Last Friday, Marvel Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of Publishing Tom Brevoort made the main announcement on Facebook that he’d taking over editorial duties for the X-Men line of books.
There’s been a bunch of chatter this previous week regarding the “secret mission” that Dan Buckley spoke with me about that received talked about in my Newsletter—a few of it fairly humorous. No, I’m not changing into EIC. That’s hardly a factor that we’d announce in a Newsletter, guys. C.B. is welcome to the place, it fits him and he’s good at it.
No, the massive story is that, after 1 / 4 of a century editing AVENGERS and its related titles, I’m going to be shifting away from these characters and titles and as an alternative moving into the world of mutants. Yes, that’s proper, I’m afraid that it’s true—I’m the X.
This isn’t going to occur for a great lengthy whereas but—I nonetheless have a ton of stuff cooking in AVENGERS (together with subsequent 12 months’s huge crossover occasion sequence) that wants to be seen to completion. And on the identical time, present X-guru Jordan White and his crew have a large story that they’re in the midst of and that gained’t run its course for a protracted whereas. What I do will develop straight out of what they’re doing—supplied they go away me something to work with. Did you learn that HELLFIRE GALA ebook? Cripes!
When we’re nearer to the switchover occurring and there’s one thing price reporting on, you’ll hear extra from us. For now, I’m nonetheless attempting to work out which one is Professor X.
So that’s it! A giant change, however not likely that huge of a change. Appreciate you all for reaching out. I’m excited for what’s to come.
It goes with out saying that it’s a significant change for Brevoort who began his profession on the House of Ideas as a school intern in 1989 and has been there ever since. Brevoort elaborated on the information in the newest entry of his Substack publication.
And whereas I’m certain that everyone goes to have 1,000,000 questions on this, I’m not truly going to speak about it for a while but—each as a result of I’ve loads to do by way of wrapping up my present assignments and handing them over to others however extra importantly, as a result of the present X-creators and editors are within the midst of an epic and long-gestating storyline, and it’s solely proper that the highlight stay on them. So I ask all people to be affected person for some time—I wouldn’t even have written the above besides that I significantly underestimated the cyclone of hypothesis that final week’s Newsletter would set off. Seriously, there aren’t all that lots of you guys, I foolishly didn’t assume this could get so huge so quick. As normal, I’m the chump.
Naturally, questions abound similar to who will probably be taking over the Avengers books, what’s subsequent for present X-Men group editor Jordan White at Marvel. As Brevoort talked about in his unique publish, the switchover gained’t be happening for awhile and there’s nonetheless extra to come earlier than this present Krakoa period of X-Men wraps up this huge storyline that started in 2019 when Jonathan Hickman revamped the X-Men line.
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