ClanDestine #3 Preview - With Excalibur!!

After two issues of teaser cameo appearances, Excalibur finally guest stars in the third issue of ClanDestine. Marvel Noise has the six page preview. The issue is in stores next Wednesday.

It so cool to see the Excalibur gang again. I've forgotten how much I miss Meggan.

Andy Schmidt Writing Havok & Cyclops Stories

Former X-Editor Andy Schmidt talked to CBR about writing the upcoming Havok & Vulcan story in X-Men: Divided We Stand #2 and a story about Cyclops' reaction to Corsair's death in Marvel Comics Presents #8:

"In Ed Brubaker's run on Uncanny X-Men, Cyclops's father died and he wasn't around to see it or react to it," explained Schmidt, "and Ed didn't have time to follow up on it in the book before we were running into Messiah CompleX, so I asked him if he was okay with me tackling how Corsair dying affects Cyclops. He was open to the idea so I cleared through him, then X-Men editor Nick Lowe and finally through Marvel Comics Presents' editor John Barber."

Following the Cyclops story for MCP, Schmidt is working with Frasier Irving [Gutsville, Seven Soldiers of Victory] on am X-Men: Divided We Stand story, following what happened to Havok in the Emperor Vulcan storyline called "The Hole." "Starts off with Havok, [also known as] Alex Summers, in a prison at the bottom of the ocean on a world that is an ocean world," said Schmidt. "Cut off from cosmic rays. You go in there, and you pretty much don't come out. He's in a prison cell, except there isn't any real point to have him in one. He's in one because they want to keep him isolated, to break him, more than anything else. Not because they're afraid he's going to escape, because if he opens up the door they all die."

Since the Havok & Vulcan story for DWS is only 8 pages, it seems unlikely that Rachel will appear.

Marvel Comics Present #8 is out on April 30, 2008. Divided We Stand #2 hits stores on May 21, 2008.

ClanDestine #5 Solicitation

Newsarama has posted some early Marvel solicitations for June, including the final issue of the ClanDestine mini-series, which the classic Excalibur team will continue to appear in:

CLANDESTINE #5 (of 5)
Written by ALAN DAVIS
Pencils & Cover by ALAN DAVIS

The Destine family is caught between the Cross-Time Excalibur and the Inhumans of another reality! While at home, Griffin's machinations harvest Destine DNA in a bid to live forever! And patriarch Adam Destine returns to where it all began--Yden.

ClanDestine #5 will be in stores on June 4th.

Wizard World Los Angeles Report

I received an email from an X-fan who attended the X-Men Panel at Wizard World yesterday and spoke the writers and editors in attendance, and has a bit of information for Rachel fans on the status of the Starjammers:

The only news on Rachel & the Starjammers from the X-Panel was that their story continues in the Divided We Stand limited series.

A Havok fan asked the panel a question about what was next for the Starjammers, and the way Jim McCann (Marvel's marketing director) answered the question made it seem like Havok may appear in both issues of Divided We Stand.

Matt Fraction was announced as the new co-writer of Uncanny X-Men, and he may be better suited to write Rachel than Brubaker. Fraction said he liked the Paul Smith/JR, Jr era Uncanny and characters like Magma that Brubaker doesn't like.

The panel was asked about Selene returning, and there wasn't a clear answer, but both Marc Guggenheim (Young X-Men) and Yost & Kyle (X-Force) said they might be using her. Since Wolverine nearly killed Rachel the last time an X-Man tried to kill Selene, X-Force facing off against her would be interesting.

A couple other things (not to get anyone in trouble for revealing this):

- Rachel, Alex and Lorna will return to X-books, eventually.

- Rachel & the Starjammers' story will likely continue in Uncanny X-Men.

- No Annihilation or Guardians of the Galaxy tie-in with the Starjammers are planned.

No idea when Rachel will return to Uncanny. It seems to be going in a completely different direction with the relocation to San Francisco. (The Uncanny X-Men will be based out of San Francisco starting in #500, which is the location where the X-Men were when Rachel faced off against the Beyonder).

Uncanny X-Men will have a new rotating penciling team of Terry Dobson (hurray!) and Greg Land (boo!). Dobson told Newarama that there are plans to do more than 12 issues a year, maybe 14, although both pencilers are known for being late...


Update:

Today at the Mondo Marvel Panel at WWLA, a question was asked about the Imperial Guard:

Q: Will we see the Imperial Guard on Earth?

McCann said that they'll be involved, somehow, in a Secret Invasion tie-in.

This could be in the X-Men Secret Invasion tie-in. Yesterday at the Secret Invasion Panel, McCann said that there would be an X-Men Secret Invasion tie-in but "but they're not going to announce anything specifically yet."

Tom Brevoort, the editor for Secret Invasion, talked a little about the X-Men's involvement in Secret Invasion to IGN last month, and mentioned that there would be a tie-in to avoid disrupting anything going on in the individual titles.

Although that is unlikely to be resolution readers have been hoping for, it is at least a positive sign...

Calling for Fan Fiction & Fan Art!

Calling on all writers and artists! Rachel-Summers.com is currently accepting fan fiction and fan art submission!

If you have created any fan art or fan fiction related to Rachel, I'd love to feature it on the site. Any type of creative writing from short stories to poems, and fan art like drawings, digital art, wallpapers, etc, will be considered.

If you have any Rachel related art or fanfic, feel free to email them to: rs_starchilde@yahoo.com.


Guidelines:
Only G, PG and PG-13 rated material will be posted.
Art should be in .jpg or .gif format and less than 500kb

No end in sight for the Starjammers

Unfortunately, today’s X-Position with X-Editors Nick Lowe, Axel Alonso and John Barber didn’t give any updates on when the Vulcan saga might finally, at long last, be coming to an end.

And speaking of Polaris, John Crowley (along with several other fans) wrote to me with questions about the status of her and her associates.

Will we be seeing a resolution to the Shi’ar civil war by the end of the year? I thought I had read earlier that “Emperor Vulcan” was supposed to be the final act of the whole story with the Summers (at least for a while). What changed? And when will we see what happens with the Starjammers, Havok, Polaris, and Rachel?

LOWE: As the person who wrote the solicit text for “Emperor Vulcan” and did a lot of interviews about it, I don’t remember reading or saying that it was the final act of the Summers’ story. We always saw it as a middle chapter. As for when you’ll see them again, you’ll just have to wait and see.

How disappointing. I’m tired of waiting for this to be over. I wish they would just give us some sort of time frame for when this is ending.


Also, new Cable writer Duane Swierczynski will be answering questions in next week’s X-Position. Rachel fans need to send in questions (you can find the email address and instructions at the bottom of this page).

Although with Rachel stuck in the never-ending space story, it’s doubtful he’ll be able to answer questions about Rachel appearing in Cable, but it’d be nice if a question related to Rachel or the Askani was asked, but hopefully none of the monotonous "is the baby Rachel" questions.