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Marvel knows you're not happy about Greymalkin Prison, but Uncanny X-Men writer Gail Simone says it's not being ignored and something is coming "right away"

"Greymalkin isn’t a pretty idea," says Simone, and promises that's going to be dealt with very shortly after her upcoming Uncanny X-Men #29

News by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Additional contributions by Graeme McMillan

Published on Tue May 19 2026

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The X-Men fanbase has strong opinions, and perhaps even more surprisingly, sometimes those opinions are even supported. Take, for example, the recent X-Men event Raid on Greymalkin, a Marvel Comics crossover that began with a handful of their mightiest mutants breaking into a government superprison... only to end with no one actually getting sprung. Ever since (and even before), fans have had some pretty fortified takes on the concept of Greymalkin existing in a world of heroic Mutant characters, and we're here to tell you: Gail Simone is paying attention.

Simone recently sat down with the good folks at AIPT to discuss her ongoing run of Uncannu X-Men, one of the longest-running books from the post-Krakoa 'From the Ashes' relaunch of the X-Line. Simone, who currently works with artist David Marquez and Luciano Vecchio to produce their corner of the X-Verse, took fan questions of all types, and when one fan question came up regarding Greymalkin, it was clear the Red Sonja author had been thinking about the subject.

What's the deal, one fan asked, with Rogue and her X-Men team not doing more to dismantle the prison?

"When I was a kid," Simone answered, "I was a complete weirdo, and I read Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, all three volumes, when my friends were reading, you know, Boxcar Children or whatever. And it made me look at how we treat prisoners, all over the world. How the very idea of rehabilitation upsets so-called ‘average’ citizens. How they have become profit centers and more. I mean, criminals are criminals, but is it our goal to make them worse?"

"Greymalkin isn’t a pretty idea;" the Secret Six legend continued, "It’s an eyesore. The first thing the warden did was burn all the X-Men’s personal belongings. That seems very real to me, and speaks to the kind of people behind it. It’s a hideous thing."

Before she concluded her answer, though, Gail Simone wanted to make one thing very clear:

"The X-Men haven’t been ignoring it," she wrapped, "And we see that like, RIGHT AWAY, so I have to shut up or we’re in spoiler territory!"

We can't wait to join you in spoiler territory, Gail.

Uncanny X-Men #29, by Gail Simone and Luciano Vecchio, comes to comic stores everywhere June 3.

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.