Roy Thomas Kicks Off A New Era Of X-Men Legends
by Jay Cochran
February 16, 2022
X-MEN LEGENDS, the series where X-Men’s most celebrated creators return with new, in-continuity stories set during their classic runs, is back this May with an all-new #1! Coming on board to launch this extraordinary new era of the series will be industry pioneer Roy Thomas. The writer behind some of the X-Men’s most memorable Silver Age adventures will pen a new story set after his final issue and before GIANT-SIZE X-MEN. Teaming up with artist Dave Wachter, Thomas will revisit the early publication days of one his greatest co-creations–WOLVERINE!
Having redefined the merry mutants in two seminal runs on the book, Roy Thomas, at long last, returns to the saga of the X-Men! For the first time, readers will get new insight into Wolverine's government missions before his recruitment by Professor X (including unrevealed details on his battle with the green goliath in the iconic HULK #181-#182). This untold episode will also star Beast and a host of missing mutants, and reveal the secret behind Wolverine's costume!
“You could've knocked me over with one of the Angel's wing-feathers when editor Mark Basso invited me to scribe a two-part X-MEN LEGENDS story set back in the general period of the X-MEN book during the period when I was originally writing it (as Stan's successor) in the latter 1960s,” Thomas said. “After some thought, it occurred to me that what would really be fun would be to write a story that took place right after the crashing of Wolverine into the Marvel Universe in ‘1974’--since, after conceiving the character in broad outline (and some specifics), I turned him over to the considerable writing skills of Len Wein, but have long kinda wished that I had scripted that story myself. This is the closest I'm gonna get--so I'm having a ball with it! (Artwork's pretty great, too!)”
Face front, True Believers! Get ready for an all-new volume of X-MEN LEGENDS with legendary creators and stories covering the length and breadth of X-Men history from the early eras to fan-favorite latter day sagas!
X-MEN LEGENDS #1
Written by ROY THOMAS
Art by DAVE WACHTER
Cover by KAARE ANDREWS
Variant Cover by DAN JURGENS
Variant Cover by NIKO HENRICHON
On Sale 5/18
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Comments...
Everytime I scroll down and see this headline I keep thinking it's talking about the Hasbro line. I get confused for a couple seconds until I remember it's about the comic series
This sounds interesting. The first cover is fun. It's nice to see all those random eras and characters mashed together.
Edit: It was the first cover I saw, but it is the third cover in the first post.
Great to see Roy Thomas back, though I would have preferred it set during his classic run, than being another Logan story
Hogun -
2022-02-16 @ 11:08 pm
I was not going to read this when I saw that it was focusing on Wolverine. But then I read that Beast would be in the story. So now I am going to read it.
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