New X-Men (2004 series)
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| New X-Men | |
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 The New X-Men in X-Men: Messiah Complex. Art by Humberto Ramos. From left to right: Elixir, Hellion, Dust, Gentle, Rockslide, Prodigy, Anole, Surge, Pixie, Mercury, X-23 | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | July 2004 – March 2008 |
| No. of issues | 46 (List of story arcs) |
| Main character(s) | |
| Creative team as of June 2007 | |
| Created by | List
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| Written by | List
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New X-Men is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics within the X-Men franchise. Whereas other X-Men comics mostly dealt with adult mutants, this series concentrated on the lives of young students residing at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.[1]
Publication history
After the end of Grant Morrison's run on X-Men, vol. 2 (titled New X-Men) the title was used for a new series, New X-Men: Academy X during the X-Men Reload event. The title was later shortened to simply New X-Men (vol. 2) in 2006 when the new creative team of Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost took over the series from issue #20.[2]
The series also served continuation of New Mutants, vol. 2. Issues #16-19 were tied-in with the House of M event while issues #44-46 with X-Men: Messiah Complex.[1]
After the 2007 crossover X-Men: Messiah Complex, the New X-Men title was cancelled and briefly relaunched as Young X-Men for 12 issues. With the end of Young X-Men the characters were folded onto the main X-Men books, appearing most prominently in the pages of X-Men: Legacy, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men, and X-Men in late 2000s and 2010s.
Sypnosis
New X-Men begins where Grant Morrison's run on the former New X-Men ended. The school is rebuilt and Emma Frost and Cyclops are named the headmasters. They organize the students into several battle squads who train together.
The series focuses chiefly on two rival teams: the New Mutants, whose mentor is Danielle Moonstar, and the Hellions, whose mentor is Emma Frost.
Decimation
In the aftermath of the Decimation event known as M-Day, the mutant student body in the academy dropped from 182 to 27. At least 45 depowered students were killed and, of the remaining students, Emma Frost picked a select group to train as New X-Men. Throughout the series, these New X-Men were Anole, Dust, Elixir, Gentle, Hellion, Mercury, Pixie, Prodigy, Rockslide, Surge (appointed leader) and X-23. The rest of the students were instructed to remain on school grounds. Some M-day survivors and depowered students either left the mansion or were killed off during villainous attacks by Stryker and his men, or various other enemies.
Future
The Young X-Men series launched as part of the X-Men storyline "Divided We Stand" in April, 2008. Written by Marc Guggenheim and pencilled by Yanick Paquette, it featured a line-up of Blindfold, Dust, Rockslide, Wolf Cub and three new characters: Graymalkin, Ink, and in the second issue, Cipher. The first arc involved the group being formed by Donald Pierce, who thanks to changes inflicted upon him by the Purifiers, impersonates Cyclops as part of an elaborate plot to kill the young mutants who he sees are the last generation of mutants born prior to M-Day. The group are manipulated into fighting members of the New Mutants before Pierce is ultimately exposed. In the end, per Blindfold's prediction at the start of the series, Donald Pierce murders Wolf Cub before being captured by the group and taken into custody by the X-Men.
When the X-Men franchise is relaunched with the relocation of the X-Men to San Francisco following the events in Uncanny X-Men, the characters relocate to California.[3] The series is ultimately canceled with issue #12 and many events of the series (such as Dust being mortally wounded during the team's fight with the New Mutants) would be ignored by later writers.
Team roster
| Character | Name | Squad | Joined New X-Men | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mirage | Danielle "Dani" Moonstar | New Mutants | — | Advisor of the New Mutants squad.[4] |
| Elixir | Joshua "Josh" Foley | Yes, joined in New X-Men, vol. 2 #23. | Joined the New Mutants squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2.[5] | |
| Prodigy | David Alleyne | Yes, joined in New X-Men, vol. 2 #43. | Field co-leader of the New Mutants squad. Joined the New Mutants squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2. After being depowered, he regained the knowledge talents originally acquired before "M-Day".[5] | |
| Surge | Noriko "Nori" Ashida | Yes, joined in New X-Men, vol. 2 #23. | Joined the New Mutants squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2.[4] | |
| Wallflower | Laurie Collins | No | Joined the New Mutants squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2. Killed by one of Stryker's Purifiers during mansion's attack in New X-Men, vol. 2 #25. | |
| Wind Dancer | Sofia Elizabeth Mantega | — | Field co-Leader of the New Mutants squad. Joined the New Mutants squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2. Depowered during the "M-Day".[6] | |
| Icarus | Joshua "Jay" Guthrie | New Mutants Hellions (formerly) |
No | Joined the Hellions squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2 briefly before switching to the New Mutants squad in New X-Men: Academy X #6. Killed by Stryker in New X-Men, vol. 2 #26.[4] |
| White Queen | Emma Grace Frost | Hellions | — | Advisor of the Hellions squad.[7] |
| Dust | Sooraya Qadir | Yes, joined in New X-Men, vol. 2 #23. | Joined the Hellions squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2.[7] | |
| Hellion | Julian Keller | Field leader of the Hellions squad. Joined the Hellions squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2.[8] | ||
| Mercury | Cessily Kincaid | Joined the Hellions squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2.[7] | ||
| Rockslide | Santo Vaccaro | |||
| Tag | Brian Cruz | — | Joined the Hellions squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2. Depowered during "M-Day" and killed along with several other depowered mutants on the bus ambushed by the Purifiers in New X-Men, vol. 2 #24.[7] | |
| Wither | Kevin Ford | Hellions New Mutants (formerly) |
No | Joined New Mutants squad in New X-Men: Academy X #2 briefly before switching to the Hellions squad in New X-Men: Academy X #6.[7] |
| Rogue | Anna Marie LeBeau | Advocates[9] | — | Advisor of the Advocates squad.[9] |
| Boggart | Robin Wise | Depowered during the "M-Day". | ||
| Naiad | Aurelie Sabayon | |||
| Pinpoint | Gerard Cooper | |||
| Trovão | Pedro de Noli | |||
| Umbra | Patrick Nesbitt | |||
| Xenon | Shaun Kennedy | |||
| Cyclops | Scott Summers | Corsairs | Advisor of the Corsairs squad.[10] | |
| Dryad | Callie Betto | Depowered during "M-Day" and killed along with several other depowered mutants on the bus ambushed by the Purifiers in New X-Men, vol. 2 #24. | ||
| Quill | Maxwell Jordan | No | Killed by one of Stryker's Purifiers during mansion's attack in New X-Men, vol. 2 #27.[10] | |
| Specter | Dallas Gibson | Corsairs Hellions (formerly) |
— | Depowered during the "M-Day". |
| Three-In-One | Celeste Cuckoo | Corsairs | No | Field co-leaders of the Corsairs squad. |
| Irma "Mindee" Cuckoo | ||||
| Phoebe Cuckoo | ||||
| Northstar | Jean-Paul Beaubier | Alpha Squadron | — | Advisor of the Alpha Sqaudron squad. Killed in New X-Men: Academy X #13.[11] |
| Karma | Xuân Cao Mạnh | Alpha Squadron Paragons (formerly) |
Replaced Northstar as the advisor of the Alpha Squadron squad in New X-Men: Academy X #14. Temporary advisor of the Paragons squad.[11] | |
| Anole | Victor Borkowski | Alpha Squadron[12] | Yes, joined in New X-Men, vol. 2 #41. | Field leader of the Alpha Squadron squad.[11] |
| Indra | Paras Gavaskar | No | — | |
| Kidogo | Lazaro Kotikash | — | Depowered during the "M-Day". | |
| Loa | Alani Ryan | No | — | |
| Network | Sarah Vale | — | Preview's sister; depowered during "M-Day" and killed along with several other depowered mutants on the bus ambushed by the Purifiers in New X-Men, vol. 2 #24. | |
| Rubbermaid | Andrea Margulies | Depowered during "M-Day" and killed along with several other depowered mutants on the bus ambushed by the Purifiers in New X-Men, vol. 2 #24. | ||
| Wolfsbane | Rahne Sinclair | Paragons | Advisor of the Paragons squad. | |
| Magma | Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla | Replaced Wolfsbane as the advisor of the Paragons squad in New X-Men: Academy X #15. | ||
| DJ | Mark Sheppard | Depowered during "M-Day" and killed along with several other depowered mutants on the bus ambushed by the Purifiers in New X-Men, vol. 2 #24. | ||
| Match | Benjamin "Ben" Hammil | No | Field leader of the Paragon squad. | |
| Pixie | Megan Gwynn | Yes, joined in New X-Men, vol. 2 #41. | — | |
| Preview | Jessica Vale | — | Network's sister; depowered during the "M-Day". | |
| Trance | Hope Abbott | No | — | |
| Wolf Cub | Nicholas "Nick" Gleason | |||
| Gambit | Remy LeBeau | Chevaliers[13] | — | Advisor of the Chevaliers squad.[13] |
| Bling! | Roxanne "Roxy" Washington | No | Field leader of the Chevaliers squad.[13] | |
| Flubber | Nick Shelley | — | Depowered during the "M-Day". | |
| Onyxx | Sydney Green | No | — | |
| Rain Boy | Carl Aalston | — | Depowered during the "M-Day". | |
| Foxx | Raven Darkhölme | Joined the Chevaliers squad in X-Men, vol. 2 #171. Revealed to be Mystique in disguise.[13] | ||
| Shadowcat | Katherine "Kitty" Pryde | Paladins[14] | Advisor of the Paladins squad.[14] | |
| Armor | Hisako Ichiki | No | — | |
| Blindfold | Ruth Aldine | |||
| Wing | Edward Tancredi | — | Depowered by Ord; committed suicide afterward in the Danger Room in Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #7 | |
| Beast | Henry "Hank" McCoy | Exemplars | Advisor of the Exemplars squad. | |
| Angel Salvadore | Depowered during the "M-Day". | |||
| Iceman | Robert "Bobby" Drake | Excelsiors | Advisor of the Excelsiors squad. | |
| Storm | Ororo Munro | Storm's squad | Advisor of her squad. | |
| Gentle | Nezhno Abidemi | Yes, joined in New X-Men, vol. 2 #41. | — | |
| Ernst | — | — | No | |
| No-Girl | Martha Johannson | No | ||
| X-23 | Laura Kinney | Yes, joined in New X-Men, vol. 2 #23. | ||
Contributors
| Issue(s) | Writer(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|
| As New X-Men: Academy X | ||
| 1-2 | Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir | Randy Green |
| 3-4 | Staz Johnson | |
| 5-8 | Michael Ryan | |
| 9 | Carlo Pagulayan | |
| 10-11 | Paco Medina | |
| 12-13 | Michael Ryan | |
| 14-15 | Paco Medina | |
| 16-19 | Aaron Lopresti | |
| As New X-Men | ||
| 20-22 | Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost | Mark Brooks |
| 23 | Mark Brooks, Paul Pelletier | |
| 24-28 | Paco Medina | |
| 29 | Duncan Rouleau | |
| 30-31 | Paco Medina | |
| 32 | Mike Norton | |
| 33-37 | Paco Medina | |
| 37 | Niko Henrichon. Paco Medina, Skottie Young | |
| 38-43 | Skottie Young | |
| 44-46 | Humberto Ramos | |
| New X-Men: Hellions (related reading) | ||
| 1-4 | Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir | Clayton Henry |
Reception
New X-Men, vol. 2 received mixed reviews
- According to to review aggregation website Comic Book Roundup, the series received an average rating of 7.3 out of 10 based on 28 critics.[15]
- The major difference is seen where Eric Alex Cline from AIPT gave the series 4 while IGN gave 9 out 10 ratings.[16][17]
Collected editions
Trade paperbacks
| Title | Material collected | Publication date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| New X-Men: Academy X - Complete Collection | New X-Men: Academy X #1–15; New X-Men: Academy X Yearbook #1; New X-Men: Hellions #1–4; | December 2018 | 978-1302910327 |
| New X-Men Childhood's End - Complete Collection | New X-Men #16-32 | January 2019 | 978-1302913847 |
| New X-Men Quest for Magik - Complete Collection | New X-Men (2004) 33-39, 40-42 (A Stories), 43; X-Infernus 1-4, Saga; material from X-Men Unlimited (2004) 14; X-Men: Divided We Stand 2 | July 2019 | 978-1302918378 |
| New X-Men: Academy X Vol. 1: Choosing Sides | New X-Men: Academy X #1-6 | January 2005 | 0-7851-1538-2 |
| New X-Men: Academy X Vol. 2: Haunted | New X-Men: Academy X #7-11 | July 2005 | 0-7851-1615-X |
| New X-Men: Hellions | New X-Men: Hellions #1-4 | November 2005 | 0-7851-1746-6 |
| New X-Men: Academy X Vol. 3: X-Posed | New X-Men: Academy X #12-15, New X-Men: Academy X Yearbook | January 2006 | 0-7851-1791-1 |
| House of M: New X-Men | New X-Men: Academy X #16-19, Secrets of the House of M | March 2006 | 0-7851-1941-8 |
| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 1 | New X-Men #20-23 | May 2006 | 0-7851-1831-4 |
| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 2: Crusade | New X-Men #24-27 | August 2006 | 0-7851-2024-6 |
| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 3: Nimrod | New X-Men #28-32 | December 2006 | 0-7851-2025-4 |
| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 4: Mercury Falling | New X-Men #33-36 | June 2007 | 0-7851-2238-9 |
| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 5: Quest for Magik | New X-Men #37-43 | December 2007 | 0-7851-2239-7 |
| X-Men: Messiah Complex | X-Men: Messiah CompleX one-shot, Uncanny X-Men #492-494, X-Men #205-207, New X-Men #44-46, X-Factor #25-27, X-Men: Messiah CompleX - Mutant Files | November 2008 | 0-7851-2320-2 |
Hardcovers
| Title | Material collected | Publication date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| X-Men: Messiah Complex | X-Men: Messiah Complex one-shot, Uncanny X-Men #492-494, X-Men #205-207, New X-Men #44-46, X-Factor #25-27 | April 2008 | 0-7851-2899-9 |
References
- ^ a b Neely, Austin (July 21, 2023). "THE NEW X-MEN Are Coming: Marvel To Resurrect Its Most Underrated '00s Team". Screen Rant. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
- ^ Roy Yap, Vincent (July 10, 2023). "Fall of X is the Perfect Chance to Push a Forgotten X-Men Generation Into The Spotlight". CBR. Retrieved March 29, 2023.
- ^ Young X-Men #6 (Released September 2008, Published November 2008)
- ^ a b c "New Mutants Members, Enemies, Powers". Marvel. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ a b Allan, Scoot (March 26, 2020). "The 10 Most Successful New Mutants To Ever Join The X-Men". CBR. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ Zachary, Brandon (December 9, 2020). "X-Men: A Hero's Resurrection Reunites a Fan-Favorite New Mutants Team". Screen Rant. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Hellions (Xavier Institute) Members, Enemies, Powers". Marvel. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ Allan, Scoot (December 4, 2020). "10 X-Men Who Deserve A Comeback". CBR. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ a b Allan, Scoot (January 25, 2023). "10 Teams Rogue Has Joined In The Comics". CBR. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ a b "Quill (Maxwell Jordan) Powers, Enemies, History". Marvel. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ a b c "Anole Powers, Enemies, History". Marvel. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ "Loa (Alani Ryan) Powers, Enemies, History". Marvel. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ a b c d Allan, Scoot (January 25, 2023). "10 Teams Gambit Has Joined In The Comics". CBR. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ a b McGuire, Liam (April 27, 2022). "Marvel's Most Underrated X-Men Hero Gets Adorable Fan Art". Screen Rant. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ "NEW X-MEN (2004)". Comic Book Roundup. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ Cline, Eric (December 19, 2018). "New X-Men: Academy X – The Complete Collection Review". AIPT. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ "X-MEN [2004]". IGN. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
External links
- New X-Men at Marvel.com
- New X-Men at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Confessions of a New X-Men Reader—look back on Morrison's tenure
