This yr marks the X-Men’s 60th anniversary, so you’ll be able to guess Marvel is pulling out all the stops to rejoice. Case in level, the writer has introduced X-Men: Days of Future Past – Doomsday, a brand new four-issue restricted sequence written by Marc Guggenheim and drawn by Manuel García revisiting Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s groundbreaking Days of Future Past storyline. The first subject will characteristic a canopy drawn by Geoff Shaw. No further members of the artistic crew had been talked about in the press launch.
Here’s how the publishers describes the restricted sequence:
Told in 1981 inside the pages of Uncanny X-Men #141–142, “Days of Future Past” enriched the X-Men’s mythology with the introduction of recent core ideas like time journey and alternate universes, and raised the stakes of the X-Men’s mission by exhibiting readers what the future held in the event that they failed. Over the years, “Days of Future Past” has impressed spin-offs, movie, tv, and extra, and now it’s time to witness the thirty-year descent into this iconic dystopic future the place mutantkind was crushed underneath the full would possibly of the Sentinel program!
Beginning at the pivotal second that Kate Pryde desperately tried to alter in the authentic story and taking readers proper up the legendary opening pages of Uncanny X-Men #141, the sequence will reveal all the darkish historical past behind “Days of Future Past,” full with the beforehand untold deaths of key mutant characters, tremendous hero visitor stars, and stunning revelations.
In a world the place mutants are greater than merely hated and feared, however not but slain and apprehended, the assassination of Senator Kelly comes to move, bringing with it the Mutant Control Act and Sentinels on each nook. But with mutantkind on the back foot, what lengths will Kate Pryde, Wolverine, Colossus, Storm, Banshee, Cyclops, Angel, Professor X, and the remainder of the X-Men go so as to discover a way to survive? And what scheme of Magneto will result in their final DOOMSDAY?
Guggenheim has actually written varied X-Men books over the years however the probability to revisit the Days of Future Past timeline was too good to move up. He shared:
“Growing up, I by no means thought I’d get the probability to write the X-Men as many occasions as I’ve. I significantly by no means thought I’d give you the chance to mess around in the superb timeline that Chris Claremont and John Byrne introduced to life in Days of Future Past. I nonetheless have the most vivid reminiscence of visiting the stationery retailer the place I used to purchase my comics and seeing Uncanny X-Men #141 on the rack. That iconic cowl blew my 9 year-old thoughts.
“My goal with this story is to fill in some missing gaps in the thirty-year period that Kate Pryde summarized in just four panels back in the day. Prior familiarity with the original story won’t be required. The end result is an event that feels like the X-Men story to end all X-Men stories. At least, that’s the bullseye we’re aiming at!”
Editor Mark Basso added:
“This future timeline has always been such fertile ground for stories, and for the first time we’re getting the bigger picture only hinted at in various spin-offs over the years. There’s some details fans have been waiting decades to understand the context of, as well as completely untold facets that bring will bring the Days of Future Past fully into focus for the first time.”
Look for X-Men: Days of Future Past – Doomsday #1 (of 4) to arrive in shops and digitally on Wednesday, April twelfth.
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