House of M Crossover
House of M is an eight-issue comic book limited series and crossover
storyline published by Marvel Comics in 2005. Written by Brian Michael
Bendis, and illustrated by Olivier Coipel, its first issue debuted in
June 2005, as a follow-up to the events of the Planet X and Avengers
Disassembled storylines, in which the mutant superhero Scarlet Witch
suffered a mental breakdown and tried to alter the fabric of reality to
recreate her lost children. Scarlet Witch’s father Magneto and her twin
brother Quicksilver played major roles in the series.
The first issue was released in June 2005 with series concluding
November 2005. The first 2 issues were ranked first and second in the
June 2005 period with the first issue selling over 233,000 copies. The
final issue of the House of M #8 was ranked third in sales for the
November 2005 period with sales of 135,462. In addition to the main
eight-issue limited series, House of M was heralded by being a lead-in
arc in Excalibur #13-14, and had several tie-ins to ongoing series,
including Uncanny X-Men, New X-Men: Academy X and Wolverine.
Bendis, lead writer for the House of M event stated that the series
would “shake the world and break the internet wide open.” Prior to the
event, Bendis also mentioned in several interviews that the event will
have a lasting effect on the Marvel Universe, but remained tight-lipped
as to what. The reduction of the mutant community was the only rumored
effect that actually came about.
The crossover has been followed by a one-shot called House of M:
Decimation – The Day After, a series called Son Of M which depicts
Quicksilver dealing with his loss of powers and Generation M, which
devoted each issue to a different mutant dealing with his/her loss of
powers. Characters confirmed to star are Chamber, Jubilee, and Blob.
Characters who lost their powers included Dani Moonstar, Magneto, and
Tag. The storyline also led to the reboot of Excalibur into New
Excalibur, a shift in the creative teams of several comics, and the
debut of several spin-off series, including X-Men: Deadly Genesis,
X-Men: The 198 and Sentinel Squad O*N*E, Ms. Marvel and a new X-Factor
series.
The epilogue to the House of M and Decimation storylines, which served
to answer to the mystery of the strange “energy-cloud” hovering in
orbit around the Earth at the conclusion of House of M #8, was revealed
in the pages of New Avengers # 16-20.
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