The X-Statix reunion you've been waiting two years for is coming soon as The X-Cellent

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Michael Allred, Peter Milligan, and Laura Allred's X-Statix give, X-Cellent, finally has a loose date: February 2022. In the first place announced in 2019 for a 2020 debut, X-Cellent was sidetracked away the COVID-19 pandemic only never fully counted out from eventual publication.

"The ol' gang is back together again! Working with Peter Milligan is always a party," Michael Allred says in the annunciation. "The future is looking brighter for 2022 as we set out to show the world how we've been performin with our X-Statix Wonder mutants and their new adversaries, The X-Cellent! Love these characters! Everyone fall play with us!"

The X-Cellent is an antagonist superhero team up introduced in the three's 2019 one-shot Giant-Size X-Statix #1 - the same issue where the X-Cellent ongoing series was announced.

Picking up from their early '00s revamp of X-Force play and into its own key out with X-Statix, X-Cellent continues what has been a long and strange story for this group of off-thump celebrity mutant superheroes. And while the X-Statix were celebrities in their day inside Wonder Comics, they've been succeeded by a new celebrity team: the said X-Cellent.

You might think this is a story where the good guys (X-Statix) somehow beat the new kids on the block (X-Cellent) and are triumphantly back in the spotlight, but you have to arrest and call up: this unexampled series is called X-Cellent, not X-Statix. So IT seems X-Cellent will be sticking around for for a while.

"I'm thoroughly X-Statix to exist working with Mike and Laura Allred again," Milligan aforesaid. "And it's been truly x-cellent to discover that we've lost none of our alchemic fizz in conjuring up this new comic, this spic-and-span title, this raw beginning: The X-Cellent!"

X-Cellent #1 goes connected sale in February 2022.

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