The X-Axis – w/c 24 March 2025
X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #15. By Alex Paknadel, Phillip Sevy, Michael Bartolo & Clayton Cowles. For the most part I’ve liked Paknadel and Sevy’s Infinity Comics stories, but this arc feels like it’s going back over the same territory as their previous arc. I can kind of see the appeal right now of having Americans cast the mutants returning from Krakoa as immigrants – yes, it undercuts X-Men #35 for there to be that many of them, but okay, we’ll run with it for the purposes of the current stories. This sort of believable grassroots bigotry was the subject of the first arc and worked pretty well there. But it feels like we’re just repeating that idea rather than developing the theme here.
X-MANHUNT OMEGA. (Annotations here.) Well, that’s two crossovers under the current editorial office, and neither of them has exactly been great. They’re not catastrophic or anything, but at best they feel like a distraction that doesn’t play to the books’ strengths. Part of that is simply that the post-Krakoa X-books have opted to avoid a unifying theme in favour of going for a diaspora with a wide range of approaches, and that results in a bunch of comics that don’t particularly want to be yoked together into a single plot. Part of it’s just an inherent feature of old-school crossovers – Marvel do them because they move the needle, not because they make the books better.
But… as a story, this doesn’t really work. The inciting event for the whole thing is Professor X – who was adamant about staying in jail back in January, not that I’m losing much sleep about that particular storyline being cut short – learning that Xandra is in danger and deciding to break out of jail and help her. But the rest of the story has nothing much to do with that – it involves him resurrecting Lilandra, sorting out that tumour we only just learned about in January, and bidding farewell to the X-Men so that he can depart for a new life in space. It’s absurdly early to resolve the tumour plot, which I can only assume is a deck-clearing favour for Jonathan Hickman. But even aside from that, the emotional core of this story is meant to lie in Cyclops’ anger at the Professor, and the Professor bidding a final farewell to the mutants. Neither of these lands. Cyclops’ attitude to Xavier post-Krakoa has always seemed forced to me, and while I can kind-of-sort-of rationalise it to myself, I don’t really understand it, and I don’t believe it for a second.
As for Xavier’s farewell, the idea that he’s saying goodbye to Earth instead of going to help his daughter comes out of nowhere. It doesn’t feel final because we’ve seen him head off to live with the Shi’ar before, there’s no obvious reason why this is any different, and we know he’s not even being written out of stories. After all, the Xandra plot was never resolved and we’re directly told to go and read about him in the cosmic books in the weeks to come. So we wind up with a bunch of characters standing around loudly insisting that this is very emotional when it… well, it just isn’t.
UNCANNY X-MEN #12. (Annotations here.) This is much more like it, though. It’s a simple little story about Gambit standing up to the Vig, a New Orleans enforcer that he’s been notionally in debt to since he was a child. The story gives him an out by saying that the Vig engineered the original debt, but the heart of it is really about Gambit standing up to someone who once seemed impossibly out of his league. Given that the story requires him to lose in his first issue, the Vig is set up rather well as a scary reptile guy with a southern gentleman persona, and Gavin Guidry’s art really gets the guy’s relaxed self-confidence across. His young Remy is acute as well. A simple and straightforward issue but a definite success.
LAURA KINNEY: WOLVERINE #4. (Annotations here.) I’m puzzled by what this book is trying to do. In some ways this is a perfectly decent team-up story, with Laura and Bucky going on a road trip to hunt down a Nazi scientist. The random encounter with anti-mutant bigots in a gas station is maybe pushed a bit too heavily – it goes from zero to 100 at confusing speed – but the issue looks nice, the skull-and-tentacle robots in the form of the HYDRA logo are endearingly wacky, and the two leads have a decent rapport.
As for the bigger picture, though… We’ve had Elektra and Bucky as guest stars, so the unifying theme seems to be that these are also characters who became conflicted mostly-heroes after escaping a life as a living weapon. But that’s practically a cliché these days. It’s not just Laura, Elektra and Bucky who can claim that back story, there’s Logan and Kwannon too. Drawing attention to the fact that it’s such an overused trope seems a dubious call unless the stories are going to bring out what makes Laura different from those other characters, and right now the book doesn’t seem to be doing that. If anything, Psylocke is covering very similar territory more effectively.
ROGUE: SAVAGE LAND #3. By Tim Seeley, Zulema Scotto Lavina, Rachelle Rosenberg & Ariana Maher. Well, this is mixed. Some of the material with Rogue and Ka-Zar is quite good fun, with Magneto sulking on the sidelines. The actual A-plot with Zaladane and Savage Land alliances and such forth is rather more forgettable, though, and there’s some seriously wonky storytelling where the characters have to stand around telling us that a great big tower has collapsed because the art never showed it. Still, it’s fine overall, if entirely skippable.
WEAPON X-MEN #2. By Joe Casey, ChrisCross, Mark Morales & Yen Nitro. After being solicited as an ongoing for its first four months, the June solicits have this as a five-issue miniseries – which is how it’s always been listed on Amazon. I’m afraid it’s another mystifying commission – rather less wacky and OTT than I’d been thinking it might be, and simply a fairly straight team-up story in the mould of an X-Force book, aside from the gags that come with any Deadpool story. It looks nice enough, it’s a perfectly functional story, but it just feels like more of the same. It may not be anything to do with Joe Casey, but it feels awfully telling that the recap page wants me to believe that Wolverine, Deadpool, Cable and Chamber are “unlikely allies”. Wolverine and Deadpool have a monthly team-up title right now? Cable and Deadpool, who had a team-up book that ran for years? Three characters who’ve all been in the X-Men and another who’s been in X-Force? You can’t sell this book on the idea that it’s an unlikely combination of characters, but there doesn’t seem to be any other sort of hook.
WOLVERINE: REVENGE #5. By Jonathan Hickman, Greg Capullo, Tim Townsend, Alex Sinclair and Cory Petit. So this miniseries feels much more Capullo than Hickman, but it’s no bad thing to see Hickman just write a fun romp that lets the art do its thing. I was a bit sceptical about going down the post-apocalyptic route, but it works out quite well. By the end of the series, it really is post-apocalyptic – the survivors seem to be living happily enough and getting back on their feet, which lets the story play up the idea that Wolverine just won’t let things go. There’s nothing earth-shatteringly new about the idea that an obsession with revenge rebounds on people, but having Wolverine retain his obsession even as the world moves on actually gives the story a reason to go so big in the first act, and lets the story narrow in on the character as it gets to the end. This has turned out much better than I was expecting.
Wade seems to elude to his and Logan’s encounter with Stryfe- that seems to suggest that the first arc in Deadpool/ Wolverine takes place before Weapon X-Men.
Note that Weapon X-Men has Cable note that Cyclops stashed several Blackbirds across the globe in case the X-Men ever need them- this seems to be an attempt to explain where Kurt got the Blackbird in Ahmed’s Wolverine from.
One of the main purposes of Weapon X-Men is to revamp Strucker. Apparently in the next issue Strucker’s mind will get trapped in one of the Wolverines of Mass Destruction and Strucker will call himself Weapon Exile.
This is an extremely stupid idea. For starters, the Wolverines of Mass Destruction are no different than Orchis’s Wolverine Sentinels, despite how Casey tries to justify it. (As I understand it, Casey submitted this idea before he knew about the Orchis Wolverine Sentinels but he should have abandoned it after he found out about them.) I know that Strucker is often overshadowed in fans’ minds by the Red Skull and Baron Zemo but I can’t see how anyone thought turning him into a robot Wolverine would be a good idea.
On Casey’s blog. he self-congratulates himself for creating Zodiac during Dark Reign and predicts that Strucker’s revamp will also stand the test of time. But Zodiac IS a Z-list villain.He only had a handful of appearances before MacKay’s run. Other villains introduced in the late 2000s and early 2010s like Janice Lincoln and Mr. Negative became significant players in the Marvel Universe. It’s to MacKay’s credit that he was able to make Zodiac a major threat to Moon Knight.And Weapon Exile probably won’t be any better.
Karma and Sunfire both appear in Doom’s Division 1 this week. Sunfire is leading the resistance against Doom and Karma is … supporting Doom for some reason?
Bleeding Cool released its Bestseller List this week and it’s not good news for the X-titles. Of the non-Ultimate X-titles, only Uncanny X-Men 12 made the top 10. and it came in eighth. It was a busy week but that’s just embarrassing. Most of them got beaten by Ryan North’s Fantastic Four (which was admittedly, a One World Under Doom crossover). Yes. X-Manhunt Omega was expensive but it was the finale of a big crossover- it should have done better. And Weapon X-Men seems like a disappointment- the confusion about whether it was an ongoing or a limited series didn’t help it.
Michael – I don’t see how it’s embarrassing, given the glut of books this week (Absolutes, Ultimates and Jim Lee back on Batman). It’s not , but if sales stay like this, there’s hopefully a re-set coming, which can only be a good thing.
I’m a little disappointed at the news that Weapon X-Men has become/always was a limited series. Not because we need more Wolverine and/Deadpool, but because it’s the only book with Cable in the present.
Maybe we’ll get a new X-Force. Bishop is also presently unemployed, Forge and Sage are about to be, and there are loads more X-Force alums and candidates available (maybe a former villain trying to go straight-but-not-too-straight after Krakoa?).
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In other news. Bleeding Cool releases spoilers for X-Men 19-22. First Doug Ramsey tries to carry out the “great work” of creating a new world. Then the X-Men all gather to commemorate the first anniversary of the massacre at the Hellfire Gala.
Note that the members of 3K all talked about the “great work” and a new world in the bonus page in X-Men 1. And X-Men 18 features the revelation of the members of 3K. So it looks like Doug is the leader of 3K. He’s probably the “chairman” we saw in the bonus page. That makes sense- in the previews for X-Men 16-17, we see that 3K have their own X-Men. That’s probably Doug perverting the idea of the X-Men.
This explains why they made such a big deal out of turning Doug into Revelation and then did nothing with him for months.
@Michael: The work is mysterious and important.
If they’d entirely forgotten about the character assassination of Doug Ramsey by turning him into Apocalypse Lite, I’d have easily forgiven whatever handwaving was necessary. I’m not looking forward to whatever they do next.
The Rogue mini is both weird and awkward. Though having her basically solicit Ka-Zar for intimacy while her powers are gone is … understandable. She’s young, hot, and presumably frustrated, he’s walking beefcake in a loincloth, why wouldn’t she want some of that? At least she’s not hitting on Magneto yet.
My theory is Karma is working for Doom because he’s holding her siblings in protective custody. That is, after all, one of her major personality traits.
Strucker in a Wolverine sentinel = Nazi Ultron
Also, Laura could be learning lessons from similarly themed mutant characters, but one of the goals of From the Ashes seems to be crossing mutants over into the wider Marvel universe. So Elektra and the Revolution are mentoring her instead. Sounds like a Prince cover band, but you know what I mean.
Breevort answers some questions on his blog:
KENNY ARENA: The book has an A-List X line-up but 11 issues in and the stories are still focused on and revolving around the kids. (Except for the X-Manhunt tie-in which was my favorite issue so far because it was focused on the actual X-Men I’m reading the book for.) I was hoping after two/three issues the kids would move over to Exceptional (where I feel the “New Mutants” thing is working great) and let Uncanny rock with Rogue, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Jubilee & Wolverine. But it’s not looking like that is happening. I’m getting the feeling that I did years ago with the Inhumans. They were in the spotlight for a bit but for some reason the stories started focusing on new and young Inhumans instead of the awesome first family and not only did I lose interest, everyone else did. And they went away and haven’t had a book since. It’s a little dramatic but my point is that you have a top tier line-up and it’s being completely wasted.
TOM: I very much do not draw any line between the more established old school X-Men characters and the new young Outliers whom we’ve brought in. They are all equal members of the cast, and they’re all X-Men. In my mind, the closest equivalent in terms of X-Men history is that period when Storm and Wolverine were joined by four newbies: Psylocke, Dazzler, Longshot and Havok. That’s kind of what we’re doing here. And nobody especially complained that those guys were getting too much attention in those books, even though readers may have lamented losing Colossus or Nightcrawler or Kitty or whomever.
NAJEE: My outside understanding is that every ongoing series gets 10 issues ordered at the outset and then get more depending on how the book performs. That seems low (to me). Any chance it can go up to 12-15? Around what issue is the decision made to continue/cancel? What variables outside of the incomplete sales data we receive affect the decision?
TOM: Your understanding here is, I’m afraid, flawed. An ongoing series gets a commitment to an open-ended commitment, but that commitment is paired with a need to maintain a certain degree of profitability, and to contribute to Marvel’s overall bottom line. Even books that are theoretically approved for ten issues can end earlier if sales are poor enough, and titles that do well can run unendingly.
ANDREW ALBRECHT: A crossover between two books is pretty easy to follow! I’d prefer if you could space the crossovers out a bit further
TOM: Honestly, Andrew, i would have liked to have had more space between “Raid on Graymalkin” and X-MANHUNT as well, but there was a story reason why X-MANHUNT needed to happen when it happened. And then, as sometimes also happens, that story need changed, but only after we were committed to doing X-MANHUNT when it was.
DUCC: The one series I was actually looking forward to reading was Weapon X-Men, because it had one of my favorite writers writing it. But now I am hearing the news that Weapon X-Men was silently canceled and turned into a 5 issue miniseries even after you told me that it was an ongoing.
TOM: Like I just told Najee above, sometimes a book is slated to be an ongoing but the support in the marketplace simply isn’t there to allow for that. That was the case with WEAPON X-MEN.
I think Breevort’s comparison of the Outliers with Havok Dazzler, Psylocke and Longshot is comparing apples to oranges. In the case of the post Mutant Massacre X-Men, Marvel promoted the book as featuring Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, Havok, Dazzler, Psylcoke and Longsoht and all of those characters played a major role. Kitty, Kurt and Peter were written out temporarily but only temporarily. In the case of Uncanny, the complaint is that Gambit, Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Jubilee do nothing and the story focuses on the Outliers. A lot of readers complain that Gambit, Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Jubilee are just there to draw readers in. Now the last issue focused on Gambit, so that might be entirely fair, but I understand where the complaint is coming from.
Interesting answer about X-Manhunt. I wonder what happened.
It’s disappointing to see confirmation that Weapon X-Men is cancelled. Maybe if they would have been more clear that it was an ongoing and not a limited series from the start, it would have actually been an ongoing.
It’s interesting the information Breevort mentions about Marvel history on his blog.
It was Shooter that requested that the Savage Land be destroyed and it was probably Shooter that requested that the vampires be destroyed because he found them unbelievable in a science-based universe.
It’s so weird what happened with Nova’s second series in the ’90’s. The writer left in issue 16, a new storyline with a new writer where Rich loses his powers was supposed to start in issue 17, but then Breevort found out that the series was being cancelled in issue 18 and he had to go forward with Rich losing his powers because he had already promoted it to the retailers. So he had the New Warriors writer write the last two issues where Rich lost his powers so that they would lead into New Warrios. And at the end of this mess Rich STILL didn’t get his powers back for another year.
Kitty and Kurt were written out of the series until the late-1990s, which was quite a stretch of time.
Piotr did return briefly, went through the Siege Perilous, became an artist, then went insane and joined the Acolytes, or whatever.
The difference would be that the characters Brevoort mentioned were all established characters. Havok had been around since the 1960s, in one form or another. Dazzler had an ongoing series before joining the X-Men. Longshot was introduced in Nocenti’s mini-series. Psylocke was imported from the Captain Britain series, where she had very briefly taken up the role of CB.
The Outliers would be closer to if after Phalanx Covenant, instead of creating the Generation X series, Marvel had thrown those new characters into the Uncanny X-Men series and focused more on them than the established X-Men characters.
I think the most appropriate example is after OZT when Maggot Marrow and Celia were half the team all brand new characters and Joseph as well but he was not exactly new.
Chris V- I meant that Kitty and Kurt went on to Excalibur so they moved on to another ongoing series within less than two years.
Yeah, that comment struck me as odd, too, for the reasons that Chris V. mentions. Teen mutants don’t just join the X-Men as soon as they show up, especially if they’re completely unknown to the team previously. Kitty/Kate is probably the main exception, but over in her book she’s currently lamenting how quickly she was thrust into the fight.
If anything, the Uncanny situation reads much more like the time when Karate Kid, Princess Projectra, Iron Lad, and Nemesis Kid joined the Legion of Super-Heroes. And one of them was a traitor, so…maybe be careful who you let in?
Legion deserved it for not immediately being suspicious of someone calling himself “Nemesis Kid”. Might as well have called himself “Bad Guy Lad.”
The post-Mutant Massacre era didn’t feature Kurt, Kitty, and Piotr just hanging around while the newer characters got the spotlight. The older characters in the current Uncanny X-Men series have fans who want to see them act, interact, and go through story arcs. The book would probably be better if the only established regulars were Rogue and Gambit. Let Nightcrawler and Jubilee do something else, maybe with other underutilized mutants.
Agreed re: Brevoort, and generally disappointed in the reasoning.
New Mutants and Generation X establish a pretty extensive history of potential X-Men trainees who stray off the path to either do their own thing or enter the main team across different moments in time, and often leaving it again.
I understand the Cecilia Reyes/Maggot/Marrow comparison, but there I felt there was more of an awkward balance. It wasn’t the school setting: it was an empty mansion, Storm retrieving hidden goods, Scott and Jean leaving, everyone feeling a bit lost and out of sorts…
And an adult skeptic, a teenage terrorist, and a Cronenberg-designed newbie to make the frictions all the merrier.
I’ve always enjoyed that odd bit of X-Men history.
But even that was appealing to a new/different/more uncomfortable dynamic (see: Jean walking with all three throughout Westchester on the day the Heroes Reborn bucn return back to earth).
I’m not opposed to any of this (i.e., in terms of taking time to shift focus between different characters, or the established characters and the new kids).
But I do think 1) it requires the title to last 20-30 issues, at least, to pull off a just-formed ensemble cast (and Brevoort is making no such garantees) and 2) it reads at odds with Exceptional X-Men, where the new kids are very much being subject to training – albeit in the complete absence of an actual school.
@Michael
“Interesting answer about X-Manhunt. I wonder what happened.”
I believe Marvel has a new Hickman led marvel-cosmic event call ‘Imperial’. I get the impression having Lilandra and Prof X in space in time for ‘Imperial’ changed the timeline and plot points of X-Manhunt.
So continuity within Marvel required changes and edits to X-Manhunt. At least that’s story, as best I understand from the various articles.
Brevoort seems to be saying that he wouldn’t have had “X-Manhunt” so close to “Raid on Graymalkin”, but it was thought to be necessary in order to set up another story. By the time that other story slipped, they were already committed to doing X-Manhunt in March.
Presumably he means IMPERIAL. If so, since the first issue of that book is due out in June, “X-Manhunt” couldn’t have been pushed any further back than May – though that would still have stopped it interfering with the penultimate issues of three titles.
Gail Simone and Murewa Ayodele discussed X-Manhunt Omega on AIPT today:
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/31/x-men-monday-simone-ayodele-x-manhunt/
Some interesting tidbits:
Ayodele can’t stop congratulating himself on the ending to X-Manhunt Omega.
Ayodele says that some interesting stories are coming in the months ahead- “some Limbo politics, a massive ice dragon, a war of thunder gods, one of my favorite X-Men right now crying their hearts out in the snowy wilderness”. Limbo politics is clearly the Maddie story starting in Magik 6. “War of thunder gods” is clearly the upcoming Storm story. But what are the ice dragon and the X-Man crying in the snowy wilderness? Could the X-Man crying in the snowy wilderness be Illyana crying over how evil Doug has become?
The schism between Scott and Rogue is over. Which is good, since I don’t think anyone understands why they were at odds in the first place.
Lilandra WAS brought back because of Imperial.
Jed MacKay was consulted on the Cyclops sequences in Omega.
Simone says that Rogue was supposed to be more wrong than Scott on the subject of Xavier staying in prison. Xavier originally surrendered and Scott felt it would cost lives if he escaped.
The “build another school” comment WAS meant to hint that there are plans in the X-Office for another school.
Ayodele’s approach to sound effects “omes from webcomics, anime, Manhwa, and classic fighting video games”. Someone should tell him it’s not working.
We see a preview that reveals that there’s a “Dark Artery” on the grounds of Haven and Marcus and Alice have known about it all along and hope the kids are safe. I suppose it makes sense that there’s more to Marcus and Alice than they seemed- Remy did say he learned of them from Tantie Mattie.
The idea that Scott had a legitimate point when he wanted Xavier returned to Graymalkin is just idiotic. We’ve been shown that Graymalkin tortures its prisoners. Plus, when Blob was placed in the custody of Warden Ellis, she proceeded to coerce him into kidnapping Jubilee, who had done nothing wrong.
The idea of turning Xavier over to some prison would make sense but Scott turning one of the most powerful telepaths on the planet to a warden who coerced another prisoner into kdinapping one of his friends just makes Scott look like a suicidal idiot.
If you wanted Scott to try to return Xavier to prison, then you would expect the writers to make Warden Ellis morally grey. Alternately, if you felt that portraying a warden imprisoning minorities as morally grey was out of the question considering the current political situation, then you would have Scott opposing Xavier’s return.
If you wanted to do a storyline with both an evil Warden Ellis and Scott trying to return Xavier to her custody, then you would expect the writers to have Ellis trick Scott into thinking she treats her prisoners humanely and will not use them to go after any law-abiding mutants. As it is, Scott just looks like an idiot.
That interview was something else. An impressive level of self-delusion… to compare the mess that the Brevoort era has been so far to the first arc of Krakoa shows a level of obliviousness that almost makes me hope they know how bad their work has been and just still have to sell it.
I give Simone a little break here, since she’s had some good character moments when she stops talking about the outliers for ten minutes to focus on the X-Men. But there’s no explanation for Ayodele, who was a baffling choice to co-write the omega issue.
I guess the ice dragon is something to do with Bobby *Drake*.
The X-Man crying might be Wolverine realising he’s scheduled his annual meet up with his favourite wolf pack on the same week he told his favourite elephant he’d visit them.
To be fair, Ayodele speaks of being moved upon “reading” the final pages of the issue, which suggests Gail Simone wrote them.
This would more or less fit with the feeling that Simone is as into 1990s X-Men as most readers seem to be – at least, that’d be my take on her choice of cast and general direction.
I agree that the wordy sfxs don’t work at all, be it here or in the Ororo title.
It feels like a bit of a misunderstanding of media conventions, to insist that inner monologue or narration would be too explicit and self-explanatory, but video game action button exclamations should tonally fit the story just fine.
I think you can’t pull that off without the same kind of verbose, overly descriptive prose – or its exact opposite: something openly camp, and well-aware of its genre trappings.
Which again, isn’t how his writing reads to me, at all.
* kind of verbose, overly descriptive prose of 80s/90s X-Men comics
(Or, you know, of my own comments.
Damn.)
I feel like Joe Casey was using that style in his Mr. Majestic series. It was done in a very knowing, kind of sarcastic manner. Which isn’t how Ayodele is writing Storm or X-Manhunt.
Meanwhile, I enjoyed the ending to WOLVERINE: REVENGE, and the miniseries overall. In retrospect, almost every issue surprised me a little with where Hickman took the story, while Capullo got to draw everything from dinosaurs to Limbo.
Good fun.
As much as it wasn’t for me, Krakoa at least felt writer-driven (while Hickman was around). This just all seems so editorially-driven. It’s the monkey’s paw outcome of wanting Gail Simone to write Uncanny X-Men.
Wildly off topic, but:
I just read Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, and it was great. Best first issue I’ve read since The Power Fantasy. I think a lot of people around here would enjoy it. And it would be great if it had good enough sales to last for a while. That’s all. Thanks!
While you’re at it, try Assorted Crisis Events (by the same writer) from Image Comics. The first issue shipped a few weeks ago. I plan to pick up Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, but I’m sure the reader will find ACE will be as good, if not better (I must add this caveat in case Manhunter is not as stellar as ACE), than AMM.
It reminds me somewhat of the Vertigo Comics series Daytripper, which was just such an amazing read. It’s easily the best comic I’ve read, so far, in 2025. Until Lemire’s next issue of Minor Arcana, anyway.
@Thom H @Chris V
100% agreement on Absolute Martian Manhunter (the good kind of trippy and weird) and Assorted Crisis Events (big, bold, mind-bending). I also liked the first issue of We’re Taking Everyone Down With Us, a sci-fi comic about a girl, her mad scientist father, secret agents, and robots.
ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER 1 is absolutely stunning. I’m usually a follow-the-writer reader, but Rodriguez’s work alone is enough to keep buying the book.
You’ve probably heard by now, @Thom H., but sales have been strong enough that it’s already been confirmed to receive another six issues on top of its first six. I’m looking forward to all of them.