With the recent debut of Amazing X-Men, Jason Aaron is currently writing two ongoing X-Men series. But as we learned with last month's round of solicitations, Wolverine and the X-Men will be wrapping up in February 2014. Is this the end for the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning?

Not at all. While Aaron continues chronicling the adventures of the adult X-Men, he's passing the keys to the Jean Grey School over to his frequent collaborator and X-Men veteran, Jason Latour. Latour and artist Mahmud Asrar will be helming a new volume of Wolverine and the X-Men, which kicks off one month later in March. This series will explore what happens during the school's summer semester, as Quentin Quire steps into the big leagues and Fantomex joins the teaching staff.We had a chance to chat with both creators recently. They explained how the Jean Grey School will evolve in this new semester, what we can expect from old favorites like Quentin, and how Wolverine factors into the picture in light of his own troubles in the pages of Paul Cornell's Wolverine series.

Well, between us, I actually won the job as a prize for surviving a hug from Jason Aaron. You’ve seen the end of Sleeping Beauty right? The inside of that beard is something like that but the dragon has steamy corn dog breath…No. Honestly, it probably didn’t hurt. I have a ton of respect for Jason and its a real honor of follow him. I don’t know that he had any say in that, but if he did I’m grateful. The bulk of my work at Marvel has probably come in the X-Office to this point, so it was probably just as much an outgrowth of working with editors like Nick Lowe over the past two or three years as anything. For whatever reason they seem to trust me… maybe even ….like… me?A whole lot of facial hair.I've been a fan of Wolverine growing up and the possibility of working on the character was a draw (pun unintentional but welcome) for me. Considering there is copious amounts of facial hair between the character and both the Jasons, I guess it's fair to make this statement.Seriously though, I've been a long time fan of the X-Men and Wolverine in particular, so it was an easy decision. Also getting to work with Jason Latour on such a book is a great opportunity for a significant creative collaboration to me.We'll be keeping the basic visual design of the students and the teachers, although there will be slight variations such as what they'll be wearing when they are on missions. There'll be new students and also some new villains that you'll be seeing which are in the design process. Most importantly some of the characters have grown in age and status which leads to visual differences in them. Quentin Quire comes to mind especially who is one of the biggest players in our book.As we’ve seen this first year or so of the Jean Grey School has been a hard road. As a result we’ll begin with a lot of the teachers and students sitting on the the edge of their seats just waiting for the bell to ring. For a break, for a reprieve. Some of them even want to quit. With summer in session many of them have. Those that are left are the ones who basically have no where to go.So with that in mind, the center of it all are Quire and Evan and Idie. Kids who are among the most potentially powerful and dangerous mutants alive.These kids are Logan’s legacy, but as we’ve seen up to this point he didn’t have such a great track record with that stuff even when he was at his best. In them we could be witnessing the growth of the next GREAT team of X-Men, or the creation of the biggest threats the Marvel U will ever see. Everything we’re planning, the adventures, the threats, will reflect that journey.I have a lot of ideas for the future. Maybe too many. I’d hope this is just the beginning.Well to this point it’s all begun and ended with Logan. It’s his strength of this school is built on the back of. His reputation for being the unkillable badass has been their insurance policy against threats inside and out. It’s been his desire to see Xavier’s dream continued, to see his own past atoned for that’s kept them driving forward. But now Logan is mortal and for the first time he’s being forced to take stock of what he’s built. He’s realizing that what he saw as a school could, in the wrong hands, become a factory for the next Cyclops or Dark Phoenix or Apocalypse or Weapon X. That though people like Storm are ready and willing to take the mantle, he’s not sure that he wants to subject them to the price of that duty.So a big question we’ll be asking is who can he trust to guide the next generation of X-Men? To protect and mold them into the heroes they need to be? Do they even want that guidance? Is that even possible given what they know about tomorrow? No matter what is happening in Logan’s private life, these are questions he’s very much has a vested interest in trying to answer.It will be pretty clear from the jump that Quire’s experiences with the future X-Men during Battle of the Atom have shaken him up a little bit. The knowledge that he becomes The Phoenix and a full fledged member of the X-Men is slowly but surely forming cracks in his self image. He’ll be doing his best to deny it, but it’s really difficult for him to admit that his future seems to see him end up as one of the flock, and to do so with such power at his fingertips.But even worse the opinion of the people around him seems to have changed. Where they once hoped for better of him, they now expect it, and a driving force of the book moving forward will be those expectations and just how Quentin lives up or down to them.Well the core of the group is Evan, Idie and Quentin. I think they reflect each other incredibly well in that they’re all in some capacity struggling with the morality of what it means to have the powers they possess.Eye Boy has been surprising fun to write, as have the Bamfs. They’re still around in a way that… well… maybe calls attention to how negligent the teachers at this school probably are.Well with the mass exodus of teachers Fantomex is, maybe somewhat surprisingly, Logan’s first choice to step into an open position. One of Logan’s greatest fears is leaving his school in the hands of men like Cyclops. Fantomex is a man who sees the world in grey, who understands what it means to be raised a weapon. As violent has he’s been, he’s shown again and again that he does know its cost. That stands in stark contrast to Cyclops and the puritanical fervor of Xavier’s dream turned toxic. It gives Logan hope that in his absence there will be someone who can do the dirty work and leave it at the office.But that doesn’t change the fact that this is a thief and an assassin we’re talking about. A man who once killed an adolescent Apocalypse as a member of X-Force. This guy is gasoline and the school doesn’t need help burning, that’s for sure.The Phoenix has a powerful legacy, and there are a lot of folks who would do anything to grab hold of a piece of it. Quire’s association with it has put him right into the line of fire of a villain who has a connection to the Phoenix Force and it’s legacy unlike any we’ve seen before. One he’s not afraid to exploit or, in the eyes of Logan and the X-Men, tarnish. Beyond that the plan is to deal with largely new faces, some new twists on the familiar. We’re working hard to pump some new blood and life into things. As much love as I have for the old rogues galleries, I think the new class of X-Men should have their own threats and challenges to overcome.Hopefully we’ll be able to retain an accessibility, and freshness that allows anyone to pick up a given story. But this book has always been about the X-Men of tomorrow being raised by the X-Men of today, so it’s pretty much inseparable from the rest of the X-Books in that regard, and I think better for it.

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