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80-527: To reboot the X-Men series, Jeff Lemire was hired to write Extraordinary X-Men, with Humberto Ramos as penciller and Victor Olazaba as inker. The new series launched October 2015 and, on its release, was the fifth-highest-selling comic book with over 133,000 copies sold. The book, along with All-New X-Men , was cancelled following the Inhumans vs. X-Men event and, as a part of Marvel's ResurrXion rebranding,

160-562: A Free Comic Book Day prelude issue debuting in May 2022. In May 2020, Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt announced the opening of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a graphic novel entitled Cosmic Detective , for which they will be writers with David Rubín on board as artist. The book was completed in November 2021, with the digital edition releasing in December 2021 and the physical edition

240-561: A comiXology Original . It is a ten-issue limited series divided into two miniseries of four and six issues respectively. Additionally, a prose short story written by Lemire was released on Amazon's Kindle and Audible to tie in with the comic's release. The series was republished in trade paperback form by Dark Horse Comics in 2022. The series won the Best Digital Comic Eisner Award in 2022. Lemire originally announced this series in his newsletter, Tales from

320-593: A character Lemire approached by distilling the issues he had him and twisting the prototypical action hero into a more emotionally-driven story. The second story arc, starting with issue 6 in September, featured art by Butch Guice. The third arc, debuting with issue 10 in January 2016, began publishing in the Valiant Prestige format, with art by Lewis LaRosa. In March 2015, Lemire launched Descender ,

400-462: A creator-owned science fiction series with art by Dustin Nguyen , from Image Comics. Announced on San Diego Comic-Con 2014, the ongoing series follows a robot named Tim-21 through his adventures in space. The series is Lemire's first creator-owned ongoing series not illustrated by himself. Descender ran thirty-two issues from March 2015 to July 2018. A sequel series, Ascender , set ten years after

480-554: A deal to free Apocalypse from X-Haven if he reverts Colossus to his original state. Apocalypse agrees and right after Colossus changes back Nightcrawler "frees" Apocalypse by teleporting him into the mouth of the World Eater. Magik battles Sapna and manages to reclaim her sword and is forced to kill her former pupil in order to save X-Haven. Three days later Magik hears Sapna's voice coming from her sword. Storm, Forge, and Old Man Logan return from their meeting with Beast , but Storm

560-486: A failed attempt to turn the remaining Inhumans against each other, leading to his arrest and Medusa using her final act as queen to sentence him to solitude. Before his sentence, Maximus reveals a disturbing secret to Black Bolt. The Inhumans try to cope with the fact that they might be the final generation of Inhumans due to Medusa sacrificing the Terrigen cloud so the mutants could survive on Earth. Iso's first act as queen

640-625: A four-issue limited series, featuring characters from all over the Valiant line, co-written with Matt Kindt with art by Paolo Rivera . His first work for Valiant Comics , the series sets the stage for the Valiant Universe moving forward. Spinning out of The Valiant , Lemire began writing the ongoing series Bloodshot Reborn alongside artist Mico Suayan, with the first issue being released in April 2015. The series features Bloodshot,

720-400: A graphic novel written by Scott Snyder and illustrated by Lemire, was announced at Image Expo 2015 for release on November of that same year. In 2016, Lemire collaborated with musician Gord Downie on Secret Path , a graphic novel accompaniment to Downie's solo album of the same name. In March 2017, Lemire released a new ongoing series titled Royal City through Image Comics . He is

800-412: A little bit. The blending of realities and all of that, that was a big, big part of it. That’s why we just obsessed over that run.” “There’s obviously a pretty big focus on human emotion in that run in ways that are not kinetic on the page [...] That’s why we respected it even more. It’s so hard to just have two people in a panel just having an emotional moment, but that was obviously a big inspiration for

880-795: A lot, but doing that really pushed me to exhaustion and I had to wrap up Royal City sooner than I wanted just to keep my sanity. Royal City is set to continue in Fall 2023. In October 2019, TKO Studios released Sentient as both a six-issue miniseries and an original graphic novel . Written by Jeff Lemire with art by Gabriel Hernández Walta, Sentient was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series in 2020. In 2022, Lemire he had signed an exclusive deal with Image Comics, with an exclusion clause for his work on Black Hammer with Dark Horse Comics. On February 16, 2021, writer Jeff Lemire and artist Jock 's Snow Angels launched as

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960-592: A mutant genocide which unhinged him. Cerebro then discovers 600 mutant signatures, called the Ark, in Tokyo and agrees to send Colossus and this young team to investigate. Sugar Man was experimenting with mutant genomes and starts a self-destruct, but Colossus and his team teleport with it into the future. Storm and the Extraordinary X-Men quickly follow, but the one minute delay turns into 12 months difference in

1040-592: A new creator-owned superhero series written by Lemire with art by Dean Ormston, titled Black Hammer , set to be released in March 2015. However, in April 2015 Lemire stated that the series had been delayed indefinitely due to a cerebral hemorrhage suffered by Ormston. In February 2016 it was announced that the series would be launching on July of that same year. In 2017 it won the Eisner award for Best New Series. In 2017, Jeff Lemire launched The World of Black Hammer ,

1120-583: A new story, Fishflies . It began September 10, with Lemire projecting the series to run about five hundred pages, with each update being around five pages long. In addition to the World of Black Hammer stories published with Dark Horse Comics, Lemire will be debuting new stories through his Tales from the Farm newsletter. Several are already in the works. This was initially announced as collaboration with illustrator Andrea Sorentino codenamed "Project Bark". It

1200-411: A series of Black Hammer spinoff titles. In 2018, the title was optioned as a "multiplatform franchise" by Legendary Entertainment , with television and film adaptations in the works. Plutona , a five-issue limited series from Image Comics co-written with artist Emi Lenox, was released in September 2015 to critical acclaim. Announced at Image Expo 2015, the series follows a group of kids who find

1280-657: A springboard for an Atom story to co-feature in Adventure Comics . He also relaunched the Superboy series featuring the character Conner Kent . During Flashpoint he wrote Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown miniseries, then, as part of The New 52 , he wrote the ongoing series Animal Man and Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. . Further into the launch of The New 52 Lemire took over

1360-433: A two-colour tale of identity, fear and paranoia in a small community. Lemire wrote and illustrated the full-colour Vertigo series Sweet Tooth , published September 2009 to January 2013. In May 2020, Netflix confirmed the release of the movie adaptation of Sweet Tooth as a series of eight episodes. Susan and Robert Downey Jr. take part in the project through their own production company Team Downey. While on set during

1440-425: Is a 2016 American comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics . The series ran for seven issues, beginning with a prologue issue #0 in November 2016 before officially beginning in December 2016 and ending in March 2017. The series was written by Charles Soule and Jeff Lemire with art by Leinil Francis Yu , Kenneth Rocafort , and Javi Garron. The series features a battle over a biological substance named

1520-511: Is about to lead the charge against the Inhumans, she opens up to Forge about how she feels and acknowledges that a part of her will always love him. During a massive battle against the Inhumans, Magik continues to hear Sapna's voice coming from her sword until Sapna pulls Magik's soul into the sword. She finds out that Sapna's soul is eternally trapped inside of the sword and wants Magik to stay with her forever. Magik discovers that while her soul

1600-515: Is attending college. Jean initially refuses to join, but reveals that she has sensed Wolverine , who should be dead. Storm is successful in only recruiting Colossus, but as he and Magik go to investigate Nightcrawler's disappearance, they are abducted by the Marauders . Mister Sinister is experimenting on blending Inhuman DNA with Mutant DNA. He hopes that Magik's sorcery will be the key, since all previous experiments failed. When he knocks out Magik,

1680-414: Is dating a mutant. She then meets with Old Man Logan and convinces him that since he is from a different timeline he won't kill the X-Men in this dimension and she'll do whatever she can to protect him from himself. They are then teleported to X-Haven and help with the final defenses before Forge powers up a shield. With X-Haven safe, they travel to Nightcrawler's last location and Wolverine tracks them into

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1760-548: Is fated to destroy the X-Men – subdues Colossus and returns them home. Storm also brings the elderly Apocalypse since Colossus is still in Horseman form. Back in the present, Magik also finds that Sapna has abandoned X-Haven and Apocalypse is forced to revert Colossus, but instead uses the last of his power to teleport Colossus to Clan Akkaba. Magik follows the spectral trail that Sapna left behind in hopes of finding her and bringing her back to X-Haven. The trail leads her to one of

1840-446: Is left with conflicted feelings and refuses to confide in her team. She discusses her reservations about potentially leading the X-Men to war against the Inhumans with Logan, who reassures her that no matter what she decides he will always follow her lead. Storm is about to inform her team about the meeting and its implications for the future, when she is called to meet a mutant child dying of M-Pox. The child's death convinces Storm to lead

1920-506: Is no longer a threat to them. No-Girl manages to track Cerebra's whereabouts and they're able to upload her consciousness from her damaged-beyond-repair body into a new mechanism. Feeling guilty for having led the X-Men to war instead of looking for a diplomatic solution, Storm steps down as leader of the X-Men and recruits Kitty Pryde to take over leadership duties and attempts to quit the X-Men. Kitty has Storm stay, however Storm spends much time questioning her own morality. Kitty relocates

2000-441: Is revealed that the X-Men have Black Bolt hidden away in a specially-made prison. Mosaic arrives at Muir Island to find out any information that he can about what the X-Men are planning. He manages to enter Magneto's mind while his helmet is off and sees everything that took place from the X-Men's point of view leading up to the war. Magneto discovers Mosaic and begins to fight back until Mosaic leaves and escapes. Mosaic possesses

2080-406: Is stuck inside of her sword, her body is frozen in the real world and susceptible to attack. She convinces Sapna to let her go and together they manage to open a portal to free Magik's soul. Sapna's soul remains stuck in the sword but she is now able to reveal her astral form to Magik. After the war ends and Medusa destroys the Terrigen, the mutants no longer need to stay at X-Haven so the X-Men help

2160-570: Is the author of critically acclaimed titles including the Essex County Trilogy , Sweet Tooth , and The Nobody . His written work includes All-New Hawkeye , Extraordinary X-Men , Moon Knight and Old Man Logan for Marvel ; Superboy , Animal Man , Justice League Dark , and Green Arrow for DC ; Black Hammer and Mazebook for Dark Horse ; Descender and Gideon Falls for Image Comics ; and Bloodshot Reborn for Valiant . In 2021, Sweet Tooth

2240-684: Is to make the Inhuman government a democracy of elected officials so everyone has a voice instead of relying upon only royal blood to rule, and decrees that Inhumans work more closely alongside the humans and their governments now that there are to be no more new Inhumans. Marvel Boy approaches Crystal and informs her about a potential way to create new Terrigen, prompting the Royal Family to travel to space to learn new information on Terrigenesis that they never knew before. The X-Men try to move forward with their lives and come out of hiding now that

2320-459: The Royal City series. I wanted it to be a place where I could tell all sorts of stories and a place that I could return to throughout my career, and check in on the characters at different points in their lives. But the truth is, the schedule of trying to write, draw and watercolor paint a monthly comic myself, while also writing all my other series for other artists, was just too much. I can do

2400-505: The Terrigen Mists , which the Inhumans need to gain superpowers but is deadly to the mutant X-Men and other mutant individuals. Inhumans vs. X-Men was announced by Marvel's Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada on July 23, 2016 during his "Cup o' Joe" panel at San Diego Comic-Con . This story closes the story arcs established at the end of 2015's Secret Wars event. Prior to releasing Inhumans vs. X-Men , Marvel released

2480-538: The Xeric Award -winning comic book Lost Dogs in 2005 via his Ashtray Press imprint, Lemire found a home at Top Shelf Productions . Lemire serialized a science-fiction strip called Fortress in the quarterly UR Magazine . In 2006 Lemire's work was included in an international symposium gathering artists, scholars, curators, publishers, librarians, critics, and writers at the Banff Centre . Lemire's work

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2560-604: The 2014 New York Comic Con , it was announced that Lemire would be writing All-New Hawkeye , his first Marvel Comics title, with artist Ramón Pérez, which began in March 2015, a follow-up to Matt Fraction's and David Aja's acclaimed run. The series ran for five issues until September 2015 before being relaunched as part of All-New All-Different Marvel. Bleedingcool reported in April 2015 that Lemire had signed an exclusivity contract with Marvel, which excluded his creator-owned work with Image and Dark Horse Comics, as well as his work with Valiant Entertainment. In June 2015, Lemire

2640-542: The 2022 Disney+ television series adaptation . Series directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson said of the Lemire/Smallwood run's influence: “When we got together [...] and we cracked open that run in particular, that was when the visuals of the show really crystallized for us [...] The highly formal composition, the bright colors — there’s actually a sense of match cutting, so it even informed our editing

2720-552: The Ennilux. Cyclops exposes Emma's lies and reveals that she faked the older Cyclops' death in order to trigger this war, prompting the X-Men and Inhumans to unite against her. Medusa attempts to calm her down and reason with her, but Havok intervenes and captures Emma and disappears with her. Now wanted by both the Inhumans and the X-Men, Emma goes deep into hiding. Medusa abdicates the throne and gives all leadership duties to Iso, knowing that her people won't understand why she destroyed

2800-472: The Farm , in January 2021 before the official announcement the following June. It is a five-issue monthly miniseries, published by Dark Horse Comics. Written and drawn by Lemire, the story follows a man looking for his daughter ten years after she originally went missing. The first issue was published September 8, 2021. In early September 2021, Lemire announced his Tales from the Farm email newsletter would be moving to Substack , where he would be serializing

2880-534: The Inhumans in order to turn them against each other. Forge arrives with Moon Girl , Ahura , and the Ennilux with a new device to destroy the Terrigen Cloud. Iso and Moon Girl explain to Medusa why they need to destroy the cloud. Now fully understanding the gravity of the situation, Medusa destroys the cloud herself, voluntarily ending the war. Still craving vengeance, Emma releases an army of hidden Sentinels reprogrammed to kill Inhumans and begins massacring

2960-415: The X-Men forward and feels guilty for leading them to war when they could have found a diplomatic solution. To put everyone's mind at ease, Iceman initiates a game of baseball with the X-Men and for the first time in a while they feel happy in that moment. Jeff Lemire Jeff Lemire ( / l ə ˈ m ɪr / ; born March 21, 1976) is a Canadian comic book writer, artist, and television producer. He

3040-426: The X-Men from Limbo to Central Park in hopes of helping the X-Men reestablish themselves as heroes instead of hiding in fear all the time even though the general populace fears mutants even more due to their war against the Inhumans. The series holds a score of 7.3 out of 10 on comic book review aggregator Comic Book Roundup, indicating mixed reviews. The prologue and first two issues received favorable reviews, but

3120-423: The X-Men into war against the Inhumans since there isn't a cure to save mutants from the Terrigen. Forge constructs a machine that will change the structure of the Terrigen cloud so it could be destroyed. Storm sends Logan and Forge to guard it from the Inhumans. Despite Forge's attempts to reach out to Storm emotionally she continues to rebuff him, causing him to feel unwanted and unappreciated. Moments before Storm

3200-472: The arrival of his sister, and was scheduled to be published in October 2016. Comparing the project to Essex County , a book that found success in the mainstream literary world, Lemire stated that he chose Simon & Schuster because he wanted to find a publisher that would treat Roughneck as a novel instead of a comic, with his goal being finding success outside of the direct market. AD: After Death ,

3280-443: The body of a dead superhero in the woods, and features colors by Jordie Bellaire . Lemire will be drawing backup stories featuring the last adventures of Plutona. In September 2013, Simon & Schuster acquired world rights to Lemire's newest graphic novel, Roughneck , for publication in 2016. The graphic novel, which Lemire wrote, illustrated, and painted, follows a former hockey player's slide into depression as interrupted by

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3360-476: The center of it all. There Colossus ambushes them, ready to kill his friends, claiming he has no choice. Storm conjures a massive cyclone to carry away their attackers so she and Magik can continue through the portal to find Sapna. Meanwhile, at X-Haven, Apocalypse begins to bait and taunt Forge. As Colossus is just about to kill Iceman and Nightcrawler, he is ambushed by Glob Herman, Anole, and No-Girl. Storm and Magik manage to track down Sapna, but they find her under

3440-516: The control of the World Eater. Sapna steals Magik's sword and begins leading the World Eater to Limbo so it can destroy it as it did the many other realms Storm and Magik passed through earlier. Magik reopens the portal so she and Storm can convince the mystics who attacked them earlier to help them stop Sapna and the World Eater before it consumes Limbo. As Colossus' students keep him busy, Forge and Cerebra capture him and take him back to X-Haven where he can hopefully be cured. Storm and Magik reunite with

3520-452: The defenses for X-Haven fall apart and demons start attacking the school. Storm, Ice Man, Anole , Glob Herman , Ernst , and Cerebra (who is implanted into a Sentinel) try to defend, while Forge creates a failsafe shield. Back in NYC, Jean Grey is disgusted when she sees humans attacking an Inhuman, thinking he is a mutant. She uses her powers and her current boyfriend Chris is horrified that he

3600-539: The filming of the pilot in New Zealand, Lemire was hit with an inspiration for how to revisit the world of Sweet Tooth in comics, which led to the 2020 six-issue miniseries Sweet Tooth: The Return . Lemire signed an exclusivity contract with DC Comics in December 2010. He moved over to the DC Universe to write the one-shot Brightest Day : Atom , with Turkish artist Mahmud Asrar , designed to act as

3680-429: The finale doesn't quite stick the landing." Kabooooom critic Marcus Hammond noted that "[w]ith Lemire, Soule, and Yu at the helm, this should have been one of the best issues on the stand [this week]. Unfortunately, the numerous small problems with characterization and the lack of tension in the visuals force readers to question the direction ResurrXion will lead these two critically important teams." Data taken from

3760-409: The four-part bimonthly series Death of X to serve as a prequel that would lead into the events of Inhumans vs. X-Men . In a Comic-Con interview, Lemire discussed the broader, real-world implications of the event: "X-Men stories have always been very allegorical and very symbolic for real world events. I think there is a permeating sense of fear and mistrust that is driving a lot of world events at

3840-412: The future time line, called Omega World. Glob, No-Girl, Ernst, and Anole have been on the run from the new Horseman of Apocalypse: Colossus, Deadpool , Moon Knight , and Venom . The team loses the mutant genomes, but then tracks the horseman to Apocalypse's temple. Wolverine gets absorbed by Venom and the rest of the team deal with the Horseman, so Storm and Nightcrawler teleport into the temple to find

3920-407: The genomes. They find Apocalypse, now a millennia old, using every last vestige of his energy in keeping Beyond World from collapsing. He has been attempting to create his vision of a perfect world. He believes mutant-kind is doomed, so he destroyed the Ark. Nightcrawler is furious and stabs him, then Omega World begins to collapse. Magik finally rejoins them but – after finding that her protege, Sapna,

4000-401: The later issues received increasingly lower scores. Of the early issues, critics complemented the build-up from Soule, saying he did "incredible work capitalizing on the potential he has always had," and referring to Rocafort's art as "amazing." Of the later issues, critics remarked that the storyline had largely fallen flat. Newsarama critic Joe Edsall, who had initially written favorably of

4080-415: The many portals that Sapna previously discovered after her powers activated. Meanwhile, back on earth, Nightcrawler and Iceman track down members of Clan Akkaba in hopes of finding Colossus to revert him back to normal from Horseman form. While interrogating one of the clansmen, Nightcrawler snaps and almost kills him. Storm meets Magik at the portal and they pass through many unknown barren realms connected to

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4160-421: The moment, and a lot of hatred and violence. So it’s not hard to see the mutant/Inhuman conflict as a metaphor for much of what’s going on around us." Marvel editor Sana Amanat announced after the series' second issue that following the event, Marvel would release "a whole new line of X-Men and Inhumans titles." The ending of Inhumans vs. X-Men served as a lead-in for the announced ResurrXion event, which saw

4240-442: The mutant refugees return to their homes on earth. No-Girl receives a distress call from Cerebra and manages to find her damaged body, destroyed after Emma Frost released an onslaught of Sentinels programmed to massacre the Inhumans accidentally attacked Cerebra in the crossfire. To save Cerebra, No-Girl returns to her original form and uploads Cerebra into her current one. With X-Haven now completely vacated, Storm wonders how to move

4320-531: The mutants destroy the cloud. They track the cloud to Iceland where the rest of the X-Men ambush them, assuming that the Inhumans kidnapped Cyclops and Forge. The Royal Family finally arrives in Iceland and joins the battle, making Emma determined to kill all of the Inhumans. The X-Men begin to notice Emma's uncharacteristic bloodlust as she and the Stepford Cuckoos begin mind-controlling several of

4400-504: The mystics, who inform them that the Soul Eater takes over each realm in "The Lattice" (a series of worlds that Limbo is connected to) and needs a host from each world in order to travel The Lattice and feed. Sapna leads the World Eater and an army of demons directly to X-Haven. The X-Men all try unsuccessfully to thwart the invasion and Magik and Storm combine powers with the mystics to open a portal straight to X-Haven. Nightcrawler makes

4480-519: The original series, launched April 2019. In January 2015, Sony Pictures acquired the movie rights to Descender after a competitive bidding war. Josh Bratman is producing, with Lemire and Nguyen serving as executive producers. Jesse Wigutow, writer of the Tron: Legacy sequel, was announced as the screenwriter adapting Descender in February 2016. In July 2014, Dark Horse Comics announced

4560-473: The other side of the portal, they find Old Man Logan waiting for them. While Inferno distracts Logan, Iso discovers Forge nearby with a device that the X-Men are planning to use to alter the structure of the Terrigen Cloud so they can incinerate it. Iso and Inferno manage to defeat Logan and take Forge as their prisoner. In Limbo, Medusa and the rest of the Royal Family start planning their escape. It

4640-478: The portal while following Sapna's trail. They end up in a war-torn realm, ambushed by a team of mystics who assume that Magik and Storm are servants of a being known as the World Eater. Nightcrawler and Iceman teleport to a Clan Akkaba hideout in Egypt to continue their hunt for Colossus and discover a mural depicting everything that's happened to the X-Men and may happen in the future, with a large image of Apocalypse in

4720-497: The possibility of war. Storm initiates a vote that ends in favor of destroying the Terrigen Cloud instead of leaving the planet. Wanting to avoid any conflict, Beast attempts to return to New Attilan , but Storm reluctantly attacks him from behind and reveals that she supported Emma and Magneto's plans from the beginning. Several of the X-Men work to get all of the heavy-hitters from the Inhuman Royal Family out of

4800-467: The project as The Bone Orchard Mythos , a "shared horror universe of interconnected stories taking place across multiple books and in different formats" from him and Sorrentino at Image Comics. The first three books will be a graphic novel in June 2022 called The Passageway , a mini-series in Fall 2022 called Ten Thousand Black Feathers , and another hardcover graphic novel in mid-2023 called Tenement , with

4880-569: The remaining Terrigen Cloud. Now free of the burdens of being a queen, Medusa happily reunites with Black Bolt in the Quiet Room. The ending of Inhumans vs. X-Men served as a lead-in for the announced RessurXion event, which would feature brand new titles for Inhumans and X-Men. New titles and new volumes of past titles include Inhumans Prime, Royals, Black Bolt, Secret Warriors, X-Men Prime, X-Men Gold, X-Men Blue, Generation X, Weapon X, Jean Grey, Cable, and Iceman. Maximus tries to enact

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4960-474: The same time, Emma Frost begins to face Black Bolt in order to avenge Cyclops . Beast soon overhears Medusa telling the rest of the Inhuman Royal Family to be prepared for the possibility of war against the X-Men as he discovers that the Terrigen cloud is becoming more saturated. Beast calls a meeting with representatives from each major mutant team. After updating them on the Terrigen cloud and suggesting they leave earth for good, Emma and Magneto hint at

5040-509: The series, gave the series ending a five out of ten: "The biggest positive is that Lenil Francis Lu manages to deliver a consistent stream of vivid panels ground otherwise chaotic scenes. The sense of an arc down the line with supervillain Emma Frost gives the finale a powerful sense of foreboding, but it makes this feels more like a set-up for the Inhumans and X-Men Prime books, which is a shame. IvX started out as something really special, but

5120-663: The sewers where they confront Mister Sinister and the Marauders. He reveals that he is only trying to save the mutant race, but they are doomed for extinction. His only experiment to blend the Inhuman and mutants was a clone of Cyclops, who then rampages through New York City. After the battle, Storm announces that the X-Men are opening X-Haven to any mutant seeking sanctuary from the Terrigen Mist, and mean no harm to humans or inhumans and will also be there to help them if needed. The speech goes viral and mutants respond from around

5200-512: The show.” Extraordinary X-Men , billed as the flagship X-Men title, features a team led by Storm, deals with the fallout of the Terrigen Mist, and launched in November 2015. All-New Hawkeye debuted in November 2015, continuing with the story-line established in Lemire's and Pérez's previous run on the title. Old Man Logan launched in January 2016, and features a future version of Wolverine . In December 2014, Lemire launched The Valiant ,

5280-466: The sole writer and illustrator. The series follows Royal City resident the Pike family, who live with the ghost of the young Tommy Pike, who "is quite literally haunting them all still and holding them all back." Lemire originally intended the series to be much longer. He later said of the series' premature ending: Of all the books I have done, this one feels like a failure of sorts. I had huge ambitions for

5360-809: The story of the X-Men continued in X-Men Gold , X-Men Blue , X-Men Red and Astonishing X-Men . After the release of the Terrigen Mist , Storm , Iceman and Magik have decided to leave the Westchester and establish X-Haven in the Limbo dimension. Their goal is to protect healthy mutants from the Terrigen and to provide safe care for mutants who were infected by it. Before leaving they try to recruit old friends: Colossus , living quietly in Russia; Nightcrawler , recently abducted; and Jean Grey , who

5440-462: The threat of extinction is finally gone. Magneto's team of X-Men disbands and Psylocke kills him for taking part in Emma's deceptions that led to the war. Unbeknownst to her, Magneto was prepared for her to kill him so he had Exodus and Elixir find him and revive him so they could continue with their agenda. Storm's team of X-Men vacates Limbo and the mutant refugees return home now that the Terrigen

5520-466: The time-displaced Cyclops and manages to escape to find the rest of his team and tells them what he's learned, prompting his team to switch sides. Karnak fights Fantomex and Jean and escapes when Lockjaw appears to him. Inside Forge's lab, Havok guards Black Bolt's cell. Havok relents and lets them take Black Bolt. Karnak arrives with Lockjaw and helps the Royal Family escape Limbo. The young Inhumans, along with Forge and young Cyclops, decide to help

5600-503: The titles referenced by Amanat released. These original titles and continuations of past titles include Inhumans Prime, Royals, Black Bolt , Secret Warriors , X-Men Prime, X-Men Gold, X-Men Blue, Generation X , Weapon X , Jean Grey , Cable , and Iceman . The series was released in trade paperback form on July 18, 2017. Beast works with Iso to discover any potential cures to the Terrigen cloud that has been toxic to Mutants . At

5680-412: The way as the rest of the X-Men attack New Attilan. Medusa sends Iso and Inferno to find out what happened to Black Bolt and Crystal as she prepares for battle. It is revealed that all of the captured Inhumans along with Human Torch are sent to Limbo. Iso and Inferno are pursued by Wolverine and the time-displaced Angel . They manage to escape through a portal just before Wolverine can harm them. On

5760-572: The world. After a successful mission in the Savage Land to rescue Sunfire, Storm gives Colossus permission to train a team of students for battles. Anole, No-Girl, Glob Herman, and Ernst begin training. Storm doesn't trust Sunfire, claiming that "he and Cyclops" caused the Terrigen Mist. They then rescue Nightcrawler, who is hunted by a mob in Germany. Storm and Jean delve into his mind to rid him of his mental instability, but find out he discovered

5840-465: The writing duties on Justice League Dark with issue #9, while leaving Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E. to newcomer Matt Kindt . He continued to write Animal Man into 2012, including teaming up with Swamp Thing writer Scott Snyder for a crossover between the two books called "Rotworld." In February 2013, Lemire replaced Ann Nocenti as the writer of Green Arrow . His work on the title, which had not been well-received under previous writers,

5920-717: Was adapted as a Netflix television series through Susan and Robert Downey Jr. 's production company Team Downey , with Lemire serving as an on-set consultant. Lemire has also collaborated with musicians such as Eddie Vedder on his Matter of Time animated video and Gord Downie on Secret Path , a multimedia storytelling project. Lemire was born and raised in Woodslee, Ontario in Essex County , near Lake St. Clair . Lemire attended film school, but decided to pursue comics when he realized that filmmaking did not suit his solitary personality. After self-publishing

6000-466: Was announced as a writer for three titles in the All-New, All-Different Marvel branding: All-New Hawkeye , with artist Ramón Pérez, Extraordinary X-Men , with artist Humberto Ramos, and Old Man Logan , with artist Andrea Sorrentino. Three months later, it was announced he would pen the relaunched Moon Knight title, with artist Greg Smallwood. His work on the character served as inspiration for

6080-517: Was part of the "Comic Craze" exhibit, which showcased Canadian comics and narrative fiction. Lemire wrote and illustrated the Eisner and Harvey Award -nominated Essex County Trilogy for Top Shelf in 2008–2009. In June 2011 it was announced that visual effects artist John Dykstra will direct an adaptation of Essex County entitled Super Zero . 2012 saw the publication of a new graphic novel from Top Shelf called The Underwater Welder , which

6160-401: Was published as a six-issue miniseries by Image Comics beginning on September 15, 2021. In his Tales from the Farm newsletter, Lemire has said he and Sorrentino are already at work on their next project after Primordial , teasing an announcement to coming in the Fall of 2021. Lemire claimed it will be "the most ambitious thing he and I have done together." In November 2021, Lemire announced

6240-441: Was released in summer of 2022. Lemire announced plans to re-team with Descender and Ascender illustrator Dustin Nguyen for a project initially known under the working title of Project Pavement . The project's name was eventually revealed to be Little Monsters , an ongoing series at Image Comics, and the first issue came out in March 2022. Inhumans vs. X-Men Inhumans vs. X-Men , also stylized IvX or IVX ,

6320-631: Was released to critical acclaim. In December 2015, it was announced that First Generation Films had optioned the rights to Essex County to develop the graphic novel as a television series from Canada's CBC. Aaron Martin was set as writer and showrunner, as well as executive producing with Lemire. In October 2020, Lemire revealed that the show will commence filming in 2022 as a six-episode mini-series with himself serving as writer, showrunner, and producer. The series, Essex County , premiered on March 19, 2023, on CBC Television . In 2009, DC Comics ' Vertigo imprint published Lemire's The Nobody ,

6400-913: Was widely praised by critics and fans, and lasted until September 2014. Lemire drew a Rip Hunter story for Time Warp #1 (May 2013) which was written by Damon Lindelof and published by Vertigo. In 2014, Lemire joined a team of writers composed of Brian Azzarello , Keith Giffen , and Dan Jurgens to co-write The New 52: Futures End , a new weekly series set five years into the New 52's future. It ran from May 2014 through April 2015. Lemire wrote Teen Titans: Earth One , an original graphic novel with art by Terry and Rachel Dodson published by DC Comics in November 2014. As part of DC's Earth One line, Teen Titans: Earth One takes place in an alternate continuity-free universe that re-imagines DC's characters. After his exclusivity contract with DC came to an end, Lemire began working with other publishers. At

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