Marvel Comics and X-Men #9 Spoilers and Review follow.
Teasing Immortal X-Men #1…
…X-Men Red #1 and…
…Knights of X #1!
The title’s main cover follows.
The variant covers are below.
The preceding Leinil Francis Yu variant is part of the Destiny of X teaser image.
The promise of the issue can be discerned from its solicitation.
X-Men #9
Published: March 02, 2022
Writer: Gerry Duggan
Penciler: Javier Pina
Cover Artist: Pepe LarrazThe Quiet Council of Krakoa. The Great Ring of Arakko. The Central Column of Orchis. Three ruling bodies, all about to make vital decisions that will affect their people for years to come…and the X-Men are caught in the cross fire.
X-Men #9.
Krakoa, Orchis and Arakko are debating various actions amongst their leadership.
The X-Men of Krakoa, giving a flavor for the politics of the upcoming Immortal X-Men series, are debating whether to proactively attack Orchis…
…while Orchis, led by Doctor Statis, a group that includes S.W.O.R.D.’s Abigail Brand is…
…planning to recruit villain M.O.D.O.K. to their ranks.
Readers get a sense of the Orchis Protocol and its organization chart.
While parts of that may reflect the upcoming X-Men Red series with S.W.O.R.D. as a main foil…
…the next part of the story Arakko gives a flavor for the X-Men Red series, the X-Men of a renamed Mars, who may be planning to save Redroot on a mission.
Later in the issue readers are reminded that Destiny considers Rogue as a her daughter and…
…she isn’t a fan of her husband Gambit.
Readers then get caught up on the Krakoan X-Men vote and there will be no hot war with Orchis; it will continue to simmer as a cold war.
The book ends with a mix of X-Men Red kicking off the Otherworld tale…
…of the upcoming Knights of X series.
The Pulse:
An event-filled issue with action, intrigue and drama rendered by solid art. Felt more like a disjointed preview book for other titles, but it was entertaining. 7 out of 10.
What follows are the solicitations and covers for the three upcoming series discussed above.
Immortal X-Men #1.
Immortal X-Men #1
Published: March 30, 2022
Writer: Kieron Gillen
Penciler: Lucas Werneck
Cover Artist: Mark BrooksIN THE QUIET COUNCIL, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM! The Quiet Council rules the Krakoan age, for better… or worse. Now, shaken by INFERNO and X LIVES / X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE they strive to hold together, no matter how much they want to tear each other apart. Writer Kieron Gillen (UNCANNY X-MEN, ETERNALS, The Wicked + The Divine, Die) returns to the world of X with artist Lucas Werneck (TRIAL OF MAGNETO) to bring us all into the room where it happens. “It” being “the most powerful people on Earth deciding the fate of the whole planet.” Prepare for sinister secrets to be revealed and learn that some secrets are more sinister than others…
Knights of X #1.
Knights of X #1
Published: April 13, 2022
Writer: Tini Howard
Penciler: Robert Quinn
Cover Artist: Yanick PaquetteTHE QUEST BEGINS HERE, WHERE MUTANTS ARE HATED AND FEARED ONCE AGAIN! The gates to Otherworld are closed — and Captain Britain is trapped on the wrong side! Usurpers Merlyn and his right-hand man, King Arthur, are now in control of Lunatic Citadel. Furies the size of Sentinels raze villages to the ground in their hunt for the “witchbreed.” Cutoff from Krakoa, Betsy Braddock is Otherworld’s only hero — and to save her people, Betsy must recruit a round table of her own. The Knights of X gather to restore the rightful order and rescue desperate mutants — but their quest is about to get so much bigger than that. This is the era of destiny…and the fate of Otherworld lies at the center of mutantkind’s future. Don’t miss this essential piece of the new Krakoa!
X-Men Red #1.
X-Men Red #1
Published: April 06, 2022
Writer: Al Ewing
Penciler: Stefano Caselli
Cover Artist: Russell DautermanWHO CAN SAVE THE RED PLANET? The mutants of Arakko spent millennia scarred by war — but on what was once called Mars, they’re learning to live in peace. STORM knows the red planet needs something greater than a queen. But ABIGAIL BRAND has other plans, along with an unstable VULCAN on her side and CABLE keeping his own secrets. Welcome to X-MEN RED. It’s a new world…and someone has to fight for it.
The new X-Men line-up for the new Destiny of X era looks interesting.
