http://marvel.com/news/story/20846/s...veblog_central
"Amazing X-Men is a new ongoing series beginning in November from Jason Aaron and Ed Mcguinnes that will feature Wolverine, Storm, Beast, Iceman, Northstar and Firestar as well as the returning Nightcrawler."
"The room cheered again as the panel announced Nightcrawler will be in the brand new series “Amazing X-Men” by Jason Aaron and artist Ed McGuinness.
“Firestar is going to take her place as a major X-Men character for the first time,” Lowe added, pointing to her on the cover of the first issue along with Azazel. The panel then called Aaron and had the room cheer into the phone.
“We’ve been having to keep this a secret pretty much since Jason was writing ‘Wolverine And The X-Men,’” Lowe said, adding that this book will answer where the little blue and red Bamfs have been coming from.
“Nightcrawler is dead, but that’s not the end of his story,” Lowe continued, explaining Azazel is a pirate that is stealing something the X-Men need and Nightcrawler needs to stop him. The team on the book will also include Northstar, Wolverine, Beast, Iceman and Storm."
*UPDATE*
CBR have an interview with Aaron regarding the title:
Northstar was [editor] Nick Lowe's suggestion and I don't think I had ever written the character before. I've been a huge fan of his though going back to the original John Byrne "Alpha Flight" series, which I loved. He'll be fun to play with because he's certainly a voice of opposition to Wolverine. He and Logan butt heads quite a bit. It's also fun to play with his powers and portray them in different ways.
With Northstar, he was a great fit for the role of the voice of dissension. The guy who’s going to stand up to Wolverine and tell him he’s full of crap, if he’s full of crap.
It’s a character I’ve always liked, going back to John Byrne’s Alpha Flight series, which I loved back in the day. Ed and I both wanted to do something a little different with him. As I was writing the first issue, I didn’t really know what my take on the guy was, until I started thinking about how to portray his powers — the speed and the flight are a great combination, but instead of just doing the simple thing of showing him flying around all the time like Superman, I was thinking of Disney’s animated Peter Panfilm. I love how Peter Pan flies around in that. It’s so much more relaxed and natural, and you see him just sort of sliding and tumbling through the air, and he flies in all sorts of different positions. So then it clicked — and Northstar’s even got the pointed ears. So he became my Peter Pan.
It’s a character I’ve always liked, going back to John Byrne’s Alpha Flight series, which I loved back in the day. Ed and I both wanted to do something a little different with him. As I was writing the first issue, I didn’t really know what my take on the guy was, until I started thinking about how to portray his powers — the speed and the flight are a great combination, but instead of just doing the simple thing of showing him flying around all the time like Superman, I was thinking of Disney’s animated Peter Panfilm. I love how Peter Pan flies around in that. It’s so much more relaxed and natural, and you see him just sort of sliding and tumbling through the air, and he flies in all sorts of different positions. So then it clicked — and Northstar’s even got the pointed ears. So he became my Peter Pan.
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