Excalibur, Wolverine, X-Force, SWORD missing from Marvel's January 2022 schedule

Excalibur #26 cover
Excalibur #26 cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

Four X-Men-centric ongoing comics will not be on shelves in January 2022. As revealed in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Com🃏ics' January 2022 schedule, the ongoing series Wolverine, E♑xcalibur, X-Force, and SWORD are taking somewhat of a break in the first month of the new year - just as Marvel's mutant line prepares for a future without 'Head of X' writer Jonathan Hickman.

In one case, the absence of Wolverine seems understandable given the twin twice-monthly 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:X 🤡Lives of Wolverine and X Deaths of Wolverine will work to have a new Wolverine comic on shelves each week in January 2022, seemingly taking the🍃 place of the ongoing Wolverine title (and then some).

but the issue's solicitation refers to "the next issues" of the series as if its an accepted fact.

Maybe we're reading into things too much, but the plot description for December's and paint a bleaker picture - however, it could just be a m﷽ajor story event.

Excalibur #26 will feature the fall of Otherworld, the extra-dimensional realm that's been at the center of the book since its launch in October 2019. At the same time, series writer Tini Howard h༒as chosen not to renew her 'exclusive' contract with Marvel and has signed onto﷽ several projects with DC. Back in August when Newsarama reported on Howard's contract changes, the writer said she planned to continue working with Marvel and on the X-Men line.

The description for December's SWORD #11 sounds a bit cataclysmic - "SWORD Station one is crashing to Earth!" - but as regular readers of Al Ewing's work, this could be a story point along the way to further adventures for Abigail B🦋rand's squad - especially given mutants now have homes not only on Earth, but also the moon and Mars.

This all comes in the wake of after his pivotal relaunch of the line back in 2019. Since th🌺at announcement, one add☂itional Hickman story was published in X-Men Unlimited and has been consulting on the X-titles for Marvel.

Keep track of all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new X-Men comics, graphic novels, and collections in 2021 and beyond. 

Chris Arrant covered comic book news for Newsarama from 2003 to 2022 (and as editor/senior editor from 2015 to 2022) and has also written for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge⛎ for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the American Library Association's Graphic Novel &am𝕴p; Comics Round Table. (He/him)