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The most important member of the ecstasy - Men is the laughable former jerk namedGoldballs – which may explain why he ’s adopted a new name to reflect his novel importance . It ’s a strange ontogenesis , but theX - Menare living in unusual times .
Under new author Jonathan Hickman , they ’ve moved from the mainland USA to a sovereign nation on the living island Krakoa . Stranger still , Krakoa ’s hatchery can producereplacement clone of any utter variation , make them effectively immortal . And that ’s all thanks to Fabio Medina , a.k.a . Goldballs . Or as he ’s now calling himself : Egg .
The mutant is a recent addition to theX - Mencast , created by Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo in 2013 . In his original appearances he was a competent member of the squad , but still was n’t there to be exact badly . His powers were just as goofy as his name : he literally shot golden balls out of his chest that would bounce around with a " POINK ! " When a next Deadpool tells Goldballs,“Oh , dude , you ’re a legend!Can I have your autograph?“in theBattle Atom , there was no reason to think it was anything but Deadpool being Deadpool .
As it turn out , Fabio reallywillbe a legend . House of Xreveals that those ball he ’d been jounce around are really unfertilized eggs . figure out together with Elixir , Hope Summers , Proteus , and Tempus as the Five , he learned how to fertilize his egg and habituate them to grow unexampled mutant . These fresh mutants are n’t just clone : they contain all their powers and every memory up to the moment of their death , for all intents and function resurrecting them .
Now that we know Goldballs ' baron go far beyond producing Au ball , it ’s only meet he ’d change his name . The changeover fall out in last week’sExcalibur # 1when Betsy Braddock , the former Psylocke and the currentthe new Captain Britain , arrives on Krakoa . While she ’s there , Fabio interrupt to let her know she ’s needed in the Hatchery where he and the rest of the Five grow their new mutants . He corrects her when she calls him by his first name:“Oh , and by the way , I ’m going by Egg now . "” … Well , that ’s not go to stick,“Betsy murmuration under her hint .
That ’s not the only magnanimous raw development in thenewExcaliburreboot . Writer Tini Howard and artist Marcus To take a voiceless left from the high concept sci - fi of the other hug drug Word of God for a fantasy risky venture that sees Betsy pulling together Gambit , Rogue , Apocalypse , Jubilee , Rictor , and the villainousApocalypseinto a novel team to fight a mystic force from the mythical Otherworld . And the Othwerworldly Wiccan Morgan Le Fay offhandedly leave out an even grown bombshell : the mutant race , antecedently think to be Children of the Atom tolerate in the modern Atomic Age , that so - called " Witchbreed " date back to Arthurian times . As for Egg , we ’ll see if Betsy is veracious : will the Modern name reefer ?
Excalibur#1is on sale now fromMarvel Comics .
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