Marvel Comics is teaming up Gwen Stacy and the original X-Men. Jonathan Hickman's X-Men relaunch has been a tremendous success, and as a result X-Men characters are starting to pop up in the most unlikely of places. Say, for example, in Christos Gage and Todd Nauck’s Gwen Stacy #4.
For the record, this is the story of Gwen Stacy before she met Spider-Man. It's apparently an origin story for the 616 version of the character, the one who didn't get bitten by a radioactive spider and transformed into Ghost Spider, but instead was killed by the Green Goblin. Gwen Stacy is apparently in the style of Veronica Mars, a blend of light-hearted fun and dangerous, terrifyingly serious plot twists. Gwen will even get caught up in the machinations of the Green Goblin and the Crime Master. And it turns out there's another, even more unexpected twist.
Marvel Comics has just issued a teaser image for Gwen Stacy #4, and it promises a team-up between Gwen and the strangest teens of all - the original X-Men. The teaser implies several of Marvel's merry mutants will be part of the story, but the cover is dedicated to Jean Grey and Gwen Stacy. Jean is using her telekinesis to protect Gwen from a pumpkin barrage - clearly implying the X-Men come between the Green Goblin and his prey.
At first glance, this seems to be something of a crazy idea; but Christos Gage is an excellent writer, and he won't have done this just for the sake of cashing in on the X-Men boom. In fact, it's quite reasonable Gwen would get caught up in the Green Goblin's affairs, given her father was a police captain at the time the Green Goblin was attempting to fill a power vacuum after a crime lord had been taken down. The most logical explanation would be that the Green Goblin decided to scare Captain Stacy off by threatening his daughter; and, of course, wherever there's a supervillain there's inevitably a superhero or two.
It will actually be quite cool to see Gwen Stacy and Jean Grey working side by side. The two girls have a lot in common; they're both smart and studious, but with a wild side and an interest in fashion. What's more, this story may well be set before mutants became hated and feared, at a time when the X-Men were celebrated. If that's the case, this could be quite a unique team-up.
Source: Marvel Comics