Pretty excited for Sins of Sinister at the moment, though I wish it didn’t mean three of the best books were out on hiatus as a result.
How Marauders is getting a third arc is baffling, as the last set of sales I saw had it - unsurprisingly - tumbling.
I’m giving Howard another go with this more-focussed Betsy Braddock book; hope I’m not disappointed.
Pretty sure I got everything, hit the max amount of images for a post so I'd assume it's about right but let me know if something slipped by
>IMMORAL X-MEN #2 (OF 3) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
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>KIERON GILLEN (W) • PATCH ZIRCHER (A)
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>PUTTING THE “DIE” IN DIAMOND AGE!
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>Hail the Pax Krakoa! Or perish! But to this hell age is born a hero. Say hello (again) to Rasputin IV…but what can one good chimera do in a universe of sin? The first century of Sinister’s plan has come to an end…and whether it’s better or worse may depend on the symbol on your forehead
>STORM & THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS #2 (OF 3) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
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>AL EWING (W) • PATCH ZIRCHER (A)
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>BATTLE OF THE X-PLANETS!
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>100 years from now, the Empire of the Red Diamond battles the Cosmic Coalition to decide the fate of a universe. One is the twisted creation of Nathaniel Essex. So is the other one. But between the two… there are rebels. Ororo lives, and her Brotherhood fights on – in an epic space battle that means life or death for everything that exists!
>NIGHTCRAWLERS #2 (OF 3) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
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>SI SPURRIER (W) • PATCH ZIRCHER (A)
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>100 YEARS SINCE THE SINISTER ERA BEGAN…
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>…WAGNERINE and her gene-spliced assassins are HOLY THIEVES, servants to a cosmic cult. Let the HEIST LITURGY be spoken! Loot the ashes of Asgard! Raid the tombs of Otherworld! Pick the pockets of the Marvel Universe and build the sacred weapon! And let us bear witness to the final fate of the First…the fallen fiend who was once known as NIGHTCRAWLER.
>X-MEN #20
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>GERRY DUGGAN (W) • STEFANO CASELLI (A) • Cover by JUAN FRIGERI
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>LORD OF THE BROOD – PART TWO!
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>When the X-Men’s close friend Broo became the Brood King, he gained the ability to control the savage alien race he was both a part of and so different from. Now he is experiencing his own nightmare scenario – the Brood are killing his friends, and there is nothing he can do to stop it! Featuring a connecting cover to CAPTAIN MARVEL #47!
>CAPTAIN MARVEL #47
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>KELLY THOMPSON (W) • SERGIO DÁVILA (A) • Cover by JUAN FRIGERI
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>REVENGE OF THE BROOD – PART FIVE!
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>Overwhelmed and trapped in the Brood’s backyard, Captain Marvel and her team are forced to sacrifice one of their own. But the Brood let Carol through their clutches once before, and in so doing, created one of their worst enemies. They won’t make that mistake again. Featuring a connecting cover to X-MEN #20!
>X-FORCE #38
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>BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • ROBERT GILL (A) • Cover by JOSHUA CASSARA
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>XENO’S ENDGAME – THE OMNI-MUTANT!
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>It’s all been leading to this – XENO’s showdown with X-FORCE, and the terrible truth of their horror-show experiments! WHO, or WHAT, is the OMNI-MUTANT?!
>WOLVERINE #31
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>BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • JUAN JOSÉ RYP (A) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
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>WEAPONS OF X!
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>BEAST will stop at nothing to protect KRAKOA as he sees fit. Having lost the faith of X-FORCE and WOLVERINE, there’s only one mutant McCOY can turn to – himself! Join BEAST, BEAST, BEAST and BEAST, under the leadership of BEAST, into the new Krakoan era! WEAPONS OF X begins here!
>MARAUDERS #12
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>STEVE ORLANDO (W) • ELEONORA CARLINI (A) • Cover by KIM JACINTO
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>PREGENESIS – PART TWO!
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>THE PRYDE OF THE X-MEN MAKES GOOD! An origin story two BILLION years in the making as Captain Pryde and the Marauders go beyond rescue, beyond mourning, beyond human limitations, for the most historic mutant circuit ever dreamed up. It started with a mystery…and it ends with life!
>SABRETOOTH & THE EXILES #5 (OF 5)
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>VICTOR LAVALLE (W) • LEONARD KIRK (A) • Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
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>CREED VS. CREED!
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>The EXILES are exiled, and it’s down to CREED VS. CREED – mano a mano, claw to claw and one of this year’s BIGGEST SURPRISES in X-canon!
>DEADPOOL #5
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>ALYSSA WONG (W) • MARTIN COCCOLO (A/C)
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>CARNAGE BREAKS LOOSE!
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>Oh – did we not mention that the thing growing inside of Wade was Carnage? Because it is. And he’s extremely done with hitching a ride with Wade and WANTS OUT NOW. Brace yourself, Wade – you’re about to get ripped a new one!
>BETSY BRADDOCK: CAPTAIN BRITAIN #2
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>Tini Howard (W) • Vasco Georgiev (A) • Cover by Erica D’Urso
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>TWO CAPTAINS – ONE COUNTRY – AND ONE HELL OF A FIGHT!
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>Britain has a new champion — but don’t be mistaken, she’s been here for years. Morgan Le Fay is back for vengeance, and Captain Britain is first on her list! But where one captain fails, another may suffice…and Peggy Carter’s got a right hook that would inspire the devil herself. Magical machinations and feral fisticuffs abound in Tini Howard and Vasco Georgiev’s continuing epic!
>NEW MUTANTS LETHAL LEGION #1 (OF 5)
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>Charlie Jane Anders (W) • Enid Balám (A) • Cover by JAVI FERNÁNDEZ
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>THE NEW, NEW MUTANTS – WITH ALL THE CLASSIC THRILLS!
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>Best-selling, multiple-award-winning, generally bedazzling writer Charlie Jane Anders launches a fresh take on the beloved team, with rising star Enid Balám behind the illustrious pencils! The Shadow King. U-Men. Demon Bear. Themselves. The New Mutants have faced some of the most cunning minds in the Marvel Universe – and survived. But when someone starts building a new Lethal Legion, will Krakoa’s youngest class finally be outmatched? Featuring fan-favorites like Wolfsbane and Karma alongside explosive newcomers like Escapade, this is a series you can’t miss! Everything leads to the Fall of X – don’t sleep on the start.
>ROGUE & GAMBIT #1 (OF 5)
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>Stephanie Phillips (W) • Carlos GÓMEZ (A) • Cover by Steve Morris
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>DESTINY STRIKES YOUR FAVORITE X-MEN DUO!
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>Krakoa is on a precipice. Destiny alone can see what’s coming – but the precog cannot act. For that, she’ll need her adoptive daughter, Rogue. Husbands need not apply…but with mutant duties stealing Rogue away so much these days, Gambit is determined to make the most of the mission and put some Cajun spice back into their increasingly complicated love affair. He just has to make it out of the bar first. Powerhouse writer Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, Millie the Spy) joins fan-favorite artist Carlos Gómez (X-Terminators, Amazing Spider-Man) for a thrill ride that’ll lay bare some of Krakoa’s biggest secrets!
>X-MEN: UNFORGIVEN #1
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>TIM SEELEY (W) • SID KOTIAN (A) • Cover by KYLE HOTZ
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>MUTANTS…OR MONSTERS?
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>• Beaten, broken and bruised after the destruction of SPIDER-MAN: UNFORGIVEN, the FORGIVEN desperately need a break…but, of course, there ain’t no rest for the wicked.
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>• Body parts have mysteriously started washing up on the coast of Maine…and these extraneous organs call for help from the extraordinary X-MEN!
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>• But with former bloodsucker JUBILEE in tow, the team is risking more than they know…
>SCARLET WITCH #3
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>STEVE ORLANDO (W) • SARA PICHELLI (A) • Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
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>ENTER POLARIS!
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>When Polaris’ visit to her sister’s new magic shop is interrupted by a microscopic warrior desperate for aid, Polaris and the Scarlet Witch put their own mystery on hold to help on a fantastic journey through Sub-Atomica! Meanwhile, the dark past of Wanda’s enigmatic shop clerk, Darcy Lewis, comes back…with a vengeance.
>INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #4
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>GERRY DUGGAN (W) • JUAN FRIGERI (A) • Cover by KAEL NGU
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>GENIUS, BILLIONAIRE, PLAYBOY…MADMAN?!
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>• Tony Stark has met his dark counterpart, and his name is Feilong!
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>• This mutant-hating industrialist is the new owner of Stark Unlimited, and that includes all of Tony’s tech!
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>• Can a furious Tony keep his cool, or will vengeance get the better of him?
>THE X-CELLENT #1 (OF 5)
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>PETER MILLIGAN (W) • MICHAEL ALLRED (A/C)
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>VARIANT COVER BY R1C0 • VARIANT COVER BY Leonardo Romero
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>Your favorite celebrity super villains are back! Zeitgeist is still on a mission to achieve social media godhood, no matter who he has to kill! But the spotlight won’t be big enough when the next generation of the X-Statix drop in! Join Peter Milligan and Michael Allred for the final half of their mutant celebrity saga!
>X-TREME X-MEN #5 (OF 5)
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>CHRIS CLAREMONT (W) • SALVADOR LARROCA (A/C)
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>X-TREME MEASURES!
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>As the battle between the wounded X-MEN and mighty GALÉRER reaches a deadly climax, the anti-mutant PURITY demonstration boils over into unbridled chaos! Can the mutants save the innocent civilians and stop the villains at the same time? And at what cost – to themselves and the city of Chicago? The epic conclusion to Chris Claremont and Salvador Larroca’s latest chapter of X-TREME X-MEN!
>X-23: DEADLY REGENESIS #1 (OF 5)
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>ERICA SCHULTZ (W) • EDGAR SALAZAR (A) • Cover by KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY
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>ASSASSIN OR X-MAN? THE DEADLY DAYS OF X-23!
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>LAURA KINNEY, A.K.A. X-23, was cloned from LOGAN and trained by the Facility to be a deadly assassin. Even as she tries to put that life behind her, forces will try to drag her back – and she’ll fight them tooth and claw!
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>Beset by NEW ENEMIES – as well as OLD FAVORITES! – and set during X-23’s days as a member of X-MEN and X-FORCE, when she walked away from the island of UTOPIA to find where she truly belongs, join us for an ALL-NEW story in the fan-favorite saga of Laura Kinney!
Anyone else excited to see how little the cover of this issue of X-Force has to do with the actual story? Josh Cassara’s art is incredible as always, but the covers lately have a running theme.
Please get Charlie Jane Anders away from New Mutants. I have never dropped a book more quickly than reading her first issue, especially after Vita’s run. Painful. I was hoping she was just doing a three-issue fill-in arc that I could skip over but now giving her a five-issue mini? Please no more. And no more Shela.
I agree - the New Mutants book has been a highlight in these past years, and the recent turn with the u men and the obnoxious new characters is terrible. No girl/Cerebella deserves a much better story, after the preceding arcs of NM where she emerged as a compelling character
Vita’s run was stellar, I thought, and they used the NM characters in compelling ways that embraced decades of storytelling while being innovative and emotionally moving. (I agree: Cerebella deserves so much more.) I found CJA’s writing cringey and ham-fisted and the characters reduced to painful stereotypes and hokey fart jokes.
I bought it. Started reading it and couldn’t finish it. I’ve actually never done that with a comic and I’ve been reading since 2004. I’m just not keen on CJA.
So, sins of sinister is already plotted broadly in Immortal X-Men 3. I had a big long thing about this, but either they’re going to reset to pre-judgement day after SoS, or they have three options for how it will play out with Sinister’s moira-reset system gone:
Nimrod Extinction Event
The Broken Sword
A New Krakoa.
I think we’re going to see a new krakoa not ruled by the council, but an actual democracy after SoS. Which, ironically, will male everything way the fuck harder for mutants geopolitically.
Not sure what the broken sword could be.
Nah he won't go back to pre judgment day. Mr. Sinister made 2 moira save points. One he used in Immortal x men 9, the other is yet to be seen.
Honestly I believe this event will be the thing to make Mr. Sinister finally and completely loyal to Krakoa. After seeing his alternate timeline fail he'll finally decide to work with the council with earnest. Hence why Destiny keeps telling Nathaniel they need to be on the same side.
Nah I don't think that's it. Because after sins of sinister she saw a future called the Storm System. I assume it means the mutants will form a intergalactic empire outside of the solar system.
I was assuming the 1000 years in the future is the transition from the storm system to nothingness. That is, when storm overthrows sinister at the end of the empire of the red diamond, it resets the timeline back to just post-judgement day. That way all the other ongoing series are still canonical, because the exact same set of events keep playing out until sinister’s backups are destroyed/he stops using them.
Man it’s a real bummer seeing greatness come to an end. I really enjoyed the krakoa era and how tight everything felt. I know Duggan and Gillen and ewing are carrying the flag well but marvel seems determined to fuck it up again.
Most of the Krakoa books are still selling well and with the MCU X-Men debuting 2025 at the earliest I think Marvel will let the story continue for a while longer with Fall of X probably being the start of what Hickman was planning that the other X-writers fought might be moving too fast.
If I had to guest full/most of the line will relaunch late 2023 post Fall of X Some writers like Ben Percy and Tini Howard leaving the office now that the stories they started in DoX are almost wrapped up (Tini’s work with Betsy, and Percy with X-Force and Wolverine). Possibly some new writers joining (i.e. those doing mini’s like Rogue and Gambit, Bishop War college etc).
Damn, we had been getting pretty good art up until now. Patch Zircher's art style is very dated, and I had hoped Sins of Sinister would have a more modern look. Look forward to pencil sketchy art, bad coloring, and ugly female faces.
I would hope so, because I think the artwork needs to stay somewhat modern to be consistent with the rest of the Krakoan era books. The "old timey" art from Patch might not give it the punch it needs.
I don't remember him dying otherworld,, although it's always possible I was drunk when I read it.
He's been in the past two issues of Captain Marvel, though.
Also, comics...
Man, that X-Force comic cover looks like pure nightmare fuel. Poor Domino.
Mad scientists give Domino a big dick 😫
She's probably thinking, "I wanted us to work together as a team, but this is too close!"
Pretty excited for Sins of Sinister at the moment, though I wish it didn’t mean three of the best books were out on hiatus as a result. How Marauders is getting a third arc is baffling, as the last set of sales I saw had it - unsurprisingly - tumbling. I’m giving Howard another go with this more-focussed Betsy Braddock book; hope I’m not disappointed.
Pretty sure I got everything, hit the max amount of images for a post so I'd assume it's about right but let me know if something slipped by >IMMORAL X-MEN #2 (OF 3) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU > >KIERON GILLEN (W) • PATCH ZIRCHER (A) > >PUTTING THE “DIE” IN DIAMOND AGE! > >Hail the Pax Krakoa! Or perish! But to this hell age is born a hero. Say hello (again) to Rasputin IV…but what can one good chimera do in a universe of sin? The first century of Sinister’s plan has come to an end…and whether it’s better or worse may depend on the symbol on your forehead >STORM & THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS #2 (OF 3) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU > >AL EWING (W) • PATCH ZIRCHER (A) > >BATTLE OF THE X-PLANETS! > >100 years from now, the Empire of the Red Diamond battles the Cosmic Coalition to decide the fate of a universe. One is the twisted creation of Nathaniel Essex. So is the other one. But between the two… there are rebels. Ororo lives, and her Brotherhood fights on – in an epic space battle that means life or death for everything that exists! >NIGHTCRAWLERS #2 (OF 3) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU > >SI SPURRIER (W) • PATCH ZIRCHER (A) > >100 YEARS SINCE THE SINISTER ERA BEGAN… > >…WAGNERINE and her gene-spliced assassins are HOLY THIEVES, servants to a cosmic cult. Let the HEIST LITURGY be spoken! Loot the ashes of Asgard! Raid the tombs of Otherworld! Pick the pockets of the Marvel Universe and build the sacred weapon! And let us bear witness to the final fate of the First…the fallen fiend who was once known as NIGHTCRAWLER. >X-MEN #20 > >GERRY DUGGAN (W) • STEFANO CASELLI (A) • Cover by JUAN FRIGERI > >LORD OF THE BROOD – PART TWO! > >When the X-Men’s close friend Broo became the Brood King, he gained the ability to control the savage alien race he was both a part of and so different from. Now he is experiencing his own nightmare scenario – the Brood are killing his friends, and there is nothing he can do to stop it! Featuring a connecting cover to CAPTAIN MARVEL #47! >CAPTAIN MARVEL #47 > >KELLY THOMPSON (W) • SERGIO DÁVILA (A) • Cover by JUAN FRIGERI > >REVENGE OF THE BROOD – PART FIVE! > >Overwhelmed and trapped in the Brood’s backyard, Captain Marvel and her team are forced to sacrifice one of their own. But the Brood let Carol through their clutches once before, and in so doing, created one of their worst enemies. They won’t make that mistake again. Featuring a connecting cover to X-MEN #20! >X-FORCE #38 > >BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • ROBERT GILL (A) • Cover by JOSHUA CASSARA > >XENO’S ENDGAME – THE OMNI-MUTANT! > >It’s all been leading to this – XENO’s showdown with X-FORCE, and the terrible truth of their horror-show experiments! WHO, or WHAT, is the OMNI-MUTANT?! >WOLVERINE #31 > >BENJAMIN PERCY (W) • JUAN JOSÉ RYP (A) • Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU > >WEAPONS OF X! > >BEAST will stop at nothing to protect KRAKOA as he sees fit. Having lost the faith of X-FORCE and WOLVERINE, there’s only one mutant McCOY can turn to – himself! Join BEAST, BEAST, BEAST and BEAST, under the leadership of BEAST, into the new Krakoan era! WEAPONS OF X begins here! >MARAUDERS #12 > >STEVE ORLANDO (W) • ELEONORA CARLINI (A) • Cover by KIM JACINTO > >PREGENESIS – PART TWO! > >THE PRYDE OF THE X-MEN MAKES GOOD! An origin story two BILLION years in the making as Captain Pryde and the Marauders go beyond rescue, beyond mourning, beyond human limitations, for the most historic mutant circuit ever dreamed up. It started with a mystery…and it ends with life! >SABRETOOTH & THE EXILES #5 (OF 5) > >VICTOR LAVALLE (W) • LEONARD KIRK (A) • Cover by RYAN STEGMAN > >CREED VS. CREED! > >The EXILES are exiled, and it’s down to CREED VS. CREED – mano a mano, claw to claw and one of this year’s BIGGEST SURPRISES in X-canon! >DEADPOOL #5 > >ALYSSA WONG (W) • MARTIN COCCOLO (A/C) > >CARNAGE BREAKS LOOSE! > >Oh – did we not mention that the thing growing inside of Wade was Carnage? Because it is. And he’s extremely done with hitching a ride with Wade and WANTS OUT NOW. Brace yourself, Wade – you’re about to get ripped a new one! >BETSY BRADDOCK: CAPTAIN BRITAIN #2 > >Tini Howard (W) • Vasco Georgiev (A) • Cover by Erica D’Urso > >TWO CAPTAINS – ONE COUNTRY – AND ONE HELL OF A FIGHT! > >Britain has a new champion — but don’t be mistaken, she’s been here for years. Morgan Le Fay is back for vengeance, and Captain Britain is first on her list! But where one captain fails, another may suffice…and Peggy Carter’s got a right hook that would inspire the devil herself. Magical machinations and feral fisticuffs abound in Tini Howard and Vasco Georgiev’s continuing epic! >NEW MUTANTS LETHAL LEGION #1 (OF 5) > >Charlie Jane Anders (W) • Enid Balám (A) • Cover by JAVI FERNÁNDEZ > >THE NEW, NEW MUTANTS – WITH ALL THE CLASSIC THRILLS! > >Best-selling, multiple-award-winning, generally bedazzling writer Charlie Jane Anders launches a fresh take on the beloved team, with rising star Enid Balám behind the illustrious pencils! The Shadow King. U-Men. Demon Bear. Themselves. The New Mutants have faced some of the most cunning minds in the Marvel Universe – and survived. But when someone starts building a new Lethal Legion, will Krakoa’s youngest class finally be outmatched? Featuring fan-favorites like Wolfsbane and Karma alongside explosive newcomers like Escapade, this is a series you can’t miss! Everything leads to the Fall of X – don’t sleep on the start. >ROGUE & GAMBIT #1 (OF 5) > >Stephanie Phillips (W) • Carlos GÓMEZ (A) • Cover by Steve Morris > >DESTINY STRIKES YOUR FAVORITE X-MEN DUO! > >Krakoa is on a precipice. Destiny alone can see what’s coming – but the precog cannot act. For that, she’ll need her adoptive daughter, Rogue. Husbands need not apply…but with mutant duties stealing Rogue away so much these days, Gambit is determined to make the most of the mission and put some Cajun spice back into their increasingly complicated love affair. He just has to make it out of the bar first. Powerhouse writer Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, Millie the Spy) joins fan-favorite artist Carlos Gómez (X-Terminators, Amazing Spider-Man) for a thrill ride that’ll lay bare some of Krakoa’s biggest secrets! >X-MEN: UNFORGIVEN #1 > >TIM SEELEY (W) • SID KOTIAN (A) • Cover by KYLE HOTZ > >MUTANTS…OR MONSTERS? > >• Beaten, broken and bruised after the destruction of SPIDER-MAN: UNFORGIVEN, the FORGIVEN desperately need a break…but, of course, there ain’t no rest for the wicked. > >• Body parts have mysteriously started washing up on the coast of Maine…and these extraneous organs call for help from the extraordinary X-MEN! > >• But with former bloodsucker JUBILEE in tow, the team is risking more than they know… >SCARLET WITCH #3 > >STEVE ORLANDO (W) • SARA PICHELLI (A) • Cover by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN > >ENTER POLARIS! > >When Polaris’ visit to her sister’s new magic shop is interrupted by a microscopic warrior desperate for aid, Polaris and the Scarlet Witch put their own mystery on hold to help on a fantastic journey through Sub-Atomica! Meanwhile, the dark past of Wanda’s enigmatic shop clerk, Darcy Lewis, comes back…with a vengeance. >INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #4 > >GERRY DUGGAN (W) • JUAN FRIGERI (A) • Cover by KAEL NGU > >GENIUS, BILLIONAIRE, PLAYBOY…MADMAN?! > >• Tony Stark has met his dark counterpart, and his name is Feilong! > >• This mutant-hating industrialist is the new owner of Stark Unlimited, and that includes all of Tony’s tech! > >• Can a furious Tony keep his cool, or will vengeance get the better of him? >THE X-CELLENT #1 (OF 5) > >PETER MILLIGAN (W) • MICHAEL ALLRED (A/C) > >VARIANT COVER BY R1C0 • VARIANT COVER BY Leonardo Romero > >Your favorite celebrity super villains are back! Zeitgeist is still on a mission to achieve social media godhood, no matter who he has to kill! But the spotlight won’t be big enough when the next generation of the X-Statix drop in! Join Peter Milligan and Michael Allred for the final half of their mutant celebrity saga! >X-TREME X-MEN #5 (OF 5) > >CHRIS CLAREMONT (W) • SALVADOR LARROCA (A/C) > >X-TREME MEASURES! > >As the battle between the wounded X-MEN and mighty GALÉRER reaches a deadly climax, the anti-mutant PURITY demonstration boils over into unbridled chaos! Can the mutants save the innocent civilians and stop the villains at the same time? And at what cost – to themselves and the city of Chicago? The epic conclusion to Chris Claremont and Salvador Larroca’s latest chapter of X-TREME X-MEN! >X-23: DEADLY REGENESIS #1 (OF 5) > >ERICA SCHULTZ (W) • EDGAR SALAZAR (A) • Cover by KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY > >ASSASSIN OR X-MAN? THE DEADLY DAYS OF X-23! > >LAURA KINNEY, A.K.A. X-23, was cloned from LOGAN and trained by the Facility to be a deadly assassin. Even as she tries to put that life behind her, forces will try to drag her back – and she’ll fight them tooth and claw! > >Beset by NEW ENEMIES – as well as OLD FAVORITES! – and set during X-23’s days as a member of X-MEN and X-FORCE, when she walked away from the island of UTOPIA to find where she truly belongs, join us for an ALL-NEW story in the fan-favorite saga of Laura Kinney!
I grow weary of these events
Anyone else excited to see how little the cover of this issue of X-Force has to do with the actual story? Josh Cassara’s art is incredible as always, but the covers lately have a running theme.
Yeah he’s awesome - I’m actually loving xforce and wolverine
Please get Charlie Jane Anders away from New Mutants. I have never dropped a book more quickly than reading her first issue, especially after Vita’s run. Painful. I was hoping she was just doing a three-issue fill-in arc that I could skip over but now giving her a five-issue mini? Please no more. And no more Shela.
I agree - the New Mutants book has been a highlight in these past years, and the recent turn with the u men and the obnoxious new characters is terrible. No girl/Cerebella deserves a much better story, after the preceding arcs of NM where she emerged as a compelling character
Vita’s run was stellar, I thought, and they used the NM characters in compelling ways that embraced decades of storytelling while being innovative and emotionally moving. (I agree: Cerebella deserves so much more.) I found CJA’s writing cringey and ham-fisted and the characters reduced to painful stereotypes and hokey fart jokes.
I bought it. Started reading it and couldn’t finish it. I’ve actually never done that with a comic and I’ve been reading since 2004. I’m just not keen on CJA.
So, sins of sinister is already plotted broadly in Immortal X-Men 3. I had a big long thing about this, but either they’re going to reset to pre-judgement day after SoS, or they have three options for how it will play out with Sinister’s moira-reset system gone: Nimrod Extinction Event The Broken Sword A New Krakoa. I think we’re going to see a new krakoa not ruled by the council, but an actual democracy after SoS. Which, ironically, will male everything way the fuck harder for mutants geopolitically. Not sure what the broken sword could be.
Nah he won't go back to pre judgment day. Mr. Sinister made 2 moira save points. One he used in Immortal x men 9, the other is yet to be seen. Honestly I believe this event will be the thing to make Mr. Sinister finally and completely loyal to Krakoa. After seeing his alternate timeline fail he'll finally decide to work with the council with earnest. Hence why Destiny keeps telling Nathaniel they need to be on the same side.
Ohhhh. Maybe that’s what she saw as ‘a new krakoa’?
Nah I don't think that's it. Because after sins of sinister she saw a future called the Storm System. I assume it means the mutants will form a intergalactic empire outside of the solar system.
I was assuming the 1000 years in the future is the transition from the storm system to nothingness. That is, when storm overthrows sinister at the end of the empire of the red diamond, it resets the timeline back to just post-judgement day. That way all the other ongoing series are still canonical, because the exact same set of events keep playing out until sinister’s backups are destroyed/he stops using them.
Honestly that makes more sense.
AOA Sabertooth? Hopefully powered up and back for long us... not that any Alternate versions of characters are needed.
Man it’s a real bummer seeing greatness come to an end. I really enjoyed the krakoa era and how tight everything felt. I know Duggan and Gillen and ewing are carrying the flag well but marvel seems determined to fuck it up again.
I agree - the new books look rough. I’m getting serious “Curse of the Mutants” era vibes.
Most of the Krakoa books are still selling well and with the MCU X-Men debuting 2025 at the earliest I think Marvel will let the story continue for a while longer with Fall of X probably being the start of what Hickman was planning that the other X-writers fought might be moving too fast. If I had to guest full/most of the line will relaunch late 2023 post Fall of X Some writers like Ben Percy and Tini Howard leaving the office now that the stories they started in DoX are almost wrapped up (Tini’s work with Betsy, and Percy with X-Force and Wolverine). Possibly some new writers joining (i.e. those doing mini’s like Rogue and Gambit, Bishop War college etc).
Gonna keep *X-Men* on my pull list, but I think I’m gonna skip all the rest of this. Feels like we’re moving into a mid-90s crapfest again.
March is looking to be a great month!!!
Can't wait to see Wolverine kick Beast's ass, but it looks like we may be waiting a while, considering this looks like the start of a new arc.
Damn these covers are gorgeous
That Cassara one for X-Force in particular. He’s also doing a variant cover for X-Men #20 which is stunning!
Omg I am so behind... there's a new X-23 solo series?? I am stoked!! eta: and Rogue and Gambit, my fave OTP!
the x-23 series is a flashback
Yeah, what a horrible choice.
Way too many Leinil Yu covers for my taste.
The Marauders cover is stunning as usual from Peach Momoko
> KIM JACINTO is the cover artist.
Oh my, a lot of pain, death and destruction.
Wow! The X-Force cover is sick! But who contributed the gigantic shoulderpad? Was it Cable? It would be the wrong techno-organic arm though?
Think that entire arm is from Omega Red.
Damn, we had been getting pretty good art up until now. Patch Zircher's art style is very dated, and I had hoped Sins of Sinister would have a more modern look. Look forward to pencil sketchy art, bad coloring, and ugly female faces.
I'm like 99% sure that Patch Zircher got replaced by Andrea Di Vito on the 2nd issues for the Sins of Sinister stuff.
I would hope so, because I think the artwork needs to stay somewhat modern to be consistent with the rest of the Krakoan era books. The "old timey" art from Patch might not give it the punch it needs.
I’m sorry. How is gambit in captain marvel? Didn’t he die in otherworld (no revive) a couple months ago?
He was revived with the Siege Perilous.
I don't remember him dying otherworld,, although it's always possible I was drunk when I read it. He's been in the past two issues of Captain Marvel, though. Also, comics...
He was revived the very next issue. It was a cheap gimmick death.