X-Position: Mike Marts

CBR: Before getting into specific reader questions, there was some interest in the future of "X-Men," currently written by Marc Guggenheim. What can you share about the X-Office's potential plans for the series after Marc's story is over?

Mike Marts: We're super excited about the arc that's going on. Marc's bringing us into outer space and interacting with the Shi'ar, and Deathbird and Agent Brand -- it's just a real great classic space opera going on there. We will have news on what's coming next very soon, but it's a story by a familiar Marvel face and we're super excited about it. 

Welcome Back Mike Marts

As revealed in the latest Axel-in-Charge column, Mike Marts will replace Nick Lowe as the new X-Men Group Editor. Marts will preside over all the X-Men titles, as well as supervising a group that includes [Editor] Daniel Ketchum ("X-Force," "Magneto," "Nightcrawler") [Associate Editors] Tom Brennan ("Wolverine," adjectiveless "X-Men") and Jordan D. White ("Deadpool," "X-Factor," "Thunderbolts") and [Assistant Editors] Alexander Jarowey and Frankie Johnson.

As you may recall, Marts was the X-Men Editor before Nick Lowe and was directly involved with Psylocke's resurrection in "Uncanny X-Men". In an interview with UncannyX-Men.net back in 2006, Marts listed Psylocke as his #1 favorite X-Character, saying that "she’s beautiful, she’s kick-ass, she’s powerful, she’s enigmatic. Like my wife, Linda."  He also chose Betsy as his favorite X-Babe at the time in a Monday With Marts column. Welcome back, Mike!