing's 12 issues...
In fact, all the X titles seem completely unrelated at this point.