X-Men: Death Of X Details Revealed

Marvel Comics has officially announced Death of X, a four-issue miniseries from writers Jeff Lemire (Extraordinary X-Men) and Charles Soule (Uncanny Inhumans) and artist Aaron Kuder (Action Comics). The series takes place during the eight-month gap between the end of Secret Wars and the All-New Marvel launch, and will finally reveal what transpired between Cyclops and the Inhumans that left Scott Summers so completely vilified and ultimately led to his death.

“We’ll definitely see some characters who have been missing in action since the series launch,” Lemire tells Entertainment Weekly. “We’ll answer the question of where certain mutants have been, and what’s happened to them. Cyclops is the big one, he’s the one we’ve said was dead and that’s all we’ve really said. His death was very controversial, so obviously that’ll be a big part of the story we’re telling here.”

Death of X will finally bring to a head the tension that has been building for years between the X-Men and the Inhumans, a tension that has mirrored X-Men fans’ own trepidation concerning the group’s seemingly shrinking place in the Marvel Universe.

“Right now things are not good for mutantkind,” Lemire says. “On the flipside, Inhumans have been growing and becoming more prominent in the Marvel Universe. There’s a lot of tension between these characters about that, and also within the fandom.”

“For both sides of this, it doesn’t affect just a small group of them,” Soule adds. “There are heroic Inhumans, but it also affects the bad guys and the psychotic ones just as much as it affects the nice love-and-happiness ones. It’s not just their livelihood and way of life but their very lives at stake, so they’re gonna react the way you think they would. Some people move to some kind of shared solution, but there’s a lot of superhero punching and blasting and stuff like that.”

Death of X will kick off in October and conclude in November.

Source: Entertainment Weekly