WonderCon 2012 News

Originally posted by Xstryker Jubilee's still 17? Jesus I hate Marvel's non-aging policy. She was 13 two and a half decades ago!!! I understand slowing things down a bit, but that's bloody ridiculous. I hope Jube gets her powers back, but her vampirism somehow turbocharges them - blinding lights and deadly explosions, rapid-fire barrages, deafening booms, etc

Truthfully.... Jubilee WAS that powerful in Gen-X!  She once leveled a warehouse with a single blast!

The Dark Avengers (in a sense) sprung from the Thunderbolts though. That title is what situated Osborn and Moonstone to pull off the coup they did. So really, it's not a huge deviation.

Nope not a deviation at all since Osborn's ideas for them sprung from Thunderbolts in a sense. Just sort of a lame grouping of Dark Avengers to keep pushing now. To me the original Dark Avengers who were Thunderbolts mostly before that were much more interesting and dark and rounded as characters. Ragnarok is not even close to interesting, and that Spider-Man fill in is eh as are the Dark Scarlet Witch and Trickshot. Skaar is cool though.

Oh I know. I'm sort of saying that back with the first Dark Avengers was the time to really change Thunderbolts into that title. When there were stronger characters that people really enjoyed in Thunderbolts before they became Dark Avengers back then. Most people were either cold to these new versions, might have liked them, or a majority of people like myself that pretty much tuned out of the whole new Dark Avengers saga.

I'm enjoying Wood's WatX mini.

I think the problem with Gischler's writing is that it's taken this long for fans to warm to his style of story-telling. It's a shame he's dropping Jubilee, but like others have said, if it's an editorial thing, then there must be plans for her somewhere... either that, or editorial have decided to drop the Vampire thing altogether and want her in limbo for a few years before she returns de-vamped with only a vague explanation.

Wood, I'm excited for. His interview made sense (you really WOULDN'T have a security team that had such an over-lapping powerset as Colossus, Vampilee and Warpath), but I'm not sure on the inclusion of Pixie, even if she's only going to be used as rapid transport. It's a shame Warpath's gone, but realistically, what has he done in the past two arcs that have furthered his character? Jubilee, Storm and Psylocke have all had character beats in the previous and current arc, Colossus is getting his story told in Uncanny from what I hear, and Domino is just awesome and useful to help push plots along... Warpath doesn't really bring anything new to the mix that Colossus or Domino couldn't pick up, combat-wise.

Originally posted by EphemeristX Considering how old Monet is being written, Jubilee can't still be that young, can she?  Lol.  That's New X-Men aged!

YEah I know...  It's kinda annoying.

Can she just please be 18 now? Even with the sliding scale it's still not possible for her to be 17. It's been like three years in universe since she left the titles post-Morrison run and she was at least sixteen in Uncanny then.

Maybe this is just the core cast and he'll rotate in others on arc by arc basis. It makes sense. It's the security team. There's bound to be different useful mutants and X-Men around at some point.

Hopefully, anyway.

Wood has been writing a great Rachel, Hisako, Quentin, Logan, Mercury, and Bling in the Alpha and Omega mini. I'm excited to see him tackle the characters left in the cast.

wouldn't be surprised if it the team does rotate a bit after the first arc, probally add one more Male X-Man, just wondering who that might be, has to be someone with a different powerset then Peter.

Edited by kanderson - 21-Mar-2012 at 1:54pm

I don't see the need to add another male to the team. X-Force seems to functioning fine with Betsy as the only female.

Here, here!

Originally posted by Blackcyclops Or the Fantastic Four for majority of 50 years lol... "Too many females" has been a complaint aimed another X-team before...I don't understand it. Combine that with "Captain Marvel's costume is too masculine" and I wonder how enlightened we really think we are as comic fans.

Not very...Let's face it, a good deal of comic fans love comics for T&A and violence. We might not see it on the boards, but I think that's what exists out there. But it's like that in every genre of entertainment.

Originally posted by Blackcyclops Violence I can believe...because I do. But I just don't believe many of us look at comics for T&A...not because I think we're super-enlightened but because comic T&A isn't appealing LOL...

Your faith in humanity(and comic fans) is admirable, if not naive :-p.

Yes, I think T&A are still a massive part of comics. See last months week of Psylocke ass shots...
And that X-Women one shot that Claremont did - that had more girl T&A than i've ever seen in my life
Still, at least we've moved on from the days of the Marvel Swimsuit Special. I think...?