2024 seems to be the year the X-Office remembered Archangel exists.
Warren Kenneth Worthington III did not get a lot to do on Krakoa. He died in the initial Orchis raid in House of X (and was resurrected). He co-led a five-issue miniseries, X-Corp, in 2021 that we didn’t love.
And then for a while nothing happened.
Cut to this year. Warren gets his own Giant-Size X-Men spotlight issue, where he fights a disciple of Arcade and we’re reminded about the late, great Candy Southern. He’s the lead of a new volume of X-Factor, back to being a government-sponsored mutant team.
But before that, he’s got a score to settle with his maker.
In five publishing years on Krakoa, Warren never bothered to go after Apocalypse, as he sat on the Quiet Council and led the mutants into battle in Otherworld. But now, in this era in which skeptical fans are worried the X-office just wants to party like it’s 1991, we get an old school Archangel-on-Apocalypse fight, Fox Saturday morning style.
Check out our exclusive preview of X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #3, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
(W) Steve Foxe (A) Netho Diaz (CA) Dotun Akande
Warren Worthington III long ago – and at great cost – made peace with the seed of Death that Apocalypse planted within him. But as the contest to choose an heir rages on, ARCHANGEL takes the fight to Apocalypse himself, to make sure no one else suffers at the hands of En Sabah Nur!
Rated T+
In Shops: Jul 10, 2024
SRP: $3.99
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