X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills is considered by many to be one of the best stories featuring those characters and also one of the best stories Marvel Comics has ever published. The story, which has religious zealot William Stryker taking advantage of the public's fear of mutants, was so good that it was the main inspiration for the hit movie X2: X-Men United, despite its dumb name.
Marvel has announced (via Newsarama) that they will be re-releasing the classic graphic novel in two parts, now dubbing it X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills Extended Cut. The two-part "series" will have a new framing device from Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson, the story's original creators. This will make the framing device feel more in-tone with the original since they are from the original creators.
This is one of the multiple re-releases Marvel has done recently, which started with Agent X #0 and the upcoming Savage Avengers #0. Both of these comics have framing devices with new art that make these older stories feel slightly more important in hindsight. Agent X #0 reprints two Wolverine issues Rob Leifeld worked on, while Savage Avengers #0 reprints a classic X-Men tale from Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr.
God Loves, Man Kills will always be a classic and we're sure that these issues will sell well, though it would have been nice if they just re-released a new version of the graphic novel with more extras. Then again, they could always do that after re-releasing these issues and we now know why this was done: Money.
I'll be buying them though so I'm basically a hypocrite.
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills Extended Edition #1 comes out this April.
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