Marvel teases massive X-Men comic book relaunch

This spring, Marvel Entertainment is planning its biggest X-Men-related comic book push in some years, with the launch of five new series featuring fan-favorite characters and concepts as part of a promotion called “ResurrXion”.

The five titles — Iceman, Weapon X, Jean Grey, Generation X and Cable — were announced via promotional images released on Marvel's social media channels this week; creative teams have yet to be announced for any of the series, with the only information from Marvel being the tagline “ResurrXion: A Beginning” and the spring 2017 date on each image.

Of the five titles named, three are revivals (Weapon X, Generation X and Cable), while both Jean Grey and Iceman will be receiving their first ongoing monthly solo series. Not teased as yet is the new status of the X-Men groups; as part of the fall 2015 all-new, all-different Marvel line-wide relaunch, those series were relaunched as “Uncanny X-Men”, “Extraordinary X-Men” and “All-New X-Men”.

The promotional images are interesting in their own right, showing fragments of other images featuring title characters or groups at various points in their comic book careers — including, in the cases of Weapon X and Generation X, entirely different, previously disconnected versions of the concept or group. 

ResurrXion has previously been teased by Marvel as the third act in a story cycle launched by the current “Death of X” miniseries and continued by December's “Inhumans vs. X-Men”. 

Source: THR