"Mind-Stains on the Virgin Snow!" Part 2 of 2. Script by Peter Gillis. Pencils by Fred Kida. Inks by Don Perlin. Cover by John Byrne and Terry Austin.
Inside the Dovecote citadel, the Sentinel of Liberty fights through one illusion after another to reach the captive Snowfall. However before Cap can free her, he must deal with her captor: the Mind-Master! Will the shield-slinger defeat the Mind-Master...and discover the startling secret of Snowfall? Flashback cameo by the Sub-Mariner to recap his battle vs. the Mind-Master in Sub-Mariner (1st series) #43. (Note: The letters page includes a letter from comics writer Kurt Busiek.)
32 pages. Cover price $0.40.
Adam Warlock and Thanos guest star! When her crew is trapped in Gamble's dreamscape, Captain Cabre-Rios teams up with Warlock to dislodge the secrets sealed in the mind of a small boy. This issue also introduces a group called the Deck, who work for the mysterious Dreamscaper, Gamble.
Written by Gary Russell. Art by Steve Tappin and Michael Eve.
Cover price $1.75.
Introducing Gamble, a brand new villain in this issue. Captain Cabre-Rios gets a new body while the cyberspace team faces some psychotic bikers on a warworld. Adam Warlock makes an appearance as the Clan Cyorse reveal their beloved god! Thanos cameo.
Written by Gary Russell. Art by Steve Tappin and Michael Eve. Cover by Andrew Currie and Robin Riggs.
Cover price $1.75.
X-MEN: SECOND COMING PRELUDE! - 'HOME COMING': Part 3 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by GABRIEL GUZMAN. Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC.
The penultimate chapter in the X-Men saga that began with 'Messiah CompleX' continues here! As Cable and Hope fight their way back to the present, Bishop closes in on their trail, determined to stop them using the deadliest weapons at hand, be it a Prohibition-style tommy gun or heat-seeking brain needles of the near future. Meanwhile, a few decades from now, Cable and Hope meet an old ally who could either save them-or jeopardize everything. This is it...the penultimate issue of the time-hopping action thriller born in the pages of 'Messiah CompleX.'
32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
X-MEN: SECOND COMING PRELUDE! - 'HOME COMING': Part 2 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by GABRIEL GUZMAN. Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC.
The penultimate chapter in the X-Men saga that began with 'Messiah CompleX' continues here! Now that Hope's told Cable that she's ready to join the X-Men in the present, Cable risks it all to repair his busted time machine. Finally, after years of being stuck in a one-way trip to oblivion, Cable and Hope leap into the past. But the Mutant Messiah and her surrogate father miss the mark by more than a few hundred years, finding themselves in a primitive Manhattan - and hunted by a mutant who just doesn't know the meaning of the word 'quit.'
32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
X-MEN: SECOND COMING PRELUDE! - 'HOME COMING': Part 1 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by HUMBERTO RAMOS, LAN MEDINA and PAUL GULACY. Cover by MARKO DJURDEVIC.
From the moment Cable jumped into the time stream with the infant 'mutant messiah,' he's had only one goal: keep Hope alive until she can choose her own destiny. But now, stranded on a planet in its death throes, eating fried rat on a stick for the millionth time, Hope turns to Cable and tells him she's ready to go home. Thus begins 'Homecoming,' the penultimate chapter in the X-Men saga that began with 'Messiah CompleX.' It's not only zero hour for Cable and Hope, but also for the mutant hunting them, Lucas Bishop, who is rapidly running out of chances to save mutantkind and the world. Because if Hope does make it back to the present, everything changes for the X-Men.
40 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
BROOD: Part 2 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by GABRIEL GUZMAN. Cover by DAVE WILKINS.
'QUEEN CAPTURES BISHOP'-As it turns out, space isn't the place for Cable and Hope. Against all odds, Bishop has found them again, and taken their spacecraft hostage. All Bishop needs is to see the girl. Once he has visual confirmation, it's simply a matter of triggering the nuclear bomb hidden in his arm, and his lifelong mission to save the X-Men (and Earth) is over. And there are only so many places to hide in a small transport vessel on the far reaches of our solar system. But there is someone else aboard the vessel, and she doesn't care about Cable or Bishop's war. She's been drawn to the life force of one of the vessel's inhabitant, and she and her army will stop at nothing until they have her...Enter: The Brood Queen!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
BROOD: Part 1 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by GABRIEL GUZMAN. Cover by DAVE WILKINS.
Some call space the 'final frontier.' But for time-traveling mutant soldier Cable and Hope - the so-called 'mutant messiah' - space is their last and only chance at survival. The Earth is dead, thanks to their foe Bishop, and if Hope is going to make it to adulthood, she's going to have to do it in the cold, lonely vacuum of space, alone except for dark forces that know she's coming. Forces which are very, very hungry...
32 pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
WanderLost: Part 1 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI. Art by PAUL GULACY. Cover by DAVE WILKINS.
We open literally one second after the shattering conclusion of 'Messiah War,' and Cable's mission to save mutantkind has never looked more bleak. In fact, you can't even call it a mission anymore... After all he's been through, after all he's survived...now all Cable can do now is pray-pray the heavily-armed killers roaming the deep future can't match his survival skills. And what is the fate of Hope-the so-called 'Mutant Messiah'?
32 Pages, full color. Cover price $2.99.
Prelude to War: Wasteland Blues: Part 1 of 2 -Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Art by JAMIE MCKELVIE & ARIEL OLIVETTI Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
Deep in the future, Cable and the now seven-year-old mutant messiah find themselves in the middle of humanity's last stand. And humanity loses! Cable is forced to timeslide into an uncertain future, hoping to find survivors, or food, or water... anything. But the longer Cable and the girl wander, the greater the devastation. As they fight to survive out in the barren wastelands, the girl starts to ask Cable the tough questions he's been dreading-namely: who am I, and why do some people want me dead?
32 PGS./Rated T+ Cover price $2.99.
Waiting for the World to End: Part 4 of 4 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils & Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
In the present, Cyclops, Emma and Beast have been ambushed by Bishop and a nasty little surprise he's smuggled into the X-Men HQ. Meanwhile, hundreds of years in the future, Cable realizes what the former X-Man has done to the planet -- all in an effort to make sure Cable and the four-year-old mutant messiah never, ever return to the present. Once again, the rules of the hunt have been completely rewritten, and the future of mutantkind has never looked more uncertain.
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99 Cover price $2.99.
Waiting for the World to End: Part 3 of 4 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils & Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
Would you destroy the world, if it was your only chance to save it? No, not this world. A dark, twisted, miserable version of this world-one that shouldn't even exist. One that won't exist, if you succeed. That's the choice Lucas Bishop had to make it-and he'd make it again, in a heartbeat. He's been captured by X-Force, but it's all part of the plan. And while Cyclops thinks he's finally removed the only threat to the Cable and the mutant messiah child out in the timestream, he couldn't be more wrong. He's only made it worse.
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99 Cover price $2.99.
Waiting for the World to End: Part 2 of 4 - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils & Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
Cable has taken the mutant messiah to a safe haven hundreds of years in the future - only to discover that this timeline is marked for destruction by a band of heavily armed soldiers claiming to be the remnants of the U.S. government. And that's not even the worst thing about them! Meanwhile, back in the present, Cyclops - desperate to squeeze some answers out of Bishop - uses an interrogation so brutal, not even the Geneva Convention covers it: a few minutes in a room alone with Emma Frost!
32 PGS./Rated T+ Cover price $2.99.
Cover by ADI GRANOV. X-Men: Manifest Destiny tie-in - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Art by MICHEL LACOMBE & ARIEL OLIVETTI.
'HOMEFRONT' Special double-sized issue featuring the Uncanny X-Men! Meanwhile, back in the present . . . In the aftermath of the 'Messiah Complex' war, Cyclops took a leap of faith and allowed his son Cable to disappear into the time stream with the first new mutant birth since 'M' day -- and the future of the dwindling mutant population -- tucked under his arm. Weeks later, he still waits for a sign, however small, that he made the right decision. With evidence pointing to the fact that Bishop has jumped into the timestream and is hot on Cable's trail, the X-Men's unquestioned leader is about to make one final power move to protect the fate of mutantkind - one that he might come to regret.
48 PGS./Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.
Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI Messiah Complex Aftermath - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils by ARIEL OLIVETTI.
The war that started in 'Messiah CompleX' continues here! Hang on to your Bjorn-straps, people: Here it is, the can't-miss conclusion to 'War Baby'! Both Cable and Bishop have crossed lines they thought they'd never cross. There's no going back now. And in the disaster-ravaged streets of a near-future Manhattan, it all comes down to which X-Man wants to accomplish his objective more. The gloves are off...the guns are loaded...and nobody's going to walk out of this one unscathed... including the baby!
32 PGS./Rated T+ Cover price $2.99.
Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI. Messiah Complex Aftermath - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils by ARIEL OLIVETTI.
The second phase of the war that began in 'Messiah Complex' continues! There's nothing better than catching up with an old war buddy, especially after the years have really started to pile up. You can rummage through the bad old days, revel in the glory days, and down a few beers on the back porch while the sun slips down over the horizon. But not so for Cable. Because his old war buddy has shown up with news that everyone he knows or cares about is dead. The battles are over, and they're the only ones left on the losing side. If that weren't enough, Bishop, their former ally, is just one bullet away from achieving his objective: killing the baby, and erasing the last shred of hope for mutantkind. All of the battles Cable has won mean nothing. Because suddenly, all of these years later, he's in real danger of losing the war.
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99 Cover price $2.99.
Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI. Messiah Complex Aftermath - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils by ARIEL OLIVETTI.
Your name is Nathan Summers. You've just met a nice Jersey girl. She's blonde, soft-spoken, and she doesn't mind the fact that you have a kid...or a bullet in your chest...or a big scary guy with a robot arm that wants to kill you. But you can't stay here. The future of mutantkind is resting on your shoulders and the longer you stick around, playing house, the bigger the risk. Especially when an old friend comes blasting out of the past...
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99 Cover price $2.99.
Cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI. Messiah Complex Aftermath - Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Pencils by ARIEL OLIVETTI
A new ongoing series spinning out of the decade's biggest X-Men event! The future of mutantkind continues here! There's only one thing worse than a heavily-armed man with murder on the brain. And that's several heavily-armed men, none of whom give a damn about Cable's mission to save mutantkind from total extinction. Meanwhile, Cable's newest enemy-Lucas Bishop-crawls back from bloody oblivion and tracks down his quarry the hard way: one brutal time jump after another. When Bishop finally catches up wit Cable, he's not going to be in the mood for small talk. It'll be kill first, ask questions later.
Cover price $2.99.
"Savage Landings!" Guest-starring Ka-Zar and the Black Panther. Script by Mark Gruenwald. Pencils by Rik Levins. Inks by Danny Bulanadi. Cover by Rik Levins and Danny Bulanadi.
Cap, T'Challa, Diamondback, and the Falcon arrive in the Savage Land! What is the foursome looking for? Vibranium! The heroes split into three groups to explore the marvelous scenery and hunt for the vital natural resource! However none of them find vibranium! Instead they find trouble! Cap and Diamondback bump into Zabu! The Falcon encounters the High Technician and Lorelei! And the Black Panther clashes with Ka-Zar! Wow, the Prince of Wakanda vs. the Lord of the Hidden Jungle! A rumble in the jungle for the ages! And nearby A.I.M. quietly watches and waits.
32 pages. Cover price $1.25.
"Murder by Decree!" Giant-Size issue. Double foldout cover. Flip-book. Operation: Galactic Storm Part 15 of 19. Guest-starring the Avengers. Script by Mark Gruenwald. Pencils by Rik Levins. Inks by Danny Bulanadi. Cover by Rik Levins and Dan Panosian.
Story continues from Thor 446 It's the 400th anniversary issue of Captain America! And the star-spangled avenger is in dire straits on Hala after his teammates shockingly abandoned him (in order to pursue the Nega-Bomb)! The Living Legend stands before the Supreme Intelligence expecting the worst…when suddenly the Cobra attacks! Hold on, how did the Cobra find his way to the Kree homeworld? There's no time for answers as Batroc strikes next! Then Flag-Smasher, Viper, Cross Bones, and the Red Skull! Six against one! Can the Sentinel of Liberty beat his six deadliest foes? And outsmart the Supreme Intelligence along the way? Story continues in Avengers West Coast 82. Cameo appearances by the Black Knight, Crystal, Goliath (aka Clint Barton), Hercules, Iron Man, and Sersi. Second Story: "Out in the Cold" Script by Mark Gruenwald. Pencils by Larry Alexander. Inks by Kathryn Bolinger. While serving as part of Earth's rearguard, the Falcon and the U.S. Agent respond to a challenge from Flag Smasher! The anarchist is holding D-Man hostage and demanding an audience with the red-white-and-blue avenger! But since Cap is on another world, Flag Smasher is going to have two heroes respond to his challenge instead of one!
80 pages Cover price $2.25.
Don't miss the dramatic conclusion to this limited series! Blaze assaults Regent's forces head on, attempting to stop his own children from turning against him. When he confronts his wife, Roxanne, about her involvement with Regent, Blaze learns that everything he has ever held dear to his heart is a sham!
Written by Howard Mackie. Pencils by Ron Wagner.
Cover price $1.75.
"Family Matters!" Written by Howard Mackie. Art by Ron Wagner. Cover by Ron Wagner and Bill Sienkiewicz.
One time super star stuntman and former Spirit of Vengeance, Johnny Blaze has reached rock bottom. His life is in utter disarray. But when his family is threatened, Blaze returns to the world with a vengeance!
32 pages, FC. Cover price $1.75.
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Pencils & Cover by MARK BAGLEY
DOCTOR DOOM!! The Avengers invade Latveria to take down Doctor Doom for his chemical attack on America. Only maybe it wasn't Doom exactly. It's wall-to-wall mayhem as Mark Bagley joins Avengers writer Bendis in this globe-trotting spectacle filled with hints about next year's SECRET INVASION!
Cover price $2.99.
Secret Invasion Tie-in - Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by MICHAEL GAYDOS Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC
The break up! CONSPIRACY, PARANOIA, BETRAYAL may have taken their toll on the Avengers newlyweds Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. After the shocking turn of events at the end of last month's NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL, has Jessica Jones turned her back on THE AVENGERS? Who better to help tell this story than Alias artist Michael Gaydos returning to Marvel for this special issue. Guest-Starring the Mighty Avengers. WHO DO YOU TRUST?
Cover price $2.99.
