
Marvel Comics has introduced that X-Men ’97 is getting a new four-issue restricted prequel sequence that may lead into the upcoming Disney+ animated sequence.
The X-Men ’97 comedian e book comes from author Steve Foxe and artist Salva Espín. Created in “close collaboration with the showrunners” of the animated sequence. The comedian will fill followers in on what the X-Men have been as much as because the authentic X-Men animated sequence got here to an finish. Marvel Comics additionally teases “[s]tartling revelations” that “lead directly into the hotly anticipated new series.”
Foxe shared in a assertion: “There’s a very good chance I wouldn’t be writing comics today if not for the impact X-Men: The Animated Series had on me as a kid — heck, the voice actors from the show are still the voices I hear when I read the comics today!”
He went on to say: “Getting to reunite with my X-MEN ’92: HOUSE OF XCII collaborator Salva Espín on this official prelude to X-Men ’97 has felt like a bucket-list project a lifetime in the making, and Beau [DeMayo] and the rest of the ’97 team gave us a fantastic runway to come up with our own original tale that feeds right into what viewers will get to experience in the new season.”
X-Men ’97 #1 goes on sale March 27, 2024. As for the animated sequence, it will likely be launched in some unspecified time in the future in 2024. In X-Men ‘97, “Storm and Wolverine try to continue the X-Men. Magneto comes in and wants to step up for Charles Xavier. Sinister comes in to try to end the X-Men once and for all.”
The sequence brings again the unique voice solid together with Cal Dodd (Wolverine), Lenore Zann (Rogue), George Buza (Beast), Alison Sealy-Smith (Storm), Chris Potter (Gambit), Catherine Disher (Jean Grey), Adrian Hough (Nightcrawler), and Christopher Britton (Minister Sinister).
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