Sometimes, we in the comic commentary business like to play detective. It involves less magnifying glasses than you’d expect and we certainly aren’t dressing up as bats to do our sleuthing, but we put pieces of information together none the less. So what do we have to do? A quick and easy mystery that we may or may not have solved.
Let’s take a look at our facts:
- On Twitter yesterday, Greg Pak tweeted, “Just did another interview about a new book that’ll be announced at Wondercon. Can’t wait to show you what this art team is doing…/Readers of “Magneto Testament” in particular may find this new book interesting. More soon! #wondercon“
- Marvel/Fox have a movie coming out this summer called X-Men: First Class, which tells the origin stories of both Magneto and Professor Xavier as to how they came together to form the X-Men.
- If there is ever a better time to write a story capitalizing on a character’s appeal, it’s when there is a movie about said character(s).
So with that in mind, is that off to guess that mayhaps Pak is writing a follow-up to Magneto: Testament (the story that told of Erik’s days as a young man under his real name of Max Eisenhardt)? Or perhaps Xavier is getting a similar treatment in order to go with the film? Off the top of my head, the closest thing we have to an Xavier origin story in modern continuity is the first arc of X-Men: Legacy, that dealt with Xavier’s greatest triumphs and failures.
Greg Pak certainly didn’t give any cool advance interviews to us (insert tear-face emoticon here) but we’ll keep our ears to the ground and let you know as soon as we hear more. In the mean time, we’ll just cross our fingers and hope that we are right.