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Rogue and Laura Kinney’s Wolverine team up for a Fastball Special on the variant cover for November’s X-Men #5 by superstar artist Jamie McKelvie.
An all-female version of the Fastball Special is on deck on artist Jamie McKelvie’s variant cover to X-Men #5.
CBR can exclusively reveal the X-Men #5 variant cover by superstar artist Jamie McKelvie, which gives Rogue and Wolverine (Laura Kinney) the spotlight. X-Men fans are familiar with the Fastball Special, a team-up maneuver perfected by Colossus and Wolverine where the former would throw/launch the latter at an opponent. In this scenario, Rogue uses her super-strength to toss Wolverine into the air with her Adamantium claws stretched out.
Writer Gerry Duggan and artist Pepe Larraz relaunched X-Men following the Hellfire Gala. The monumental crossover event included the election of a new X-Men team to serve as Krakoa’s official superheroes to the world at large. X-Men #5 will see artist Javier Pina join Duggan for a story that will finally reveal the new enemy lurking in the background of the series.
The X-Men franchise has been dealing with a lot of unexpected events over the last couple of months. The Hellfire Gala concluded with someone murdering Scarlet Witch, leading into The Trial of Magneto as the Master of Magnetism is the prime suspect. There is also the launch of Inferno, serving as Jonathan Hickman’s swansong on the X-Men franchise. The miniseries will wrap up dangling plot points from Hickman’s House of X and Powers of X.
“Oh, plans have changed entirely,” Hickman said regarding his initial X-Men plans. “When I pitched the X-Men story I wanted to do, I pitched a very big, very broad, three-act, three-event narrative, the first of which was House of X. And while this loosely worked as a three-year plan, I told Marvel upfront that I honestly had no idea how long the first part would last because there were a lot of interesting ideas that I had seeded that other creators would want to play with, and so, we left this rather open-ended. I was also pretty clear with all the writers that came into the office what the initial, three-act plan was so no one would be surprised when it was time for the line to pivot.”
He added, “However, I also knew that I was cooking with dynamite, and it was very possible that what I had written in House of X, and the ideas contained within, was not actually the first act of a three-act story, but something that resonated more deeply and worked more like Giant-Size X-Men, where it would represent a paradigm shift in the entire X-Men line for a prolonged period of time. So, during the pandemic, when the time came for me to start pointing things toward writing the second-act event, I asked everyone if they were ready for me to do that, and to a man, everyone wanted to stay in the first act. It was really interesting, because I appreciated that House of X resonated with them to the extent that they didn’t want it to end, but the reality was that I knew I would be leaving the line early.”
Written by Gerry Duggan and illustrated by Javier Pina, X-Men #5 goes on sale Nov. 17 from Marvel Comics.
X-MEN #5
- GERRY DUGGAN (W) • JAVIER PINA (A) • Cover by PEPE LARRAZ
- NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH VARIANT COVER BY MARIA WOLF
- STORMBREAKERS VARIANT COVER BY IBAN COELLO
- VARIANT COVER BY Jamie McKelvie
- ENTER: DOCTOR STASIS!
- The X-Men’s new nemesis finally makes himself known to them, bringing his creations to bear. Mutants may have conquered death, but their foes are all too living…
- 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Source: Marvel
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