Some interesting stuff from Steve Foxe's
just released newsletter:
X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse, biweekly launching in June, has actually been in the works for much longer. This four-issue mini-series,
which I like to think of as a sort of epilogue to the Krakoan era, first came up last summer, via Jordan White, before switching hands to Annalise Bissa (under Tom Brevoort’s watchful eye). As I owe a great debt to Kieron Gillen for helping set up Dead X-Men in the pages of Rise of the Powers of X and X-Men Forever,
so too do I owe a huge thanks to Gerry Duggan and Al Ewing for teeing up Heir in X-Men #700, and in the latter’s case, for being generous with Apocalypse questions in general.
The Krakoan era has been one of great change for Apocalypse, and that’s going to continue right up until the last pages. In Heir, he has assembled twelve mutant candidates to follow in his footsteps. But he has always had a very high bar for competency, and only the fittest will make it to the end.
Not every mutant will survive the trials. And only one will become…the HEIR OF APOCALYPSE.
Netho Diaz is my collaborator on this book, and I am so thrilled we started early enough for him to draw all ninety pages. He is SMASHING it. This book contains, hands down, the biggest action I’ve written at Marvel. And every time I think I’m going big, Netho takes it and just blows it up that much bigger. I’m super grateful for this last go at twelve (plus a few extra) of my favorite mutants with such a bombastic artistic collaborator.