X-Men Gold #32 Spoilers & Art

Spoilers: One day after the wedding, Mesmero brainwashes Rachel into attacking her fellow X-Men. When Psylocke and Armor come across an unconscious Storm, they are subdued by Rachel.

Captain Britain Has a Baby When Excalibur Returns in 2018

Fan-favorite mutant team Excalibur will make its Marvel Legacy debut in 2018, courtesy of Marc Guggenheim, Leah Williams and Alitha E. Martinez.

Rachel Summers, Captain Britain, Meggan, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler and possibly even Widget will reunite in the pages of X-Men Gold Annual #1, along with a new member of the team. It appears as though Brian Braddick and Meggan have a new baby! 

“Since the launch of ResurrXtion, fans have been wondering when the classic Excalibur team would come together again,” editor Chris Robinson said in a statement. “With this Annual, Marc, Leah, and Alitha have painstakingly put together a love letter to them and the classic series we’re all still talking about!”

The England-based Excalibur debuted in 1987, starring in a deluxe edition one-shot before the team landed its own ongoing series in 1988. The annual’s cover art, illustrated by Excalibur co-creator Alan Davis, homages the first issue of the team’s original series from co-creators Chris Claremont and Davis.

The Story: This January, get ready for an X-Men story so big, Marvel enlisted two superstar writers to bring it to life. Written by Marc Guggenheim (X-Men Gold) and Leah Williams (Secret Empire: Brave New World) with art by Alitha E. Martinez (Black Panther: World of Wakanda), the original Excalibur team will reunite for an exciting adventure that both long-time fans and new fans can enjoy. But getting the gang back together proves to have its own challenges…and who is the new Braddock bundle of joy?

Marvel Reveals X-Men Blue, Gold Teams, Creators & Shipping Info

CBR: “X-Men Gold,” written by Marc Guggenheim with art by Ardian Syaf, will star Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Old Man Logan and Rachel Grey, with Kitty Pryde as team leader.

Yes, Kitty will no longer be a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Guggenheim explained to IGN that the ever-popular character is returning home where she’ll lead her new team in a battle with a new incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

“There’s more going on here than just another new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the umpteenth iteration,” the writer says. “One of the things that I wanted to get back to and really sort of drill down is what does it mean to be a mutant in the 21st century, in a world where you’ve got Inhumans and you’ve had mutants for all this time and you’ve had M-Pox and Genosha and all the things that have happened to mutants throughout the years. Why does this racism still exist? In fact, the very first page sort of sets out my anti-mutant treatise. I really tried to put on my racism hat and justify hatred of mutants for the 21st century. And the brotherhood really plays into that.”

“X-Men Blue,” written by Cullen Bunn with art by Jorge Molina, stars the time-tossed team of Cyclops, Iceman, Beast and Angel, with Magneto as their mentor-figure. Jean Grey will be present as well, but in “Blue,” she’s taking on the mantle of leader for the first time.

“Magneto is the oldest enemy of these X-Men. This was the first ‘evil mutant’ that they battled way back in X-Men #1. And now here he is taking on this mentor role with them,” Bunn told IGN. “That immediately raises a lot of questions. Why would these X-Men be working with him? What is he trying to accomplish now? Do they feel that he’s changed his ways? And that really is what I was excited about. It opened up a lot of really interesting questions for us. There’s some mystery involved in terms of why the X-Men are working with him and what they’re trying to accomplish. There’s a little bit of intrigue there because knowing Magneto, you know he’s got ulterior motives. He’s Magneto. The original five X-Men aren’t stupid. They know this. And maybe they have some ulterior motives of their own.”

As for Jean’s new position as team leader, Bunn explained to IGN, “Jean is really the catalyst for bringing them all together… I kind of feel like readers of X-Men have always felt that Jean was supposed to be the leader of the team. And now Jean is definitely taking the leadership role in this group.”

Both series will ship twice-monthly, meaning X-Men readers will be treated to four issues per month between the titles. “X-Men Blue” and “X-Men Gold” debut in April 2017 as part of Marvel’s ongoing ResurrXion initiative.

X-Men #22 Spoilers

Spoilers: Rachel, Psylocke and Monet protect The Peak from Brood/Skrulls hybrids sent by the Providian Order. Monet spots Jubilee heading towards the Dove and follows her. They retrieve a defibrillator to save Storm. Meanwhile, Deathbird rips Manifold Tiger's throat out. The alien hybrids outnumber the X-Men, the Shi’ar and A.R.M.O.R. agents. The Providian Order’s leader – Sharada Darthri -- holds them prisoners in her TK-dampening ship. Storm, Jubilee, Monet and Dr. Reyes reach them and help the others as Monet has destroyed the TK-dampener. Sharada tries to escape but is chased by D’keth – the Shi’ar counselor who advised the deaths of the Greys. When D’keth is ambushed, Rachel saves his life and Storm captures Sharada. Deathbird is to remain aboard the peak as she’s in no condition to travel back to the Shi’ar Empire. D’keth asks Rachel how he can repay her for saving his life, and Rachel gives him her memories of the slaughter of the Greys.

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X-Men #22

Writer: Marc Guggenheim

Art by: Harvey Tolibao, Dexter Soy

Cover by: Terry Dodson

The Story:

“Exogenous” Conclusion!

• “Arrow” executive producer Marc Guggenheim wraps up his run on this critically acclaimed arc of X-Men!

• Time is running out as the X-Men race to save the Earth from the alien monstrosities that have emerged from the depths of space!

• But will Rachel Grey forsake her teammates to get revenge on those responsible for the death of her family?

X-Men #21 Spoilers

Spoilers: On the Peak, Tyger attacks Dr. Eyes at the med bay. Brand and Jubilee are informed that both Storm and Reyes’ biosigns are flatlined. Tyger reveals his true colors and attacks Brand and Jubilee. Elsewhere, Sharada Darthri combines two species and creates an army of Broodskrulls. Meanwhile, Psylocke, Monet and Rachel keep watching the holographic surveillance and recognize Tyger. They find out Deathbird attacked both Tyger and Sharada, who fled. The X-Men deduce Deathbird was tracking Tyger all the way to the Peak for revenge. Back to the Peak, Deathbird wakes up from stasis and assaults Tyger. Dr. Reyes informs she’s bleeding internally and Storm’s gone into cardiac arrest; Jubilee heads her way to help them. Reyes tells Jubilee there’s a defibrillator on the Dove, but the ship was attacked by the Sidri. Deathbird and Brand keep fighting Tyger while Rachel, Psylocke and Monet arrive. Rachel pleads Deathbird not to kill Tyger as they need answers from him. Tyger says there are others to complete his mission: the Broodskulls.

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X-Men #21

Writer: Marc Guggenheim

Art by: Harvet Tolibao & Dexter Soy

Cover by: Terry Dodson

The Story:

“Exogenous” Part 4 of 5!

• As the X-Men race to find the origins of the threat that has emerged from deep space, they discover that there’s a larger conspiracy at work…one that may have its roots close to home!

• What are Agent Brand’s ties to the mysterious Providian order?

• How could Deathbird’s secret upset the balance of the cosmos?

• And what does the third Summers brother—and Rachel Grey’s uncle—Vulcan have to do with it all?

In Stores: November 5, 2014

X-Men #20 Spoilers

Spoilers: Rachel and the Shi’ar are ambushed by the same freakazoids seen in Dethbird’s mind. Psylocke and Monet arrive to help them fight the creatures. Betsy notices Rachel didn’t help D’Keth as she is still upset with him for suggesting the Grey family mass murder. Elsewhere, a Shi’ar woman named Sharada Darthri attends a reunion with representatives of alien fictions about the Deathbird situation. They are called the Providian Order and inform her that their agent on the Peak (Mr. Tyger) reported the escape of Deathbird, who’s still pregnant. It is revealed that the Order tasked Sharada to create a new species in secrecy, but now the Deathbird situation has gotten out of control so they order Sharada to clean up her mess. Meanwhile, the Shi’ar notice the sigil of the Providian Order tattooed on the freakazoids who attacked them. Back on the Peak, Dr. Reyes reveal Deathbird was pregnant to Brand and Jubilee. Sharada contacts Mr. Tyger and orders him to kill everyone on the Peak. The X-Men watch holographic surveillance of Deathbird in stasis. They discover that the scientists (working for Sharada Darthri) essentially spliced her unborn baby’s DNA with Kree, meaning it is partially Human, Sh'iar and now Kree. Vulcan is assumed as the baby’s father and that the reason it has been so long is that Deathbird was in stasis and that slowed the embryo's growth. They discover that Deathbird woke up from her stasis when the scientists injected the baby with Kree genomes. She ran away and that is when SWORD found her. On the Peak, Dr. Reyes notices Storm has been strangled and Dr. Tyger reveals it was his doing and not it was her turn to die.

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X-Men #20

Writer: Marc Guggenheim

Art by: Harvey Tolibao, Dexter Soy

Cover by: Terry Dodson

The Story:

• In the depths of space, the X-Men have encountered the threat terrorizing S.W.O.R.D.: monstrosities called the “Genespliced”—creatures engineered from the fiercest alien races across the galaxy.

• But how can the X-Men hope to stop an alien horde?

• And does S.W.O.R.D.’s own leader, Abigail Brand, know more about the Genespliced than she’s letting on?

In Stores: October 1, 2014

X-Men #19 Spoilers

Spoilers: While Jubilee, Storm, Brand and the crew members try to prevent everything from being sucked out into space, Psylocke, Rachel and Monet fight the Sidri hunters realizing they’re vulnerable to psychic attacks. The Sidrian retreat so the telepaths aboard Dr. Reyes’ shuttle and follow them. Meanwhile Storm manipulates the wind so as to counteract the decompression. Jubilee manages to seal all hull breaches by diverting all the station’s power to the shielding system. Problem is that is no power left to keep the station in orbit. The crew attempts to restart the power systems by using Storm’s electricity, which exhausts Ororo. Elsewhere, the telepaths lose track of the Sidri, but are approached by the Shi’ar. They are introduced to D’Keth, a member of the Shi’ar Weather Council who seems to know Rachel and her link to his species. They reveal they want to find out Deathbird’s whereabouts after her escape from confinement. For that purpose, the X-Men and the Shi’ar they form an alliance and track the Sidri’s trail, finding a structure composed of the carcasses of several Acanti. The telepaths realize it looks like what they saw in Deathbird’s mind. They split up in order to find out more about the place and what Deathbird was doing there. Psylocke and Monet come across a lab where species were experimented on and combined. Meanwhile, Rachel is followed by the Shi’ar and find out it was D’Keth who suggested the Grey family to be exterminated. But when they least expect it, the Sidri reappear before them.

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X-Men #19

Writer: Marc Guggenheim

Art by: Harvey Tolibao, Dexter Soy

Cover by: Terry Dodson

The Story:

• With S.W.O.R.D.'s orbital headquarters, the Peak, literally hanging in the balance, the X-Men race into deep space to find the source of the new threat that's emerged from the abyss.

• But little do they suspect that lurking in the shadows of the Acanti Skunkworks, a conspiracy is waiting to entangle them...

• And what's worse is that it's a conspiracy that has connections to the deaths of Rachel Grey's family!

In Stores: September 3, 2014

X-Position: Guggenheim Takes "X-Men" For a Space Adventure

CBR: This week, Guggenheim joined X-POSITION to discuss his current "X-Men" arc, returning to the X-Men universe after a lengthy hiatus, how his television experience with "Arrow" played into crafting the arc, his inspiration to bring the X-Men back into space and more.

You've mentioned in previous interviews that you made several pitches for your X-Men run, including at least one centering around each of the principal lead characters (Storm, Jubilee, Rachel, Monet, and Psylocke). Can you give us a hint as to what stories you had in mind for those characters and what particular qualities or paradoxes in each woman you want to emphasize in characterizing them?

Guggenheim: Well, my hope is to someday get to tell these stories, so, I probably shouldn't hint at them. [Laughs]

But I will say that the reason I didn't even contemplate shaking up Brian Wood's lineup was the fact that -- apart from the fact that, as I make a comment in issue #18, the vast majority of the team are all telepaths, they're all very different individuals. Rachel, I think, has this dark history and this tragic past, which colors her worldview in a very interesting way. Storm -- it's funny, it's hard to describe Storm. She's the easiest character for me to write, but she's the one I've spent the most time with as a reader. Her inner strength and inner nobility are very compelling things to see, particularly in comic books, which aren't always known for their strong female characters.

Monet -- I love sass. [Laughs] Monet's schtick is that she can sometimes border on obnoxious, but I love that voice and I love writing in that voice. Jubilee is the spark plug, literally the spark plug. She no longer has her powers, but she's still the youngster of the group that has a very interesting attitude herself. She's got a sense of humor about her -- it's different than Monet's, so I can play the two off of each other a little bit. Finally, there's Psylocke who is also another character that I've spent decades reading at this point, which makes me feel old. But I love the fact that she has a little bit of Storm's nobility with a little bit of Wolverine in her, too. It makes her a really interesting character.

A lot of times what I'll do is I'll think of stories -- and this is definitely true of the one that began on #18 -- and emotional journeys for these characters that's really based upon stuff that's happened to them in their past, and that's in part because I want to add new things to the sandbox, but at the same time, new character stuff can feel either like a gimmick or a ret-con. I'd rather start to work emotionally from the stuff that's already there. I think from the opening two pages of issue #18, you see that I'm doing that with Rachel's character and digging back into her past to try and bring out some stuff that still has some life to it. That's sort of true for all the characters -- they all have a rich history to them. They all have these rich backstories that I think make their emotional lives feel lived-in.

So far, there's only one arc announced for your "X-Men" run. Are you hoping to be able to tell a few of those stories you mentioned in further arcs down the line?

Guggenheim: Honestly, that's up to the powers that be at Marvel. When they asked me to come on, they were very clear that it would be a five-issue gig, and I just dove into it very enthusiastically. I love these characters and I love this world. I don't just mean the X-Men, I mean the Marvel Universe itself. I do really enjoy flexing those muscles. My hope is that there will be more Marvel work in my future. I've certainly been talking to various editors. If people agree, tweet! I think that helps.

X-Men #18 Spoilers

Spoilers: The X-Men squad goes on a mission to exterminate A.I.M.-developed viruses which have and will continue to evolve. Psylocke, Rachel and Monet telekinetically push the viruses into a grouping so Storm can light them up. Afterwards, Beast contacts the team and informs about something that went down at SWORD’s orbital HQ: Deathbird was left for dead in outer space heading to Earth. Beast says Agent Brand has requested their help given the X-Men’s connection to the Shi’ar. Dr. Reyes is already on orbit awaiting for them due to her knowledge on Shi’ar biology. Once they meet, Brand explains she expects the X-Men telepaths to be able to get inside Deathbird’s head. While Dr. Reyes runs some tests, Psylocke, Rachel and Monet group together to enter Deathbird’s head. They find out she’s been experimented on. Deathbird wakes up and senses “they” are near. Elsewhere, Brand and Storm find the orbital headquarters being attacked by Sidrian hunters on their way for Deathbird. The Sidri cuts the station power and attacks. Cecilia joins the telepaths and together they protect Deathbird. Dr. Reyes assumes the Sidri are after Deathbird’s baby: she’s pregnant.

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X-Men #18

Writer: Marc Guggenheim

Art by: Harvey Tolibao

Cover by: Terry Dodson

The Story:

From the executive producer of tv's "Arrow"!

• New creative team! And a new mission for the first all-female team of X-MEN...

• S.W.O.R.D. is Earth's premiere counterterrorism and intelligence agency when it comes to dealing with extraterrestrial threats.

• But when the ferocious Shi'Ar warrior Deathbird lands on their doorstep at the brink of death, S.W.O.R.D. calls in the X-MEN to investigate!

• But are the X-Men equipped to handle the horrific new threat that's emerged from the edge of space?

In Stores: August 13, 2014

Arrow's Marc Guggenheim Talks Bringing the X-Men To Space

ComicBook.com: When Marc Guggenheim takes over the "Adjectiveless" X-Men next month, he'll follow in the footsteps of original series writer Brian Wood, for whom the team seemed to have been perfect.

As part of the change, Guggenheim -- who is also a writer and Executive Producer on The CW's Arrow and author of the recently-released thriller Overwatch -- will take the team to space, dramatically pulling the X-Men (and their readers) out of the comfort zone of Upstate New York.

Guggenheim joined us to talk about the series, which will debut on August 

One of the best-reviewed new Marvel titles in a while is Cyclops -- and you're coming on board and saying, "Okay! We're going to space!" Is it nice to have an opening act like Greg Rucka?

Marc Guggenheim: Yeah, there must be something in the water. What sort of got me thinking about the idea of what became this X-Men arc is the old Claremont/Dave Cockrum/Paul Smith "Brood Saga."

I found myself jonesing a bit for a fun, X-Men in space story. You get to see a little bit of the Shi'Ar, a little bit of outer space...there's definitely something in the water that has people thinking about this. Hopefully I'm tapping into some kind of still-in-formation zeitgeist.

I wonder if part of it is that everyone is re-reading Claremont with Days of Future Past in theaters.

Guggenheim: I grew up on all the old Claremont books and they're very near and dear to my heart. They're remarkable pieces of writing and just a remarkable run in terms of working with artists who are just titans and all operating at the height of their powers.

I don't even think you can really point to one aspect of Claremont's run and say that was the best part. There's so many different segments of that hugely long run where you go, "That was incredible. That was a high water mark," and reasonable people can differ on what was the best. I think that's really a testament to how amazing Claremont's writing was.

I think it speaks really well of him, too, that it's 25 years later and we're still mining elements of his mythology for things like the Trial of Jean Grey and what-have-you. It's a lot like Geoff Johns expanding on Alan Moore's ideas for something like Blackest Night.

Guggenheim: Completely. It's funny -- I'm a little, as a comic book fan, conflicted about it. On the one hand I love the fact that we're still mining things out of these stories.

At the same time, are we losing our way a little bit in terms of not putting new toys into the toy box and not replenishing our set of ideas?

In my mind, the best solution is a hybrid. The best solution is that we're having elements of stories that are being driven by ideas from two decades ago that are near and dear to all of our hearts but at the same time other ideas, other elements of arcs being wholly new and original so that we're always moving our art form forward.

I feel like both Johns and Bendis are really good at that. When you look at Johns's Green Lantern run, it's just full of that.

Guggenheim: Absolutely. I think it's remarkable what Geoff has done. And Green Lantern is probably the best example of it but that's what he does with all of his books.

I always describe Geoff as the modern-day John Byrne. The way in the '80s, John was able to come onto a book that was considered either too boring or too old or not commercially successful and reach down and find the essence of the idea and the essence of what made that character cool and reinvent it -- I feel that Geoff has that same talent.

And like Byrne, he has a few where he was there for a long, long time and then a great many where he just came in as a fixer and left.

Guggenheim: Exactly. And by the way, I admire Bendis's long runs on Avengers and Ultimate Spider-Man and Daredevil. The truth is, Bendis is the poster child for nice, long runs on books. I think all the stuff that Bendis did for Daredevil was amazing. Truth be told, he introduced the biggest change to Daredevil's character probably since the inception, which is the notion of the semi-public identity.

Those used to be much more common and I think that now a lot of writers shy away from it because it's difficult to pull off in a world where the are cameras everywhere and people with a suspicion can just take it from semi- to fully public.

Guggenheim: I think that what helps Daredevil is that because he's blind and because the things Daredevil does is so impossible to contemplate if someone is blind, it always gives Matt this plausible deniability that other characters wouldn't be able to take advantage of.

And when you look to Bruce Wayne being a spoiled rich kid and Clark Kent being a bumbling farm boy, it's the same kind of mask that Matt has, but because at the end of it all they're still strong, handsome men without a really obvious flaw they can't fake, I think people look past Matt on the list of suspects where they might not those other characters.

Guggenheim: Absolutely.

With X-Men, this book rolled out to a ton of fanfare and in no small part because it was such a Brian Wood book. How do you take a book like that and make it yours in such a way that you're not totally reinventing it?

Guggenheim: Well, I tell you, it ain't easy. For a number or reasons, not the least of which is that Brian set a very high bar on the book itself. I guess sort of my approach for better or for worse is that I always try to put all that stuff aside and just write the best story that I can.

I sort of feel like everything else is kind of a distraction and at the end of the day I feel that if I do a good job by writing just a really great X-Men story, that will meet all the challenges. Maybe that's naive but at the end of the day, I'm a big believer in just buckle down and do the work.

That's one of those things that I feel like X-Men offers you some cover for. There are so many characters and such a wide variety of great stories that I feel people self-identify as an X-Men reader or not, and an idea like this has the potential to entice people who don't ordinarily consider themselves X-Men readers.

Guggenheim: Yeah, I think both Cyclops and All-New X-Men prove that the good idea wins out. I pitched the X-office a number of ideas for this arc and they happened to gravitate toward the outer space one the most but with all of the ideas that I pitched them, I was going for a list of criteria that I was trying to meet for myself. It had to be interesting, it had to not retread old territory or old story ideas, it had to provide fodder for something emotional -- there had to be an emotional connection.

Each of the ideas that I pitched had an emotional hook in for each of the different members of the team. I had a Jubilee story, I had a Monet story. In the space story, Rachel is kind of the fulcrum given her history with the Shi'Ar. It was important to me that it not just be bombastic or plot-driven but that there be some character development and character exploration going on in the story as well.

Did you feel pressure to leave the lineup intact because not only did you have the all-female hook but also Brian built it as such a character piece? It felt much less "plotty" than most comics on the stands right now and that's really refreshing.

Guggenheim: You know, I didn't feel an overwhelming desire to change it up, to be honest. In terms of female X-Men, the only one that I'm desperate to write and haven't had a chance to write is Kitty Pryde. Which is not to say that I don't find the other X-Men interesting but I like all the ones that are on Brian's lineup.

It's like, if it's not broke, don't fix it. I'm a big fan of Rachel and Monet and Psylocke and Jubilee. These are characters I love -- and Storm, who I've been reading, I feel like, my whole life. I didn't see any need to swap anyone out. I did add, from my run, Cecilia Reyes. For two reasons: I had a story need of her medical expertise, but also I do happen to really love that character. I think my impulses were additive rather than subtractive.

I have to say, I’ve done other interviews and much has been made of the all-female X-Men team and what I kind of love about Brian's idea of an all-female X-Men team is that the X-Men have grown over the decades to be such a diverse and deep bench in terms of characters, you basically just have a team of really great X-Men characters a lo! and behold they all happen to be women. There again I think you have to give a lot of credit to Chris Claremont who I want to kind of call the first feminist writer in comics. He really set the bar and set the tone with all of these really strong, female characters.

Is that a little unique to the X-Men? Once you get past Canary, Fire, Ice and Wonder Woman, do you think you could do this with JLA?

Guggenheim: I get what you're saying, but truth be told, I'd love to see a book where it was Gypsy and Fire and Ice and Black Canary and Wonder Woman. I'd buy that book -- Vixen! I think that would be kind of cool. You could even throw in Supergirl there if you were so inclined.

But I think for me, the key is, how do you do it in a way that isn't a gimmick? What I loved about Brian's run since the first issue is the fact that it never felt like a gimmick.

And it's easy in these books to have the premise stated in dialogue by some guy being a jerk about it, and Brian has not really made much in story of the fact that it's a female team. I don't get that feeling that we're being reminded of it.

Guggenheim: Yeah, that's exactly right and I think that's the great fun of Brian's idea. It is just a group of X-Men doing their thing. They even sort of addressed the fact in dialogue that this is sort of an ad hoc team and arranged in an ad hoc way and then it became sort of formalized over the course of Brian's run.

I think the ad hoc of it all was that these were just people who had a friendship -- who had a relationship together. And I think that you're right that Brian's run is so relationship and character driven -- much more so than is typical of most comics these days -- and I think that's one of his strengths.

Marc Guggenheim Named New "X-Men" Writer

Newsarama: Sometimes comic book writer and current Arrow Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim will take over the writing duties on Marvel's X-Men beginning with August's issue #18, the publisher announced Friday.

Guggenheim's first four issue story arc takes the all-female mutant team of Rachel Grey, Storm, Jubilee, Psylocke and Monet into space. Coincidence August is the month Guardians of the Galaxy opens? You be the judge.

"High above the Earth in the floating space station known as The Peak, extraterrestrial threats are monitored by S.W.O.R.D. – the planet’s alien counterterrorism and intelligence agency," reads Marvel's description of the story arc. "From the cold reaches of space, a familiar face returns. The ferocious Shi’Ar warrior Deathbird has landed on their doorstep, gravely wounded and inches from death. Unable to identify the who or what that caused her life threatening injuries, the X-Men are called in to investigate!"

“The idea really came from the fact I’d been jonesing for an X-Men in space story as a reader," Guggenheim explained. "I’d been re-reading the Brood Saga and it reminded me how much I love that concept of the X-Men in outer space. It’s a milieu that suits them really well.”