The X-Men will return to their roots in March in X-Men United, as Eve L. Ewing and Tiago Palma bring together mutants from different eras at a new academy called Greymatter Lane.
The new academy will serve as “the central hub” for mutants around the world, boosting a staff that includes Wolverine, Beast, Storm, Magneto, Rogue and its founder, Emma Frost. But not every mutant will be a fan.
“Working on the X-team for the past couple of years has been some of the most fun I’ve had writing comics ever,” Ewing said. “The idea for Graymatter Lane was a collective one, from lots of writers in a room brainstorming, and it’s so cool because the psychic space allows for things to be weirder and more surreal, while still building on the classic Xavier’s School energy we’ve all loved for decades.”
Here’s how Marvel describes the new series:
“Build a school,” Charles Xavier told them, and the X-Men have done so—but in a manner nobody saw coming! Welcome to Graymatter Lane, a place where mutants anywhere in the world can come together in unity to teach one another the skills needed for their survival! With the greatest of the X-Men as teachers and a campus unlike any before seen, it’s the crossroads of the X-Universe as a student body from across the globe works to take mutantkind to the next step in their evolution—and to cope with a brewing threat to all of their number!
“X-Men United forms the center point of the mutant world,” said Executive Editor and “Conductor of X” Tom Brevoort. “Steeped in the tradition of series like Astonishing X-Men and Wolverine & The X-Men, Graymatter Lane is a place where all of the major players in the X world will come together to fight, hook up and hash out their differences.”
Brevoort promises there will be action, drama and danger — as any good mutant school would have.
“Which young mutant is critically injured on the first day — and which X-Man is responsible?” he said. “What secret is uncovered in Sinister’s lab? What distance-separated couple rekindles their connection? And how far will Cyclops go to bring the whole endeavor to the ground?”
The first issue will feature connecting covers by Stefano Caselli — a piece you may recognize from Marvel’s Shadows of Tomorrow announcement last month. It’ll arrive in stores March 11.