Brevoort teases 'X-Men: Prelude' series

Marvel Senior Vice President of Publishing Tom Brevoort has revealed the first details about Marvel's next big X-Men event.

Brevoort announced that Paul Jenkins will write a four-issue miniseries called X-Men: Prelude beginning in May that builds a number of plot threads leading into the start of the event in October.

"The incoming X-event is definitely a culmination of a number of threads and story points that have been percolating since back in "Messiah Complex", and maybe even a little earlier than that," Brevoort revealed to Comic Book Resources. "By the end of it, we'll establish a new situation that will project the X-Men into the next few years, potentially."

"Paul's story functions as an overture to the event," Brevoort explained. "It's not connected so much on a plot level as it is on a thematic level."

While specific details about the upcoming X-Men event have yet to be released, it has been revealed that X-Men: Prelude will focus on a power struggle between the mutant leaders.

"Paul's story specifically focuses on the four characters who are at the forefront of the leadership question for mutantkind: Professor X, Cyclops, Wolverine, and Magneto," he added. "Paul's story is very much about who these four characters are as individuals and what their specific philosophies are as we dive into that epic."

Professor X, Cyclops, and Magneto have all taken charge of the X-Men at various points in the team's history, while Wolverine led the mutant heroes in the short-lived animated series Wolverine and the X-Men.

X-Men: Prelude is due to begin in May.