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Marvel Comics has offered a fun response to The Power Fantasy scribe Kieron Gillen’s playful dig aimed at X-Men.
While promoting the upcoming eighth issue of his series, the former Immortal X-Men writer posted his collaborator Caspar Wijngaard’s art to Instagram. “Kissing at the end of the world? Maybe we are just another X-Men comic?” the accompanying text reads. His jab references criticism of The Power Fantasy and his recent Immortal X-Men run, which are considered to be thematically similar. What no one saw coming was Marvel Comics’ fun response. The publisher also took to Instagram to post a similarly steamy image for Jonathan Hickman’s upcoming Imperial comic series. Professor Xavier and the resurrected Lilandra are locked in a kiss, with the text, “The end of the beginning.”
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Gillen elaborated on his X-Men kissing joke on BlueSky. “Of course, this isn’t true, because we’ve broken the one bit of firm editorial guidance I got when I started working in the X-Office. Nick Lowe told me ‘There must be kissing by issue 5!’ We blew it by waiting until issue 8,” he wrote. Marvel Editor Lowe playfully responded, “I’m just proud you finally learned the lesson, Kieron.”
The Power Fantasy began a second arc in February with a new superpower arriving to upset global order. The Power Fantasy #8 will continue the story when it arrives on April 23. Image Comics’ description reads, “Eliza Hellbound saved the world. When written like that, it sounds like a good thing. The Power Fantasy finally explores what makes the ultimate good girl gone bad tick-tick-tick.”
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Iconic Fantastic Four, Avengers, and X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman is teaming up with acclaimed artists Federico Vicentini and Iban Coello for the four-part event series Imperial, which debuts in June. Per Marvel, “Imperial finds the galaxies of the Marvel Universe on the brink of major upheaval, following the elimination of several of its most prominent leaders. Nature abhors a vacuum, empires fall, rulers are overthrown, and power is seized in a saga of intrigue, mysteries, and war, all taking place against the backdrop of the formation of new galactic order in the Marvel Universe.”
The publisher promises groundbreaking developments for the Hulks, Black Panthers, Novas, and Guardians. Imperial will lay the foundation for a brand-new landscape of interconnected space-set stories.
Image Comics’ The Power Fantasy #8 will arrive on April 23, while Marvel Comics’ Imperial #1 will hit comic book shelves on June 4, 2025.
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