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Juggernaut & The Election of The New X-Men (Hellfire Gala XSpoilers)
It's time fior the X-Men's Hellfire Gala which meansa new elected X-Men - does Juggernaut have a chance of getting on the ballot?
Juggernaut time! Today sees the publication of Hellfire Gala #1 2023. There will be plenty of Hellfire Gala coverage today, all with big Spoiler Warnings and using our Hellfire Gala tag so you can keep up.
Intended to mirror the Met Ball, the Hellfire Gala is a chance for the mutant island of Krakoa and home to the X-Men to show off to the rest of the world, put a best foot forward and announce something extraordinary. As well as a new X-Men team.
And this year, embracing its first non-mutant of the Krakoan era, Juggernaut. Step-brother of Charles Xavier, Cain Marko, was one of the X-Men's first villains, but he has joined with Krakoa and down his best to redeem himself.
Giving us a brand new team led by Synch and Talon, with Prodigy, Cannonball, Frenzy, Jubilee, Dazzler and the Juggernaut. And drawn by Russell Dauterman, who drew previous election scenes in the Hellfire Gala.
That's before Marvel does the dury and Nimod, the mutant massacring machine from (one of) the future, now hijacked by the anti-mutant lobby group Orchis, who proceed to carry out a full-blown assault on the island of Krakoa. Remember that phrase, "Welcome to the X-Men; I hope you survive the experience?"
That's the one. From Uncanny X-Men #139. And repeated many times since.
Never been so appropriate as Nimrod is ripping and pulverising some of the newly elected X-Men. Talon seems to rescue Synch, but that's a legless Cannonball, an armless Dazzler, and a liquidised Jubilee and Frenzy right there. And resurrection possibilities are also taken off the map.
Juggernaut joins the ranks of the Fastball Special…
But up against Nimrod, who originally played the part intended for The Fury, it looks like something can stop the Juggernaut…
… just not a lighthouse.
The Hellfire Gala 2023 #1 is published today by Marvel Comics.
- Writer: Gerry Duggan
- Artists: Adam Kubert, Luciano Vecchio, Matteo Lolli, Russell Dauterman, Javier Pina, R.B. Silva, Joshua Cassara, Kris Anka & Pepe Larraz
- Color Artists: Rain Beredo, Ceci De La Cruz, Matthew Wilson, Erick Arciniega & Marte Gracia
- Lettering: Virtual Calligraphy
- Design: Tom Muller w/ Jay Bowen
- G.O.D.S. Interlude
- Writers: Jonathan Hickman & Gerry Duggan
- Artist: Valerio Schiti
- Color Artist: Marte Gracia
- Cover Artists: Phil Noto, George Perez & Edgar Delgado, Francesco Manna & Flavio Dispenza [X-Vote], Mashal Ahmed [Hellfire Gala Spoiler], Lucas Werneck [Stormbreakers], J. Scott Campbell & Sabine Rich [Anniversary], Gustavo Duarte [Howard the Duck]/Variant Cover Artists
- Production: Jay Bowen
- Associate Editor: Lauren Amaro
- Editor: Jordan D. White
- Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski
- X-Men, created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby