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drsevarius (drsevarius) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-10 10:09:00

Entry tags:

char: dark beast/hank mccoy, char: mimic/calvin rankin, creator: paul cornell, creator: simone bianchi, publisher: marvel comics, title: dark x-men

Dark X-Men #1 cover

So, who do you think the two silhouettes are?

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	thosefew 2009-08-10 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	It's the new hero ManwithMancomingoutofhisheadMan. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	geoffsebesta 2009-08-11 04:53 am UTC (link)
	I love that guy! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	13thcell 2009-08-10 02:58 pm UTC (link)
	Is that the final cover, or are they just hiding someone until the comic is out? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-08-10 03:13 pm UTC (link)
	I assume it's the latter. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-08-10 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	Those aren't silhouettes. Its two light-based characters! (Reply to this)

	tacobob 2009-08-10 03:08 pm UTC (link)
	I'm guessing..Black Lantern Bea Arthur and Brian Boitano..So, what do I win? (Reply to this)

	sir_razorback 2009-08-10 03:14 pm UTC (link)
	I'd say Emma and Daken, but I like Tacobob's guesses better. (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-08-10 03:29 pm UTC (link)
	That almost looks like a hood on the front female figure, Rogue? (Reply to this)

	mrmojorisin1135 2009-08-10 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	Are the supposed to be new members of the team? Cause if not I'm going to say that is Emma Frost and Weapon Omega (Reply to this)

	liarashadowsong 2009-08-10 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know, but the one in front is definitely female, and seems to either have fluffy short-ish hair or be wearing a hood of some sort. Could be Emma if her hair is blowing in a non-existent wind, though. I have no idea who the guy in back could be. (Reply to this)

	ulf_boehnke 2009-08-10 04:57 pm UTC (link)
	The Living Laser and The Living Lightning! (Reply to this)

	kenn_el 2009-08-10 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	Light-based characters Northstar and Aurora? Of course, the text would have to point out 'CRAZY' and 'GAY' if it were them. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-08-10 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	I think the characters are just blanked out because it would be a spoiler for the Utopia storyline. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kenn_el 2009-08-10 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I know. I'm just bitter that Northstar was finally getting a gig, and he's been used for, like, a panel or two since. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	beastman12010 2009-08-10 05:42 pm UTC (link)
	yawn Someone wake me up when this whole "look at us, we're darkity dark dark dark, grim and gritty villains always win because that's more realistic" thing is over. It was dull in the 90s, now... they can market it as a cure for insomnia. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	darkknightjrk 2009-08-10 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah--some of the guys there at Marvel can do gritty pretty well, like Brubaker's Cap and Bendis when he's doing crime stories, but Dark Reign's definately not an example of "good grit." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	punishermax 2009-08-11 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah because the villains sure are kicking ass in Marvel ! It's not like The Punisher is killing villains left and right in his series, Nick Fury is destroying Hydra, The Dark Avengers are falling apart, Emma is clearly going to double cross Norman, The Thunderbolts are being taken down from within and Norman himself is going crzy under the strain ! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	comicoz 2009-08-10 05:56 pm UTC (link)
	Why is this tagged with Mimic? As someone only vaguely aware of the X-Men, am I to take it as that's not Angel's uniform and that's not him? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-08-10 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	Yes. Mimic is the member of the Dark X-Men, not Angel. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	comicoz 2009-08-10 05:59 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks. I'm not up on my X-wardrobes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kusonaga 2009-08-11 08:44 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, the only way I recognised it as Mimic is because of the big honking M on his uniform. Bianchi could've made that clearer. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-08-11 11:51 am UTC (link)
	Maybe the public is supposed to think he's Angel, like how they think Dark Beast is Beast. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	comicoz 2009-08-12 12:02 am UTC (link)
	Going to assume that was sarcasm. I honestly have no idea what the normal costumes for them are, since they all seem to change constantly. Closest I've been to an X-book is Cable and Messiah war, and in there, Angel is blue and purple... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kusonaga 2009-08-12 07:19 am UTC (link)
	No sarcasm at all. My first thought was 'what's Angel doing on the Dark X-Men?' as well. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	long_silence 2009-08-10 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	Based on the X-men panel, I think one of them might be Nate Grey. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	wtfomfg2 2009-08-10 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think so. SPOILERS Nate's supposed to be the antagonist in this book. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	long_silence 2009-08-10 06:51 pm UTC (link)
	Ohh. Makes sense. Putting him on the same team as Dark Beast would probably lead to trouble. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sir_razorback 2009-08-10 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	Nate Grey... X-Man Nate Grey, the Summers Sprog that disapperated or something in the 90's? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlbarnett 2009-08-10 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	he's back? Cool SOmeone mentioned a hood on one of the characters. Didn't Maddie occasionally wear a hood in X-man? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	novoadonai 2009-08-10 09:09 pm UTC (link)
	are you serious? be still my beating heart. i'm one of the probably five people who really loved that character (bad writing notwithstanding). now i'm torn between being really excited that he'll be back and being completely terrified of how much they can possibly fudge him up this time around. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

wtfomfg2
2009-08-10 09:53 pm UTC (link)

Yep he's back.
SPOILERS once again, courtesy of Comic Book Resources.

"There was one “Dark X-Men” character that Cornell could talk about in some detail though. He's not a team member, he's a target. His name is Nate Grey AKA X-Man. The son of an alternate reality's Jean Grey and Cyclops, Grey first appeared in the 90's X-Men storyline “The Age of Apocalypse.” At the close of that storyline he found himself in the mainstream Marvel Universe where he put his vast mutant powers to work as a hero. During one of those exploits it looked like Nate sacrificed his life to save the world from alien invasion and “Dark X-Men” marks his return to the Marvel Universe.

“He's near omnipotent, the mutant shaman, and he's terrifying to my cast of characters,” Cornell said. “That’s because he's exactly what they don't want in play right now: a very powerful, charismatic, alternative leader of mutant affairs. And a Summers, to boot. X-Man is dreaming his way back into the world, the deadliest possible hero.”

You can read the rest of the article at http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22476

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	novoadonai 2009-08-10 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	tries not* to do little happy dance* fails random dude, now i have a craving for Nate Grey icons. i lost my huge collection in the Great Personal Computer Crash of 2008 that not only ruined my PC, but took half my external drives with it. It was freaking epic. sigh (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ian_karkull 2009-08-11 02:51 am UTC (link)
	Oh man, Nate Grey. I used to love that guy when I was a kid, which, in retrospect is probably something you shouldn't admit to, but there you go. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darkknightjrk 2009-08-10 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	So Hank's part of the Dark X-Men? Why? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	halloweenjack 2009-08-10 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe it's that Age of Apocalypse Beast? Jeez, I dunno. Count me in with the bored. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	long_silence 2009-08-10 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	Yep it's Dark Beast. Notice how he's not a cat. And that's the costume Dark Beast has been wearing during Utopia. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sir_mikael 2009-08-10 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	Oh Hank... If you wanna wear funky goggles, that's fine. But why did you have to give up the metal pants for an orange/white costume? :( I miss them pants. Still yay Dark Beast! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-08-10 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	Thought we already had the Dark X-men. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	long_silence 2009-08-11 12:32 am UTC (link)
	This is a miniseries starting in November, set after the current Utopia Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-men crossover. Apparently they're cutting down to 4 team members operating under Osborn's control, and Nate Grey as the antagonist. And the creative team is Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	likeaminx 2009-08-11 01:36 am UTC (link)
	Why did they put Daken in a silhouette? I thought he was confirmed for this book anyway. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	long_silence 2009-08-11 05:08 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure he is. Neither of the silhouettes really look like Wolverine's horned mask or Daken's mohawk. I haven't heard that he was confirmed for the team post Utopia. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	likeaminx 2009-08-11 05:11 am UTC (link)
	Really? I could have sworn someone said he was going to be in it. ~~Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part~~ (Reply to this) (Parent)

stranger_dan
2009-08-11 06:50 am UTC (link)

I am incredibly behind on comics but I stumbled across the Wikipedia entry for the Dark X-Men a week ago which is where I first heard of it and it had the full roster and citations to back it up and a group drawing that has nobody censored out. So why are they acting like it is a mystery? Or is this implying that there are more characters than Emma Frost, Daken, Cloak and Dagger, Namor, Mystique disguised as Xavier, and Michael Pointer missing from that cover?

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	xdoop 2009-08-11 11:53 am UTC (link)
	That image was for the Utopia storyline, this image takes place afterwards. I'm guessing there's a change in the lineup. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kaileighblue 2009-08-12 04:57 pm UTC (link)
	Selene and somehow Ultimate Kurt was saved from being Dead, transported to 616 and brainwashed. What? I have no idea what's going on. (Reply to this)