The writer that revolutionized the X-Men is tackling Marvel’s gods next
polygon.comThe name of writer Jonathan Hickman is synonymous with big swings — add in Inferno and AXE: Judgment Day artist Valerio Schiti and all-star colorist Marte Gracia, and you’ve got a dream team of heavy hitters. And that team will be tackling the heaviest hitters of them all, Marvel Comics announced today, in a new series called GODS, revealed in an animated trailer.
Marvel has been showing off mysterious teases for the new series at conventions since San Diego Comic-Con 2022, but now Hickman and Schiti are finally able to speak openly about the project. And according to Hickman, in Marvel’s news release, GODS is an idea as old as House of X/Powers of X, which catapulted the X-Men into a fantastical new status quo in 2019.
“When I came back to Marvel a few years ago, I wrote two series bibles,” Hickman writes. “The first was House of X and the other one was G.O.D.S.. To say that I’m excited to finally be able to share this story with everyone is a massive understatement.”
“His pitch inspired me almost immediately,” wrote Schiti. “The core of the story is so perfect and clear that it swept away my anxiety and turned it into a burst of creativity.”
Hickman says that “G.O.D.S. takes place in its own special corner of the Marvel Universe — in the cracks that lie at the intersection of science and magic,” and Marvel’s trailer for the series shows exactly that: a conversation about the nature of good and evil between Doctor Strange and a new character known only as Wyn.
According to Marvel’s news release, Wyn is “a mysterious player in a war that exists outside of the orders we know and a vital member of an eons-old hierarchy that includes the omnipotent rulers of the universe such as Eternity, Infinity, and the Living
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