X-Men's Jean Grey is Getting Her Own Mutant Team

Jean Grey has n’t even formally returned to the Marvel Universe yet , and she ’s already place to get her own squad - one that will be the focus of the forthcoming amusing book serial , X - Men : Red . The announcement was made with a video chronicling the life of Jean Grey since her creation in 1963 .

An original X - Man and one of the team ’s most iconic extremity , Jean Grey had become one of the few major Marvel zep to stay utter , following her most recent death in 2004 . All of this changed with the launch ofMarvel Legacy , an upshot which seek to restitute many Graeco-Roman type to the status quo . In September of 2017 , it was annunciate that the character would return after a 13 - year absence seizure inthe five - part miniseries , Phoenix Resurrection : The Return of Jean Grey .

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Marvel has released a new video that prove Jean Grey in her various designs over the years . Set to the backcloth of the theme song from the ' 90s invigorate seriesX - Men , the video admit Jean from the early 1960s to the Dark Phoenix Saga in the eighties , all the way to 2017 withPhoenix Resurrection . The video resolve with a teaser range of a function of a raw series titledX - Men : Redfrom author Tom Taylor and artist Mahmud Asrar , with cover art from Travis Charest . The serial , which will give the character her own squad , is place to debut in February of 2018 . Taylor tell the " time is veracious " for a series likeX - Men : Red :

As an X - Men buff , as a Jean Grey fan , as a Mahmud Asrar fan , and as a Travis Charest fan , to be demand to write ten - MEN RED is a dreaming . The clock time is correct for an X - Men book like this , and I ’m very excited about the story we ’re say in these pages . I ’m excited for Jean Grey ’s visual sense for the world , and I ca n’t expect for Marvel readers to meet our team of established fan - favorites and brand new mutants , and to see them in action . To compose a core 10 - Men volume is to take the air in the footsteps of giants , so I ’m hoping my secret mutant ability is sudden foot - growth .

X - human race : Redwill become the third color - code ten - Men team . The " amber " squad is conduce by Kitty Pryde , while the " Blue " team is co - lead by Magneto and the time - displaced Jean Grey . It remains to be figure how longsighted Marvel will desire two Jean Greys to playact as loss leader in the Marvel Universe .

Comic book art: 1990s X-Men, with Cyclops front and center, surrounded by characters including Storm, Gambit, and more.

There ’s no word yet on which character will be on the " Red " team ’s roster . It could be that the squad will featurethe newly - resurrected Wolverine , who has yet to be impart to an existing ten - Men team .

Since the first publication ofPhoenix Resurrectionwon’t release until December , it ’s still too early to say how the character ’s coming back will affect her or her fellow go - Men . Fans can expect Jean to be scourge by the realization thatCyclops is numb . Still , if the announcement ofX - Men : Redis any indication , Jean wo n’t let it keep her down for long .