Never let a crossover get in the way of your ongoing story arc.
Unbreakable X-Men continues the Penumbra story from Gail Simone’s Uncanny X-Men, the city of the dead that lay not far from the Louisiana X-Men’s home like so many Zombie N’awlins Morlocks.
What does any of it have to do with Doug Ramsey’s ascension to power as Revelation? Not a whole heck of a lot. Very little outside of Jed MacKay and Mahmud Asrar’s Amazing X-Men does.
But a sly writer – and Gail Simone is a sly writer – can use that to her advantage, forwarding her own plots while filing the serial numbers off the event as much as she can. No Rogue? No Wolverine? No Nightcrawler? No problem! I’ve got a grieving Gambit, a grown-up Ransom and a whole city of dead hate crimers ready to keep this comic looking familiar. Now let’s go unleash a demon!
Check out our exclusive preview of Unbreakable X-Men #2, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
And for our coverage of issue #1, click here.
W: Gail Simone | Artist: CF Villa, Mario Santoro, Davide Tinto, David Marquez, R.B. Silva, Alessandro Capuccio, Ramon Rosanas | CA: Lucas Werneck
ATLANTIS UNDER SIEGE! X YEARS LATER, a grief-stricken GAMBIT has a mission to recover and recall several unwilling X-MEN who have left the mutant life, to face a creature of nightmares that can doom them all! It’s the return of several beloved mutants (and a few less beloved), coming back to try to contain the unimaginable army of the undead that threatens both Atlantis and the surface world!
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