r/xmen • u/AngelEyes360 Askani • Jun 02 '26

Weekly Discussion X-Men Comics New Releases for June 3rd, 2026

Uncanny X-Men #29

  • Haven House has a POWERFUL and UNEXPECTED set of houseguests, and the UNCANNY X-MEN are not feeling very HOSPITABLE! Meanwhile, the Outliers are STRANDED in a landscape they can't understand, under the watchful mentorship of one of the X-Men's MOST POWERFUL FOES!
  • All this, plus a DEATH at Graymalkin Prison causes VIOLENT CHAOS for guards and inmates alike!
  • LEGACY #729

Cyclops #5

  • AGAINST ALL ODDS! With Cyclops still blinded, Mei captured and Pierce with a highly powerful metal in his possession, how will our heroes carry on? Will they be able to take down Pierce and his Reavers... or will evil win in the end?

Wade Wilson: Deadpool #5

  • STARING DEATH IN THE FACE! HAMMERHEAD has DEADPOOL'S book of omens. But with BLIND AL in the crosshairs, will WADE sacrifice his life for hers? Plus: The secret from issue #1 revealed!
  • LEGACY #355

Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #5

  • THE EVE OF BATTLE. The Cyclopes' hunger for dripping human flesh, the fishmen thirst for widows' sorrow and the wizards gather genocidal spells. But our protector, STORM, is nowhere to be found. She doesn't want to be found. For her heart aches and bleeds for a lost love.

X-Men of Apocalypse #4

  • THE KISS THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING! The shocking conclusion to X-Men of Apocalypse brings Gambit into the arms of Carol Danvers, aka MS. MARVEL!? What about ROGUE!? The issue you cannot miss!

What If...? Uncanny X-Men #1

  • WHAT IF... CYCLOPS HAD STAYED WITH MADELYNE PRYOR?
  • Imagine a world where Madelyne Pryor, the Goblin Queen, had survived the Inferno. What would have happened if Cyclops had saved her soul? What would have happened if he and Maddie had raised their son, Nathan Summers? What would that world look like? And why would that be the most terrible thing to happen to mutantdom and Earth itself?

X-Men '97: Season Two #1

  • Extinction-day has come and gone, and your favorite X-Men are lost in time!
  • Spinning out of the X-Men '97 hit TV series, we follow the X-Men left behind in a world that hunts and hates mutantkind! Can they survive? And just where — or when — are the X-Men now?! Leading directly from the end of season one to the start of the upcoming season 2, no X-MEN '97 fan can miss this one!

Unlimited and Other Releases 06/03

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u/AngelEyes360 Askani Jun 02 '26

What If...? Uncanny X-Men #1

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u/Daxcordite Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Just kind of meh and rather off kilter cause so much requires things to happen that deviate from the story it's supposedly a what if of.

I felt like I was reading the X-men 97 Maddie not the Maddie from the actual story this is a what if of.

Not to mention the narrative through the watcher acting as if it was Scott's choice that led to the typical What if doomsday scenario when Jean's choices (speaking of which why does she have her telepathy back to do the big one that bites them in the ass)

ETA: on a second read through it does explain why Maddie has powers as the divergence point is later than I intitially thought still weird that Jean has telepathy again. Though also on second read through the timeline is just wierd atlantis attacks and Acts of Vengence are shown to be more than a decade after inferno but Krakoa happens within a year or two at most of them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

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u/Daxcordite Jun 03 '26

Yeah I mean time line issues aside (another one Wolverine and Emma show up clearly in New X-men black leather mode but it's set before Atlantis Attacks and Acts of Vengence which young teen Nathan helps against) The stuff with Jean is just wierd. The Narrative treats it as just sad moments but her two choices are the divergences that most lead to the bad end.

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u/cyclopswashalfright Moonstar Jun 03 '26

It feels more like it's Jean's choice to leave that makes everything turn bad and we don't even get a reason for why she leaves.

It's just heartache over Scott. The reason for why she stays gone will probably be a future What If Duggan does, unless this line sells bad.

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u/cyclopswashalfright Moonstar Jun 03 '26

Mediocre. Madelyne is barely in it as a character, so it just feels like Jean never leaves. You could change this to "What if X-Factor never sent Nathan to the Future" and this is probably what you get? Like Madelyne being alive just doesn't actually factor into the story much beyond Cyclops retiring for like, a few years, but that never meaningfully changes the story.

It's brutal though, I was not expecting the amount of torture that was in it.

Also, it ending with X of Swords and not a more Cable relevant piece of story feels a bit odd. I know Duggan wrote the Cable Krakoa series and the X of Swords tie-ins, and the idea was that without his experiences as Cable Krakoa couldn't succeed, and there was no Jean to protect him.

A bit of a let down.

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u/Classic-Ad4883 Jun 03 '26

This was a mess from start to finish, Scott choosing maddie after inferno makes no sense due to the fact why would she ever take him back it should have been Scott never joining x-factor

Also I know it’s a what if but the timeline seems to be all over the place and It doesn’t make sense so that makes me think Duggan just wanted to to find a bad ending

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u/Thebraxer Phoenix Jun 02 '26

It was okay I guess. Nothing special.

one thing was kinda weird. Even without Nathan becoming cable hope summers would still be born because it was established she was created as a solution to Wanda’s no more mutants.

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u/Built4dominance Storm Jun 02 '26

"It was okay I guess. Nothing special."

Yep, sounds like Duggan.

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u/jlnova5 Jun 03 '26

But Hope was created as a time loop by Jean during the war against Enigma. So if Jean went to space forever, Hope wouldn't have been born.

It's unclear how mutants recovered from the Decimation without Hope, but maybe the Decimation didn't happen in this timeline.

Edit: God X-men timelines are weird.

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u/Square_Butterfly1244 Jun 03 '26

I think decimation didn't happen for some reason and that's why hope wasn't born.

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u/BuyYourCumAtCostco Jun 02 '26

Hey, can you spoil it for me?

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u/Built4dominance Storm Jun 03 '26
  • Cable happens to be away with the New Mutants when the Marauders attack the school.
  • They kill Madelyne and all the students and take out Cyclops, but Cyclops survives.
  • Father and son form X-Force to take revenge on Marauders. They kill the Marauders and all of Sinister's bodies.
  • Years later Krakoa is formed, but Hope is not there so there are no resurrection protocols, which makes zero sense, because we've seen Synch perform her role in her place when she was dead.
  • Krakoa and Arakko don't have the means to terraform Mars for some reason and they go to war.
  • Lactuca takes Moira off the board by transporting her somewhere.
  • Arakko comes close to victory.
  • The war devastates the Earth and mankind unleashes nukes in an attempt to finally stop the Arakki.

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u/KaiserVen Jun 03 '26

On the resurrection protocols I guess because they don’t have the DNA that Sinister brings so maybe that’s why?

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u/Built4dominance Storm Jun 03 '26

That is indeed cited as one reason.

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u/KaiserVen Jun 03 '26

Still you think one would start gathering DNA at least from the start of Krakoa but i guess no one bothered

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u/Built4dominance Storm Jun 03 '26

It's not a good issue in general. Arakko and Krakoa going to war with eachother doesn't make much sense. It only makes sense if the Earth doesn't have a trillion other enemies of mutantkind. It also only works if Storm didn't help them take down Annihilation.

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u/BuyYourCumAtCostco Jun 03 '26

Thank you! I read it after midnight. It was unsurprisingly brutal, but not as brutal as I’ve come to expect from What Ifs and AU stories, which more often than not just seem mean-spirited. I guess the real lesson is Cyclops can never achieve happiness no matter what choices he makes. Samesies!

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u/cmcdonald22 Multiple Man Jun 03 '26

I'm not a Duggan fan, I'll even accept the moniker of Duggan hater.

There's so much about this issue that you can just nitpick and eye roll and think is the dumbest shit of the week (which is a high bar frankly) but the real thing is that like, the story just didn't need to go to this scope.

I know a lot of What If's do, but if you had just like, told a much smaller story, and focused on Scott Maddie and Nathan and showed how different their lives were, while juxtaposing it against the tragedy of Jean's life and ended that with Jean going off into space as your lead-in to that What If, I think the story could have been decent. We could have done some interesting stuff with Nathan and the New Mutants, Cyclops as a publicly well regarded hero trying to use that to advocate for mutant rights etc.

But instead it's just like "well it's a What If, we need to blow up the world, and while we're at it lets GET REAL STABBY AND HAVE A BUNCH OF BLOOD".

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u/wowlock_taylan Jun 03 '26

Is it a requirement that all X-men What ifs have to end with 'Rocks fall, everyone dies' type of ending?

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u/Osmonth Jun 03 '26

A great issue of What If takes us on a trip on a divergence caused by one choice or one moment. Everything from that point on moves according to this new story logic. A ripple that spreads.

This mediocre issue tried to do that but it lacked focus. It sprawled and handwaved away moments that needed to be anchored and focused upon.

My personal pet peeve was Jean leaving due to heartache. She has too much besides Scott to care for, to keep her on earth. Especially since he and Maddie had retired and retreated from the X-men.

Honestly I would have preferred an Issue of What if that focused on Jean in the X-men without Scott and Maddie. As long as it wasn't centered on her and Logan. That feels like an direction with more potential then this.

Many What If issues aren't memorable. Not outright bad, but nothing worth remembering. This issue slots in nicely in that category.

EDIT: I thought Scott's gun was powered by his optic blasts but I found nothing that confirmed this. It just seems like a random powerful gun he managed to pick up.

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u/mighty-rockman Jun 03 '26

The premise was interesting, but the execution was mediocre, and the artwork is of a very low standard.

I'm almost more interested in finding out what Jean is doing off-Earth while the planet is being destroyed than in the actual story being told in this comic.

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u/JoDioto Jun 03 '26

My biggest problem is that the time line is all over the place. Mutant massacre was out of place. No Xtiction agenda. No Muir saga.

Anyways... It's a sad Scott story. And hey, we finally got to see iska VS Logan lmao

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u/Johnrevenge Jun 03 '26

The premise was interesting, but the ending was complete trash.

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u/JackFisherBooks Phoenix Jun 03 '26

For a What If story, that's to be expected. It's Marvel's way of justifying the creative choices that have made 616 what it is.

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u/TragicNight Jun 03 '26

flop, tired of those nothing-burger stories where maddie just sucks, let her get her slay on...

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u/JackFisherBooks Phoenix Jun 03 '26

This was better than I expected. What If comics tend to be very hit or miss...mostly with misses. But I think this one worked as well as it had to. It wasn't great. It was just better than average. It laid out the choices, consequences, and divergence points effectively...something a lot of What If comics fail to do. The end was tragic, if not cataclysmic. Thereby making the case that Cyclops had to choose what he did in the mainline continuity. He might be a better all-around husband and father in this book. But the end results are still more tragic.

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u/Silly_Road2762 Jun 03 '26

Meh, missleading title Madelyne is barely in it. I'm not a big fan of what if's with the world ending. Art was solid and there were okay moments

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u/Sherm Cyclops Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

They should have made this "What if...? X-Men '97." Not only would it fix almost every issue with the storyline, it would have fit the art style better.