Marvel announces "First X-Men"
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:19 pm
Full article"Something must have happened before Professor X became Professor X," Adams said. "He could pass. He didn't look like a strange X-Man. He didn't look like a mutant."
Adams posited the concept was that Professor X wasn't the person who started protecting young mutants. "Maybe this was going on when Professor X was a teenager and mutants were being abused by the government … and somebody stepped out to protect these kids. … Who would he be and why would he go to Charles Xavier? … That became my premise."
Lowe described the premise as "something X-Men fans would go nuts for," mentioning Adams had worked with the character of Wolverine before.
Adams described the series as "maybe groundbreaking." "It's the X-Men before the X-Men," he said, going on to say they were "maybe a disaster."
The artist also mentioned the involvement of Wolverine in the X-Men and why he keeps coming back. "How deeply entrenched is Wolverine to the X-Men? I think very, very deeply."
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I believe it'll be a miniseries with Neal Adams drawing and Christos Gage writing. I've never been a huge fan of Adams but I like his work as well as Gage's. It sounds fun, however, I'm not too thrilled about the idea of Wolverine being the central character of yet another X-book. I'd like the idea better if the First X-Men were led by a someone who is now dead or better yet a washed-up has-been loser.