Storm has been getting some serious love in this new era of X-men as the regent of Sol, putting her people and their well being above her relationship with T’challa and Wakanda and just being the baddest Mutant with and without powers! Now after Hickman departs the X-line after 2021’s INFERNO, Kieran Gillen will give us the X-men book we need (Minus actually delivering on diversity)!
Official synopsis below!
IMMORTAL X-MEN #1
- Written by KIERON GILLEN
- Art by LUCAS WERNECK
- Cover by MARK BROOKS
“So, the match is lit, and Immortal X-Men is a book about the burning,” Gillen said of the upcoming series. “To speak in a Hickmanian idiom, this is the New Avengers to Gerry’s Avengers. This is the book about Krakoa, and the Quiet council, with all its muffled screams. It’s about a group of people, some of whom are convinced they’re in the West Wing, some who have designs to be in House of Cards and at least one who knows they’re in Veep. It’s big ideas, politics, fights and fashion, lies, creation and destruction, all told across the widest possible canvas, in time and space. It’s some characters I’ve written before, with the volume turned up. It’s me falling in love with some characters I’ve never touched. It’s me somehow talking Marvel into paying me for having this much fun.”
Describing Werneck’s artistic work on the series as “basically fire on the page.” “When we do quiet and real, the characters have so much charisma it feels like stars are on the page,” Gillen said of Werneck. “When we do big and impossible, he makes it real, and takes your breath away.”
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I like how this sounds despite X-men doing almost nothing with its black mutants I am willing to see where this goes.
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