Gillen to co-write 'Uncanny X-Men'

Marvel Comics has revealed that Kieron Gillen will co-write Uncanny X-Men alongside Matt Fraction.

Best known for his work on Thor and Generation Hope, the newly-exclusive Marvel scribe's run on the title begins with issue #531.

"For the last 30 years, Uncanny X-Men has been superhero comics' truest reflection of the age. That's what I have to live up to and take it into the future, trying to write the definitive 20-teen take on the X-Men," said Gillen.

"Any less is underselling what the book deserves. Co-writing with Matt seems a worryingly natural development, as we were friends, then were working together creating the five lights for Generation Hope. The exclusive is the proverbial gravy. In the words of Ms [Beyoncé] Knowles: 'They liked it. They put a ring on it'."

The duo's first arc together sees the mutant team lose its powers at the hands of the Sublime Corporation.

Fraction added: "As a writer? This feels like Kieron and I have already been working on the book for several months anyway, what with the 'Five Lights' story and cueing up what he needed for Generation Hope, so this is a perfectly natural extension of that.

"As a reader? There's literally no-one else in the world I want to read writing X-Men more than Kieron. He's great. He's dangerously great. And he's dying... Dying to entertain you."

Uncanny X-Men #531 arrives in stores in December.