New X-Men Series

[Toni Craft]

Hey all!

I don't know if anyone's heard, but there's a new animated X-Men series coming out in early 2009 called "Wolverine and the X-Men". There's no Xavier, there's no Jean, and there doesn't seem to be any Magneto.

There's a massive attack on the Mansion and it seemingly kills Xavier and Jean, and the X-Men disbanded because of it. Rogue runs off and joins the Brotherhood, which is now run by Quicksilver, and Wolverine is left to pick up the pieces. The new X-Men seem to be a ragtag group including: Beast, Iceman, Shadowcat, Storm, Wolverine, and Emma Frost.

It seems like it's going to be pretty edgy and cool, and if it's going to be anything like the new Spiderman series, then I'm looking forward to it. And it finally looks as though the cartoons are getting back into the fun, semi-violent plot-lines that were established in the 90s. Bring on more fighting! Wheeeee!

You can check out the trailer for the series here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4OJTfZu_S4


PS: There's also an Ironman series coming out at the same time. My fingers are crossed for that one too. 2009 can't come fast enough.

[Josh Dalton Worthington]

This is probably predictable coming from me, seeing as Josh shares my personal views on Emma Frost, but... ugh.

I mean, really. Emma Frost?

Also, I wonder if Jean and Xavier's disappearance is heavily plot related, or a way to center the show on fewer characters? Along those same lines, does the show's title bother anyone else? The X-Men are supposed to be a team. Am I the only one who finds Wolverine really boring? He has claws. Cool. He's almost as awesome as me if I ran around my apartment, waving all my kitchen knives wildly. Hugh Jackman is hot, but Wolvie isn't so much.


That said, any new X-Men series are automatically awesome.

[Bobby Drake]

I liked the original comic Wolverine and his whole balanced-between-civilization-and-savagery motif, back when the New X-Men first came out.

His relationship with Mariko, the whole contrast between him and the highly structured, ritualized Japanese underworld, his growing relationships -- positive and negative -- with the other X-Men... he was a cool character, often well written.

I gather that, since then, he's become just one more bad-ass punk who revels in his bad-ass punkitude.

Ah well.

Similarly, I liked Emma Frost as a villain. The X-universe needed at least one major telepath who actually _used_ her telepathy! She was awesome (though the whole Hellfire Club BDSM theme was a little over the top).

I've never read the Emma-as-good-guy comics, though, and the very idea of Emma-and-Scott seems pretty dumb.

[Josh Dalton Worthington]

Yeah - I guess I should clarify that Wolverine as savage with claws with 'exciting mysterious background' is kind of what's annoying. The bad-ass punkitude you referred to.

Emma Frost as part of the X-Men is also the bit that makes my eyes roll. I agree that she was a pretty awesome villain - kind of like our version!

[Toni Craft]

As a religious reader of the Astonishing X-Men series, I kind of like Emma Frost as a good guy. Her personality is exactly the same, and really, she's still very much the evil woman she was, only now she fights with the X-Men.

She's threatened to erase all the positive memories from a student's mind and even made a deal with the sentient danger room, Danger, to give her Xavier after she's helped them save the Earth. Emma's still pretty evil, and Kitty's not-so-subtle mindfuck can certainly attest to that.

She's definitely an anti-hero on the verge of being a full out villain again.

[Josh Dalton Worthington]

I didn't know you read Astonishing! I read Ultimate, though it's been flagging lately...

[Toni Craft]

I sure do! I go out and buy the newest issue every month whenever Joss Whedon finally manages to get them out. I'm anxiously awaiting Whedon's final issue, the Giant Sized Astonishing X-Men, though I'm also dreading it. He's finally gotten Kitty and Piotr together (like actually together), and now it looks like Kitty's going to get killed.

*Sigh* Poor poor Kitty. And I liked her too.



*Toni waltzes in*

"Poor Kitty? Poor Petey! The dude is about to lose his bed buddy. But he doesn't have to worry; good ol' Toni will take care of him!"

*wink*