Marvel DNX's version of the X-Man Beast is a really, really, really bad guy

Marvel’s five-issue DNX miniseries will be hitting the stands in September, pitting The Fantastic Four (and much of the Marvel Universe) against the X-Man Beast. The premise follows the FF working to stop Beast’s attempt to force genetic mutation on all of humanity. Now referring to himself as The Chairman, Beast has taken on a new look, complete with snow-white fur, to match his dastardly plan. “Wait a minute,” you might find yourself asking, “doesn’t all that sound kind of… evil?” It does, and that’s because Hank McCoy is a supervillain. Anyone who knows Beast from the animated or live-action film takes on X-Men is likely to view him as a classic “nutty professor.” While the other X-Men seek out supervillain brawls, Hank is at his happiest toiling away in his lab. For comic readers, he is a much more complicated guy, with a long and storied descent into darkness playing out over decades of continuity. This has resulted in his transformation into the White Beast. To be honest, Beast always had a bit of a supervillain vibe. After leaving the Xavier Institute as a young man, he immediately took to experimenting on himself in classic mad-scientist style. After appearing as a human wi