{"id":457939,"date":"2026-05-20T06:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457939\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:43:12","slug":"marvel-knows-youre-not-happy-about-greymalkin-prison-but-uncanny-x-men-writer-gail-simone-says-its-not-being-ignored-and-something-is-coming-right-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457939\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel knows you’re not happy about Greymalkin Prison, but Uncanny X-Men writer Gail Simone says it’s not being ignored and something is coming “right away”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0X-Men<\/a> fanbase has strong opinions, and perhaps even more surprisingly, sometimes those opinions are even supported. Take, for example, the recent X-Men event Raid on Greymalkin, a Marvel Comics crossover that began with a handful of their mightiest mutants breaking into a government superprison… only to end with no one actually getting sprung. Ever since (and even before), fans have had some pretty fortified takes on the concept of Greymalkin existing in a world of heroic Mutant characters, and we’re here to tell you: Gail Simone is paying attention.<\/p>\n

Simone recently sat down with the good folks at AIPT<\/a> to discuss her ongoing run of Uncannu X-Men, one of the longest-running books from the post-Krakoa ‘From the Ashes’ relaunch of the X-Line. Simone, who currently works with artist David Marquez and Luciano Vecchio to produce their corner of the X-Verse, took fan questions of all types, and when one fan question came up regarding Greymalkin, it was clear the Red Sonja<\/a> author had been thinking about the subject.<\/p>\n

What’s the deal, one fan asked, with Rogue and her X-Men team not doing more to dismantle the prison?<\/p>\n

“When I was a kid,” Simone answered, “I was a complete weirdo, and I read Gulag Archipelago<\/a> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, all three volumes, when my friends were reading, you know, Boxcar Children or whatever. And it made me look at how we treat prisoners, all over the world. How the very idea of rehabilitation upsets so-called \u2018average\u2019 citizens. How they have become profit centers and more. I mean, criminals are criminals, but is it our goal to make them worse?”<\/p>\n

“Greymalkin isn\u2019t a pretty idea;” the Secret Six<\/a> legend continued, “It\u2019s an eyesore. The first thing the warden did was burn all the X-Men\u2019s personal belongings. That seems very real to me, and speaks to the kind of people behind it. It\u2019s a hideous thing.”<\/p>\n

Before she concluded her answer, though, Gail Simone wanted to make one thing very clear:<\/p>\n

“The X-Men haven\u2019t been ignoring it,” she wrapped, “And we see that like, RIGHT AWAY, so I have to shut up or we\u2019re in spoiler territory!”<\/p>\n

We can’t wait to join you in spoiler territory, Gail.<\/p>\n

Uncanny X-Men #29<\/a>, by Gail Simone and Luciano Vecchio, comes to comic stores everywhere June 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0X-Men fanbase has strong opinions, and perhaps even more surprisingly, sometimes those opinions are even supported. Take, for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1024,93,198635,61,60,41738,197874,270,198636],"class_list":["post-457939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-comics","tag-entertainment","tag-gail-simone","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-marvel-comics","tag-marvel-comics-universe","tag-movies","tag-uncanny-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}