Now that you’ve all read our review of the post-Age of X world (you guys did read that review, right?), we’re please to share a bit of news making it’s rounds across the interwebs: fan favorite characters Havok, Polaris, and Marvel Girl – all of whom were last seen in space – are coming back into the X-Books in the pages of Mike Carey’s X-Men Legacy. The latest issue revealed (spoiler) that the reason Rachel Summers/Marvel Girl existed in the Age of X universe as Revenant was because she had telepathically tried to reach Cyclops to ask for help with “something” just as the universe changed, and Legion pulled her psychic projection into reality. Those of you that did read the review will remember that I noted X-Men Legacy tended to be a directionless title, moving from story to story. With Age of X over and all the post-traumatic stress disorders being dealt with in the current arc, I’d say that X-Men Legacy #248 definitively gave the book a direction, no?
We actually knew about this for a bit, and hopefully you guys listened to the Spoiler Alert where we chatted with Mike and he told us that he had been reading DnA’s cosmic space opera, which Josh Mocle interpretted vocally as confirmation that certain characters would be joining the X-Books. As if X-Men Legacy #248 wasn’t indication enough, we now have the cover to X-Men Legacy #254, showing beyond a shadow of a doubt that Rogue and Magneto are going to space to find some friends.
It’s at this point that we should note now would be the time to go and read DnA’s space books, if you haven’t already. Carey definitely read them and is using that as the beginning of what he’s going off for the character’s return, so why don’t you? It’s great. We promise.
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