The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning has a new guidance counselor. Is he strong? Listen, bud...
When you kill off a character, it kind of affects the comics that actually star them. I mean, obviously. When Superman died, his many comics became about four guys who claimed to be Superman but really weren't. When Cable was seemingly killed during a big X-Men crossover, Cable/Deadpool really just became a Deadpool solo series with the "Cable" on the cover scratched out. Hell, Captain America's series went on for a while without there being an actual superhero calling himself Captain America in it!
Wolverine & the X-Men was cancelled, understandably due to Wolverine's impending death. Still, there needs to be someone to fill in that void. Someone to step in and take responsibility. Responsibility...? Oh, right! Logan and Peter Parker were like best buds for a while. Now it looks like Parker will be stepping up for his scruffy, departed friend in Spider-Man & the X-Men.
Written by Elliott Kalan and drawn by Marco Failla, Spider-Man will be joining the Jean Grey School as the newest guidance counselor. It's so incredibly fitting that I can't believe I never thought of it before. For a while in the '00s, Peter left the world of photography behind in order to be a high school teacher. Back in Avengers vs. X-Men, he became a mentor to Hope Summers and helped guide her on the right path. X-gene or not, Spider-Man's the perfect arachnid-based superhero for the job.
The concept will be introduced via Spider-Man's disturbed feeling that something's not right with one of the students. Sure, his Spidey Sense would probably help clue him in, but there's that jerk Quentin Quire with his psychic powers and who knows how that might affect things.
Anyway, we're about to hit a status quo where Spider-Man is a staff member at a school where Apocalypse is a student. Comics are weird sometimes.
Spider-Man & the X-Men begins this December.
Meet the Jean Grey School’s Newest Member in SPIDER-MAN & THE X-MEN #1 This December!
This December, meet the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning’s newest faculty member…Peter Parker?! That’s right, it doesn’t take an X-Gene to sculpt young minds from the hallowed halls of the JGS, and ol’ webhead is joining the payroll this December in SPIDER-MAN & THE X-MEN #1! Rising star creators Elliott Kalan and Marco Failla settle Peter Parker into his role as the JGS’s newest Guidance Counselor. Keeping young mutants on the right path might be a reward unto itself, but Spidey has other plans.
“He’s there because Wolverine asked him to do it, though being a teacher isn’t the extent of the mission” says writer Elliot Kalan in an interview with Marvel.com. “Before Wolverine dies, he had a suspicion that something was amiss at the school and that one of the students wasn’t what they seemed. Only he didn’t know which student. It’s Spidey’s job to find the truth – though he can’t help but hope to also have a positive influence on the lives of the students.”
Only the denizen of the Jean Grey School aren’t exactly down with their newest employee. Especially when he leads a group of the younger students into a confrontation with Sauron and Stegron, the Dinosaur Man! Time for the Wallcrawler to show his stuff as a hero and as a teacher. Be there when Spider-Man shepherds the next generation of mutants as they struggle to survive high school and a villain team-up 65 million years in the making when SPIDER-MAN & THE X-MEN #1 swings into comic shops and onto digital devices this December!
For more info on Spider-Man & the X-Men, read the full interview with Elliot Kalan tomorrow on Marvel.com.
SPIDER-MAN & THE X-MEN #1 Written by ELLIOTT KALAN
Art by MARCO FAILLACover by NICK BRADSHAW
Variant Cover by BENGAL
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