The writer that revolutionized the X-Men is tackling Marvel’s gods next

Writer Jonathan Hickman’s name is synonymous with big swings – add Inferno And AX: Judgment Day artist Valerio Schiti and all-star colorist Marte Gracia, and you’ve got a dream team of heavy hitters. And that team will take on the heaviest hitters of them all, Marvel Comics announced today, in a new series called GODSrevealed in an animated trailer.

Marvel has been showing off mystery teases for the new series at conventions since San Diego Comic-Con 2022, but now Hickman and Schiti can finally talk openly about the project. And according to Hickman, in the Marvel press release, GODS is an idea as old as House of X / Powers of Xwhich catapulted the X-Men to a fantastic new status quo in 2019.

“When I came back to Marvel a few years ago, I wrote two sets of Bibles,” Hickman writes. “The first was House of X and the other was GODS. To say I’m excited to finally be able to share this story with everyone is a huge understatement.”

“His pitch inspired me almost immediately,” Schiti wrote. “The core of the story is so perfect and clear that it swept away my anxiety and turned it into a burst of creativity.”

Hickman says that “GODS takes place in its own special corner of the Marvel Universe — in the cracks that lie at the intersection of science and magic,” and Marvel’s trailer for the series shows just that: a conversation about the nature of good and evil. between Doctor Strange and a new character known only as Wyn.

According to the Marvel press release, Wyn is “a mysterious player in a war that exists beyond the orders we know and a vital member of an ancient hierarchy that includes the all-powerful rulers of the universe such as Eternity, Infinity and the Living. Tribunal. [This scene is] just the beginning of a breathtaking epic at the intersection of science and magic, one that will shatter our understanding and open our eyes to ideas beyond all we perceive.

Fans will have to wait until fall 2023 for the series to debut, but in the meantime, Marvel Comics has promised that a special preview for GODS will be included in the company’s 2023 Free Comic Book Day issue, Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/X-Men #1available in participating stores on May 6.

“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Valerio Schiti on this for the past year,” Hickman wrote in the press release, “and it’s been a joy to watch him bring this to life. GODS is my favorite kind of Marvel comic: one that feels like something old but pushes the Marvel Universe in an exciting new direction.”