The X-Men in the '90s weren't just the biggest selling book at Marvel, but they were keeping the lights on. Unfortunately, this also signaled being the beginning of the end for Kelly and Seagle. The Cerebro/Xavier mystery got solved during the vastly underrated Hunt For Xavier, reuniting the team with their mentor. While it was very much a group inspired by Claremont's run, Kelly and Seagle kept the book and characters vital by not repeating Claremont. The real X-Men beat the impostor X-Men and readers learned Professor X was actually a sentient, independent Cerebro.Īdam Kubert became a regular artist on X-Men, his first stint on the X-Men's books, and Gambit would join the team. 1) #1 (by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman, and Sam Rosen). The two teams of X-Men clashed, battling it out at Cape Citadel, where Magneto had first attacked the X-Men thirty-five years before in X-Men (Vol. Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde, and Colossus had returned to the X-Men after Excalibur's cancellation, and joined up with Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, and Marrow. This two issue story opened with someone resembling Professor X bringing together a new team of mutants, just as the X-Men debuted a new roster. All of that would change ten issues into their run with Uncanny X-Men #360 (by Steve Seagle, Chris Bachalo, Tim Townsend, Jordi Ensign, Aaron Sowd, Jon Sibal, Peter Palmiotti, Shannon Blanchard, Mike Rockwitz, and Comicraft) and X-Men #80 (by Joe Kelly, Brandon Peterson, Art Thibert, Dan Panosian, Liquid!, and Comicraft). However, they were still very much working in the wake of what came before. Kelly and Seagle had an energy to their work that was palpable after years of Lobdell's Claremont inspired work. The late great Carlos Pacheco, who joined the X-book towards the tail end of Lobdell's run, was still drawing X-Men. On art, Chris Bachalo had made the jump from Generation X to Uncanny X-Men, his first of many stints drawing the main X-Men titles. Waid didn't know about it, and he was kicked off Captain America when Rob Liefeld took over. Meanwhile, Marvel made the Heroes Reborn deal, which spun out of the Onslaught storyline. After joining the X-Men books, Waid clashed with Lobdell and left X-Men after only six issues. Waid was also writing Captain America and everything seemed like it was going well. The Flash had made him into a star and Marvel wanted in on that. Lobdell would write issues forty-six through forty-nine. Mark Waid, after co-writing the AoA bookends, was slated to take over X-Men with issue fifty. Fabian Nicieza was leaving X-Men and had already left X-Force, which was being written by Jeph Loeb. Then it moved on to the battle against the Gene Nation, Morlocks who Marrow had brought back from the alternate dimension Mikhail Rasputin transported them to.īehind the scenes, things were changing as well. Uncanny X-Men #323 (by Scott Lobdell, Bryan Hitch, Cam Smith, Steve Buccellato, Electric Crayon, Richard Starkings, and Comicraft) built up toward Onslaught's debut. If you are a Marvel or X-Men fan, you NEED to check this one out before Netflix takes it off of Instant Watch and on to DVD again.X-Men #42 (by Fabian Nicieza, Paul Smith, Matt Ryan, Kevin Somers, Digital Chameleon, Richard Starkings, and Comicraft) jumped into a story where Holocaust (who had come over from the AoA universe), ended up on Avalon and tried to kill Magneto. Professor Xavier is in a coma, but awakes 20 years later and uses Cerebro to contact Wolverine and his team of X-Men in the past to try and prevent the dystopian future Xavier awakes to, complete with mutant concentration camps and Sentinels scouring the countryside for mutants. The MRD (mutant-police) hunt mutants everywhere, and Wolverine decides he and his team must do something about it. The storyline follows Wolverine gathering a the remaining X-Men together after a mysterious attack on the X-Mansion and Professor Xavier himself. It had a bit of a darker feel to it, I love the characters on the team, the animation is smooth and great looking, and the stories feel very comic book-ish rather than your normal "bad guy of the week" kids cartoon. I've been watching this series on Netflix Instant and I'm pleasantly surprised! I haven't seen an X-Men cartoon this good since the original 90s cartoon! If it had lasted longer, I might even say it was better.
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