Trade Paperbacks Coming Out Spring 2008

Rachel may be out of X-books for a while after Emperor Vulcan ends, but she will be showing up in quite a few trade paperbacks coming out this spring:

New Mutants Classics TPB Vol 3 - April 23, 2008
Contains Rachel's first appearance in mainstream 616 continuity in New Mutants #18.
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X-Men: Emperor Vulcan TPB - May 14, 2008
Contains Emperor Vulcan 1-5.
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Excalibur Classic Volume 5 TPB - May 21, 2008
Contains Excalibur #29-34
This is a mixed bag of issues (mainly Girls' School From Heck) and not a lot of great Rachel issues. However, it means they are getting closer to the incredible Alan Davis run from Excalibur 42 to 67.
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Cable Classic Volume 1 TPB - March 19, 2008
New Mutants #87, Cable: Blood & Metal #1-2, and Cable #1-4

This trade doesn't contain any issues Rachel or Mother Askani are in yet, but I'd like to think I had a little part in making this happen. A few months ago I suggested to several Marvel staffers that they release a Cable trade before the new Cable series comes out. They didn't have any plans then, but thought it was a great idea!

Hopefully we'll get Bob Weinberg's run collected eventually!

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X-Men: Emperor Vulcan #4 Preview

Marvel has posted the first six pages to Emperor Vulcan #4, which is due out on Friday, December 28th (comics are delayed two days due to Christmas.).

This is the issue that features the fabulous Rachel cover.

Also due out this week is X-Men #206, which has an Askani flashback!!!

What If? X-Men: The Rise & Fall of the Shi'Ar Empire Preview

Comic Continuum has a six page preview of the What If: RaFotSE, which is out on December 5th.

From the first look art that was released several weeks ago, it looks like a good Summers Family issue.