Rachel in X-Men Legacy 212

Rachel has an unexpected background cameo appearance in X-Men Legacy #212 in the background of a panel in Xavier's office.





You can see Rachel in her Hound costume in between Professor Xavier and Gambit in a painting.

The original version of the image being used is here:



Rachel Summers - Phoenix by Ariel Padilla


According to Subliminal, this is little Easter egg was added by colorist Rain >Beredo, who is a Rachel fan, and artist Mike Deodato. Rain and Mike also worked on Thunderbolts #118, which featured similar painting of Rachel as Mother Askani in several panels.

Thanks to Matt for the head's up.

X-Men Divided We Stand #2 Preview

Comic Continuum has posted a 10 page preview of X-Men: Divided We Stand #2, which includes the first two pages of the Havok & Vulcan story.

Rachel is not mentioned in either of the preview pages, and its highly probable she will not appear, but this story will likely set the stage for whatever comes next for the Starjammers and Vulcan.

Site Update- Fan Videos

A new video section has been added to the Gallery, featuring some fan made videos with Rachel:

http://www.rachel-summers.com/video.html


Check 'em out!

ClanDestine #4 Preview

Comic Continuum has a six page preview of Alan Davis' ClanDestine #4. The time-lost Excalibur appears in the last 2 pages of the preview.

ClanDestine #4 is out next Wednesday.

Starjammers Not in Secret Invasion: X-Men :(

Mike Carey revealed to CBR that he originally planned on having the Starjammers in Secret Invasion: X-Men, the SI tie-in he is writing:

The X-Men may have connections in the interstellar Shi’ar Empire with groups like the Starjammers, but Carey is keeping the action in this series Earthbound. “I did toy with some ideas about bringing the Starjammers in and taking some of the action into Skrull space, but in the end it just weakened the drama,” Carey said. “We have this very compelling and scary situation developing on Earth and it seems like that’s where we should be focusing. So that what we decided to do in the end.”

Back in March at Wizard World LA, Marvel's Jim McCann revealed that the Imperial Guard would be playing a role in Secret Invasion, and the most likely spot seemed like Secret Invasion: X-Men. It was hoped then that the Starjammers would as well, but perhaps that isn't happening now. Bummer.

Starjammers Question in X-Position

In this week's X-Position, X-Editor Nick Lowe was asked about the follow-up to Emperor Vulcan:

As long as we’re talking about Skrulls and aliens, EC sent in an email that reminds us there are mutants in outer space too.

1) I'm probably going to be hated for asking this, but with everything that’s occurred with Vulcan, the Shi’ar Empire, and the Starjammers -- and with all the Abnett/Lanning Marvel outer space craziness (not to mention the current “Secret Invasion”) -- is there any chance of seeing “Emperor Vulcan” evolve into something bigger? Like “Annihilation” bigger?

NL: Be careful what you wish for, EC.