Check Out Ed Piskor’s X-Men Comic With A Difference

Designs On The X-Men

♦ Eisner Award-winning indie cartoonist Ed Piskor’s unexpected, unprecedented and uncanny X-Men comic book series X-Men: Grand Design has everyone talking…

Best known for documenting the history of hip hop with the award winning HIP HOP FAMILY TREE graphic novels, Piskor is sampling and distilling more than 8,000 pages of superheroic storytelling to create a definitive remix of the first 280 original issues of X-Men comic books and 30 years of complicated continuity into one seamless masterpiece of superheroic storytelling. Piskor is writing, drawing, inking, coloring and lettering all six 40 page issues of X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN, which Marvel will publish over three years as three separate but interconnected mini-series — X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN, X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN-SECOND GENESIS and  X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN-X-TINCTION. The series’ first issue, on sale now from Marvel Comics, is already a critical and commercial hit.

Here’s what people are saying about X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN:

“A massive project condensing 30 years of X-Men comics into one cohesive, linear mega-story.” — io9

“A must-read.” — NEWSARAMA

“Exciting.” — POLYGON

“Thrilling.” — COMICOSITY

“I really, truly enjoyed Ed Piskor ‘s X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN, out now. It’s like a remix of your favorite songs, makes it all feel fresh. I dug it a ton.” — Charles Soule (CURSE WORDS, DAREDEVIL)

“Ambitious.” — HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“Engrossing.” — IGN

“From Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s first tales of outcast teens uniting to Claremont’s sprawling dramas, Piskor leaves no plot beat neglected.” — PASTE MAGAZINE

“So bold and so fresh that it captures a rare feeling of exhilaration.” — COMICS BEAT

“This is a work of genius — amazingly paced and jampacked with story.” — ADVENTURES IN POOR TASTE

“Unprecedented.” — PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER

“Fresh and fun.” — 13TH DIMENSION

 “Ed Piskor is one of the most exciting cartoonists working today and seeing the iconic X-men filtered through his singular vision is the sort of comic book project that you can usually only dream about. But this dream is real, and it is a thing to behold!” — Jeff Lemire (DESCENDER, MOON KNIGHT)

“Thrilling.” — GRAPHIC POLICY

“Ed’s retro artistic style and his love of the classic X-Men is going to propel GRAND DESIGN to the top of the selling chart and become a classic itself.”— MOVIEPILOT

“If you’ve ever looked at X-Men comics and wondered where to start? This is where.” — UPROXX

On 3 January 2018, Marvel will publish the second issue of X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN. Then on 17 April 2018, Marvel will collect both issues of X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN, as an oversized paperback collection in the same size and format as HIP HOP FAMILY TREE, and will also include the first issue of X-MEN by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby masterfully recolored by Piskor, and a host of recolored classic pinups. Each X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN trade paperback will feature a classic X-MEN comic book, recolored by Piskor.

 “This is a project I’ve always wanted to read and it’s an honor to be trusted to make it,” said Piskor. “X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN was made upon the shoulders of giants so I knew that I had lightning in a bottle. The extraordinary response from the readers proves this as fact. Just you wait until the Dark Phoenix era. Retailers, I suggest you adjust future orders accordingly. The fans have spoken.”

X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN #1 (OCT170956)

Written by ED PISKOR

Art and Cover by ED PISKOR

On Sale Now!

X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN #2 (NOV171016)

Written by ED PISKOR

Art and Cover by ED PISKOR

On Sale 3/1/18

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