AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!
Multiversity favorite Kieron Gillen, who recently penned an exclusive deal with Marvel, has been announced as the new co-writer for Uncanny X-Men! This announcement led to much cheering and applause around the MC “offices,” with Matt and Josh in particular high fiving.
Starting with issue #531, Gillen will be stepping in as the co-writer to Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men, bringing back an old enemy from a fan favorite run – Sublime. According to the press release, the X-Men will be faced with “the loss of their powers at the hands of the Sublime Corporation, as the malevolent force puts into action its master plan!”
What does Gillen have to say about this?
Co-writing with Matt seems a worryingly natural development, as we were friends, then were working together creating the five lights for Generation Hope. The exclusive is the proverbial gravy. In the words of Ms. Knowles:’ They liked it. They put a ring on it.
Sounds good to us! It really isn’t a surprise that Gillen got picked up for exclusivity, considering a) his comics are great, b) SWORD was such a smash cult hit, despite it’s short lived nature and c) did you read Thor at all, or perhaps our reviews of it? Gillen picked up the ball from JMS and set it up for Fraction like an absolute pro. Uncanny X-Men #531 can’t come soon enough for us here at MC, and I expect it’s probably going to get a Book of the Week spot. HUGE congratulations to Gillen on this, and we expect only the best.
Here’s hoping that perhaps now Gillen and a certain Mr. Jamie McKelvie might have time to maybe work on a certain other comic? Not that we’re mentioning names or anything, but I hear Marvel has this neat imprint called Icon… just sayin’! You know, if there’s free time. We’ll take any comic, really.
For the full press release, check behind the cut!
Marvel is proud to announce that newly-exclusive writer Kieron Gillen (Thor, Generation Hope) will join Eisner-winning, superstar writer Matt Fraction as co-writer on Uncanny X-Men! Beginning with Uncanny X-Men #531, Fraction and Gillen pit the X-Men against what may be their greatest threat yet–the loss of their powers at the hands of the Sublime Corporation, as the malevolent force puts into action its master plan!
“For the last thirty years, Uncanny X-Men has been superhero comics’ truest reflection of the age. That’s what I have to live up to and take it into the future, trying to write the definitive twenty-teen take on the X-Men,” explained Gillen. “Any less is underselling what the book deserves. Co-writing with Matt seems a worryingly natural development, as we were friends, then were working together creating the five lights for Generation Hope. The exclusive is the proverbial gravy. In the words of Ms. Knowles:’ They liked it. They put a ring on it.’”
Fraction added, “As a writer? This feels like Kieron and I have already been working on the book for several months anyway, what with the ‘Five Lights’ story and cueing up what he needed for Generation Hope, so this is a perfectly natural extension of that. As a reader? There’s literally no one else in the world I want to read writing X-Men more than Kieron. He’s great. He’s dangerously great. And he’s dying… Dying TO ENTERTAIN YOU.”
A bold new era for the X-Men begins in December as Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen join forces in Uncanny X-Men #531!”
