Wolverine and the X-Men: 1-3 Back to School Night Story by Jason Aaron Art by Chris Bachalo & Duncan Rouleau
By Hector Ramirez
RATING SYSTEM:
Red Hood (Jason Todd) -1 Robin (Damian Wayne) - 2 Robin (Tim Drake) - 2.5 Red Robin (Tim Drake) - 3 Red Robin (Dick Grayson) -3.5 Nightwing (Dick Grayson) - 4 Batman (Dick Grayson) - 4.5 Batman (Bruce Wayne) - 5
Greetings Clashers! Hector here and I’m here to take you to school. The Jean Grey school that is. This week we’re taking a look at Wolverine and the X-Men , that being said watch that first step, it’s a doozy.
Starting off, I’d like to give a brief overview of X-Men Schism which split the X-Men up into the two factions they are now in. it all starts when Cyclops go to the U.N. in an effort to rid the world of the mutant hunting robots known as sentinels. At the conference Quentin Quire a.k.a. Kid Omega launches a psychic attack on the leaders of the world causing them to admit their deepest darkest secrets. Seeing this as an excuse to deem mutant-kind a threat to humanity the world leaders scramble to get there hands on any bit of sentinel technology they can get their hands on. Enter Kade Kilgore; who has just became the CEO of his family’s weapons company and Black King of the Hellfire Club, all at the age of 13. Kilgore built a giant Sentinel that drew in metal from its surroundings to build its body and sent it to Utopia to destroy the X-Men. With the rest of the X-Men dealing with the other Sentinels, Scott and Logan are left with the youngest recruits and that's where things take a turn for the worst. Logan believes that kids shouldn’t have to risk their lives in such a situation while Scott believed they should stand and fight as X-Men. This leads to an altercation that lead to the split.
Logan has decided to return to West Chester to re-open the Charles Xavier school and renaming it the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. It is when the New York Department of Education sends two representatives to check out the legitimacy of the school when things take a turn for the worst. All the technologies that Hank programmed into the school are going haywire and the grounds themselves seem to be attacking. Turns out that Kade Kilgore and his little playmates in the Hellfire Club are making sure everything that can possibly go wrong does. Also, it turns out the grounds are attacking because beneath them lives a grandchild to Krakoa, a living plot of land. After penetrating the creature's mind, the unlikely hero of Quentin Quire saves the day by calming it down and convincing it that the X-Men are not the enemies. After cleaning up the mess, Logan sends Kilgore a little surprise in the form of a legal subpoena delivered by one Matthew Murdock Esquire.
I, for one, enjoyed this story. It really showed how far Logan has come. He’s not the irrational berserker he's been known to be anymore. He’s really grown and isn’t afraid to show his softer side. He really cares for the kids and he shows it by everything he went through to re-open the school; to give them somewhere to learn and grow where they won't be considered a mutant army the way Scott tried to make them out to be. As for the art, I liked it. It had a great balance of realism and artistry so that it wasn’t too cartoony. In closing, with a great story told with good art. I rate this plotline a Grayson Batman. Good work crew. This is definitely a title I will be keeping up with and I suggest you Clashers to do the same. Until next time friends, keep clashing!
Please check out their live Tweet of the Future History Course, taught by Jean Grey's & Scott Summers' daughter, Professor Rachel Grey on January 11th, 2012 @ 2:00pm EST.
NEXT WEEK: CBC's EIC Frankie Rodriguez reviews Cyclops's side of Mutantdom with a review of Uncanny X-Men #1-3.
With the collection of courses now up on Marvel.com: Jean Grey School, we survey a bunch of our readers over the courses they would take. And with the course and a great and interesting staff teaching these courses (which include Wolverine, Shadowcat, Rachel Grey, Iceman, Rogue, Beast, Gambit, Cannonball, Husk & more) Here are the Results:
by Frankie Rodriguez
SuperVan Adazol chose:
How to Weaponize Household Products The Art of Fighting Without Fighting The Art of Fighting With Fighting Computer-Hacking 101: ONLY FOR USE TO SAVE THE DAY! Downloading Foreign Languages (Rachel Grey) Sex Ed (Gambit) Know Your Alien Races. And How to Kill Them (Lockheed) Flying Into Things Headfirst (Cannonball)
Joe Miranda chose:
Brain Spelunking: Exploring the Recesses of Your Own Mind Outer Space Survival Skills: My Time As A Starjammer Mutant Philosophy: The Teachings of Xavier, the Lessons of Magneto The Art of Fighting Without Fighting The Art of Fighting With Fighting Computer-Hacking 101: ONLY FOR USE TO SAVE THE DAY! Downloading Foreign Languages Know Your Alien Races. And How to Kill Them
Alternate Dimension Explorer's Club Bamf Hunting Club Study Abroad Program
New CBC writer Darryl Carter chose:
World History (1880 - 1950): An Eyewitness Account with Logan [Why? Because it would be nice to get the facts straight from the source, untainted by politics or imperial influence]
Ethics 101: Forgetting Everything You Ever Learned From Emma Frost, with Headmistress Pryde [Because sometimes I don't trust myself]
How to Weaponize Household Products, with Professor Remy LeBeau [Improvisation is the tool of a wise man]
Diction and Linguistics, with Professor Rogue [Rogue, need I say more. Just love her accent.]
Computer-Hacking 101: ONLY FOR USE TO SAVE THE DAY! With Headmistress Pryde [I'm not stalking Kitty I promise.]
Flying Into Things Headfirst, with Professor "Cannonball" Guthrie {I haven't quite mastered flying yet.]
Mutant Literature, with Professor Paige Guthrie [Probably a very interesting course]
Gerald Williams chose:
Brain Spelunking: Exploring the Recesses of Your Own Mind, with Professor Rachel Grey
Ethics 101: Forgetting Everything You Ever Learned From Emma Frost, with Headmistress Pryde
The Art of Fighting Without Fighting, with Headmaster Logan
The Art of Fighting With Fighting, with Headmaster Logan
Computer-Hacking 101: ONLY FOR USE TO SAVE THE DAY! With Headmistress Pryde
Derrick Jones chose:
Brain Spelunking: Exploring the Recesses of Your Own Mind, with Professor Rachel Grey How to Weaponize Household Products, with Professor Remy LeBeau Outer Space Survival Skills: My Time As A Starjammer, with Professor Rachel Grey The Art of Fighting Without Fighting, with Headmaster Logan The Art of Fighting With Fighting, with Headmaster Logan Computer-Hacking 101: ONLY FOR USE TO SAVE THE DAY! With Headmistress Pryde Flying Into Things Headfirst, with Professor "Cannonball" Guthrie
And my Extra Cirricular......
Study Abroad Program: Spend a semester in K'un-Lun, Wakanda or Chandilar, the throneworld of the Shi'ar.
Ron Crane chose:
The Art of Fighting Without Fighting
The Art of Fighting With Fighting
Computer-Hacking 101: ONLY FOR USE TO SAVE THE DAY!
Downloading Foreign Languages
Know Your Alien Races. And How to Kill Them
CBCs Hector Ramirez chose:
How to weaponize household items
Psychic self defense
Sex ed
Computer hacking 101
Future history 101
The art of fighting with fighting
The art of fighting without fighting
J1 Studios' Andre Darryl Martin Stanley chose:
1)The Art of Fighting Without Fighting, with Headmaster Logan
2)The Art of Fighting With Fighting, with Headmaster Logan
3)Computer-Hacking 101: ONLY FOR USE TO SAVE THE DAY! With Headmistress Pryde
4)Sex Ed, with Professor Remy LeBeau
5)Know Your Alien Races. And How to Kill Them, with Professor Lockheed
6)How to Weaponize Household Products, with Professor Remy LeBeau
Chris Thomas chose:
Mutant Literature, with Professor Paige Guthrie
Downloading Foreign Languages
The Art of Fighting Without Fighting, with Headmaster Logan
Mutant Philosophy: The Teachings of Xavier, the Lessons of Magneto
Diction and Linguistics, with Professor Rogue
Shinigami (Ray Riley), mastermind behind the J1 Sound Team & All the mixes there, chose:
Brain Spelunking: Exploring the Recesses of Your Own Mind, with Professor Rachel Grey
The Art of Fighting Without Fighting, with Headmaster Logan
The Art of Fighting With Fighting, with Headmaster Logan
Mutant Philosophy: The Teachings of Xavier, the Lessons of Magneto
Downloading Foreign Languages
Toku Time host and internet personality, EZ Rider, chose:
Mutant Philosophy: The Teachings of Xavier, the Lessons of Magneto
The Art of Fighting With Fighting, with Headmaster Logan
Computer-Hacking 101: ONLY FOR USE TO SAVE THE DAY! With Headmistress Pryde
How to Weaponize Household Products
Clubs:
Alternate Dimension Explorer's Club
Fencing Club
Comic Book Club
And these were all the classes that were chosen. These are some interesting results. All but one of our surveyors picked Art of Fighting without Fighting and Art of Fighting With Fighting courses. Computer Hacking 101 being the next most popular course along side Know Your Alien Races and How to Kill them with Downloading Foreign Languages being the 5th most popular course. And there will be more courses to come as Northstar, Kharma and Cecila Reyes are all slated to join the Jean Grey School teaching staff.
Well, this was indeed a fun survey. Get ready to see more surveys in the future.
For more of EZ Rider, go here:
One of the few Tokusatsu Reviews I know. Great guy with a good set of reviews, a few countdowns and some specials. Tokusatsu is special effects in japanese but it is what the genre of live action stuff like Power Rangers and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight are based off of. Toku Time or Reviewtopia: Toku Time is where you can find him.
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Welcome to the 9th Edition of CBC News. Let's Hit the ground running.
BARKER CHANGES HELLRAISER IN ONGOING
For the last several months, horror fans have had the joy and rapture of reading many of their favorite franchises as new miniseries or even ongoings. BOOM! Studios recognized this right away as they launched the new Hellraiser ongoing, written by Christopher Monfette and Hellraiser creator and prolific writer Clive Barker himself. As assured to many readers before the first issue of the new ongoing launched, everything that happens within the new Hellraiser ongoing is IN CONTINUITY by Barker himself. The first 4 issue set up the ongoing as the second arc within the ongoing is about to begin. Here's a solicitation for Hellraiser #5:
BRAND NEW ARC! Great jumping-on point for new readers. One of the greatest horror franchises of all time returns, now under the control of its original creator! Clive Barker has touched HELLRAISER only twice: once to write THE HELLBOUND HEART, and once more to write and direct the original HELLRAISER film. Now witness Barker’s long-awaited return to tell a new chapter in the series’ official continuity—a trajectory that will forever change the Cenobites…and Pinhead! Kirsty Cotton faces her greatest foes…both new and old. And Pinhead is her greatest fear! But what could he have planned for her?
Hellraiser # 5 will hit stores September 14th, 2011, with art by Jesus Hervas and written by Clive Barker & Christopher Monfette for $3.99.
VESCELL TRAILER GIVES IMAGE TEETH
Honestly, it's a trailer you have to see to believe with the brand new series; the first issue out now.
Feast your eyes and check it out now.
DC COMICS RELAUNCH . . . SELLING OUT!
DC Comics started this journey not long ago. Back in the beginning of June, fans got the announcement from DC that they were going to relaunch their ENTIRE line. Every book was going to start again with # 1 starting in September. Well, it's September. And while many people were skeptical about this 'soft reboot' coined by some . .. it seems to be working. Many of the new books have sold out all over the world. Not just one or two but a good chunk of the new books have been selling out. Justice League International # 1, Batgirl # 1, Action Comics # 1, Animal Man # 1, Hawk & Dove # 1, Detective Comics #1 and next weeks Batman & Robin #1 have already sold out! Batgirl, JLI, Hawk & Dove and Action Comics # 1 will receive second printings with a possibility that Animal Man, Detective Comics, and Batman & Robin not far behind them. What is even crazier is that Justice League # 1 has sold out . . . TWICE. Yes. You heard me . .. . TWICE. Justice League# 1s second printing is already sold out and going in for a third. DC Comics' hard work and advertisements seem to be paying off as many new faces are popping in and getting comics. So far, DC's plan to help sell their line and revitalize comic books are work. And Marvel is listening as they have been aggressively started their own campaign to sell their books themselves. With 3 more weeks of books coming out (one of those books already selling out), what will happen next? And which books will join them for sell out status. You'll get more on these developments as the relaunch continues.
THIS JUST IN: As of late Monday, September 12th, DC and Diamond distribution released that ALL 27 titles from Justice League #1 to Action Comics # 1 to Animal Man # 1 to all 13 number #1s coming in today (September 14th, 2011) are sold out based on numbers and the other 26 issues will be receiving 2nd printings. How is that for historic? 27 sell outs. That is unprecedented. More of this relaunch and the effects it has on the industry as we continue to cover it.
NEWMAR BECOMES BLUEWATER'S PUURFECT HEROINE
Spinning out of the now to be ongoing Misadventures of Adam West, the legendary Batman for the campy 60s tv series; former Catwoman from the same show, Julie Newmar, will soon have a brand new miniseries to join it. The Secret Lives of Julie Newmar. The new miniseries, debuting in February 2012, will feature the actress going from her back yard one minute and then dropped into a laboratory in a different time the next. She must accept the mission to stop Dr. Vertigo and his assistant Onyx from destroying the space/time continuum or she will never see her time again. Being forced to join the organization known as Hour Glass, she is fitted with a micro chip that lets her travel through time; taking on different missions through time to reflect different points in the actresses life. Written by Marc Shapiro, who is working closely with Newmar on the project. Art duties are being handled by Cindy Mehrich. Marc comments on his excitement on the project:
"This series has been have been so much fun to do. And it is an homage to the kinds of stories that first appeared in the mid-60's. 'Secret Lives' is just a straightforward adventure that will entertain all ages."
The Secret Lives of Julie Newmar hits stores February 2012.
FLASH GORDON RETURNS IN DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT . . . FOR A DOLLAR
The popular character that spawned movies and serials from the near beginning of movies and television returns in comic book format this November by Dynamite Entertainment. The new series, Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist will grace stands, written by Eric Trautmann with art by Daniel Lindo. And the first issue will hit comic shops . . . for a dollar. No. I am not joking. Dynamite Entertainment is giving us a new Flash Gordon series and its first issue is a dollar. $1.00. American. As for the story: The year is 1934, a time of two-fisted swashbuckling, of fearsome threats and wild adventure-and of ever-growing threats on the horizon. Three valiant humans -- Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov -- are plucked from the Earth, traveling to the distant planet Mongo. Their exploits are legendary, battling the machinations and terror schemes of the dreaded emperor Ming, the All-Seeing Ruler of Mongo. But they did not fight alone...
Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist # 1 written by Eric Trautmann with art by Daniel Lindo will hit stores in November for $1.00.
MUTANTS HAVE CHOSEN SIDES: X-MEN LINE UPS REVEALED AT LAST!
There have been teasers. They're has been solicitations. There has been a lot of build up for Schism and so far . . . it seems to be delivering. The split between mutantkind, particularly the X-Men, has been coming for a while and Marvel has been teasing us, cause we are fans just like you all, for a while now about the new line ups for the mutants that will stay with Cyclops in Utopia while showing the Mutants that will go along with Wolverine once Schism ends in October. It's been revealed with the split, the X titles will split . . . having X-Men and Uncanny X-Men stay with Cyclops while X-Men Legacy and the new Wolverine & the X-Men deal with Logan's mutants. It has been confirmed that most of the New Mutants and Generation Hope will side with Scott Summers; while on the other side with Wolverine is Uncanny X-Force and X-Factor; Honestly, both those titles seem naturally against Cyclops with Wolverine leading X-Force while X-Factor has had a long standing issue with Cyclops, Emma Frost and others since Civil War. With shadows here and there of members of both sides slowly being revealed for the past month. FINALLY, we get the scoop on the rosters for both sides.
As you can see, most of Generation Hope stays but Sebastian Shaw seemingly joins them.
Over in New Mutants, the team stands of: X-Man, Dani Moonstar, Cypher, Sunspot, Magma & Warlock.
Finally, the Cyclops's X-Men: Cyclops, Emma Frost, Coloss-naut (coined by a friend), Magik (who graduates up), Magneto, Danger, Storm, Domino, Psylocke, Jubilee & Warpath.
Suprised to see Psylocke, Jubliee and Warpath with Cyclops but you never know. And Scott's 'son' and 'granddaughter' side with him.
Over in Uncanny X-Force, we see AOA Nightcrawler coming in and am pretty sure it was his tail we saw in the Bachalo cover. Which is kinda awesome . . . having Kurt back without demeaning the original's sacrifice. And it seems Psylocke is doing double duty.
In X-Factor .. . that is a BIG roster. And I love it. But David has said he is gonna kill at least one member before Havok & Polaris come back to the fold and we will see everyone in #230. So, Havok, Polaris, Wolfsbane, Madrox, Strong Guy, Banshee, M, Layla Miller, Rictor, Shatterstar & Longshot will get together for the first and possibly last time. And bad enough that one of their members could very well be techinically dead . .. read X-Factor to know what I mean.
And finally, Wolverine's team of X-Men looks very strong: Wolverine, Beast, Rogue, Gambit, Iceman, Frenzy, Quetin Quire ( I know, I'm surprised too), Toad ( I think), Rachel Grey, Shadowcat (about time Rachel & Kitty were on the same team again), Lockheed and someone who I do NOT recognize in the background.
Cyclops team seems to be very much power while Wolverine's team seem to have a nice mix. The philosophical divide also divides the Summers family in half . . . cause while Nate Grey and Hope Summers stay with Cyclops, Alex Summers, Lorna Dane and Rachel Grey are going with Logan and Kitty. And I honestly believe that Kitty and Rogue may very well be helping Logan lead his side.
I guess we will find out come October & November, won't we? And that's the low down on X-Men Regenesis.
SUBMISSIONS, WE WANT THEM!!!
We are looking for people's opinions. We are looking for Your opinions for any and all of the books of the DC Comics Relaunch number #1s, the new Ultimate Spiderman, X-Men Regenesis and recent rise in indy books. We want your feed back. Just give us a paragraph to a page of your own views on any of theses and we will post them in up coming specials here at Comic Book Clash.
Plus, if you are looking to sell comics or want to promote your art and/or writing, feel free to email us and get posted. Email your submissions to francisco.k.rodriguez@gmail.com and we will give post your submissions on our specials or next news edition.
Thank you for interactiving with us here at CBC and J1 Studios.
CBC Head Frankie "Seraph" Rodriguez
J1 STUDIOS ARE LOOKING FOR ARTISTS
We here at J1 Studios are looking for artists to work on several comic book projects. We are looking for artists who have experience with comic book layout formats and can draw (obviously). For more information, give us an email at j1studios1@gmail.com or francisco.k.rodriguez@gmail.com.
And that is all for this week. See You All Next Week! Keep Clashing!!!
