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May 28, 2025
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Rise from your grave in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dead X-Men #1

Dan Grote1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

Previously, in Dead X-Men: Remember that? Fun times. Even with resurrection seemingly off the table for now, mutants are finding all sorts of ways to come back. Jean Grey found herself communing with the Phoenix Force again in the White Hot Room. X-Force has a clone of Beast circa his New Defenders era just lying…

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More Draco connections emerge in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #4

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

The mutant known as Abyss first appeared during the “Age of Apocalypse” as one of the big, blue guy’s Horsemen. Nearly a decade later, it would be revealed during that oh-so-pivotal Chuck Austen story “The Draco” that Earth-616 Abyss, born Nils Styger, is a son of the demon mutant Azazel and a half-brother of Nightcrawler….

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Finally, the Dawn of X from Emplate’s perspective in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #3

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

Emplate, aka Marius St. Croix, was among the villains to emerge from a gate when Charles Xavier offered mutant amnesty to all in 2019’s House of X #5. A data page would later reveal he had been charged with helping measure the island’s energy-absorption levels. And that was pretty much all we saw of him…

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Crisis on Multiple Madelynes in our EXCLUSIVE preview of Dark X-Men #2

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

Once upon a time, Doctor Doom made a hamburger multiverse and called it Battleworld. And in that hamburger multiverse there was an Inferno world where Madelyne Pryor went full demon. That Madelyne somehow survived the re-rewriting of reality and ended up on Earth-616, tangled with the time-displaced original five X-Men and, off-panel, was captured by…

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Dark X-Men #1 is a hell of a good time

Armaan Babu and Tony Thornley2 years ago2 years ago023 mins

Madelyne Pryor has a lot to worry about. As Queen of Limbo, she has to quell constant demonic uprisings against her home. She’s also in charge of the Limbo-New York Embassy, managing mutant refugees from the fall of Krakoa, and generally dealing with a city that does not want her there — and now Orchis…

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