X-Men Legends (comic, not game)

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-Pr-
A new, canon series, the first issue of which is penned by Roy Thomas (wrote Uncanny in the 60s, and was the guy that wrote the book between Stan Lee and Len Wein).

https://marvelousnews.com/268-30208

Any chance it'll be any good?

StiltmanFTW
Not "new", Pr.

Volume 2:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Legends_Vol_2_1

Volume 1 started a mere year ago and still hasn't finished:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Legends_Vol_1_1

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Legends_Vol_1_12

It's also canon, in case you're wondering.

Relaunching the book so soon is one of the cheapest marketing tactics that both DC & Marvel love to use.

Originally posted by -Pr-
Any chance it'll be any good?

Let's hope so.

But the false advertising leaves a bad taste - Roy Thomas had nothing to do with Wolverine, other than being the editor in TIH #180 and #181 and asking Wein to make a character inspired by a wolverine animal.

So, unlike the description says, this will be his first chance to actually do some work with "his" creation.

-Pr-
Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
Not "new", Pr.

Volume 2:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Legends_Vol_2_1

Volume 1 started a mere year ago and still hasn't finished:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Legends_Vol_1_1

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men_Legends_Vol_1_12

It's also canon, in case you're wondering.

Relaunching the book so soon is one of the cheapest marketing tactics that both DC & Marvel love to use.



Let's hope so.

But the false advertising leaves a bad taste - Roy Thomas had nothing to do with Wolverine, other than being the editor in TIH #180 and #181 and asking Wein to make a character inspired by a wolverine animal.

So, unlike the description says, this will be his first chance to actually do some work with "his" creation.

lol, so many relaunches.

I didn't know anything about his relationship with Wolverine (or lack thereof), just that I remember reading stuff he wrote with the original crwew back in the day.

And here I was hoping we might finally get some good X-Men stuff.

StiltmanFTW
Originally posted by -Pr-
lol, so many relaunches.

Honestly, man?

The comic you've made this thread for will be basically X-Men: Legends #13.

Just two months of waiting for the next issue instead of one.

They're just shameless at this point.

Originally posted by -Pr-
I didn't know anything about his relationship with Wolverine (or lack thereof), just that I remember reading stuff he wrote with the original crwew back in the day.

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The info is right in the link you posted, Mister Moderator stick out tongue

Spammed all over three paragraphs out of four. Cash-grab style.

Originally posted by -Pr-
And here I was hoping we might finally get some good X-Men stuff.

We might.

Fake advertising is a bad sign, but it doesn't necessarily mean the final product will suck.

X-Men Legends has a classic feel to it, lets us know exactly when comics are taking place, does the references* thing... it can't magically make us travel back in time, though. But it tries.

Revisiting and expanding on the already convoluted 616 history is not an easy task. But as a nostalgia adventure, it works.

You should check it out.

https://i.ibb.co/z8FwVDL/summersp.png

StyleTime
Well, it can't be worse than whatever Duggan is doing. It's got that going for it at least.

StiltmanFTW
Looks like Wolverine's gonna fight Beast in volume 2 issue 2:

https://i.ibb.co/5jsPTf4/X-Men-Legends-Vol-2-2.jpg

I can only hope Thomas won't have my guy jobbing to the worst fighter in the whole X-Men history.

-Pr-
LEAVE BEAST ALONE!!!

StiltmanFTW
laughing out loud laughing out loud laughing out loud

By the way, it's a minor detail, but... Wolverine's whiskers-mask only appeared during his early adventures when he worked for Department H... so either it's just the cover art appealing to our nostalgia or this series will be taking place before the Krakoa mission and the first "All-New, All-Different" X-Men era.

-Pr-
is that possible, though? Was Beast blue by then?

StiltmanFTW

-Pr-
lol, gotta love that revisionist history.

But yeah, it sounds like they might have a window to work it in, I suppose. Beast was blue by the time Krakoa came about, I remember that much.

ok i double checked:

Beast is on the cover of GSXM at least, and he's blue. And in uncanny #94 (the first uncanny of the new bunch), he's blue too.

I'll send you the link.

StiltmanFTW
Thank you thumb up

The first volume of X-Men Legends was all about that --- untold tales happening during specific periods.

Looks like the relaunch happened only because they hope to boost the sales (especially now that Thomas is a part of the creative team) --- the series still has the very same purpose.

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