Rick Remender continues to spend the national COVID-19 shutdown by sharing unused comics pitch and artwork, including one centering around the X-Men. The writer has posted an excerpt from an old story bible, which would have seen him taking over the X-titles for a two year period before he left the company in 2014.

In a subsequent tweet, the writer also revealed that he was approached in 2019 to oversee the Marvel franchise, but declined. The gig eventually went to Jonathan Hickman, whose line wide reboot has been met with approval from longtime X-fans.

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The main title, The Extraordinary X-Men, would have seen Fantomex returning to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, an abandoned wreck after the Inhumans attacked it. Many X-Men, including Psylocke, would have died. Remender says in this tweet that he intended to focus on Fantomex, Jean Grey and Xorn, who would have become "Professor Xorn" after the Inhuman invasion. Ultimately, he could not bring himself to do the editorally mandated Inhumans story and abandoned his pitch for the franchise.

The X-Men and the Inhumans came to blows when it was revealed that the Terrigen Mists, which empower the Inhumans, were sterilizing mutants. Ultimately, the X-Men were rebooted in 2019 under Hickman's watch in House of X and Powers of X.

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Remender had written X-Men focused titles before his pitch, specifically Uncanny X-Force, Uncanny Avengers, which featured members of the X-Men and Avengers uniting, and Avengers/X-Men: Axis. He currently writes Deadly Class, Seven to Eternity, Low, and Death or Glory, all of which are published through Image Comics.