X-Men: Battle of the Atom announced at C2E2, scheduled for September.

Today is Marvel's X-Men panel at C2E2, they've got lots of announcements including Wolverine becoming killable and the cancellation  of the long running X-Factor series, but there's one that seems quite big. Battle of the Atom!

This is a ten part crossover in the X-books that takes place within two months, beginning in X-Men: Battle of the Atom #1 and running through the other X-Men books between September and October.

The storyline involves three teams of X-Men, the originals, the Uncanny and a team from the future led by Kitty Pride including Kate Bishop and Deadpool, supposedly, having a battle.

I've never been a major X-Men fan but I've been getting into the All-New X-Men series and this news seems pretty exciting.

Battle of the Atom will be written by Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron and Brian Wood.

Battle of the Atom artwork

Future Deadpool design.

Wolverine: Killable announced at C2E2.

Today at Marvel's X-Men panel at C2E2 a new arc in "Wolverine" called Killable. Written by Paul Cornell with art by Alan Davis the story starts in issue 7 of the series and will apparently take on a Western feel, with Sabertooth finding out and gathering super-villains to "kill the little runt". Sounds fun, not for Logan, I guess.

According to Marvel the conclusion will be a "major media moment" and will possibly echo a plotline in the new Wolverine movie.

Fans are already going out and saying that he's definitely going to die. This was actually a rumour that Bleeding Cool ran a while ago, and it seems they could be right.

Other announcements from the panel included Battle of the atom, starting in September and the cancelation of X-factor.

the cover to Wolverine #7, the start of the "killable" arc.