Today, Entertainment Weekly debuted the cover for its July 24th issue, which spotlights X-Men: Apocalypse, the next installment of the uber-successful movie franchise. This one is set in the 1980s, and presents younger, recast versions of some well-known X-Men (like Storm and Jean Grey)—and also introduces Olivia Munn (Attack of the Show, The Newsroom) as ninja assassin/psychic mutant Psylocke.
And that reminded me of this post from last year (when the previous movie entry, X-Men: Days of Future Past, was being released), in which I talked about X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy, three original novels I wrote that featured Psylocke as the star, and pitted her and the other X-Men against a trio of Marvel’s deadliest villains: the Fantastic Four’s #1 enemy, Doctor Doom; the X-Men’s archnemesis, Magneto; and Captain America’s Nazi counterpart, the Red Skull! Go give it a read. When you’re done, maybe you’ll want to track down copies, so you’ll have something read while you’re queuing up at your local movie theater next year!
