10 Most Anticipated Comics Still To Come In 2017
3. Phoenix Resurrection
Release Date: December 27
Jean Grey, alongside Wolverine and, hopefully, the Fantastic Four, will be one of Marvel Legacy's big revivals. We've not seen the real Jean in the comics for over ten years now, and with Legacy being the theme of the day, it's a smart move from Marvel to bring her back, seeing as how her younger self hasn't really been up to the task of replacing her OG counterpart.
The return will come in Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey - a series written by Matthew Rosenberg and drawn by Leinil Yu, and will last for five issues. Marvel have promised a bevy of variant covers in the run up to the event (a hallmark that it is, to them at least, a pretty big deal), as well as an all-star cast of creative talent, with "five blockbuster artists" being billed to partake in the mini.
It's exciting news for X-Fans and True Believers in general, as the publisher have promised that Jean's return won't just affect their X-Titles, but the Marvel Universe more generally too. Given what we saw from Legacy #1, which seemingly confirmed the Phoenix has a major part to play in the cosmic battle slowly approaching, Resurrection could just be one of the most important books of the publisher's relaunch.
Can we get an excited 'Phoenix scree', up in here?