Return To The Hellfire Club In June’s ‘Emma Frost: The White Queen’
by Tony Thornley
Emma Frost has become one of the greatest X-Men over the past twenty years. She wasn’t always on the side of angels though, and this June, we flash back to her days in the Hellfire Club for Emma Frost: The White Queen.
The five issue miniseries- Emma’s first solo series since the early 2000’s- will chronicle the White Queen’s search for the unspeakable. There’s a mole within the Hellfire Club, leaking secrets to the X-Men. Emma will stop at nothing to find them on her way to the top.
The series will be written by Amy Chu with art by Andrea DiVito and covers by David Nakayama. The creative team is excited to make their mark on the X-Men’s most glamorous member just before she makes her face turn towards heroics.
“If there’s one character I’ve always wanted to write after Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, it’s Emma Frost, especially BAD Emma Frost,” Chu said. “This is going to be a whole new Emma-focused story set in the classic days before she joins the X-Men. We’re going around the world to expose the inner workings of the Hellfire Club in a way you’ve never seen before and introducing some new baddies. I can’t believe Marvel is letting me do this, it’s so exciting!”
“I can’t think of a character more deserving of her own series than Emma Frost,” Di Vito added. “Her complexity alone is fuel for infinite stories, and this is about the White Queen in her raw form, set during the time where she took her first steps towards true power. It’s a privilege to illustrate these events, it doesn’t get any more Emma than this!”
Check out Nakayama’s cover for the debut issue above and watch for Emma Frost: The White Queen in June from Marvel Comics.
