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 Writer/artist John Byrne announced in August that he
has spoken with Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski about a possible return to the
X-Men. Nothing was agreed to but the project if it happens will be called X-Men:
Elsewhen. In a talk with Syfy Wire, Byrne explained the series would take place
in an alternate timeline in which Phoenix survived the ending of The Dark
Phoenix Saga. This came when a fan on Byrne’s forum asked is there was any
chance at all that he could come back to Marvel. He thought about and figured he
could draw the project for someone else to ink and the story would be a kind of
Elseworlds tale where Phoenix didn’t die. Pages for the story were posted the
pages on his website as he finished them and Cebulski saw them. That has led to
informal conversations on Byrne returning to Marvel where he hasn’t worked since
2000. The split happened with the cancellation of X-Men: The Hidden Years. Byrne
revealed he was leaving Marvel on his America Online forum and not by Marvel
which annoyed former Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada. Aside from Byrne
Rob Liefeld announced at a panel at Wizard World Comic Con in Austin that he and
Marvel are working on a major X-Men event. He told fans that Marvel called him
last Thanksgiving and said they wanted him to do a big story so he came up with
something out of the box and they went for it. Marvel hasn’t confirmed the
crossover. |
