Marvel Knights: X-Men Goes the Madrox Route

Guerillas

and I Sell the Dead writer Brahm Revel will come to Marvel this fall with a five-issue miniseries titled Marvel Knights X-Men that centers around Wolverine, Kitty Pryde and Rogue helping a pair of teenage girls learn to use their mutant powers while searching for a murder suspect in a small town. "At last year's SDCC—which was my first by the way—Axel Alonso came by the Oni Press booth and very quickly mentioned that he liked what I'd been doing with Guerillas and that he might want to use me for an upcoming Marvel gig," Revel said. "About a month or so later he called about this Marvel Knights project, which sounded like a really fun group of books, and he asked me to send in some ideas. Initially I pitched a couple Daredevil stories, which were well-received, but after a chat with [editor] Mark Paniccia, we decided I should do an X-Men story which I was more than happy to do since those were the books I followed the most religiously growing up." Details are scant, but the noir-inspired mystery tone of the tale recalls Madrox, the miniseries that kicked off Peter David's just-concluding run on X-Factor. Could that be a hint of things to come for Revel? "I can't tell you too much because the story is somewhat of a mystery," he added. "Or rather each of these two young girls [is a mystery]. I knew coming in that I wanted to invent some new characters that were blank slates and didn't have immense histories from living in the Marvel Universe for 50 years. And since the Phoenix Force had recently been dispersed and new mutants have been popping up again, this story fit well within the current continuity. I'll you this, they're both young girls in bad situations and each has chosen a different way to use their new powers to deal with their problems."