Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. - Sophocles

Wise words from ancient Greece there, in the real world it does seem impossible to predict the future but we're not concerned with the real world, we're concerned with comics and the future of far more than mortal men, we're talking X-Men. What I propose to do in this series of propheciesposts is take a look at what is going on in the X-Men Universe right now, mix that up in the atomic-randomizer I call my brain and see what comes out. Today's topic: Will Emma Frost and Scott Summers have a baby?

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We may have fallen on hard times on The Sidekickcast with the whole #Sidekickcivilwar but there were moments, even in the throws of separation, of sheer genius. We pretty much guessed that one of the Age of Apocalypse characters were coming back to the 616 Marvel universe and we guessed Nightcrawler (with the possible inclusion of Jean?!). Don't believe me? Check it out here.

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Well, after the last article did so well (I think) its time for round two. This time around the topic is 10 of the best…X-men crossovers. I put the feelers out on Twitter for your opinions of this and got some interesting reactions.

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Hey Sidekicks, long time no see. I trust you're all well and enjoyed the outstanding job @Neon_Lynx did editing the blog whilst I was getting a True Brit tan in sunny Spain? I'd like to extend my eternal thanks to him and the rest of the Sidekicks for a sterling effort in keeping the good ship Sidekick firmly on course whilst I indulged myself in the finer things in life.

Now I'm back and it's straight down to business with a preview for Uncanny X-Force #11 which begins The Dark Angel Saga, a story we here at Sidekick Central are very much looking forward to especially as it heralds the return to the Age of Apocalypse.

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2011 (MMXI) is The Year of The X-Men, it's no secret, Marvel have been filling our inboxes with press releases telling us so. So what exactly makes this year belong to the X-Men? There does seem to be some major movement within Marvel's merry band of mutants across the myriad of mediums available to us. To make sure you're all covered for X-Men news we have put together a mammoth round up of all the latest X-Men news.

First of all we have two new posters for X-Men: First Class, one of James McAvoy's Xavier and the other Michael Fassbender's Magneto. Most importantly each of these posters not only makes reference to each character's future incarnation but also the difference in their philosophical beliefs with Xavier's picture all dreamy and picturesque whilst Magneto's is all angsty and dark.

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Oh Marvel, with this selection of covers you are really spoiling us. This first cover (above) to Age of X: Alpha is by the man Olivier Copiel and the second one (below) is by my favourite artist, Chris Bachalo. Considering this Age of X storyline is supposed to be set in a world where the X-Men never existed, I'm seeing alot of X-Men in each of these covers. What their allegiances will be and how they will've survived is yet to be seen but I'm definitely interested.

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Drum roll...here it is...what you've all been waiting for, the final complete image of the Age of X teaser.

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I've come to the conclusion that I do not liked to be teased, titillated maybe, teased never. Is there a difference? Answers on a postcard please.

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Don't know about you guys but I'm sick of Age of X already. Never been one to give up though so here we are cracking on with this third teaser, which I thought the gods would allow to be the final one but no, we've got at least another couple of days of this.

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I was going to show each one of these Age of X teasers after yesterday's first one because they've tricked me into believing this going to be as good as Age of Apocalypse. Don't believe the hype, yo!

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