X-Men: First Class - School Is Back In Session

According to reports from CBR the prequel to the X-Men movies, X-Men: First Class is on its way. FoX is fighting to hold on to that X-Men movie contract so the neXt movie is possibly coming out summer of neXt year. Bryan Singer, the talented director who did the first two x-men films wrote and is producing the prequel. This sounds like really good news, I only hoping that the studio keep Wolverine and his annoying claws out of this one. It's about time somebody put the X back in X-Men. I was really starting to tire of those W-Men films where Wolverine did almost everything. If the cast of the movie is anything like the comic book of the same name the original 5 X-Men [Cyclops, Angel, Beast, Iceman, Marvel Girl/Jean] will be featured here. X-fans have been patiently waiting for Singer's return and with support and less Wolverine this could be the best X-Film yet.

The New X-Force (Again)

The cast of X-Force: Warpath, X-23, Wolverine and Wolfsbane. Other members not pictured: Archangel, Domino, Vanisher and Elixir.

The new X-Force that was launched in 2007 by the eXtremely talented artist Clayton Crain, writers Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, was simply breathtaking. Marvel release a teaser of the new cast of this team appearing July. While I will miss every single person from the last book and it's cast I'm hopeful that the new direction and art will equally entertaining or at least half that amount.

The newerer X-Force. Can you guess who they are?

Since I first saw this image I immediately recognised Angel (above) and Fantomex (to the right). Although the person on top could be somebody else with an extremely large cape (I really doubt it). The other two had me thinking Psylocke (extreme left) and Gambit (center). The middle one is tricky because the character has something looking like a shield blotted out. My second choice neXt to Gambit would be Nightcrawler because he's the only other person that would use a sword. I had fun with this one and if I only get one right then that would mean Marvel is doing much better at surprising me with these teasers.

X-Fan Art By MabusRex

I apologise for the long break in updates. I'm going to be spending less time here but whenever I can I'll be adding some new things.

I was surfing the web when I discovered an x-fan sprite artist, MabusRex so I had to share. I thought his work had disappeared from the Internet a few years so I was really happy. Those of you who don't know sprites are those little 2D video game characters. Below are a few samples of his work.



X-Force: Archangel, Warpath, Wolverine, X-23, Juggernaut, Domino



New X-Men: Icarus, Surge, Prodigy, Elixir, Dust, Anole, Wind Dancer, Mercury, Angel



X-Men: Phoenix, Cyclops, White Queen, Chamber, Wolverine, Cable, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Colossus Marrow, Maggott, Northstar, Polaris, Havok, Marvel Girl, Husk, Jubilee


X-Treme X-Men: Beast, Storm, Psylocke, Bishop, Rogue, Gambit, Sage


New Mutants: Cannonball, Karma, Magik, Magma, Wolfsbane, Moonstar, Sunspot



X-Statix: Venus DeeMilo, Orphan, U-Go Girl, Vivisector, Doop, Phat, Anarchist, Dead Girl, El Guapo



Exiles: Sunfire, Blink, Mimic, Nocturne, Morph, Sasquash, Namora


X-Factor: Siryn, Multiple Man, M, Rictor, Meltdown, Wild Child



Professor Xavier



Magneto/Xorn



Villains: Abyss, Toad, Sauron, Sabretooth



Allies: Deadpool, Fantomex, Lifeguard


Here is a link to MabusRex photobucket page where you can see more of his work.