Jean Grey has been dead for over a decade in Marvel Comics , or as dead as any character can be in superhero comics, but the publisher will bring the iconic X-Man back this December in a five-issue miniseries. The series will be written by Matthew Rosenberg (Secret Warriors, Punisher) and drawn by Leinil Yu (Secret Empire).
“Matt came to us with a really interesting and unique approach to bringing Jean back,” said senior editor Mark Paniccia in a press release. “It’s not what we expected, and plays to Matt’s biggest strengths as a storyteller. This is very cool mystery building to a mind-warping climax. And it has plenty of what you’d expect from an X-MEN epic of this magnitude. Action, romance, sacrifice, lots of X-Men and five great artists.”
The series titled Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey will bring strange events to the X-Men, but these events start to become more specific and stranger than usual. The group is forced to confront the truth: could Jean be alive after all? And how will this Jean Grey deal with a world that is now so different from the one she left years ago?
“It's such a mind-blowing honor to bring back the original Jean Grey,” said series writer Matthew Rosenberg. “I've been an X-Men fan my whole life and Jean is, in my mind, the true soul of the X-Men. So we aren't taking this lightly. We're going for that perfect balance of universe shaking epic and intimate personal drama that only the X-Men ever truly achieve. This is all hands on deck for the X-Men as every available member heads into battle for the soul of their team and maybe even the fate of the Marvel Universe.”
Marvel Comics promises that Jean Grey will have a new role in the MCU after the series and that there will be a lot of questions surrounding the young, time-displaced Jean Grey that has been running around the Marvel Universe for years now.
Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey will release in stores Dec. 27.
So what do you think of the brand-new miniseries? Do you even want Jean Grey back? Let us know in the comments section below.
