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Ripped from the Past Along with the Four Other Original Students of Charles Xavier, Jean Grey and Her Fellow X-Men Struggle to F DENNIS HOPELESS WRITER PREVIOUSLY IN X-MEN... VICTOR IBÁÑEZ ARTIST RIPPED FROM THE PAST ALONG WITH JAY DAVID RAMOS COLORIST THE FOUR OTHER ORIGINAL STUDENTS OF VC’s TRAVIS LANHAM CHARLES XAVIER, JEAN GREY AND HER LETTERER DAVID YARDIN FELLOW X-MEN STRUGGLE TO FIND THEIR COVER ARTIST DAVE COCKRUM & PAUL MOUNTS; SHAWN CRYSTAL & PLACE IN THE PRESENT WHILE USING THEIR CHRIS BRUNNER; STEPHANIE HANS; LEONARD KIRK & MICHAEL GARLAND; MARGUERITE SAUVAGE; MUTANT ABILITIES FOR GOOD. DAVID WILLIAMS & ANDREW CROSSLEY VARIANT COVER ARTISTS JAY BOWEN & ANTHONY GAMBINO GRAPHIC DESIGNERS CHRIS ROBINSON ASSISTANT EDITOR DANIEL KETCHUM EDITOR MARK PANICCIA X-MEN GROUP EDITOR AXEL ALONSO EDITOR IN CHIEF JOE QUESADA CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER DAN BUCKLEY PRESIDENT ALAN FINE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER X-MEN CREATED BY STAN LEE & JACK KIRBY JEAN GREY No. 1, July 2017. Published Monthly by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a subsidiary of MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. © 2017 MARVEL No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. $3.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. DAN BUCKLEY, President, Marvel Entertainment; JOE QUESADA, Chief Creative Officer; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of Publishing; DAVID BOGART, SVP of Business Affairs & Operations, Publishing & Partnership; C.B. CEBULSKI, VP of Brand Management & Development, Asia; DAVID GABRIEL, SVP of Sales & Marketing, Publishing; JEFF YOUNGQUIST, VP of Production & Special Projects; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; SUSAN CRESPI, Production Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in Marvel Comics or on Marvel.com, please contact Vit DeBellis, Integrated Sales Manager, at [email protected]. For Marvel subscription inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. Manufactured between 04/07/2017 and 04/17/2017 by FRY COMMUNICATIONS, MECHANICSBURG, PA, USA. I’m jean grey. yeah. no. not that jean grey. I never got possessed by an intergalactic firebird. no phoenix force here. or received the associated space- god power-up. which means I never went all crazy dark phoenix. never destroyed a planet. never tried to murder my friends. --in the love also of my life’s means I’ve stupid arms-- --a genocidal never died-- madwoman corpse, all decked out in her burgundy bad- guy clothes. pretty okay with not being that jean grey, frankly. nope, not me either. that other jean. grown-up She’s my badass, seen-and- nightmare. done-it-all jean. her life-- --the life I should have led— --wakes me up a couple nights a week. all cold sweat-y. her maybe I can shadow learn from her will mistakes. maybe probably I can be the always happy jean. stretch further than mine. but maybe that’s cool. I’m still this jean grey… mostly. the kid. the jean grey who’s still feeling things out. but thanks to time travel and other crazy scary science fiction run amok… …my fellow original I love these x-men and I are trapped guys to death. here in the future. but they’re still guys. now give them super-powers and time- displacement emotional trauma. so… yeah. that’s why pickles and I are having imagine sharing ramen brunch. an apartment with four filthy weirdo brothers. in kyoto. pickles is a delicious noodles, teleporting demon gorgeous view. and bamf thingy. makes all the peace and quiet brunching with that I can handle… him awesome. if this thing bounces me on my head one more time! okay, well… one of you get up here and stop this thing! we’re coming! we’re coming! …a solid hour of peace and quiet anyway. stop!.
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