‘Arrow’ Executive Producer & Writer Marc Guggenheim Takes Over Marvel Comics’ All-Female 'X-Men’ Team In ‘X-Men #18!’

Audiences know Marc Guggenheim as the executive producer and writer of CW's popular TV show, Arrow. Now Guggenheim will be joining the Marvel Universe as he takes over writing duties in X-Men #18.

In an interview with IGN, Guggenheim discusses his upcoming story arc for the all-female superhero team, "I didn't want to do another Brood story, because Chris Gage had done Children of the Brood, which was fantastic. But I liked the idea of taking this all-female team of X-Men and putting them in outer space. In doing something that was a little different than The X-Men meet Star Wars; this was more along the lines of The X-Men meets Aliens. It's darker, it's a little more mysterious, and it's scarier."

X-Men #18 begins a brand a new mission for the all-female team that leads them to outer-space. An extraterrestrial threat will bring Earth to the brink of death. Will the X-Men be able to stop this horrific threat?

Guggenheim then mentions the super villain that Jubilee and the rest of the team will face, "One of the things that I've enjoyed about Brian [Wood]'s run on X-Men is, it's not just the team of X-Men that are women; the antagonists have been largely female as well. So when I hit upon this idea of space, Deathbird struck me as the obvious choice, and we haven't seen her since X-Men: Kingbreaker. So I felt like she was definitely due to return, and, again, she played a very large role in the first half of that Brood Saga, which was so seminal to me. So she just made sense for a lot of different reasons. But it's not a four-part Deathbird story. The ultimate antagonist of the story is where the mystery comes in. That's something of my own invention, but I'm also playing with pieces that are already based in the Marvel Universe."

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Though an artist has yet to be announced, Marc Guggenheim's first issue as writer, X-Men #18, will hit stores sometime in August. Make sure to be in theaters when X-Men: Days of Future Past arrives on May 23.