First off my apologies to those who expected for this blog to come out on Friday or Saturday...hell even Sunday; things came up and I didn't get a good solid block of time to read the various reports and come up with my own thoughts. By then the panel was over and done with and well I had to do some research as to what was said.Got my info from CBR's summary, Newsrama's and Marvel's own liveblogs.
The hour long panel was hosted by Marvel Talent Coordinator/Character Development guy C.B. Cebulski, X-Editor Daniel Ketchum and X-Men Legacy artist Clay Mann. The panel was 15 minuets of them chit chatting then about 45 min of questions from the peanut gallery.
The first 15 minuets was pretty much them telling us stuff we already know, Gillen on Uncanny, Nate Grey and Blink in New Mutants. The new Legacy team of Rogue, Gambit, Magneto, Xavier, Legion and Frenzy, and X-Factor is going be shaken up by something. Daniel Acuna is going to do more work on Wolverine with Jason Aaron. Also separate form the panel Rick Remender told CBR about the "Dark Angel Saga".
When they opened the panel up for questions the first question was that they wanted a book about young mutants aka the New X-Men...Daniel said they did have a book about young mutants and then talked about Generation Hope.
The X-Office seems to be betting very high on GH to see if it will state the hunger for a book on the younger mutants. Though how successful it will be...I'm not exactly sure. Most of the fans want the New X-Men back...but after the failure of Young X-Men...I think Marvel is pretty hesitant to give the NXM their own team book back. Though on the flip-side despite not having a book to call their own several of the NXM are thriving. X-23 has her own book (which had a few of her NXM co-horts appearing in the first arc), Pixie is a regular in Uncanny and had her own mini, Loa is the rising star in Namor being what Kitty Pryde was to Wolverine for Namor, Rockslide and Anole just had their story in Serve & Protect called "X-Dudes" and Rockslide is the third wheel in Wolverine & Jubilee, and lastly Hellion which we'll muse about in a bit.
The idea of resurrections came up and it seems like most people want Nightcrawler back. While the Elf was never one of my favorite characters I've always respected his place in the X-Men mythos he's the team's moral compass. Kurt's a great character and I look forward to his return to the X-Books but his death in Second Coming was great way to kill him. Cable was another SC casualty that the fans want back and while he's hasn't been dead as long as Nightcrawler CB and Daniel have said that some big name writers have been wanting the famous BFG trotting time traveling mutant. But what was really interesting was to hear a fan say they were glad that Jean Grey has stayed dead. Boy did that fan open Pandora's Box on several comic book forums and it took balls to say IMO.
Clay Mann got a question about the AoX redesigns and he gave the people attended his process of doing it. Also they brought up a fan cosplaying as AoX Dazzler. You gotta Clay his props for coming up with a character design and then about two months later people are already dressing up like the design.
One fan asked about Hellion (wasn't me as I am currently no where near Chicago). Now while I don't no what the question was asked, Newsrama's blog says its about his hands and if he'll ever get new ones. Marvel said the possibility of Hellion getting his hands back are the same as Nightcrawler coming back from the dead...Also on Marvel's liveblog recap as well as CBR's recap it was mentioned that both Mike and Daniel love working with Hellion but it was necessary to put him through his paces in Legacy. The two have plans for Hellion, possibly 2 stories, but its going to be a while. But before you all get excited about 2 stories featuring Hellion as a key character, they might have meant that Legacy and its new direction might have two stories planned out before they get back to Hellion. Regardless of which is true Ketchum has said that they haven't forgotten him and going back too the Year of the X-Men liveblogs a couple weeks back...Legacy will be the book for all things Hellion.
Hope and her powers were brought up and the guys said that keep reading the X-Books for the next couple of years to see how that plays out. People also asked about how Deadpool fits into the X-Verse and they said that because of his connection to Wolverine its kinda of a natural fit.
Not a whole lot was revealed due to the fact that there were no writers on the panels, but Rick Remender gave a separate interview on the upcoming Dark Angel Saga in X-Force and why X-Force is going to the AoA but that interview deserves its own blog. And hopefully one day this week I might do a write up.
I was surprised that they didn't give any new info on the upcoming X-Event Schism but its only March and the event isn't till July so they got time a few Conventions between then and now to go over it. So I'm not to worried.
Overall C2E2 didn't really do a whole lot for the X-Books mostly because of the "Year of the X-Men" live blogs a couple weeks back would be my guess. But we did learn a few things about the future of a few of our favs and what we might see from them in the future. Now what can we expect from the Stomping Ground this week? Well its a big week for the X-Books: Uncanny, Namor, X-Force, Daken, X-Men, New Mutants, and Wolverine and Jubilee come out! Now expect to see a New Mutant's review sometime before next Sunday. Also cross your fingers for a Namor, Daken or X-Force review as well. Till Next Time-The Big G
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