Shadow and Flame with Magik

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Definitely Buying:

ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #32-33
BRIAN WOOD • ALVARO MARTINEZ (A)
Cover by GABRIEL HARDMAN
Issue #32 – “WORLD WAR X” CONTINUES!
• UTOPIA’s insane plan to end the war
• WORLD WAR X claims its first casualties
• Will the war finally unite, or divide forever?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Issue #33 – “WORLD WAR X” CONCLUDES!
• WORLD WAR X’s unbelievable conclusion!
• KITTY PRYDE takes extraordinary steps, shocks the planet!
• In the aftermath, who remains to pick up the pieces?
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Definitely set on getting the last half of Battle of the Atom:

ALL-NEW X-MEN #17
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS • STUART IMMONEN (A)
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
Variant Cover by STUART IMMONEN
LEGO VARIANT BY Leonel Castellani
X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM, PART 6!
• Magik and Young Beast have a special mission!
• The X-Men and Future X-Men have Jean Grey and Cyclops and are going to send them back in time with the rest of the Original X-Men.
• But who is opposing them and why?
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99

X-MEN #6
BRIAN WOOD • DAVID LOPEZ (A)
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
Variant Cover by TERRY DODSON
X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM, PART 7!
• CHAOS AT THE JEAN GREY SCHOOL as the X-Men and Future X-Men are attacked!
• Rachel Grey is the only X-Man qualified to defeat the mystery opponents!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #37
JASON AARON • GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI (A)
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
Variant Cover by KRIS ANKA
X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM, PART 9!
• All of the X-Men (present & future) and their adversaries are reeling from the events of Part 8!
• With the adversaries’ Plan A squashed, they turn to their far more sinister Plan B on the grounds of the X-Men’s first adventure!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Maybe Buying:

INFINITY #5 (of 6)
JONATHAN HICKMAN • JEROME OPEñA & DUSTIN WEAVER (A)
COVER BY ADAM KUBERT
Design Variant by JEROME OPENA
Generals Variant by IN-HYUK LEE
Hero Variant by SARA PICHELLI
Young Variant by SKOTTIE YOUNG
• The Avengers Universe.
• The Heroes of Earth rally to defeat Thanos.
• The war for Earth begins.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

I know Kitty was shown in the five pages of the Free Comic Book Day issue of Infinity, so I’m going to buy that first issue and at least reading the rest, if she shows up, then I will buy that issue.  She usually doesn’t in these wide crossovers.

INFINITY: THE HUNT #2 & 3 (of 4)
MATT KINDT
STEVEN SANDERS (A)
Cover by SLAVA PASARIN
INFINITY TIE-IN!
• Thanos’ forces have attacked the Earth, but what part of his plan involves the super youth of the world?
• See the attacks on the Avengers Academy, Jean Grey School, Future Foundation, Braddock Academy, Wakandan School of Alternative Studies, the Pan-Asian School for the Unusually Gifted and the Latverian School of Sciences!
• The students at all of the world’s super schools try to put into play everything they’ve learned as they fight side-by-side with their super teachers!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Pending on who shows up from the Jean Grey School, I will pick it up.

HUNGER #4 (of 4)
JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV
LEONARD KIRK (A)
Cover by ADI GRANOV
THE BEGINNING OF THE END???
• Has RICK JONES failed to stop Earth from destruction?
• The death throes of a universe!
• A hero reborn? The road to CATACLYSM starts here!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

The Ultimate X-Men did not show up during the last crossover, so not sure if I will get this.  Usually I thumb through most of the comics, looking for certain characters and if I don’t see them, I put the comic back.

Same will go for Cataclysm.

MARVEL: NOW WHAT?! #1
SKOTTIE YOUNG, SCOTT ADSIT, WYATT CENAC, GERRY DUGGAN, BRIAN POSEHN, SARA SCHAEFER & MORE
SKOTTIE YOUNG, ERIC CANETE, COLLEEN COOVER, STEVE LIEBER, PATRICK OLLIFFE & MORE (A)
Cover by SKOTTIE YOUNG
• Get ready for the NOWest book in Marvel NOW History – Marvel NOW WHAT?!
• SEE NOW! Captain America get Cat Fished! SEE NOW! The Intervention of the Watcher! SEE NOW! The Wedding of Thor and Storm!
• All that and more as a cast of comedy’s shining stars and Marvel’s most exciting artists bring you the stories of Marvel NOW that you never thought you’d ever want to see – but you do want ot see it, and you want it NOW!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Be curious who shows up at Storm’s wedding, her last one didn’t go that well.  Well, the wedding was beautiful, the marriage just didn’t last.

ALL-NEW X-MEN SPECIAL #1
MICHAEL COSTA • KRIS ANKA (A)
Cover by ALEXANDER LOZANO
Interlocking Variant Cover by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
PART ONE OF “THE ARMS OF THE OCTOPUS!”
• The All-New X-Men cross over with the Indestructible Hulk and Superior Spider-Man!
• What does Doctor Octopus want with the All-New X-Men and HOW IS HE ALIVE?!
• This gets the immediate attention of Superior Spider-Man, but what does it have to do with the Hulk?
40 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T …$4.99

If Kitty doesn’t show up in any of these, I’m passing.  At least they are not shoe horning Warren into this crossover.  Odd to include Spider-Man and Hulk, but could be decent.

ASTONISHING X-MEN #68
MARJORIE LIU
GABRIEL HERNANDEZ WALTA (A)
Cover by PHIL NOTO
FINAL ISSUE!
• Through thick and thin, from marriage to apocalypse, the X-Men have always stood together as a family.
• Is there anything in this world – or any other – that could break them up?
• It all ends here as Marjorie Liu bids a fond farewell to the Astonishing team!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99