X-Men: Battle of the Atom kicks off in September with a special issue by Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Cho then run through the core X-titles (All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men and Brian Wood’s X-Men) then wrap in a final bookend by Jason Aaron and a “mystery artist.”
Future X-Men including Kate Bishop, Deadpool, Lady Xorn, Ice Beast (designed by Arthur Adams) arrive in the present in direct response to the Beast bringing the original X-Men from the past in the present. The Future X-Men are committed to send them back by any means necessary!
“The story itself hinges on the All-New X-Men and whether or not they need to be sent back to their home time,” X-Men Senior Editor Nick Lowe tells Marvel.com. “This causes the X-Men of the past, present and future to pick sides.”
“I can tell you that nothing in this event is what it seems,” teases Bendis. “The X-Men franchise has never taken an idea this far.”
Here’s a first look at All-New X-Men #16 by Bendis and Stuart Immonen with cover by Arthur Adams. Marvel is teasing a Wolverine vs. Future X-Men fight and Young Jean and Young Scott go on the run in order to stay in the present.
The Battle begins in September.
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