Braddock.” She also has a brand-new costume. There’s also Rachel Summers, the daughter of alternate future versions of Cyclops and Jean Grey, and Psylocke, although it might be difficult to recognize that last one: She’s only referred to within the comic book in a single instance, and that is as “Ms. The particular line-up of heroines consist mostly of more popular X-ladies that would be familiar to even casual comics readers, thanks to their appearances in the movies and many cartoons: Storm, Rogue, Kitty Pryde and Jubilee. It’s almost too bad that the comic itself seems unable of living up to expectations its audience apparently has, or justifying the amount of attention its getting-it’s essentially just one more X-Men title, albeit a very well-drawn one. That is how the newest X-Men series, just called X-Men, with no adjectives like “Uncanny” or “All-New” or “Astonishing” was sold-an earlier teaser ad featured the letters “XX” and the name of a creative team-and that seems to be what a lot of readers and media outlets are picking up on (Even, somewhat surprisingly, CNN).Īpparently there are enough fans of the franchise’s female character, and the idea of an all-female super-team noteworthy enough, that the series has gained a remarkable amount of attention, probably beyond what’s justified by its place in Marvel’s comics line as maybe the fourth-most important of the franchise’s ongoing titles, or by the creative team of Brian Wood (the writer most recently responsible for the newest Star Wars comic, the one directed at fans of the movies moreso than “expanded universe” minutae) and artist Olivier Coipiel (One of Marvel’s better artists). Given the fact that the older Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, and company’s X-Men comics have long been a breeding ground of Marvel’s best-known superheroines-Marvel never had their own Wonder Woman, but the X-Men gave them the likes of Storm, Kitty Pryde and Rogue-and the fact that there have been so many dozens of different groupings of various X-Mean into so many different teams n so many different comic book series before, it’s sort of shocking this exact premise has never come up before: An X-Men book starring an all-female line-up.
Written by Brian Wood, penciled by Olivier Coipel, inked by Mark Morales and Coipel
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