The first Tribulation Event strikes the Earth! The Avengers fly into action as the Ashen Combine - a collection of the Multiverse's greatest monsters - descends from the Impossible City to follow their respective appetites. Cityslayers all, pursuing the assassination of metropolitan areas for sport!
FOLLOW YOUNG T'CHALLA AS HE CONTINUES ON HIS HERO'S JOURNEY - AND MEETS THE LEGENDARY STORM! Three years after the death of his father, T'Challa continues his preparations to one day ascend the throne. After being rescued from poachers by a girl named Ororo who can control storms, he stays with her for a little while, meeting the other families she's been helping - and learning that he, and Wakanda, could be doing better by their neighbors. But threats back home are building, and they will not be so easily dealt with! Dive into the legend of the Black Panther in this new origin story by acclaimed author Tochi Onyebuchi and New York Times-bestselling illustrator Setor Fiadzigbey, perfect for middle grade readers!
The shield isn't what you think. It's not your symbol. It's theirs. The shield is one of the most iconic images in the world. It stands for hope, justice and the protection of the innocent. It also holds a secret, undiscovered until now, that will change the way Steve Rogers views the 20th century... and how he chooses to fight in the 21st. Nothing is what it appears in this game-changing Captain America run by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly (KANG THE CONQUEROR) and Stormbreaker Carmen Carnero (MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN, CAPTAIN MARVEL, STAR). [(W) Collin Kelly (A) Carmen Carnero (CA) Joshua Cassara]
THE END OF THE VENOMVERSE IS HERE! CULLEN BUNN and GERARDO SANDOVAL reunite to bring the symbiotic ax down on the VENOMVERSE! CARNAGE has been building his powers up, extracting unique abilities from many villains throughout the MARVEL UNIVERSE to the point of traversing the Multiverse with ONE GOAL: KILL ANY AND ALL VENOMS!
The Doctor, Alice, Abslom Daak, the Squire, and Very Special Guest Star Jailbreaker River Song are pulling a heist on the universe's best-defended prison. Their mission: to steal a TARDIS! But whose? And why? More importantly, how can a TARDIS be so evil that it has to be locked away? Spoilers, sweetie!
Spinning out of Immortal Hulk, Bruce Banner's Gamma-powered allies go on the run! Gamma Flight had one job: Find and stop the Hulk. But when push came to smash, they sided with the Green Goliath-and the human world intends to make them regret it. Puck, Absorbing Man, Titania, Doc Sasquatch, Dr. Charlene McGowan and a horribly changed Rick Jones are fugitives from every known authority-but a team that full of gamma is bound to break before long. Al Ewing, Crystal Frasier and Lan Medina mastermind a whole new world of gamma!
A WORLD WITHOUT AVENGERS! Welcome to a world where Tony Stark never built an Iron Man armor. Where Thor is a hard-drinking atheist who despises hammers. Where Wakanda is dismissed as a myth. And where Captain America was never found in the ice because there were no Avengers to find him. Instead this world has always been protected by Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Squadron Supreme of America. And now the Squadron faces an attack from some of their fiercest enemies, like Dr. Juggernaut, the Black Skull, the Silver Witch and Thanos with his Infinity Rings. But why is the Daywalker Blade the one man alive who seems to remember that the entire world has somehow beenreborn?
DOOM. The Maestro thought he knew his enemy. He thought he was facing a band of gods. The truth...is so much worse.
While Moon Knight ventures into unknown territory to make a new friend of an ancient monster, Hunter's Moon stalks the rooftops on his own, intent on his own definition of justice. Little does he know that he is far from the only one stalking the nighttime cityscape...
A NIGHT IN THE LIFE! From waking till midnight, Moon Knight's life is filled with peril. A mysterious foe attacks from a new and unexpected direction, an old friend comes to visit and Moon Knight finds himself answering the same question over and over again: Why do you wear the mask? Featuring a guest appearance from the striped sensation Tigra!
David F. Walker & Dave Wachter bring Planet of the Apes back to Marvel Comics in spectacular style! A new era of apes kicks off with part 1 of Devolution! The ALZ-113 virus has rampaged across planet Earth, and humanity is crumbling. While well-meaning researchers hunt for a cure, a fanatical group of humans has their own solution: Kill all apes. Peacekeeper Juliana Tobon is one of the few willing to stand against them, but the crisis is spreading, and soon apes will witness the true depths of human cruelty? Eisner-winning writer David F. Walker (Luke Cage, Bitter Root) joins forces with artist Dave Wachter (Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon, Star Wars: The High Republic-Trail of Shadows) on one of the most beloved sci-fi franchises in history!
THE CRIME OF TIME AND HUMANITY'S HUBRIS! Humanity slips ever closer to the brink of extinction as the Army of Man continues to target apes in a misguided attempt to end the spread of the ALZ-113 retrovirus. With groups of apes in Europe, Africa and Asia continuing to grow in intelligence and power, the threat of simian domination of Earth becomes increasingly possible. Meanwhile, the United Nations makes a bold move to the save the human race.
WHAT LIES BEYOND THE SEA? What is a life filled with immense loss and pain? A life watching the world wither away as the ALZ-113 virus consumes humanity? For some, it is an existence of boiling rage that breeds contempt, cruelty and violence. It breeds the Exercitus Viri. As Juliana and Omatete set sail to transfer a thousand apes from the International Simian Research Center in Ghana to the CDC, trouble brews in the seas. Will they be able to make their voyage unscathed and save humanity? Or will the blood-thirsty vengeance of a select few ruin the world's chance of a cure and with it, survival?
THE DIE HAS BEEN THROWN! Juliana must guide the apes on an 865-mile trek from New York City to the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. The road will be long and treacherous with the Exercitus Viri not far behind, blinded by bloodthirsty rage. Will Juliana be able to get all the apes to safety and potentially usher in humanity's salvation? Or will the path to hope lead to a dead end strewn with blood and death?
WHO WILL SURVIVE THE REVOLUTION? A revolution is brewing in the UK. As Pug's traveling army of apes gains momentum, they set their sights on England. What results will be an explosive battle that will change the trajectory of the world as we know it! Meanwhile, Juliana and Omatete's voyage to guide the apes to the CDC has hit a speed bump. Now separated into two groups, it's anyone's guess whether the apes will survive long enough to be humanity's salvation.
BEN GRIMM'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE MARVEL UNIVERSE UNDER THE GUIDING HAND OF WALTER MOSLEY CONTINUES! Guest-starring the Silver Surfer! The battle with the Champion of the Universe leads the Thing and his friends to the Blue Area of the Moon and the domicile of the Watcher where strange things are transpiring and new enemies await! Can a regular guy from the Lower East Side make it in the far-flung cosmos?
Epic conflicts add to the Trials of X! Backed into a corner, Excalibur's Betsy Braddock makes a desperate choice that will reshape Otherworld - and mutantkind - forever. The X-Men's new nemesis Doctor Stasis finally makes himself known, bringing his terrible creations to bear! The island paradise of Krakoa has no shortage of beautiful vistas, but Wolverine has his sights on the deadliest waves in the world - and a previously unknown threat that lurks in the deep! Plus: a sea change for Kid Omega and Phoebe Cuckoo - and seismic revelations for X-Force! And the cosmos shakes when the Shi'ar Imperial Guard battles the all-new Lethal Legion - with S.W.O.R.D. caught in the middle! Collecting Excalibur (2019) #25, X-Men (2021) #5, X-Force (2019) #25-26 and S.W.O.R.D. (2020) #9.
After weeks on the run and battling the monsters of Asgard through the War of the Realms, Eddie Brock finally has a moment to catch his breath. But without his symbiote, getting even the basic necessities will become a challenge for Eddie Brock. Which means that keeping his son, Dylan, alive will be too!
BLAST IN THE PAST! For months, Eddie Brock's consciousness has been displaced in time! You've seen what happens when he's flung himself to the far future of the Marvel Universe - now see what happens when he tries to traverse its past! Face to face with the mysterious FLEXO in the past, the part symbiotes have played in the Marvel U will take a surprising and new turn!
Terrors of The Deep! • Forge, Wolverine and Quentin Quire brave the depths of the sea, where a deadly discovery reveals a dark side of Krakoa.
LOVE AND DEATH! Death gives QUENTIN QUIRE a new lease on life. Long live Quentin Quire!
Welcome to their nightmares! Quentin Quire returns to Krakoa to find a nightmare creature wreaking havoc on X-Force. But what deadly secrets are X-Force hidingand who's trying to unearth them?
What Dreams Are Made Of! The only way to battle the nightmare is on its own turf. Sweet dreams, Quentin Quire.
FEAR OF A GREEN PLANET! • Beast plants the seeds; X-FORCE pulls the weeds. But not if MAN-SLAUGHTER has anything to say about it!
FATAL FLORA! The material makeup of MAN-SLAUGHTER has been used to infect and control an army of unwilling agents! Can X-FORCE get to the root of the problem before DR. BLOODROOT kills again?
MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD! BEAST's best-laid plans invite a threat close to the heartâ¦as the secret works of MIKHAIL are at last revealed! A key issue that will precipitate a dire change for Krakoa! ♦ Includes part of a new 9/11 memorial story by Joe Quesada, John Romita Jr, and Scott Hanna, as a backup strip. The new story The Four Fives sees Spider-Man and Captain America revisiting Ground Zero, now the pools that replace it and a tower of light rising from each. Featuring Spider-Man and Captain America, the backup will appear in select Marvel Comics published on the 8th of September, 2021: including Amazing Spider-Man #73, Daredevil #34, Excalibur #23, Ka-Zar: Lord of The Savage Land #1 and X-Force #23.
A DEADLY TURN OF THE TIDE TO MARK 25 ISSUES OF X-FORCE! The island paradise of Krakoa has no shortage of beautiful vistas, but WOLVERINE'S tastes run toward the coves with the deadliest waves in the world! It will take more than a healing factor to survive this thresher as a previously unknown threat to mutantkind splashes down! Plus: A sea change for KID OMEGA and PHOEBE CUCKOO!
ERUPTION! DOMINO, KID OMEGA and WOLVERINE head back into the thresher to recover the precious cargo stolen from Krakoa! If the team can survive the volcanic eruption and stormy seas, there's still the organization behind the plot-the reveal of which will have major ramifications on the next issues of X-FORCE! And the debut of the next wave of Mutant technology! Move over, Blackbird jet!
IT'S QUENTIN QUIRE, #&! CEREBRAX stalks the island of Krakoa, and no one is safe! Its hunger for minds is insatiablebut what happens when it absorbs the minds - and powers - of the most powerful mutants?! X-FORCE will have to STEP. IT. UP. - and QUENTIN QUIRE leads the way! PARENTAL ADVISORY
DEADPOOL JOINS, AND KRAVEN'S HUNT BEGINS! X-FORCE has taken some lumps, but a new era begins as old-school X-Forcer WADE WILSON makes his grand return! Well, grand for him, necessary for the team, as X-Force needs all the help it can get in the fallout from the Hellfire Gala and the revelations of A.X.E.! Plus: Find out why KRAVEN THE HUNTER is involved in the start of a landmark storyline!
QUENTIN QUIRE RETURNS TO OVERTHROW BEAST'S BARBARIC RULE! The once-KID OMEGA returns to X-FORCE! But where has he been? And where is he taking the team? Mysteries will be revealed as BEAST'S dark agenda is fully exposed! (Hint: Any X LIVES OF WOLVERINE fans may want to pick this up too!)
THE GHOST CALENDARS! BEAST's epic long game plays out in the only way it could - with NIMROD'S ultimate plan successful, HANK McCOY survives and thrives! But what will this mean for mutantkind, and does X-FORCE still have time to stop it?
Invite-Only to The Hellfire Gala! It's party time, but somebody's got to work it. And when invited guests (and a few crashers) prove to be planted antagonistic agents, X-FORCE will need to get their hands dirty and keep this all under wrapsbefore anyone catches wind!
Omega Red may be harboring a deadly secret, but nothing compares to the trust broken by the unexpected interrogation of one of X-Force's own! Meanwhile, Forge, Wolverine and Quentin Quire brave the terrors of the deep - and a deadly discovery reveals a dark side of Krakoa! Shaken by his recent resurrection, Quire ponders his new lease on life - but when a creature of nightmares wreaks havoc on X-Force, can he fight it on its home turf? Plus: The squad handles unwanted party crashers at the Hellfire Gala, Wolverine surfs some gnarly waves and X-Force must get to the root of the problem when Krakoa suffers an attack from a very invasive plant! Meanwhile, Beast's best-laid plans invite a threat close to the heart as the secret works of Mikhail Rasputin are at last revealed! Collecting X-Force (2019) #15-26 and Wolverine (2020) #13.
Enter Cerebrax! As Wolverine returns to Krakoa, a mind-melding new threat grips the island via a security flaw that X-Force will have to patch - with extreme prejudice! Where does Cerebrax come from, and what does it want with Forge? Its hunger for minds is insatiable - but when Cerebrax absorbs the consciousnesses and powers of Krakoa's most powerful mutants, X-Force will need to step it up, big time! But just as Quentin Quire starts to live up to his potential, Cerebrax targets the biggest mutant of all: Krakoa itself! A fight this big is going to take all the power X-Force can muster! Plus: Now that Earth has a new dominant species in mutantkind, it's time for Kraven the Hunter to prove once more that he remains the apex predator! Collecting X-Force (2019) #27-33.
The planet Arakko is a new target for Arakkii pirate Sevyr Blackmore! But where there's crime, there's inevitably punishment. And that's where X-Force comes in, along with hired hands Maverick and the Mercs! But are even their combined forces up to the task of keeping these deadly warriors from overrunning the solar system? Back on Earth, XENO and its mysterious leader, the Man with the Peacock Tattoo, make their deadly move against X-Force - and all mutants! And Domino, Deadpool and Omega Red are about to fall right into his clutches! At last, learn the secrets of the fiend who's been plaguing X-Force since the series began! But as the terrible truth of XENO's horror-show experiments stands revealed, who - or what - is the Omni-Mutant?! Collecting X-Force (2019) #34-38.
It's a new era for X-Force - and a new era means new members! Laura Kinney, A.K.A. Wolverine, and Piotr Rasputin, A.K.A. Colossus, join the team. Let's just hope one of them isn't harboring a deadly secret that's set to destroy their teammates! The revamped squad must contend with Beast's plans, as well as a blast from the past - and future! The once-Kid Omega is back! But where has he been? What's different about him? And where is he taking the team? Mysteries will be revealed as Hank McCoy's dark agenda is fully exposed! But what will this revelation mean for mutantkind, and does X-Force still have time to stop what's been set in motion? Collecting X-Force (2019) #39-42.
ORCHIS RISING! Mutantkind may be stronger than ever, but that just makes their enemies more determined than ever to tear them down. Orchis' plans are in motion, preparing for the fall?
THE SENTINELS GET AN UPGRADE! Anti-mutant fantasist Feilong has taken control of Tony Stark's businesses and devoted Iron Man's technology toward the next generation of Sentinels! These Stark Sentinels are as hard to beat as old Shell-head himself and are fully devoted to crushing the X-Men!
POGG UR-POGG FOR HIRE! Hired for the dirtiest of jobs, a deadly mercenary comes crashing into the X-Men right at their most vulnerable moment! But not just any mercenary - finally, the breakout fan-favorite from X OF SWORDS, Pogg Ur-Pogg, returns!
THE FALL. She's been known as Kitty, Sprite, Ariel, Red Queen and Captain Kate. Now, as a new X-Men team finds their way through their darkest hour... SHADOWKAT emerges!
LORD OF THE BROOD - PART TWO! When the X-Men's close friend Broo became the Brood King, he gained the ability to control the savage alien race he was both a part of and so different from. Now he is experiencing his own nightmare scenario - the Brood are killing his friends, and there is nothing he can do to stop it! Featuring a connecting cover to Captain Marvel #47!
THESE X-MEN ARE... FEARLESS! • The heroes of Krakoa are here to save the planet! Things might be complicated between the nation of Krakoa and the rest of the world, but to the X-MEN, things are simple - you do what's right, you protect those who need protecting and you save the world we all share. Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Sunfire, Rogue, Wolverine, Synch and Polaris are the chosen champions of mutantkind, and they will not shrink from any battle for their home planet. Writer Gerry Duggan (Marauders, Deadpool, Uncanny Avengers) reteams with superstar artist Pepe Larraz (House of X, X of Swords, Uncanny Avengers) to chart the course of the X-Men in a world of the Reign of X!
