Nightmarish future X-Men are here to make sure the original Scott, Jean, Hank and Bobby go back to the past!
Mutants are taking sides and fighting each other over the future of the race.
Battle of the Atom Chapter 5 hits in Wolverine and the X-Men #36 by Jason Aaron who talks about the massive fight scenes in this week’s issue.
“It certainly is a challenge when you’re dealing with that many characters. Usually I just feel bad for the artist when I’m writing a page and it’s got so many characters on it all interacting and talking and fighting. It can be a lot to manage,” Jason Aaron tells Marvel.com.
For me, the important thing is that story-wise and fight-wise, to make sure that it’s not just a mess. I want to find a firm position for whoever is fighting and that you understand where these different sides stand and what they’re fighting about. The stuff I get to do at the end of the first month of Battle of the Atom, it’s kind of the first big fight, the precursor to the final colossal melee. It’s fun. It’s fun to bounce those characters off each other. We haven’t seen Wolverine’s side and Cyclops’ side come face to face too much in recent years since Schism. We get to bring them back together in a big way with these crazy future X-Men thrown into the mix. When there are so many cool characters to play with and so many cool moving parts, so many strong personalities, it’s just a blast to throw that stuff together. Usually the only problem is that I feel I could write forty pages of this instead of just twenty.”
Marvel has teased the final fate of the All-New X-Men is decided in this issue and from the cover above it looks like Magik and Colossus are having a family reunion!
By Editor