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Personal Favorite Covers from the Immortal X-Men Series

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Immortal X-Men #1 by Mark Brooks

Immortal X-Men #1 by Oscar Vega

Immortal X-Men #2 by Kaare Kyle Andrews (Spider-Verse Variant)

Immortal X-Men #11 by Miguel Mercado

Immortal X-Men #11 by Taurin Clarke (Spider-Verse Variant)

Immortal X-Men #13 by Mark Brooks

Immortal X-Men #15 by Joshua Swaby

Immortal X-Men #16 by Mark Brooks

Immortal X-Men #17 by Mark Brooks

Immortal X-Men #17 by Pepe Larraz (60th Anniversary Homage)

Rise of the Powers of X #1 by Davi Go

Fall of the House of X #2 by Ben Harvey

Fall of the House of X #2 by Pepe Larraz

Fall of the House of X #4 by Mahmud Asrar

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Wolverine #37 (2023) - Nakayama Gala variant

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Exceptional X-Men #1 (2024) Marvel Comics

Variant Cover Artist: Scott Koblish

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Chuck is needlessly shitty to Franklin Richards

Cerebros before hoes, or something.

In Dan Slott's Fantastic Four run, 'twas decided that long time mutant, Franklin Richards, was not a mutant, actually.

Charles Xavier contacts him telepathically to drop this bombshell, has a suspiciously well-informed explanation, then bans him from Krakoa where all his friends are. He nopes out and that's that. Look how miserable he is, I hate it. I'm not sure why universally powerful people keep walking around in mutant-face, but I do know the X-Office had no part in this decision.

Like The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver before him, Franklin is editorially unrelated to the X-Men. The Maximoffs were moved from the X-Office to the Avengers, but Franklin has always been part of the Fantastic Four. Kinda makes it difficult to include him in mutant stories, and for the most part he hasn't been. A future version of him married Rachel (which shows how slowly he's aged) and he was heavily involved with Onslaught, but everyone was.

What little we saw of him on Krakoa during FF v X-Men looked really cool to me, and I would have enjoyed more of a prominent mutant who has such deep ties to the human world while also experiencing puberty. Franklin had been isolated not just from mutant stories but mutant culture as well. He would have been a bridge between Krakoa and one of Earth's premier super teams.

From a Watsonian perspective, I headcanon that Charles did this at Reed's request. While he doesn't need a reason to act like a heartless bastard to a child, he's still a politician here - one who alienated Reed Richards (though he wasn't sympathetic in the first place) and should be trying to mend fences. Given Reed and Sue's NIMBY attitude about Franklin's mutant status, I could absolutely see them wanting to cut him off from that part of his life. Chuck would see it as a small price to pay for goodwill. Maybe Reed whispered 'thanks, Illuminati bro. Let's never fight again' to Charles at the first Hellfire Gala.

Or not, the FF had zero involvement in Krakoan affairs until after it fell, and even then they didn't give a shit. My favourite shiny girl Rasputin IV showed up one day and started beating them down, but that eventually got smoothed over. Still, they all grumbled about the X-Men (who'd just been genocided again) after they left. Boy, the Fantastic Four kinda suck, don't they? Maybe Chuck does too, and this is just as it seems.

Oh wait, Reed did show up once in Uncanny X-Men #700 - he helped build the super jail to keep Chuck's brain locked down. Joke's on him though; Chuck hacked his brain years ago so he'd leave a back door. Turns out all they needed was a crusty guy named 'Scurvy' to achieve that. I wonder why he's called that? Get this man some vitamin C!

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2019's Powers of X Vol.1 #1 new character variant cover by artist Dustin Weaver.

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Kamala having to keep her girlfriends from biting someone's head off. Girl has a type.

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Patreon pieces for the month of October!

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Rasputin IV by Jake Bartok

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Rise of the Powers of X #3 - "The Ex Life of Moira" (2024)

written by Kieron Gillen art by R.B. Silva & David Curiel

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From X-Men: Forever #001, “A Ghost”

Art by Luca Maresca and Federico Blee

Written by Kieron Gillen

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We do daily fanart on Twitch! Today's fan art is Rasputin IV from the X-Men!

You can help me make more comics at http://patreon.com/shadowsofoblivion

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X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 #1

X-Men #27 (vol. 6, 2023)

Wolverine #38 (vol. 7, 2023)

Jean Grey #1 (vol. 2, 2023)

X-Men #25 (vol. 6, 2023)

David Nakayama Hellfire Gala (2023) Magazine Variant Covers

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+bonus under the cut

Silk #1 (vol. 5, 2023)

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X-Men #35 (2024) - Trading Card Variant by Russell Dauterman

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Jake Bartok

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Adwin Caban, Magik(s), Hellfire Gala

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Powers of X #1 / Published: July 2019 / Artist: R.B. Silva