Legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont‘s latest series will be Gambit: Wanted, a five-issue series set shortly before the Cajun mutant thief joined the team. Created with artist Robert Gill, the book will pit Gambit against none other than Daredevil’s longtime enemy, Bullseye.
The full synopsis reads, “Get ready, mes amis, as Gambit, the mutant-thief-hero, travels back to his hometown for an explosive showdown! Set in the timeframe when Gambit returned Storm to what was left of the X-Men, discover how Gambit came to join the team for the first time – and the deadly trial that made it so! Someone’s got mutants in their crosshairs down in New Orleans… and when they hire Bullseye to target Gambit, hang on for the most kinetic showdown of the month!”
Claremont created Remy with Jim Lee in 1990, and previously revisited his early years in the 2022 Gambit series with artist Sid Kotian. He states, “I enjoy returning to Gambit because when I first created him, I never had much of a chance to build his backstory. I gave him the dichotomy of being both a hero and a thief, a conflict that creates a fertile patch for stories. Gambit: Wanted is set when he first meets the X-Men, and gives me a chance to explore why he decided to give up his unfettered life doing as he wished in New Orleans, becoming bound to this group of heroes, dramatically changing his life’s course.”
Gill adds, “Getting the chance to work on a Gambit book with Chris was a complete surprise, and it continues to be a surreal experience. Chris’s name is iconic and one that surrounded my early days of reading comics. I’ve always thought Gambit was one of the coolest and mysterious X-Men characters, and despite more than eight years drawing comics for Marvel, I’ve almost never drawn him… until now!”
Issue #1 will be released with covers by Leinil Francis Yu, Phil Noto, Kris Anka, Stanley “Artgerm” Lau, Yasmin Putri, and Stephen Segovia on July 22. You can check out Noto’s variants below, along with a two-page interior preview. In the meantime, the MCU’s Bullseye (played by Wilson Bethel), will continue to appear on Daredevil: Born Again season two, now on Disney+, and the animated Gambit (voiced by A.J. LoCascio) will return as a Horseman of Apocalypse on X-Men ’97 season two sometime this summer.
