What’s Cyclops doing on the cover of Avengers #38?
What until see inside!
The X-Men Revolution leader is the wild card in the latest chapter of Time Runs Out set in the near future before Secret Wars.
But with writer Jonathan Hickman there are no wild cards in his elaborately plotted epic that began with Avengers World and building up the comics event of 2015.
While the Avengers been battling the Builders, Thanos and A.I.M. – the Illuminati (Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Black Bolt, Beast, Namor) have committed unheroic acts (brainwashed Steve Rogers, destroy other planets) to save Earth from incusions from other Earths in the Marvel multiverse. The action jumped into near future with heroes vs. heroes, unholy alliances and an array of classic Marvel weapons like the Ultimate Nullifier.
Beast (in the Illuminati) and new Avengers Cannonball and Sunspot have been the only mutant player in the cosmic drama until this week. Hickman gives us a dire look at the X-Men of this near future.
Cyclops comes out of his stronghold haven for mutants to meet Roberto DaCosta and Hank McCoy. Scott Summers says “it’s past time I got in the game” and he reveals he’s holding a weapon that could be the key to saving Earth from incursions.
We will not spoil the story but this could be an important issue. I can’t begin to outguess Hickman’s plots with plots and counterplots but this week’s revelation could help explain how Time Runs Out launches the Secret Wars.
Avengers #38 by Hickman with artist Stefano Caselli and cover by Simone Bianchi is in comic shops now.
By Editor