NYX (comic book)

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Creative team
NYX
The cast of NYX (clockwise from top left): X-23, Tatiana and Kiden. Cover to NYX #7 by Josh Middleton
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Format	Limited series
Publication date	2003–2005
Number of issues	7
Writer(s)	Joe Quesada
Artist(s)	Joshua Middleton (#1–4) Rob Teranishi (#5–7)

NYX is an American comic book limited series by Marvel Comics, consisting of seven issues published between Fall 2003 and late 2005, written by Joe Quesada with art by Joshua Middleton (issues #1–4) and Rob Teranishi (issues #5–7). The acronym NYX stands for District X, New York City, as seen in the return address of a letter sent in the last issue of the series.

The series was abruptly canceled in 2005 but as of April 2008 a new series had been announced to be in production.

The series is about a group of homeless teenage mutants in New York City and featured the first comic book appearance of X-23, a character originally created for the X-Men: Evolution cartoon.

1 Publication history
2 Characters
3 Original concept
4 References

[edit] Publication history

Throughout its publication, there were often long delays between issues of NYX (Quesada had always been late with scripts, causing issues to ship late, then Middleton left the book after issue #4 and new penciler Teranishi reportedly broke his hand after finishing his first issue). Quesada himself was the target of much criticism for the delays particularly, as the Editor-In-Chief of Marvel, he was setting a bad and unprofessional example for the rest of the writing staff.

The first five issues of the series were reprinted in two Marvel Must Haves issues in summer 2005, before the sixth issue was released in July. The seventh and last issue was released in September 2005.

The whole series was also reprinted, along with the X-23 miniseries, in an NYX X-23 hardcover (ISBN 0-7851-1825-X). A trade paperback consisting of the NYX issues alone was released later in May 2006 (ISBN 0-7851-1243-X).

A second series of NYX was planned for release in 2007, but never materialized.^[1] However, at the 2008 New York Comic Con, a new NYX series was officially announced with writer Marjorie Liu and artist Kalman Andrasofszky heading the project to be launched in August 2008.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Characters

Kiden Nixon - Mutant with the ability to slow down time/speed up her personal time line. Also sometimes thought to have precognitive abilities due to the fact that Felon's "lil bro" used his abilities of projection to manipulate her during the story.
X-23 (Laura Kinney) - The female clone of Wolverine; dominatrix prostitute.
Catiana (Tatiana Caban) - Mutant with the ability to shapeshift into any animal whose blood she touches.
Cameron Palmer - Kiden Nixon's former teacher. When she attempted suicide, Kiden saved her and roped her into the X-23 situation.
Zebra Daddy - X-23's pimp. He claimed to love her more than any of his 'merchandise'.
Felon (Bobby Soul) - Mutant with the ability to project his consciousness into other individuals and take control of their body. A side effect is that he sometimes has trouble remembering who he is after each possession.
Hector - Kiden's school enemy, who repeatedly attacked her - yet always failed to make an impact - and even tried to kill her but missed. He is now in prison.

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[edit] Original concept

In 2001 writer Brian Wood had developed a concept of the series for Marvel with artist David Choe that was to launch Marvel's MAX imprint. The on-going series, focusing on the characters and how their powers affect their lives, friends and family, was to star Gambit, Rogue, and Jubilee, as well as Angie and Purge, two new characters Wood had created for the series.

After Marvel, apparently deeming it not suitable for their audience, aborted the project (resulting in some very impolite comments about Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada by David Choe^[4]), Wood used parts of this concept for his series Demo.