Welcome back to X-ual Healing, the weekly recap column where we obsessively read every X-Men and X-Men-adjacent comic that Marvel publishes, tell you what happens, provide additional context where necessary, and examine whether the comic makes good use of the long and convoluted history of the X-Men by referencing it in a way that's accessible[...]
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Also, expect a retrospect on Marvel's Infinity War comic miniseries from 1992 tomorrow.
Anyway, without further ado, let's get started with the Wins and Losses of the week!
Exiles #1 cover by David Marquez and Matthew Wilson
Win: Exiles #1 Explodes onto the Scene
Saladin Ahmed and Javier Rodriguez killed it this week with a fresh and energetic start to their new Exiles series[...]
Is that even possible? We're about to find out!
EXILES #1
SALADIN AHMED (W) • JAVIER RODRIGUEZ (A)
Cover by DAVID MARQUEZ
Variant cover by Javier Rodriguez
Variant cover by Jesus Saiz
Character variant cover by Mike McKone
DESIGN VARIANT COVER BY JAVIER RODRIGUEZ
INTRODUCING THE ALL-NEW VALKYRIE!
DON'T BLINK – THE EXILES ARE BACK!
Fan-favorite X-Man Blink once joined a team destined to save[...]
As usual, Jeremy Konrad and I are here to discuss which ones are worthy of your time and money and which ones to avoid like the plague.
Immortal Men #1 by James Tynion IV and Jim Lee, Domino by Gail Simone and David Baldeon, Exiles by Saladin Ahmed and Javier Rodriguez, Crude by Steve Orlando and Garry Brown, and The Dead Hand by Kyle Higgins and Steve Mooney are the focuses of discussion this week[...]
The leader of the survivors is a familiar face on our world.
Exiles #1 cover by David Marquez and Matthew Wilson
Exiles #1 sets itself up as a more light-hearted continuation to the at-times brutal series, helped by the appealing and upbeat artwork of Javier Rodriguez and brilliant color work of Jordie Bellaire.
It also reads like an[...]
By that, I mean more than just Domino and Exiles, though you can bet they will definitely be included.
Brothers Dracul #1 cover by Mirko Colak
Brothers Dracul #1
Unholy Grail Creators Cullen Bunn and Mirko Colak reunite under AfterShock, this time bringing us the tale of Vlad the Impaler's teenage years in the enslavement of the Ottoman Empire[...]
Will it be Power Pack #63 or will it be Exiles #125 for the Marvel Legacy one-shots? On Friday, Bleeding Cool was the first to show off the Marvel Legacy one-shots, bringing back cancelled series for one last issue.
Newsarama pretended not to see that article, but instead retro-engineered the story and posted the art sourced[...]
But could Fox's XCU be trying to accomplish too much too soon?
A new report from ComicBook.com, who had a five minute conversation with X-Men producer Simon Kinberg last week and has been breaking every sentence up into a separate news article, claims that the next properties up for development could be Alpha Flight and Exiles[...]
At ACBC, Marvel Comics announced a few post-Secret Wars notes. They publicly confirmed Bleeding Cool's report of getting a Howling Commandos series,