Way back in the days of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee’s X-Men and Rob Liefeld on New Mutants there was the X-Tinction Agenda.
Imagine the mutants versus an entire nation of hate that enslaved mutants led by a cyborg monster.
The united X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants defeated Cameron Hodge and the forces of Genosha but the fight went a different way as we’ll see in a Secret Wars: Warzones tie-in book.
Marvel announced X-Tinction Agenda by Arrow Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim and artist Carmine di Giandomenico this June.
In the new version it’s X-Men vs. old friends like Havok and Wolfsbane they left behind in Genosha when a new threat emerges.
“A virus is decimating the mutant and mutate population. The X-Men have a cure in the form of Triage, but won’t violate the quarantine that Genosha is under, not wanting to risk extinction should the virus spread beyond the shores of Genosha. Havok and Wolfsbane take it upon themselves to go and get Triage and bring him back to Genosha to cure the populace, by force if necessary. Thus, we have the makings of the dynamics of the original X-Tinction Agenda, which kicked off with Storm and other mutants being kidnapped and brought back to Genosha. But this time, the X-Men are facing their former comrades and friends instead of the evil Genoshan Magistrates,” Guggenheim told Marvel.com.
The writer said Rictor and Boom Boom are will central to the story and he’s given Tabitha a new code-name: Bombshell.
The Genoshan government had an elite unit of mutates that led the kidnappings in the original story. Mystique, Karma, Wicked and new character named Bulletproof are the new Press Gang. Guggenheim revealed Ink from his Young X-Men run will be part of the story, too.
X-Tinction Agenda #1 arrives in June.
By Editor