The post-Krakoa era hasn’t given us that much Bishop content. A guest spot in Storm. A Cable team-up in the Timeslide one-shot. Even X-Men ’97 shunted him back to the future after a couple episodes.
But announcing a new Bishop solo miniseries is burying the lede.
YOU GUYS, SHARD IS BACK!
Remember Shard? Bishop’s sister who died of Emplate-induced vampirism, who then got turned into a hard-light hologram and put on X-Factor? We haven’t gotten good Shard content since 2019’s Prisoner X.
So thank you, Saladin Ahmed and Mario Santoro, for bringing back one of the all-time great X-siblings. (Take that, Dog Logan, Mikhail Rasputin and Nightcrawler’s adoptive brother who did all those murders!)
Check out covers below, and keep scrolling for Marvel’s press release.
BISHOP, the energy-absorbing powerhouse X-Man, hails from one of mutantkind’s darkest futures. This June, that future comes back to bite in BISHOP, an all-new five-issue limited series by superstar writer Saladin Ahmed (Wolverine) and acclaimed newcomer artist Mario Santoro (Storm).
In the series, Bishop finds himself in a fight against fate when the Final Brotherhood, a new group of villains originating from his future, journey to the past to end his time in the present once and for all. In order to stop them and prevent further disruption of the timeline, Bishop will team up with his sister Shard, a fan-favorite character who starred in ‘90s X-Factor as well as previous Bishop solo series, whose tragic fate haunts Bishop to this day. Similar to recently launched solo X-titles like Rogue and Cyclops, BISHOP promises to deliver a thrilling, standalone saga that encapsulates the heart and history of the character—all while putting them through the ringer on their most challenging and legacy-defining missions yet!
THE TIME-LOST X-MAN IS BACK!
Bishop has always lived by a strict code. But that code will get called into question when his sister, Shard, is sent to the present right before she died! Will Bishop adhere to his principles and protect the timestream? Or will he risk it all to save the most important person in his life?
“I’m having a blast doing a deep dive into the dark corners of Lucas Bishop’s time-travel traumatized mind!” Ahmed said. “I’m a writer who loves both family drama and spectacle, so getting to juxtapose the big visual comic book elements of temporal warping and explosive powers with the quiet pain and joy of sibling relationships is my happy place.”
“When I drew issues of Storm, I also had the pleasure of drawing Bishop, and I really enjoyed doing it. I never imagined that I would get a chance to draw an incredible solo adventure for the character,” Santoro shared. “I have always loved the X-Men, and I’m thrilled every time I get to work with one of them. I’m also excited to work with a fantastic team led by [Editor] Darren Shan and alongside Saladin Ahmed, who wrote an incredible story for Lucas.”
“Mario Santoro’s pages for this are a thrill, including some INSANE designs for our new ‘hybrid’ mutant villains, the Final Brotherhood!” Ahmed added.
Check out Davide Paratore’s main cover along with variant covers by Fabrizio De Tommaso and Skottie Young, and pick up BISHOP #1 at your local comic shop this June! For more information, visit Marvel.com.
Dan Grote is the editor and publisher of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Paul Winston Wisdom. Follow him @danielpgrote.bsky.social.
