X-Men fans may be as shocked as young Scott Summers by the final page of All-New X-Men #23 this week.
The big revelation leads to a brand new Cyclops series by Greg Rucka.
Before we hear more from Rucka on the young X-Man’s solo adventures in space I want to give a
SPOILER WARNING:
If you have not read All-New X-Men #23 then stop reading now.
Seriously.
Here it comes.
It was revealed in All-New X-Men #23 that Christopher Summers is alive.
Summers was believed to be killed by his own son- Gabriel (aka Vulcan) in the X-Men: The Rise and Fall of the Shiar Empire storyline.
The young X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy are starring in a crossover in search of Jean Grey, who has been kidnapped by the Shiar Empire.
The Guardians and Scott came in contact with Corsair (Christopher Summer’s code-name) and his space pirate team, The Starjammers.
Because I’m a huge fan of Cyke and Rucka I want to share part of this new Marvel.com interview.
Rucka explains what he’ll explore with Scott from the past with his father who knows the tragic Summers family history.
“I guess one of the things that I get the biggest kick out of and certainly, with regards to the book itself, is Cyclops,” said Rucka of the time travel twist introduced by Brian Michael Bendis. “The continuity still stands. So, 16-year old Scott is interacting in a world where the older version has already been marching along. I think that the chance to take a look at the characters, not only at different stages of their development but then to see how those stages influence and change and how that may reflect, especially how they deal with the legacy of their future selves. That’s a gold mine. I love that.”
“It comes down entirely to their life experiences and that’s the end-all, be-all of it,” he says of the gulf between young Scott and his battle-scarred counterpart of the present. “That’s the only thing that can be a factor there. One has experiences that have brought him to the place he is now and the other is looking and can’t imagine the experiences that took him to that place. I find it real powerful and problematic. I think young Scott and our [adult] Scott would hate to admit that they both absolutely come from the same place and maybe are still pretty much the same person. You know, we are the aggregate of our experiences. That’s where our personality comes from. That’s what influences us; that’s what drives our decisions.
“When we’re 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts where when we’re in our 30’s we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it. They’re legitimate. It’s legit. Scott’s got real baggage but he’s also got this blessing of an opportunity. Which is for him, okay, his mom is gone. She’s not coming back. But holy mackerel, here’s my dad! And for Chris, for Corsair, who has reconciled with Scott and with Alex, this is an opportunity to be there for his 16-year old son.”
Cyclops and Corsair will go on an outer space adventure. This is Rucka’s first book set in space and he explains the tone:
“It’s more ‘Star Wars,’ than say, ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ certainly,” he said. “Space travel is incidental in this; meaning that it is relatively easy in the Marvel Universe. It comes without the perils and baggage one would discover in a movie like ‘Gravity.’ More to the point, we want aliens. We want it to be fabulous. It needs to be wonderful. That’s one of the things we’re working for and one of the things I’m excited to see how Russell depicts it because at its root, this is an adventure story and I want it to be an uplifting one. I want it to be a fun one. There needs to be excitement and drama. There has to be stakes.”
Cyclops #1 by Rucka and artist Russell Dauterman starts in May.
The Trial of Jean Grey continues next in Guardians of the Galaxy.
The adult Scott continues to lead the Uncanny X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis.
By Editor