NYCC: My highlights from The Amazing X-Men Panel

The main announcements of the Amazing X-Men panel for me was the answer to the teasers Trial and Judgement which contained the creative teams of both All-New X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy. The great news is Sara Pichelli will be on another arc of the Guardians and also Immonen will continue on the X-Men, so if there is one thing for sure this is going to be one stunning looking comic. The other interesting twist to this is that these two teams will be teaming up to rescue Jean Grey who has been taken prisoner and transported off of Earth for trial. I originally thought that the trial would be made by the Guardians, but true to the rules of the Guardians they do not like it when cosmic forces meddle with Earth and take it upon themselves to team up with the X-Men on this rescue mission. This story begins in January and I for one can not wait to get my hands on it. 

                                          

Other announcements included the return of X-Factor in All-New Marvel NOW! with All-New X-Factor. Having never read X-Factor I'm not to invested in this title but I am aware that Peter David has a huge following, the team list and idea behind the comic sounds interesting, Polaris, Quicksilver and Gambit being the characters confirmed so far. So this announcement will surely keep the X-Factor fans pleased to see the team reforming in some way.

                                            

Amazing X-Men will see the team of Jason Aaron and Ed McGuiness on this for the long run according to editor Nick Lowe which is good to hear, I really regret not reading Wolverine and the X-Men having only collected the first few issues but I look forward to finally reading an Aaron X-Book with the brilliant art from Ed McGuinness who most recently drew the fabulous first arc of Nova with Jeph Loeb.

The other small items of note, X-23 will be joining All-New X-Men. The original X-Men will be staying in the current Marvel U, which leaves me wondering what the fallout of Battle of the Atom will actually end up being I always assumed it would involve the team returning to there time. Big things have been teased for the end of Paul Cornell's current Wolverine Killable arc. Uncanny X-Men's Inhumanity tie-in issue will introduce a new character which will apparently have fans throwing things at Brian Michael Bendis. The X-Force books will finally get there inevitable crossover in the new year, having dropped these two from my list this crossover does leave me interested in seeing what's involved especially as the two titles are written by very promising writers in Dennis Hopeless and Sam Humphries. Finally Charles Soule will be adding a character to the roster of the Thunderbolts in the form of Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider another title I don't currently read but with Soule on huge title and this announcement marking his first big change to the team since taking over it may be worth picking up.