Andy Schmidt Writing Havok & Cyclops Stories

Former X-Editor Andy Schmidt talked to CBR about writing the upcoming Havok & Vulcan story in X-Men: Divided We Stand #2 and a story about Cyclops' reaction to Corsair's death in Marvel Comics Presents #8:

"In Ed Brubaker's run on Uncanny X-Men, Cyclops's father died and he wasn't around to see it or react to it," explained Schmidt, "and Ed didn't have time to follow up on it in the book before we were running into Messiah CompleX, so I asked him if he was okay with me tackling how Corsair dying affects Cyclops. He was open to the idea so I cleared through him, then X-Men editor Nick Lowe and finally through Marvel Comics Presents' editor John Barber."

Following the Cyclops story for MCP, Schmidt is working with Frasier Irving [Gutsville, Seven Soldiers of Victory] on am X-Men: Divided We Stand story, following what happened to Havok in the Emperor Vulcan storyline called "The Hole." "Starts off with Havok, [also known as] Alex Summers, in a prison at the bottom of the ocean on a world that is an ocean world," said Schmidt. "Cut off from cosmic rays. You go in there, and you pretty much don't come out. He's in a prison cell, except there isn't any real point to have him in one. He's in one because they want to keep him isolated, to break him, more than anything else. Not because they're afraid he's going to escape, because if he opens up the door they all die."

Since the Havok & Vulcan story for DWS is only 8 pages, it seems unlikely that Rachel will appear.

Marvel Comics Present #8 is out on April 30, 2008. Divided We Stand #2 hits stores on May 21, 2008.