As shown over on the solicits available from CBR:
ALL-NEW X-MEN #20
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • BRANDON PETERSON (A/C)
X-MEN 50th ANNIVERSARY VARIANT by TBD
• The fallout of X-MEN: BATTLE OF THE ATOM continues!
• X-23 is back and kissing… WHO IS THE MYSTERY MAN??!
32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99
December also marks her 10 year anniversary within the pages of Marvel Comics! It seems they'll be ringing her in with a bang too! Err, a kiss. The cover reflects a new costume too! It's not her purple and green Avengers Academy outfit or her Avengers Arena attire! I'm curious how it'll look fully. It does seem to show off an awful lot of cleavage compared to her previous suits and seems highly reminiscent of Kimura's color palette. Mayhaps this is the first sign of her growth to show she could care less about anything Kimura could ever do and starting to fully redefine her own style in the wake of Avengers Arena?
Now onto speculation about this mystery man! I haven't been keeping up with comics as of late as much as I should, but it doesn't look like Hellion with the lack of his prosthetic hands in the silhouette. Doesn't look like Gambit either with the short hair and lack of his trademark trench coat. So who could this mystery man be? A new Marvel hero perhaps to coincide with her Anniversary? A previous young character that's since grown up? A man from the future tied to their Battle of the Atom story arc? Let the guessing commence!
Who is Marvel shipping her with? (I can't believe I just typed that sentence.)
Special thanks to an anonymous comment poster who brought this to light. Thank you whoever you are.
It's more than likely the young Cyclops she is kissing. Can you think of anything that would piss Wolverine off more?
ReplyDeleteNo glasses or visor. Not sure if she cares about pissing Logan off either. That'd be funny though, but wouldn't really line up to her previous history and complete disdain of Summers.
DeleteI'm leaning Hellion myself as Marvel seems to really want to push the entire "Bully with a heart of gold" schtick, but I really hope not as that'd just seem rather counter to all the growth we've seen from both characters. It would piss everyone off though. Gambit, Jubilee, and Wolverine included.
Personally I'm hoping for someone new, or someone else, but it really depends on what the story is in the issue itself. Alex Cimini seems possible too as they've semi-sorta hinted at it before. Not sure overall. The hair cut seems like a buzzed style too, and I can't think of any that have that kind of hair style currently in the pages of X-Men.