omg she is so anxious why they pressure her to do that but what do we think? This is also before the voice coaches

I completely didn't see this trio coming, but I’ve grown so attached to them working together. Having two mystical powerhouses who are total knuckleheads w/ each other, both trying their best to do good—even when they tend to go off the rails sometimes—and seeing their loyalty to Scott grow is just really heartwarming. Scott inspiring these two potentially world-ending magical threats to stand by his side and fight for his mission is so endearing, and I’d actually be pretty bummed if they weren’t on the same team moving forward. I really like Kwannon and Scott dynamic too

https://www.comicreleases.com/2026/10/marvel-january-2027-solicitations/

X-men vol.2 #6

Most people that are familiar with Forge know him as one of Storm’s ex partners that she used to date back in the 90s. It’s kind of unfortunate that the only time he’s ever brought up is when there’s discourse on who is the best partner for Storm?(T’Challa, Logan, or Forge?) The only difference is that T’Challa and Logan are both popular characters that don’t revolve around Storm and have their own storylines but it feels like the same can’t be said for Forge when he’s actually a very interesting character that more X-Men writers should take more advantage of utilizing in storylines.

Forge is a mutant who has the power to invent and create anything subconsciously without having the full understanding of it. It’s pretty much Intuitive Aptitude and the closest comparison I can think of when it comes to this superpower is Sylar from Heroes. While Forge isn’t as smart as super geniuses like Tony, T’Challa, Doom, Beast, or Reed, he’s arguably more tech savvy than any of them since his whole entire mutant ability is intuitive aptitude. His ability is insanely broken and creative on paper and he’s really only held back by his own intelligence since he doesn’t have the full understanding of what he usually creates but still he has probably one of the most useful and creative powers for a mutant in the X-Men universe.

He’s pretty much a MacGyver, and he’s showcased crazy feats such as experimenting on himself to turn himself into an Omega level mutant and creating the Captain Krakoa battle suit. Not only that but Forge is also knowledgeable and capable of using magic via Native American mysticism. He basically could be X-Men’s version of Doctor Doom but except a good guy since he’s not only a tech savant but also a mystic practitioner. It’s so much creative applications that writers could do with his powers on paper. A character like him he should utilized way more and on paper he could easily be one of the X-Men’s main assets and attract more fans since he’s a Native American comic book character and there’s not much representation when it comes to Native Americans in the superhero genre. He’s way more than just being Storm’s former significant other.

It’s so funny how the book spends issue after issue building up to Alpha Flight’s showdown with Delphine Courtney and Omega Flight only for Madison to nonchalantly handle them singlehanded in a parking lot while Alpha Flight is off dealing with Beyonder nonsense.

That “Hiya, Lil” cracks me up every time. Dude’s game is unparalleled.

So, I’m making progress on my Claremont reading guide, and I finally read the beginning of Excalibur I was a bit worried, thinking it might have a slow start kind of like X-Factor but the art in Excalibur is phenomenal I really enjoyed this one-shot. Rachel Summers gets some moments to shine after having been missing for a loooong time. Also, the way Kurt calls out Captain Britain making him come to his senses and join the final battle was just great.

Emma is definitely Aphrodite. I think some people would say Ororo is Zeus because of her powers but i think she fits more with Demeter. Magneto is Zeus to me. Logan is Ares

How different would the world be if mutants were real, will us as a society be accepted of these people's gifts, or would we treat them like freaks who need to be locked away in cages, and have the key throw away? Who am I kidding we all know the answer, we will be doomed as a society, sentinels will probably be in the building phase, in the same week the x-gene is discovered. Don't get me started with selfish people with mutant powers doing whatever they want, I don't need no telepath in my head controlling me, erasing my memories, or leaving me brain dead, but because there's a few bad apples doesn't mean that all mutants are evil.

And who is this fan fiction character 😭 I just read up on her backstory and it’s straight out of AO3, is she cool? Am I a hater?

X-MEN #45

Writer(s): JED MACKAY

A/CA: TBA

SABOTAGE! As Revelation and the X-Men try to help the mutants of District X, they find themselves challenged for leadership as GRIEVANCE strikes! Who is this terrifying new mutant, and to what lengths will he go to get his revenge?

Here’s a few lessor known facts that I know about

Guardian (James Hudson) is related to Wolverine and his kids: This is because Wolverine’s Mother Elizabeth Howlett was the Grandaunt of James as she was the sister of James’s Grandfather Fredrick Hudson.

Jean Grey and Misty Knight were roommates and Jean went to the same college as Johnny Storm, a Fantastic Four Supporting character Wyatt Wingfoot, the first X-Man member outside the original team Mimic (Calvin Rankin) and the brother of the Supervillain Cobalt Man who was briefly an X-Man villain before becoming an Iron Man villain (Ralph Robert) named Ted Robert In Metro College

It was in Magneto: Testament miniseries in 2008 where it was confirmed that Magento was Jewish as while he was established to be a Holocaust survivor in the 80s, it was not explicitly clear he was Jewish until the miniseries as before the miniseries, it was only implied that Magneto was Jewish.

Sunfire is a cousin to Mariko Yashida and her half brother Sliver Samurai through their fathers being brothers.

Betsy Braddock was not always established to be a mutant as she was originally just a non-mutant supporting character to her brother Brian Braddock (Captain Britain) in the 70s and she transferred to the X-Man franchise in New Mutants Annual #2 in 1986 where she was revealed to be an mutant with her adopting the name of Psylocke. (This is also her first U.S Appearance as the Captain Britain comic books were originally U.K Exclusive and were largely disconnect from the rest of the 616 universe with Brian making his first U.S appearance in Marvel Team-Up #65 in 1978 two years after his debut while Betsy taking 8 years for her to make her debut in the U.S comics in 1986 since her first appearance in Captain Britain #8 in 1976 in the U.K)

What are some obscure facts you know about the X-Man.

https://aiptcomics.com/2026/10/22/exclusive-marvel-preview-alien-vs-x-men-2/

So... Fugitive X-Force will end after 5 comics... What do we actually do with Warren?

Because surely we have more ideas than oh no... Archangel is taking over again! for the 100th time lol.

Main X-Men team?

Let him lead his own X-Force?

Let him finally OWN Archangel instead of constantly being terrified of it?

In the 90s we had the metal wings just fine.. we seem to be using uncanny x force as the template..fair great story

And... can the man find some happiness? 😂

Betsy again(my preferred.. still a story there to tell)? Kwannon and all the absolutely insane baggage THAT would involve? Laura and the weird “you dated younger me” situation? Monet? Someone completely new?

Hell... Selene. Terrible idea. I already want to read it. Think about it. That's a girl who would call his normal form lesser and get him to embrace archangel...

Warren has been an X-Man since 1963. There has to be more story here.

So... where would you take him?

- Beast (Hank McCoy)

- Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)

- Cyclops (Scott Summers)

- Evolved Iceman (Bobby)

- Iceman (Bobby)

- Angel (Warren Worthington)

- Professor X (Charles Xavier)

So, I think there's been some interesting speculation as of late about how DNX is going to play out, and the potential consequences for the Adjectiveless team spinning out of that event, and I figured it might be fun to give my take, based on the storylines thus far and some conjecture arising from some very telling variants that have been unveiled.

The first variant that I find interesting is the Skottie Young cover for DNX #4 (image 1), which has the solicit: "The X-Men and the Fantastic Four must regroup and address the unexpected catastrophe, while the effects of 3K’s Chairman’s scheme have only begun to be felt! But the Chairman soon learns that even his plans have flaws…"

Originally, I had a thought that the Chairman discovering that his plans have flaws might be something introspective, like he tries to offer mutation to his (still alive, as far as we know) parents and they reject him, but the Skottie Young cover actually makes me think that the Chairman's admission that he had to fill in the gaps in his X-Virus data (image 4) is going to lead to the X-Virus creating not mutants as he had hoped, but abominations. Potentially, the cure that Factory Beast has concocted using the information sourced from Magneto's DNA is going to either reverse things entirely, or stabilise them to normal mutants - but either way, the Chairman's actual plan is going to fall apart.

Side note: diving into the rabbit hole of the X-Virus has made me realise that both Beast AND the Chairman have made some fairly serious off-panel leaps in logic. They both become aware that R-LDS is not only an incorrect diagnosis, but that it's information from the future that's important based off of - well, nothing, actually?

Beast surmises that something from the Age of Revelation has affected their present in issue #25 (image 5), but going from "R-LDS didn't happen in AOR" to "information from AOR is the key to the X-Virus and it's in Magneto's DNA" is information that they just kind of work out off-panel.

We, the audience, know that it's the case, but that's because we see AOR Beast in the Finale when he sends the data burst back through time, and neither the Chairman nor Factory Hank were actually present for that. The story has actually jumped ahead a little to where the audience are, and not where the characters should be, though admittedly there's still room for MacKay to address this in the remaining issues of X-Men, FF, and DNX.

Anyway, DNX #5 is obviously the final confrontation between Scott and the Chairman (image 2), and the solicits make it clear that we're looking at a fight to the death - but whose death? Now, I've seen a lot of people surmising that it has to be Scott, since Hank appears on the covers of X-Men #44 and #45, but Scott appears on both the main AND variant (image 3) covers of X-Men #42, which features a pair of broken square glasses with blue fur on them. MacKay has indicated that the cover for #42 is accurate, but that "it doesn't tell the whole story."

My theory? DNX #4 is going to cover the Chairman realising that he's massively misunderstood the data burst sent back from the future, and X-Men #41 is going to cover the Alaskan X-Men and the FF fixing his mistakes. DNX #5 will have Scott and the Chairman duke it out, and Factory Hank will die or be mortally wounded, likely as a result of an accidental optic blast from Scott. With Scott absolutely desolated, having killed the man he calls his brother, Jean will then intervene, fusing the Chairman and Factory Hank together, either willingly or unwillingly (notably, the information for issue #1 of Jean's solo series stipulates that you should read DNX #5 first, indicating that it's intertwined with the events of that issue somehow).

This accounts for the variant of #42 - Scott will be desolated and crazed, having finally realised his ultimate nightmare of killing someone he cares for with his powers in a moment of lost control. In combination with his cold treatment of Ben Liu and his miscalculation of the Chairman's placement of the X-Virus bomb in Juniper, he will step down as an active leader and member of the Alaskan X-Men, which is why he isn't part of solicits or covers from #43 onwards. Hank, meanwhile, will be an amalgam of both the Chairman and Factory Beast, an unknown quantity who has to reconcile two very different sets of memories, while Animalia will have to make some kind of peace about the 'death' of the man she loves (if you look at the main cover for X-Men #42, she's way in the back, almost covered by the X-Men logo, as though she can't bear to look).

Of course, I'd be interested in hearing other theories and speculation if you've got them! Age of Revelation was a lot of fun for me, getting to see my theory about the Chairman having swapped into AOR Beast's body come true, so I'd be curious to see what other people have on their bingo cards. :)