Tom Brevoort teases next X-event

Tom Brevoort has revealed some details about the next forthcoming X-Men event.

The event will mark newly appointed editor-in-chief Axel Alonso's end as X-Men group editor, to be replaced by Nick Lowe.

"The X-Men event that's coming up is definitely not an ending or the close of an era necessarily, because by the end of it we'll establish a new situation that will project the X-Men into the next few years, potentially," Marvel's senior vice president of publishing told CBR.

"But the incoming X-event is definitely a culmination of a number of the threads and story points that have been percolating since back in 'Messiah CompleX', and maybe even a little earlier than that."

The story will begin in Paul Jenkins' four-issue X-Men: Prelude, which spotlights the characters who have emerged as the leaders of the mutant diaspora.

"Paul's story functions as an overture to the event. It's not connected so much on a plot level as it is on a thematic level. It sets the table for what's to come from July to October, which is when the next X-crisis will hit," said Brevoort.