X-Men Forever
| X-Men Forever | |
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Cover to X-Men Forever #1 (2009), by Tom Grummett
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | 2001 series: Monthly 2009 series: biweekly 2010 series: biweekly |
| Format | 2001 series: Mini-series 2009 series: Ongoing 2010 series: Ongoing |
| Genre | |
| Publication date(s) | 2001 |
| No. of issues | 2001 series: 6 2009 series: 24, 1 annual, 1 giant-size 2010 series: 16 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | 2001 series: Fabian Nicieza 2009 series: Chris Claremont 2010 series: Chris Claremont |
| Artist(s) | 2001 series: Kevin Maguire 2009 series: Various 2010 series: Tom Grummett |
| Collected editions | |
| X-Men Forever, Volume 1 | ISBN |
| X-Men Forever, Volume 2 | ISBN |
X-Men Forever is the name of three comic book series published by Marvel Comics featuring the mutant superhero group the X-Men. The first is a 2001 miniseries, unrelated to the others. The second and third are the work of writer Chris Claremont.
The 2001 miniseries, written by Fabian Nicieza, starred Jean Grey, Iceman, Mystique, Toad, and Juggernaut. Time travel was used as a plot device to explore the themes and history of the X-Men, and to resolve several dangling plotlines. The story takes place in an alternate universe.
In February 2009, Marvel announced a second X-Men Forever, which began its run on June 10, 2009. It ran semimonthly as a regular title, set in an alternate continuity of the Marvel Universe. This second series is unrelated to the earlier series by the same name.
The series, written by veteran X-Men author Chris Claremont, was originally advertised as a continuation of the storylines he intended for Uncanny X-Men and X-Men in 1991, but which never saw print because of his resignation from the title and Marvel Comics following X-Men #3.
Despite the original billing as what "would have been written" by Claremont had he never left, the series quickly diverged from that idea into a more traditional "alternate universe" title. In interviews conducted with Newsarama and Wizard Universe, Claremont acknowledged that what he was doing in X-Men Forever would never have been possible in the primary X-Men books because of the corporate needs of Marvel Comics:
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