The X-Males flip 60 this yr, and Marvel is celebrating in model by killing a bunch of them in a horrifying terrorist assault, kickstarting the downfall of an age of Mutant progress, and now by returning to an concept they first did a decade in the past. Sounds about proper for the heroes ceaselessly combating for a world that hates and fears them.
At the moment Marvel confirmed that author Christos Gage and artist Greg Land will crew up on The Unique X-Males, a brand new one-shot comedian that may see Charles Xavier’s authentic ‘60s crew—Iceman, Cyclops, Angel, Beast (pre-fur, pre-warcrimes), and Jean Gray/Marvel Lady—plucked from time by the Phoenix Power itself for a multiversal journey. Restoring the reminiscences they misplaced once they have been returned from the current to their very own time after adventuring alongside their future selves and the remainder of the Marvel universe within the pages of Brian Michael Bendis’ All New X-Males in 2012, the one-shot will arrange a brand new ongoing X-Males title set to debut in 2024—which can see one of many 5 X-Males “trapped” within the trendy Marvel world as soon as once more whereas their allies are despatched again to their dwelling timeline.
“It’s as much as them to discover a solution to both persuade their older selves that they’re making a horrible mistake, or in some way defeat these much more highly effective variations of them,” Gage stated in an interview with AiPT Comics. “Mainly, it’s about your youthful, idealistic self coming into battle along with your older, jaded self who’s made compromises and given up desires in an effort to survive and do what they assume is finest, even when meaning making arduous selections alongside the best way.”
It’ll be attention-grabbing to see simply who’s arrange for sticking round—Jean might be attention-grabbing, on condition that her up to date self is at the moment… let’s say about as mortally indisposed as Jean Gray can be, after the occasions of the third Hellfire Gala. The younger Hank McCoy might likewise be a fantastic candidate, contemplating his grownup self is busy speedrunning his descent down darker and extra villainous paths much more than traditional as of late. However whoever it’s, how Marvel will intermingle the present Reign of X with one other crack at this concept of the unique 5 being thrust into the current stays to be seen—it’d higher be price treading acquainted floor.
The Unique X-Males one-shot will launch this December.
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