Marvel Comics Q&A thread

[synch]

What I want to know is whats up with prof X...

 

The thing says to him in the last comic

 

" do they even know what you are? " Which leads me to belive he is not human/mutant any longer or some such...

 

Anyways I think whats up with that cover is that, prof x basicly knew the thing may/was a living being & has basicly traped/enslaved & tourtued it all these years... (yet another word butchered...)

[Psycho_JOhnny]

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I just finished the GLA, Great Lakes Avengers story arc, so, my question is, What happened at the end ? Is there really a GLX, Great Lakes X-Men comics? and HOW in hell Mr. Immortal convinced Maesltrom to blew his head off ?. It was a funny run, but stupid at the end.

 

JOhnny

[Ant-Man]

Dude thets just so cool.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/pro...tars/typing.gif

[Nuff Said]

Can anybody give me a summary on who X-23 is? The ML figure has me interested in her but I know very little about her. Thanks.

 

-Nuff Said

[Ant-Man]

What's the story on The Black Punisher of the late 90's and

 

The Punisher with the "Cool" horse shoe looking thing on his forehead!

[The Avenger]

Can anybody give me a summary on who X-23 is? The ML figure has me interested in her but I know very little about her. Thanks.

 

-Nuff Said

I don't know much either, but here's what I do know.

 

She is a project by weapon x, made to be a killing machine like wolverine, cloned from his own DNA. She now resides at the X-Mansion, and wolverine is trying to get her de-programed I guess, warming her up to a more normal life. She is Uncanny X-Men I believe, also think she has her own miniseries.

[J_E_T_S_jetsjetsjets]

Can anybody give me a summary on who X-23 is? The ML figure has me interested in her but I know very little about her. Thanks.

 

-Nuff Said

I don't know much either, but here's what I do know.

 

She is a project by weapon x, made to be a killing machine like wolverine, cloned from his own DNA. She now resides at the X-Mansion, and wolverine is trying to get her de-programed I guess, warming her up to a more normal life. She is Uncanny X-Men I believe, also think she has her own miniseries.

ya that pretty much sums it up i know it was gunna be a six part mini serries but after that not to sure what was gunna happen

[mosnab]

I haven't been reading the X-books lately, and I was kind of hoping to get back into one of them a little bit. With all the mutants around now, I was curious if anyone could let me know who the basic "rosters" are for each of the X-books. If anyone could help me out, it would be much appreciated.

[Agent Adam]

Here's a question: Why is X-23 or whatever apparently so durn popular? I saw her in a few issues of whatever series Claremont was doing before I dropped it (as I inevitably do when ever he starts working on something I read). I rolled my eyes at this character, who just seemed like a rip off. (Look kids! She only has two claws on each hand! Less is more right?)

 

What's so different about her as compared to Logan? When I dropped comics, Logan was really being spread thin; belonging to four seperate teams and his own series. Is this their answer for spreading him too thin?

[Psycho_JOhnny]

This thread has been pinned here like 2 years now, AND Dan "The Living Encyclopedia" doesn't post here anymore, I guess. People still post questions around, and still they are unanswered, i think this topic should be unpinned now, LOL. Really, it's like a spam collector or something.

 

JOhnny

[Dan Grylls]

What's the story with the Ultimate Galactus triology? Is it finished? Is it still going on? I just read the vol 1 collection and it was pretty good.

The second miniseries, Ultimate Secret, ran into artist scheduling problems, resulting in massive delays, and the eventual reassigning of artistic duties. Steve McNiven, the original artist on the mini, was pulled in to do an arc on New Avengers (the current Sentry arc). The job was supposed to be for 3 issues, but Bendis (who has apologized for this) ended up extending it to 4.

 

The series was delayed for several months, and it was announced fairly recently that Tom Raney will now pencil the book. The next issue of it should be out in September.

 

The name of the third miniseries escapes me at the moment (Ultimate Destruction? Ultimate Invasion?). It will be written by Warren Ellis, the same as the first two. I don't recall if they've mentioned an artist yet.

[Dan Grylls]

Can someone give me the issues where Cable and Apocalypse face eachother, including when Cable was infected with the Techno-Organic Virus?

Only one I've got is their (so far...) final meeting, in X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #4, in which Cable finally gets around to fulfilling his life's mission.

 

If the second part of your question is, as I'm reading it, "When and where did Cable get the virus?", then the answer is, he wasn't Cable when he got it.

 

He was Cyclops' and Madeleine Pryor's infant son. Apocalypse kidnapped him as part of a plot, and by the time X-Factor saved him, he had been infected with the virus. To save his life, Cyclops allowed him to be taken into the far future, where it was believed that the virus could, if not be cured, at least fought. That was X-Factor 65-68.

[Dan Grylls]

I just finished the GLA, Great Lakes Avengers story arc, so, my question is, What happened at the end ? Is there really a GLX, Great Lakes X-Men comics? and HOW in hell Mr. Immortal convinced Maesltrom to blew his head off ?. It was a funny run, but stupid at the end.

 

JOhnny

The GLX made their "first appearance" in that series. If there's sufficient fan interest, we might see them as the GLX in the future. Or, they could become the Great Lakes New Avengers...

[Dan Grylls]

Can anybody give me a summary on who X-23 is? The ML figure has me interested in her but I know very little about her. Thanks.

 

-Nuff Said

She's a female clone of Wolverine, created by an offshoot of the Weapon X project. Their first 22 attempts failed, she's the 23rd.

 

The character was originally created for the cartoon series X-Men: Evolution. Her first comics appearance was in Joe Quesada's book NYX (that's "En Why Ex", not "knicks"). In the book, the other members of the cast first encounter her apparently working as a prostitute (the next issue explained that, despite her skimpy attire, she actually didn't have sex with the customers. They were fetishists who paid to have her cut them with her claws). While that story is still not completed, apparently Marvel felt reaction to the character was good enough to support further promotion.

 

She next appeared in Claremont's Uncanny X-Men, in a story set after the (as yet unconcluded) NYX story. I believe there she attacked the X-Men at first (fairly standard superhero fare: misunderstanding leads to conflict, followed by team-up), but eventually became a resident of the school.

 

Shortly after she began appearing in Uncanny, she was given a solo miniseries, entitled X-23, that covered her origin to shortly before NYX. The book was written by the writer who created the character for the cartoon. He's quite attached to her, and felt that in the cartoon, due to certain limitations of children's animation, he wasn't able to give her origin to his satisfaction.

 

The same writer will be taking over the writing of New X-Men after House of M. The cast will be pared down, but to nobody's great surprise, X-23 will join.

 

Powers wise, she's basically the same as Wolverine. Enhanced senses, rapid healing, claws, etc.

 

Where she differs (other than the obvious gender and age differences) is that instead of 3 claws in each hand, she has 2 claws in each hand, and 1 in each foot. Additionally, because she's not yet fully grown, she wasn't given an adamantium skeleton. Only her claws are adamantium coated.

 

Also unlike Wolverine, who lived a good many years before the Weapon X program tried to turn him into a living weapon, X-23 was raised from birth by the program. She has never had anything resembling a normal life.

[Dan Grylls]

What's the story on The Black Punisher of the late 90's and

 

The Punisher with the "Cool" horse shoe looking thing on his forehead!

I'm not certain, and by no means a big Punisher fan (so I'm not the best one to ask), but I'm pretty sure the black Punisher was... Frank Castle.

 

Yes, really.

 

I seem to recall that for some reason or other, he was (very temporarily) surgically altered into a black man (hey, Lois Lane turned into a black woman in the 70's...).

 

 

The "horse shoe" thing...

 

Punisher committed suicide. He went to Hell.

 

His guardian angel (not very good at his job, admittedly) brought him back from the dead, gave him access to the arsenal of Heaven (before he screwed up as Frank's guardian, he was the guardian angel for Frank's family... before he screwed that up, he was Heaven's weapons designer...).

 

He also gave him the ability to sense demonic presence, glowy eyes, a new mission of redemption rather than revenge... and a glowy forhead.

 

I actually bought this book... AND the followup mini. I know... I'm weird.

 

After the 4 issue mini that brought him back and gave him his new accessories, there was a 4 issue miniseries teaming him with Wolverine (with art by Pat Lee, of Transformers fame/DreamWave infamy).

 

Then Marvel came to the conclusion that this wasn't the way they really wanted to go with the character.

 

Garth Ennis was brought in to do a third miniseries. The first page acknowledged the whole angels/demons/back from the dead bit, and basically had Frank say that it didn't work out. Powers gone, he went back to his old mission, and hasn't let up since.

[Admiral Hunter]

What's the story on The Black Punisher of the late 90's and

 

The Punisher with the "Cool" horse shoe looking thing on his forehead!

I'm not certain, and by no means a big Punisher fan (so I'm not the best one to ask), but I'm pretty sure the black Punisher was... Frank Castle.

 

Yes, really.

 

I seem to recall that for some reason or other, he was (very temporarily) surgically altered into a black man (hey, Lois Lane turned into a black woman in the 70's...).

 

 

The "horse shoe" thing...

 

Punisher committed suicide. He went to Hell.

 

His guardian angel (not very good at his job, admittedly) brought him back from the dead, gave him access to the arsenal of Heaven (before he screwed up as Frank's guardian, he was the guardian angel for Frank's family... before he screwed that up, he was Heaven's weapons designer...).

 

He also gave him the ability to sense demonic presence, glowy eyes, a new mission of redemption rather than revenge... and a glowy forhead.

 

I actually bought this book... AND the followup mini. I know... I'm weird.

 

After the 4 issue mini that brought him back and gave him his new accessories, there was a 4 issue miniseries teaming him with Wolverine (with art by Pat Lee, of Transformers fame/DreamWave infamy).

 

Then Marvel came to the conclusion that this wasn't the way they really wanted to go with the character.

 

Garth Ennis was brought in to do a third miniseries. The first page acknowledged the whole angels/demons/back from the dead bit, and basically had Frank say that it didn't work out. Powers gone, he went back to his old mission, and hasn't let up since.

I've been out of the X-game for a few years now but...

 

Who's on what X-team these days?

 

And what happened to Rogue, Gambit, Psyloche, Angel, Bishop, and the Generation X-team? (I told you it's been awhile.)

 

-Kevin

[Dan Grylls]

I haven't been reading the X-books lately, and I was kind of hoping to get back into one of them a little bit. With all the mutants around now, I was curious if anyone could let me know who the basic "rosters" are for each of the X-books. If anyone could help me out, it would be much appreciated.

Heh, back to the beginnings of the thread...

 

Keeping in mind that shakeups are frequent...

 

Astonishing X-Men:

Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Shadowcat, Lockheed, Colossus, and Wolverine.

 

Uncanny X-Men:

Storm, Bishop, Nightcrawler, Marvel Girl (Rachel), Psylocke... and Wolverine.

 

X-Men:

Havok, Polaris, Iceman, Rogue, Gambit, Emma Frost... and Wolverine.

 

New X-Men:

various students, supporting roles played by various X-Men, roster being changed in November

 

Also in November, two more X team books join the roster.

 

New Excalibur:

Captain Britain, Juggernaut, Dazzler, Nocturne, Pete Wisdom

 

X-Factor:

Madrox (Multiple Man), Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Siryn, Rictor, M

 

 

There's also a book called Generation M coming in November, which will spotlight some other X characters not currently appearing elsewhere, including Chamber.

[synch]

The suspense is killing me on who is gona live & who is gona die! Specificly on you know whooo!!!! Allso you left out X23 from the uncany xmen roster

 

She pretty much just tags along with psylock & psylock is like her role model now

[Dan Grylls]

I've been out of the X-game for a few years now but...

 

Who's on what X-team these days?

 

And what happened to Rogue, Gambit, Psyloche, Angel, Bishop, and the Generation X-team? (I told you it's been awhile.)

 

-Kevin

See above.

 

Rogue lost her powers. Then she regained her original powers. She no longer has flight, invulnerability, and superstrength. She recently gained fire based powers (from Sunfire, I believe). She appears in X-Men.

 

Gambit went blind for a while. He got better. He also appears in X-Men.

 

Archangel disappeared from sight for a while, before making a brief appearance in the now cancelled Excalibur (second volume). I expect he'll be popping up soon enough. He no longer has blue skin or metal wings. He does, however, have a healing factor, and his blood can be used to heal other people, even to the extent of reviving the recently deceased, as long as they have a compatable blood type.

 

Psylocke died. She recently got better. She's not a telepath anymore, but a telekinetic. She can manifest her power in the form of a katana that can cut through anything. Appears in Uncanny.

 

Bishop, it turns out, isn't black (in the sense of being of African descent). He's an Australian aborigine, the grandson of Gateway. He also has a first name now: Lucas. He appears in Uncanny.

 

The Generation X team...

 

Synch died (explosion). The school closed, the team disbanded. Emma joined the X-Men (after briefly taking a teaching job in Genosha), gained the power to turn into diamond, got shattered into a million pieces, got put back together, and is now headmaster again. She and Cyclops are a couple. Banshee created a fascistic, militaristic X group in Europe. M, Jubilee, and Husk joined. Mystique infiltrated it and slashed Banshee's throat, destroying his powers. Chamber joined the X-Men, then went undercover in the Weapon X project. Husk joined another squad of X-Men, fell in love with Archangel, and now they're a couple. Skin and Jubilee moved to LA for a stretch, then died (crucifixion), but Angel brought Jubilee back. She moved back to LA, had a solo book, then came back to the mansion. M will be in the new X-Factor book.

 

Synch: dead

Skin: dead

Chamber: current whereabouts unknown

Husk: current whereabouts unknown, likely with Archangel

M: current whereabouts unknown, will be back in November

Jubilee: currently at the mansion, though not appearing in any books

Emma Frost: co-headmaster of school, with Cyclops (in more than one sense...)

Banshee: current whereabouts unknown

[Dan Grylls]

The suspense is killing me on who is gona live & who is gona die! Specificly on you know whooo!!!! Allso you left out X23 from the uncany xmen roster

 

She pretty much just tags along with psylock & psylock is like her role model now

I left her out because I expect her role in the book ends with the end of the current storyline.

 

I also left out recent members Cannonball (Uncanny, left when X-Force reformed, currently appears in Cable/Deadpool), Northstar (X-Men, killed by Wolverine, resurrected by the Hand, currently secretly in SHIELD custody), Sage (Uncanny, left to join Hellfire Club, will appear in New Excalibur).

[Dan Grylls]

This thread has been pinned here like 2 years now, AND Dan "The Living Encyclopedia" doesn't post here anymore, I guess. People still post questions around, and still they are unanswered, i think this topic should be unpinned now, LOL. Really, it's like a spam collector or something.

 

JOhnny

[synch]

SO you back danny boy?... What up with ya lately? <-- @spam@

LOL! Sorry had too

 

I Guess its sorta pointless to list all the house of m guys that are back & teams of them as well since everything will change at the end & we don't know what!

[Psycho_JOhnny]

Glad to see you around too Dan. Welcome Back .

 

JOhnny

[tristang]

X-23 moves over to New X-Men: Academy X after the House of M stuff is done. That book is getting a new team starting with I believe issue 20.

[synch]

I forget how x-man ended can someone give me a run down on the last 20 ish or so issuses lol or maybe just htelast 5 what evers easyer