Yesterday, Marvel’s August solicits revealed a new Kitty Pryde story for this year’s X-Men Gold Annual #2, exploring Kitty’s first kiss at Summer Camp, presumably the summer before she joined the X-Men back in Uncanny X-Men #129. The comic will be written by award-winning author Seanan McGuire and Marco Failla. If you’re not familiar with McGuire’s work in the grown-up publishing world, perhaps all you need to know is that she’s apparently a really big X-fan, as exemplified by her complete geek-out when the news of the annual broke.
McGuire took to Twitter to write:
So, uh, about today's adventure…
https://t.co/YnpP4RStde— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 22, 2018
IT'S ME AND I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO TELL YOU FOR TWO MONTHS.
I THINK I RUPTURED SOMETHING.— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 22, 2018
I made X-Men canon. Even if I never wrote another word in this universe, I made canon happen, and honestly, that is so huge it's a little bit hard to breathe.
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 22, 2018
Contact your local comic book store! Pre-order X-MEN GOLD ANNUAL #2! Get multiple copies JUST IN CASE.
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 22, 2018
TELL A FRIEND.
TELL AN ENEMY.
TELL YOUR MOTHER.
TELL AN ENEMY'S MOTHER.
THERE IS NO GOING BACK.
I HAVE THE X-MEN NOW.— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 22, 2018
And if you’re thinking, sure, it’s exciting to have your childhood dream realized…
…but surely she’s calmed down by now, guess again.
So…
1. I am finally home from today's whirlwind tour of the West Coast.
2. I am going to try replying to tweets, but OMG THE TWEETS. So if I skip you, it's failure to cope, not malice.
3. ARE YOU AS EXCITED AS I AM?!— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
(Note: This is not me teasing "ooooo, I'm gonna get an ongoing." This is me putting into the universe "I want one, I think I would do well with one, I think I would make people happy with one, and I am going to do everything I can to make it happen.")
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
She even bought the cover art for her own story:
That "expensive but unique" thing I talked about buying the other day?
It was the original art. For my cover.
I own the cover of my first ever official X-Men story. pic.twitter.com/evsjFGMZWV— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
(And like, I couldn't wait to be able to say airily "oh, I can afford it," because let's be real, this thing is gorgeous, some collector would have snapped it up and I would never have been able to stare at it in rapt awe again.)
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
And 12 hours later, in case anyone had missed it…
Hey uh so WHO WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE X-MEN SOME MORE.
BECAUSE I'M WRITING FOR THE X-MEN NOW.
DID YOU HEAR?
I'M AN X-WRITER.— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
It's going to be a beautiful book. The cover, by @DjibrilMP, is breathtaking. I haven't seen @failla_comics's interiors yet, but I know his work, and I have no concerns. I couldn't ask for a better first-time-out team.
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
So! Here is what I would love for all of you to pretty pretty pretty please do, and also tell your friends to do, until the world rises up and buys the entire first print run like a mighty wave of "please give Seanan more to do, we wanna see her with the brakes off":
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
(For bonus points, say "I would like to own TWO copies, one to read and one to place reverently upon a shelf, that I might gaze upon its untouched glories forevermore." Although maybe in your own words, we don't wanna freak people out.)
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
"But wait," you may say. "I don't have a local comic book store!"
Oh, have we got you covered.— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
Yesterday while I was at Flying Colors (in Pleasant Hill, California) telling @flycojoe the amazing news, we discussed the fact that I had promised him (WHEN I WAS TWELVE) that my first signing would be in his store.
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
If you do not have a viable LCBS…
1. Wait until after 11am PT, as time zones exist.
2. Contact Flying Colors.
3. Place your pre-order with them.
4. Sometime shortly AFTER August 1st, receive your signed copy in the mail.— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
…and here endith the commercial part of our morning. We now return to me shrieking I'M WRITING THE X-MEN!!!! over and over again, like a very excited macaw.
— Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire) May 23, 2018
You could say she’s a little enthusiastic about it is what we’re trying to say.
X-Men Annual #2 hits stores in August.
X-MEN GOLD ANNUAL #2
SEANAN MCGUIRE (W) • MARCO FAILLA (A)
COVER BY DJIBRIL MORISSETTE-PHAN
VARIANT COVER BY EMA LUPACCHINO
Your favorite X-Man KITTY PRYDE just made the biggest decision of her tumultuous romantic life, but what set her on that course? Before Peter, Peter, or…Peter, there was Kitty’s FIRST kiss! Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer Seanan McGuire (InCryptid, October Daye, Wayward Children series) and artist Marco Failla (MS. MARVEL, ALL-NEW WOLVERINE, Harley Quinn) reveal the secrets of young Kitty’s summer at Camp Maplebrook in a story with more teen mutant angst and camp hijinks than can be contained in a regular-sized issue! Kitty’s kept this tale to herself for years – be the first to find out why!
40 PGS./Rated T+ …$4.99
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