Two acclaimed X-Men creators unite for a brand new epic starring the Children of the Atom.
Writer Mike Carey teams up with artist Salvador Larroca for X-Men: No More Humans, an original graphic novel out this week.
Carey joined the X-Men writing team after the Decimation, when Scarlet Witch utter the words, “No More Mutants” sending homo superior on the road to extinction.
The X-Men prevailed but now face a similar moral dilemma in this original story following the events of Battle of the Atom.
How will the X-Men react when the human race vanishes – including allies like the Avengers and Fantastic Four?
“The stakes, for mutants and humans alike, couldn’t be higher,” Carey says. “This is a story about who gets to inherit the world and what the cost of that victory might be. There are times in this story when it seems as though there isn’t any right thing to do — and when the different ideals and personalities of the X-Men threaten to split them apart,” Carey USA Today in an earlier interview.
“We really throw them some monstrous, agonizing curveballs. And we see them, finally, finding the core of themselves and responding as the heroes they are.”
The cast includes past and present Cyclops, Jean Grey from the original X-Men, Beast, Wolverine, Magneto, Storm, Emma Frost and teases the return of a canonical character “who comes late to the scene but changes everything in a single panel” — in the story that forces the X-Men to choose sides.
Carey will be using Raze from the recent Battle of the Atom event. The child of Logan and Mystique is the catalyst for the story.
“As far as he’s concerned, everything that happens in our time is established and well-documented history. That gives him a terrific edge, and we see him putting it to harrowing use”
This will be the first X-Men original graphic novel since the God Loves, Man Kills. The story by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson introduced William Stryker and was the basis for X2: X-Men United.
Raze and the Brotherhood from the future will be appearing in upcoming issues of All-New X-Men.
By Editor