Everything is Empyre, even if we don’t want it to be. Luckily, the X-Office has decided to tie into things by giving up the content we crave from the creators we love. EMPYRE: X-MEN #1 & #2 (of 4) were announced today with a crew that should be familiar to the Dawn of X faithful.
Empyre: X-Men #1 has Jonathan Hickman & Tini Howard writing with Matteo Buffagni on art duties. The Mike McKone cover shows Magik, Angel, and Penance strolling through the garden. Empyre: X-Men #2 pulls in Lucas Werneck on art with Gerry Duggan and Leah Williams writing. It shows the commitment of the X-Office to these creators that all of them have been, or will be, involved with the current books. They have made Empyre and essential part of all of our lives, and we must accept that.
Press Release
New York, NY— February 19, 2020 — It’s going to be a battle so monumental that it’ll take the entire writing crew of the X-Men to depict it! The intergalactic visitors coming to Earth in Marvel’s 2020 event will be arriving just in time to face off against an army of mutant undead this May in EMPYRE: X-MEN. Don’t miss the X-Men’s strange return to Genosha in this unpredictable series written by all your favorite current X-Men writers. It all begins in EMPYRE: X-MEN #1 written by Head of X Jonathan Hickman and writer of Excalibur, Tini Howard, and continues in EMPYRE: X-MEN #2 written by Gerry Duggan (Marauders), Benjamin Percy (X-Force, Wolverine), and Leah Williams, writer of the highly anticipated series, X-Factor.
EMPYRE: X-MEN 1 (of 4)
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN & TINI HOWARD
Art by MATTEO BUFFAGNI
Cover by MIKE MCKONEEMPYRE: X-MEN 2 (of 4)
Written by GERRY DUGGAN, BENJAMIN PERCY, & LEAH WILLIAMS
Art by LUCAS WERNECK
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