{"id":106811,"date":"2021-12-24T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=106811"},"modified":"2021-12-24T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:28:35","slug":"nyla-rose-x-men-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/12\/24\/nyla-rose-x-men-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyla Rose Co-Writing Upcoming X-Men Comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marvel.com\/articles\/comics\/a-mutant-legend-is-reborn-in-giant-size-x-men-thunderbird\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed by <strong>Marvel Comics<\/strong><\/a> on Thursday that <strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)<\/strong> star and former AEW Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Nyla Rose<\/strong> was joining the writing staff of Marvel Comics as co-writer for the upcoming <em>Giant Size X-Men: Thunderbird #1<\/em>, which will focus on one of the members of the X-Men&#8217;s second team &#8211; the one who debuted in <em>Giant Size X-Men #1<\/em> in 1975 and featured a new X-Men team that featured names like <strong>Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler<\/strong>, and <strong>Colossus<\/strong>. Another member of that team was Native American John Proudstar &#8211; aka <strong>Thunderbird<\/strong> &#8211; who possessed superhuman strength and endurance, but who, unfortunately, became the first X-Man to die in the course of duty (in X-Men #95, shortly after his debut). John&#8217;s brother James would later become a super-villain and then a hero, adopting his brother&#8217;s mantle of Thunderbird as well as his own name,\u00a0<strong>Warpath<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Be there for the beginning of Thunderbird\u2019s next chapter when &#39;Giant-Size X-Men: Thunderbird&#39; #1 arrives this April! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/42vSjuro0w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/42vSjuro0w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marvel\/status\/1474025194608107520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Marvel&#8217;s synopsis, the new comic book will focus on John Proudstar&#8217;s recent resurrection.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In yesterday\u2019s dramatic conclusion of\u00a0Leah Williams\u00a0and\u00a0Lucas Werneck\u2019s\u00a0X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO\u00a0limited series, fans witnessed the stunning resurrection of a legendary hero in the X-Men mythos\u2014John Proudstar, AKA Thunderbird! The first\u00a0X-Man\u00a0to die in action, Thunderbird\u2019s time on the X-Men may have been brief but his impact was mighty, and now his long-awaited return to the Marvel Universe will be explored this April in GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: THUNDERBIRD #1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This mega-sized one-shot will mark the exciting Marvel Comics debut of All Elite Wrestling superstar Nyla Rose who will team up with comics star Steve Orlando and First Nations artist David Cutler. Together the trio will grapple with the ramifications of Thunderbird\u2019s recent resurrection while setting him up for a bright future on Krakoa and beyond.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The world John Proudstar has returned to is completely different from the one he once knew. Looking to find refuge in the familiar, Thunderbird seeks out someone from his past at an Apache reservation\u2026and uncovers a horrifying threat to the Indigenous mutant community. Will Thunderbird be able to save his people? Or will his justified rage lead him astray?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/08\/all-inclusive-wrestling-nyla-rose-becomes-first-trans-wrestler-signed-to-major-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Nyla Rose<\/a> joins several other pro wrestlers who have written comic books, including her AEW co-worker CM Punk, who previously worked for Marvel Comics on runs for <em>Thor<\/em> and <em>Drax The Destroyer<\/em>. Marvel Comics has a history of Indigineous superheroes who are past due their mainstream exposure. We&#8217;ve already seen one, <strong>Echo<\/strong>, make her MCU debut in the <em>Hawkeye<\/em> series before launching her own, as well as <strong>Alpha Flight&#8217;<\/strong>s <strong>Shaman<\/strong>, <strong>New Mutants<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Danielle Moonstar<\/strong> and the <strong>Spider-Man<\/strong> anti-hero <strong>Puma<\/strong>, as well as DC Comics&#8217; <strong>Apache Chief, Mirage<\/strong> (of Team Titans), and <strong>Dawnstar<\/strong> of <strong>Legion of Super Heroes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>More From Last Word on Sports<\/h2>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. AEW Rampage airs on TNT at 10 PM EST every Friday night.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was revealed by Marvel Comics on Thursday that All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star and former AEW Women&#8217;s Champion Nyla Rose was joining the writing staff of Marvel Comics as co-writer for the upcoming Giant Size X-Men: Thunderbird #1, which will focus on one of the members of the X-Men&#8217;s second team &#8211; the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":106812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,12,6],"tags":[8195,4371,8194],"class_list":["post-106811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-north-america","tag-marvel-comics","tag-nyla-rose","tag-x-men"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}