Whatever his mutant-superhero identity, Captain Krakoa or Cyclops, Scott Summers is one of Marvel's six original mutants, and while these days mutant death in the Marvel Universe is like something from a Tom Cruise-Emily Blunt sci-fi movie, it's not every day you get to witness the return from the dead of an icon created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
But here it is in all its glory in this (albeit brief) preview of January 26's X-Men #7 by Gerry Duggan and Pepe Larraz.
It seems Marvel has something of a hit on its hands with Scott's new identity Captain Krakoa, an identity made necessary when Cyclops died in a public way (though the cause of his death remains unrevealed to readers).
Due to the secret nature of the power of mutant resurrection, and Cyclops' public death, the Quiet Council mandates that he take on the new superheroic identity of Captain Krakoa to remain part of the X-Men without revealing to the public that he's come back to life.
"There's a lot going on around the secret of resurrection. Orchis is picking at it, and Cyclops' public death has put Krakoa in a bind," X-Men series writer/Captain Krakoa co-creator Gerry Duggan explains to Newsarama.
"Plus, Urich has the story - er, had the story. Somebody plucked that from his head. The goal was to disorient the reader with the arrival of Captain Krakoa," Duggan elaborates. "Only by the end has the issue presented itself. I chatted with (series artist) Pepe Larraz about it beforehand. Suddenly waking up at Arbor Magna would be extremely disorienting."
Now that the secret identity of the Krakoan first national hero is out of the bag (at least to us readers, anyway), will Scott in his new duds still command the buzz he enjoyed when readers weren't 100% sure who
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