She was evil and Quitely’s art made look extremely creepy. While Magneto wanted mutants to rule the world, Cassandra Nova wanted to kill all mutants! She was as evil as evil gets and was the polar opposite of Magneto in terms of ideology. They introduced a new uber-powerful villain, Cassandra Nova.
Morrison and Quitely’s first arc, “E is for Extinction”, set the tone for what was to come in their 41-issue run. The X-relaunch was so huge that they even changed X-Men to New X-Men. It was time for the X-books to step to the top of the sales charts again. The “Onslaught” storyline, for all the hype, fell short and was the last big X-story before 2006’s House of M put Marvel’s merry mutants on the map again.īut before House of M, two Scotsman named Morrison and Quitely revitalised the X-Men, bringing with them pathos, dark humour, adult-oriented themes and sweeping changes to the status quo. The last big storyline that was successful in the X-Universe was the much loved “Age of Apocalypse”.
While there were the two main X-books in Uncanny X-Men and X-Men, there were also a bevy of titles, some of which were a modicum more popular than the others: X-Force, X-Factor, Excalibur, X-Treme X-Men, X-Men Unlimited, Generation X, not to mention the many one-shots and mini-series of the X-characters. However, the X-Men were victims of their own popularity, with seemingly spin-off title after spin-off title flooding the market only to succumb to cancellation after low sales numbers. The X-books were the best-selling comic books for years before that and had seen creators such as Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Marc Silvestri, Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Andy Kubert and Joe Madureira cement their fame on the various X-titles. The X-Men comic books had been going nowhere quickly for the last decade or so. Time for another review! And this time I’m going to be reviewing the first story arc of one of the most groundbreaking and popular arcs in recent X-Men history: the one that put the team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely on the radars of mainstream comic book fans, the one the revitalised the X-Men after years of stagnation, the E is for Extinction storyarc in the pages of New X-Men #114-116.
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