Wolverine, Rogue and Kitty Pryde investigate the emergence of new mutants and murder in small town in Marvel Knights: X-Men by Brahm Revel. The writer tells Marvel.com why these mutant heroes made the cut for his 5-part limited series:
“Well Wolverine was a given,” Revel says. “If I’m gonna do an X-Men story, I’m putting Wolverine in it. And as I said above, this is a story about how the past can come back to haunt you, so Wolverine made sense because he is a character with a checkered past. He’s a killer and has rage issues, yet he still identifies himself as a good guy. At a certain point he has to reconcile these two opposing identities.
“Likewise, Rogue started out as a bad guy. It was only after she absorbed Ms. Marvel’s powers and psyche that she sought out Professor X’s help. I think this still drives Rogue’s psychology to this very day. Until she could completely control them, her own powers were seen as a curse and it was her adopted powers that were seen as a blessing. It begs the question, if she had never got into that altercation with Ms. Marvel, would she still have become a ‘good guy?’
“And I wanted to use Kitty because of her long standing relationship with Wolverine. She used to be like a daughter to him, but now she’s grown up. Not too long ago she was the teenager that the X-Men were recruiting and now she’s running the school. I thought she could represent someone who’s made a successful journey through the gauntlet of adolescence to adulthood, and how her and Wolverine’s relationship has had to evolve as that’s happened.”
Hulk and Spider-Man will star in new Marvel Knights imprint limited series all coming this Fall.
By Editor