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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Only now getting a chance to look at this latest X-Men Regensis teaser and a few points occur to me. Firstly, I have no idea who is in this team or how that may change because of Schism. For some reason just couldn't be bothered with Legacy, it seemed so detached from the rest of the X-Universe I figured that I could get away without reading it, apart from the Age of X stuff and the less said about that, the better.

Next up, and this is more interesting, to me anyway, the above image came with this copy:

"Acclaimed writer Mike Carey presents the final arc of his six year X-Men epic this November, alongside superstar artist Khoi Pham.
Who’s with Rogue and what does Carey’s last arc mean for the X-Men? Join the conversation on Twitter with #XMenRegenesis!"

Does that suggest to you that Mike Carey will soon be leaving the book, because that's what it says to me. Did everyone else know about this? Why am I always last to know? Seeing as Legacy is Carey's title, will it continue much beyond the Regenesis? Seems like the perfect time to bump it off to me, we all know there are far too many X-titles out there anyway.

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Having read the first two chapters of Age of X by Mike Carey just last night I can confirm that I am back into The X-Men. In all fairness I was never really out of The X-Men, just not reading much from their various books, only mangaing to stick with Uncanny X-Force. Now that the X-books are back in my heart we may aswell change this blog to the X-Sidekick blog as I will be banging on about my favourite little mutants all the time. Which brings us nicely to the case in point; Age of X: Universe #1.

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Well played Marvel, I have fallen for Mike Carey's Age of X storyline hook, line and sinker. I warn you now, it'd better be good or I'm coming to get ya. As it's still over a month away please enjoy this sneek peak, what's actually going on? Haven't the foggiest, looks like a good old fashioned battle with government forces to me, classic X-Men fodder.

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From my mouth to Marvel's ears. I requested an Age of X Universe comic book on this very blog and what do we get? If there is anything you want Marvel to release just let me know, I'll mention it on the blog and hey presto you finally get that Boys of the X-Men 2011 Calendar you have always wanted or is that just me?

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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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