X-Men vs Green Lantern Is Being Settled by Marvel
Warning: spoilers forMarauders #2 ahead!
In a preview for the latest issue of Marauders #2 from Marvel Comics, the X-Men's pirate team are going up against a villain who will prove once and for all whether mutants would be capable of taking down DC's Green Lantern. Using a seemingly new technology called «Hard Skin,» the Shi'ar warrior Eric the Red is now able to project hard-light weapons and fighters using his thoughts, incredibly similar to the powers of the Green Lantern Corps from DC Comics.
Kate Pryde's Marauders are rededicating themselves to their purpose; saving any mutants who are still living outside the nation of Krakoa. Their first major mission involves an adventure into Shi'ar space to investigate a mystery revealed to them by the villainous Cassandra Nova, but their efforts will be cut short if classic villain Eric the Red has any say about it.
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Marauders #2 — written by Steve Orlando with art by Eleonora Carlini and color by Matt Milla - takes place aboard the Marauders' new spaceship as they are forced to face Eric the Red. Marauders #1 retconned Eric the Red to be a much more meaningful character, not just the right-hand-man of the ex-Majestrix of the Shi'ar Empire, but the leader of the Crimson Kin; a group of mega-powerful Shi'ar warriors who have secretly guided and protected the history of the Shi'ar, unknown to even Majestrix Xandra. Eric the Red, formerly also called Davan Shakari is tougher than he ever was in the 1970s X-Men comics, and part of that is due to an apparent technological upgrade he now has access to, called «Hard Skin.» Eric's Hard Skin allows him to create hard-light constructs, people and objects, directly from his
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