Chris Claremont unveils 'X-Women'

Industry legend Chris Claremont has unveiled the long-awaited translation of his Italian X-book.

The X-Men writer teamed-up with artist Milo Manara in 2006 to create X-Men: Ragazze In Fuga for a project uniting Marvel Comics and Italy's Panini.

The black-and-white comic is finally appearing as the English-language, fully-coloured X-Women 48-page one-shot.

"The story starts with Rogue having a party at a Greek island mansion she inherited from Irene Adler, from Destiny," Claremont told CBR.

"And things from there get very, very complicated. They get hijacked out to Genosha where we discover some things about Genosha that we've never discovered before. And much interesting and exciting adventures are had by all.

"In a primal sense, Kitty ends up being the viewpoint character because she very often is when I'm telling a story."

The comic stars a host of female X-Men established by the writer including Rogue, Storm, Psylocke, Kitty Pryde and Rachel Summers.

X-Women will be released in July.