Marvel Comics Legacy & X-Men Red #1 Spoilers: Phoenix Buried As Jean Grey Resurrected, Racism Tackled, Black Panther & A Classic Villain Returns?

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Marvel Comics Legacy and X-Men Red #1 Spoilers follow.

The Phoenix Buried As Jean Grey Resurrected, Racism Tackled Head On, Black Panther Sighting, as a Classic Villain Returns?

We open with thee creative team credits, team mission statement and mini dramatis personae.

Then, the X-Men Red save a young mutant from a hate-filled mob and taking her too…

…Searebro a play on Cerebro the X-Men’s super-computer.

We then learn how the X-Men Red formed.

Jean Grey felt a lot of hate in the world and…

…pulls the brightest minds from across the world, including the Black Panther to…

…work with them to…

…come up with a grand new idea to reduce the hate.

It’s an idea that Nightcrawler loves, but knows will put Jean Grey in danger. She needs protection by a new X-Men team.

Jean Grey gets an audience with the United Nations for her revolutionary idea…

…that mutantkind be recognized as a nation without borders. The idea is supported by Prince Namor of Atlantis and the ambassador from Black Panther’s home country of Wakanda.

Jean Grey is confronted by an ambassador who turns out to have her mind controlled and…

…whose head explodes making it look like Jean Grey did it! Jean Grey wanted for murder!

The X-Men Red are fugitives as the classic villain Cassandra Nova returns. Was the world’s hate her doing? More to come.

Who is Cassandra Nova? Well Marvel has the answers because I had a vague recollection of her and was curious why she used to be called Cassandra Xavier. More here.

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