New York, NY— May 7, 2024 — While the X-Men’s mission forces them to work outside the law, certain teams have found ways to fight for mutant rights within the system as officially sanctioned strike forces! In the upcoming From the Ashes era, that tradition continues in a new volume of X-FACTOR from Eisner winning writer Mark Russell (Fantastic Four: Life Story, The Flintstones) and acclaimed X-Men artist Bob Quinn (Captain America, Knights of X).
Formed by the government in response to a post-Krakoa outbreak of mutant paramilitary, ops squads, and mercenary teams, X-FACTOR will be co-led by Angel and Havok and include recruits like Pyro, Frenzy, Feral, and more. Part special agents for missions that require an arsenal of superpowers and part celebrity propaganda machine, X-FACTOR will wage war against emerging factions like the Mutant Underground and X-Term. Whether they believe in their actions or are just doing it for a check, the members of X-Factor are no fools when it comes to shady politics. As hidden agendas rear their ugly head, they’ll fight against the dark consequences and disastrous public opinion from the inside!
FAME, FORTUNE, MUTANTS! From the ashes of Krakoa, a new mutant arms race sweeps the globe! International governments are building their own mutant armies. But only America’s X-Factor has the most powerful, most patriotic, most marketable mutant heroes to stem the tide and make the world safe for democracy! Join them as they go from one death-defying mission to another. Who will die? Who will fall in love? Who will be the first to sell out? Like, comment and subscribe to find out!
“The thing I’ve always loved about the X-Men is that they’re characters first, super heroes second,” Russell shared. “So being able to write characters like Havok and Angel and Frenzy in a post-Krakoa reality is an opportunity to write about what I really care about, which is how do we help each other survive the apathy of the world we live in?”
“It’s so exciting to be back and drawing mutants in the X-Men universe again, and doubly exciting to work with Mark again,” Quinn added. “To my mind, Mark’s mix of humor and ability to shine a light on the peculiarities of modern society make him the perfect writer to tackle the relaunch of X-FACTOR. Drawing this team and every unexpected twist and turn of the story has been a blast so far, and I can’t wait for readers to get their hands on it.”
Mutant sell-outs or mutant role models? You be the judge! Check out the main cover and preorder X-FACTOR #1 at your local comic shop today! For more information, visit Marvel.com.
X-FACTOR #1
Written by MARK RUSSELL
Art by BOB QUINN
Cover by GREG LAND
On Sale 8/14
C’est vraiment un retour au passé. Mark Russell ne me plaît pas souvent.
Cest pas fou fou.
Brevoort aurait il rongé son frein durant toute l ère bendis pui hickman puis aaron ?
Quand même pas, il doit aimer aussi la nouveauté.
Ça a du sens de revenir à des basiques après Krakoa, mais c’est voyant et peu emballant.
Le prochain titre, c’est quoi ? Cable qui mène de nouveaux jeunes X-Force ?
Non, il a dit : pas de voyageur temporel dans les premières séries
Cable est bien installé quand même.
Sauf Rachel.
Là où Bishop est mis dans le même panier que Cable.
AIPT: Cable?
Tom: "Like Bishop, not necessarily right away. I’m going to sidebar here for a second. X-Men, traditionally, can be a tough series to get into for people because of its backstory and cosmology are so complicated. It has so many things and so many characters that the uninitiated look at it and go, “Where do I even start?” I think there’s some real validity to that. So one of the ground rules I put down at the start of this for everybody was I don’t want any doppelganger characters and I don’t want any characters from another timeline.
The X-Men at our start are here and now — it’s about right now.
All those other characters — put them on a shelf. It’s not like they don’t have value. And it’s not like we won’t get to them, but out of the gate, I want any human being on Earth to pick up any one of our X-Men No. 1 titles and be able to get into them, read them, understand them, and understand them on an emotional level and connect with them in a way that is just tough to do with, “I’m a cop from the future who came back chasing a thing, but now I’ve been here since then,” or “I’m the son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor who was sent to the future because I had a techno-organic virus and there I became a messiah figure and a soldier and I came back to the present to…” oh my God, that is so difficult. But it’s not really that difficult. Those characters can be boiled down as well. And that’s part of the thinking on them — just not the first move."
C est vrai, ça !
Mensonggggggeeee !
Au pire Cable peut attendre jusqu’à X-Force LGY #300 (d’ici l’année prochaine) pour faire son retour.
Ca parait sensé.
Bon après Rachel cest plus une réfugiée temporelle que voyageuse comme Cable.
Perso, j’aime beaucoup le taff de Mark Russell.C’est la bonne nouvelle de cette vague de relaunch des titres X.
X-Factor #1
WRITER Mark Russell
PENCILLER Robert Quinn
Colorist: Jesus Aburtov
Letterer: Vc Joe Caramagna
COVER ARTIST Greg Land
Release Date: August 14, 2024FAME, FORTUNE, MUTANTS !
From the ashes of Krakoa, a new mutant arms race sweeps the globe ! International governments are building their own mutant armies. But only America’s X-Factor has the most powerful, most patriotic, most marketable mutant heroes to stem the tide and make the world safe for democracy ! Join Angel, Havok, Frenzy, Feral, Pyro and more as they go from one death-defying mission to another. Who will die ? Who will fall in love ? Who will be the first to sell out ? Like, comment, and subscribe to find out !
Cameo ? Morph n’était pas dispo’ ?
Ah tiens, X-Factor #300, X-Force #300 & Wolverine #400 vont paraître à la même période (mars-avril).
Idéal pour le retour de Charles.
Et Cable en guest-star de X-Force #300 (vu qu’il y a un invité à chaque numéro apparemment : Deadpool, Black Panther, Man-Thing, etc).