The third part of the Messiah Trilogy cross-over stories that started in Messiah CompleX & continued in Messiah War. Second Coming heralds the long-awaited return of Hope Summers & Cable to the present day.
X-MEN: SECOND COMING Written by Christopher Yost & CRAIG KYLE Pencils & Variant Cover by David Finch Cover by ADI GRANOV Many will be wounded. Several will die. The climax of four years of X-Men stories is the X-Event of 2010! What started in HOUSE OF M with the Decimation of mutantkind and erupted with the first new mutant birth in MESSIAH COMPLEX finishes here. In the epic crossover SECOND COMING, Cyclops’ faith pays off when Cable returns to the present with Hope, the girl he believes to be the mutant messiah. But will she be the savior or destroyer of mutantkind? We may never know, as she is the target of an initiative for mutant eradication unlike anything they X-Men have ever experienced. Many will be wounded. Several will die. Is Hope worth it? 48 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
X-Men: Second Coming #1 X-Men: Hope #1X-MEN: HOPE #1 Written by Duane Swierczynski Pencils & Cover by steve dillon Hope Summers could be the much-heralded "messiah" who will save mutantkind from extinction...or she could just be some poor kid, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time(s). Either way, since her infancy she's been raised by mutant soldier Cable in a hostile, dying future Earth -- and she's had to learn some hard lessons along the way. Now, Duane Swierczynski and Steve Dillon bring you four thrilling, untold tales from Hope's future past as she grapples with vicious snipers, robot wolf packs, mutant rats, and even Cable himself. This is the place to start if you want to know what the X-Men's future "messiah" is made of. 32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99
Cable #24CABLE #24 Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by PAUL GULACY Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC “HOMECOMING,” CONCLUSION This is it. The conclusion of the time-hopping action thriller launched in the pages of “Messiah CompleX.” After hopping around New York City in the past and near future, Cable and Hope are closer than ever to the present...which means that Bishop is more desperate than ever to stop them. No more hiding. No more plots. No more weapons. It’s coming down to mutant vs. mutant in the subterranean tunnels of New York, and only one of them will make it back to Westchester alive. You will not want to miss this issue, which leads directly into the X-MEN: SECOND COMING crossover. 40 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #522 Written by MATT FRACTION Pencils by WHILCE PORTACIO Cover by TERRY DODSON Variant Cover by TBA She’s been gone for a long time, but she’s coming back. This isn’t a hoax. This isn’t a joke. CLASSIFIED is back in this over-sized special issue of UNCANNY X-MEN. 40 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
" " Many will be wounded. Several will die." Ooohh... to whom does this apply? "
The excessive numbers of minor characters on Utopia?? Ugh, I'm really not looking forward to this. Ultimatum lost it's momentum when it became a slaughter fest... I don't think I want to see the few remaining numbers of mutants even further reduced in numbers.
" " Many will be wounded. Several will die." Ooohh... to whom does this apply? "
The excessive numbers of minor characters on Utopia?? Ugh, I'm really not looking forward to this. Ultimatum lost it's momentum when it became a slaughter fest... I don't think I want to see the few remaining numbers of mutants even further reduced in numbers. "
Who would actually care if Bliss or Dragoness died, ha? Colossus on the other hand.............
" " Many will be wounded. Several will die." Ooohh... to whom does this apply? "
The excessive numbers of minor characters on Utopia?? Ugh, I'm really not looking forward to this. Ultimatum lost it's momentum when it became a slaughter fest... I don't think I want to see the few remaining numbers of mutants even further reduced in numbers. "
Who would actually care if Bliss or Dragoness died, ha? Colossus on the other hand............. "
True, true... I actually thought that Dragoness has died years ago, and despite my memory spanning back to the early 90's I don't know who the F*&* Bliss is, so I couldn't give a toss if they karck ir.
That said, Second Coming one-shot is by K&Y. So I doubt they would settle for anything less than C or even B-listers... that's the Magma's, Dazzler's & Trance's of the X-World :(
@Nighthunter said:
" @xxCellPhoneGirlxx said:
" " CLASSIFIED is back in this over-sized special issue of UNCANNY X-MEN." Does this refer to hope? "
Wouldn't be much case in having that as classified. In my opinion is Jean Grey "
I still hang on to the hope that Hope isn't Jean. It's (for want of a better term) "too obvious". However, it's beginning to look more & more like a Phoenix/Jean resurrection...
" " Many will be wounded. Several will die." Ooohh... to whom does this apply? "
The excessive numbers of minor characters on Utopia?? Ugh, I'm really not looking forward to this. Ultimatum lost it's momentum when it became a slaughter fest... I don't think I want to see the few remaining numbers of mutants even further reduced in numbers. "
Who would actually care if Bliss or Dragoness died, ha? Colossus on the other hand............. "
True, true... I actually thought that Dragoness has died years ago, and despite my memory spanning back to the early 90's I don't know who the F*&* Bliss is, so I couldn't give a toss if they karck ir.
That said, Second Coming one-shot is by K&Y. So I doubt they would settle for anything less than C or even B-listers... that's the Magma's, Dazzler's & Trance's of the X-World :(
@Nighthunter said:
" @xxCellPhoneGirlxx said:
" " CLASSIFIED is back in this over-sized special issue of UNCANNY X-MEN." Does this refer to hope? "
Wouldn't be much case in having that as classified. In my opinion is Jean Grey "
I still hang on to the hope that Hope isn't Jean. It's (for want of a better term) "too obvious". However, it's beginning to look more & more like a Phoenix/Jean resurrection... "
Yeah it kinda would be too obvious for her too be Jean, but i still wonder how Jean will fit in with the team when she comes back.. alot has happened since her death.
@xxCellPhoneGirlxx: We've seen the Phoenix Force being drawn away from the Cuckoos, and (from what I've read) from Rachel too. Then there's been the repeated use of the Phoenix' fire reflected in Hope's eyes... so could this be a sign of things to come in Second Coming??
I am afraid that the writers plan on killing off Cyclops. Just freaking everything points on that - he's not on the covers, his leading is being questioned for no obvious reason...
@xerox-kitty: I think that the deaths that will be coming in second coming will be different to that of the ultimatum story. IMO this wont be mass killing but the killing of quite important characters i.e. maybe Cable or one of the core members.
I also think that we wont be seeing the pheonix again untill maybe the end of second coming or it will be the arc afterwards.
X-Men: Second ComingOne Will Lead? No guesses who... after all, this does involve Matt Fraction :p "
love the pictures, they look really good. colossus looks so cool, so does emma & hope and the group one. I hope each chapter remains good and not invovlved crap artist in storyline, like they did for messiah complex. I stop collected messiah war, i only collected 2 comics, still going to buy the graphic noval. Might do the same with second coming. Who do i think going to die, maybe some of the x-factor, cable maybe, x-23, maybe, hope it looks like she bleeding. Maybe she dies and jean rises. I doubt there kill magneto & cyclops. If that is rogue above she looks horrible.
Mike Choi is excited at killing off a major character. He tweeted:
It's been revealed in April's Solicits that I will be killing at least one major X-Men character in X-Force 26. I'll reveal that Sonia actually teared up when first hearing who and how they died. I laughed heartily thinking of the potential royalties.
So anyway, here's the solicitations (with write ups) for April:
Cable & Deadpool #25DEADPOOL & CABLE #25 Written by DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI Penciled by PACO MEDINA Cover by ROB LIEFELD Variant Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI “TWO MUTANTS AND A BABY” DOUBLE-SIZED FINAL ISSUE CO-STARRING DEADPOOL! You know, before that red-headed would-be messiah/destroyer of the world showed up, Cable had another partner. That’s right: Wade Wilson -- a.k.a. Deadpool! And while everybody’s excited about Cable bringing Hope back to the present to rejoin the X-Men, they’re forgetting the most important part of the story: The beginning, back when Cable first lifted the helpless baby out of her incubator up in Alaska. Wait -- You don’t think Cable did that alone, did you? You don’t think he managed to make his way across hundreds of miles, avoiding Predator X and Purifiers without a little assist, do you? Hell no. Cable asked for help from his favorite Merc with a Mouth and now, finally, this action-packed, oversized story can be told. Before there can be an end, there must be a beginning. 48 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
New Mutants #12
NEW MUTANTS #12 Written by ZEB WELLS Penciled by IBRAIM ROBERSON Cover by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH IRON MAN BY DESIGN VARIANT by GABRIELE DELL’OTTO SECOND COMING, CHAPTER THREE Fall of a New Mutant?! The X-Men are hot on the trail of Cable and Hope and meet Bastion’s forces head-on, in the form of Bastion’s capo William Stryker and his Purifier army. Stryker’s forces score one casualty early, but who wins the battle? At the same time the New Mutants are hitting Bastion’s second-in-command, Cameron Hodge. But going up against Hodge and 100 of his soldiers is way out of their league and one of them won’t walk away from it. 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
Uncanny X-Men #523
Uncanny X-Men #523UNCANNY X-MEN #523
Written by MATT FRACTION Penciled by TERRY DODSON Cover by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH IRON MAN BY DESIGN VARIANT by MIKE PERKINS SECOND COMING, CHAPTER TWO The race to find Cable and Hope is on, but who will get to them first? Will it be Cyclops and the X-Men or Bastion and his mutant-hating cabal? Cyclops isn’t waiting for the answer to that as takes the fight directly to Bastion with the New Mutants! 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
X-Factor #204X-FACTOR #204
Written by PETER DAVID Penciled by VALENTINE DE LANDRO Cover by DAVID YARDIN IRON MAN BY DESIGN VARIANT by TBA A SECOND COMING - REVELATIONS TIE-IN! You're Bolivar Trask, the reanimated leader of the Mutant Response Division. Your mission: Kill every member of X-Factor. How to accomplish that without collateral damage? Easy: hire the team for what seems to be a routine case that will send them into a certain death trap. Problem solved. 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
X-Force #26
X-FORCE #26 Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST & CRAIG KYLE Penciled by MIKE CHOI Cover by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH RIP VARIANT by TBA IRON MAN BY DESIGN VARIANT by TBA SECOND COMING, CHAPTER FIVE As the X-Men make their desperate attempt to get Hope to Utopia, the battle will cost them one of their own. Nothing will ever be the same. 32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
X-Men: Legacy #235
X-MEN LEGACY #235 Written by MIKE CAREY Penciled by GREG LAND Cover by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH IRON MAN BY DESIGN VARIANT by DAVE JOHNSON SECOND COMING, CHAPTER FOUR The X-Men chasing Cable and Hope have lost a teammate. They aren’t giving up, but the trail has gone cold. That’s where Rogue comes in. But how could she know where Hope and Cable are? And the battle between the New Mutants and Hodge’s forces ends here! 32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99
A lot of people seem concerned about the death toll. It seems that at least one of the New Mutants will be a casualty. In fact, there are few titles that don't mention the possibility of death.
Personally, I doubt that Cyclops will die. He's Matt 'Mr Uncanny' Fraction's golden boy. Too many titles revolve around Cyclops. Not to mention, with the apparent deaths of Captain America & Batman (big heavy hitters), it would be cheap of the X-Editors to try it with their 'lead' mutant.
But what do people think of Cable & Deadpool #25? Cheap gimmick? Too much Deadpool? Do we really need to see the story of how Cable survived in the snow, rewritten?
the death could be Cable, just an early guess. he's been a target in this for a long time. plus that issue not only being the finale, but a flashback as well. also by trying to decipher whats going on with the bloody, sad, Hope and Emma cover there, and as well, i havent read anything about Cables place in Utopia upcoming past this in interviews. not going on it 100%, but ill lay some chips on Cables slot for now.
I just hope that they dont get rid of the mutant royalty, i.e. Emma Frost and Cyclops. If Emma dies i probably will stop reading the uncanny book, just because she is my favorite character.
I honestly don't think so. It's just been done in X-Men: Forever, so I doubt main Earth-616 will do the same.
@CATMANEXE said:
"the death could be Cable, just an early guess."
I like your reasoning. And it would be an extra tragedy for Cable to struggle for so many years & then die at the last hurdle.
But Cable can be seen lying on the ground in the Adi Granov cover to Uncanny. I suspect that they wouldn't give something like that away on a cover... unless someone at Marvel made a huge F up.
" I just hope that they dont get rid of the mutant royalty, i.e. Emma Frost and Cyclops. If Emma dies i probably will stop reading the uncanny book, just because she is my favorite character. "
Emma isn't going anywhere she's too big right now to die.
If Cyclops dies, I'm going to swear off of the X-Men. He is far and beyond my favourite mutant, and if he dies, that franchise is dead to me too. On the other hand, if Wolverine dies, I'll buy Marvel a puppy.
@FadeToBlackBolt: i very much doubt that they will kill off Cyclops, i think it would be better for Cyclops to be seriously injured and Emma takes up the role of leader of the X-Men.
and i agree with you about wolverine, i think that he should leave the x-men and join this heroic age thing thats starting after seige so that he's not in the x-men anymore.
Is there even a point to "seriously" injuring characters anymore, Elixir is just gonna heal um. And i wouldn't be to surprised if they did kill Cyke, just cause he hasn't really died to my knowledge. If Cyke's down, i see power struggle between Emma and Mags, not pretty.
CLASSIFIED refers to Kitty Pryde. Having seen the trailer on Marvel.com, I can say confidently that its gonna be her. Also at the end of Uncanny 520, Magneto is seen trying to attempt to do something huge to gain some trust from Cyke, which I'm guessing is using his powers on the Big giant bullet shes trapped in. Fraction's interview on IGN pretty much confirmed Magneto is to thank for Kitty's return. Also I agree with the posters who think Cyke is gonna gets bumped off in second coming. He's not seen in any of the covers, and the leadership position seems to be up for grabs in the 'Who will Lead' teaser, I know he's front and centre in Daniel Acuna art, but that could be coz someone at marvel noticed his absence from all the covers and want to throw us off.
i doubt they will kill him off. but i think he wont be the leader after second coming i think it will be Emma as she is his right had woman. And seeing as Magneto is going to be bringing kitty back is that really enough for the x-men to trust him as their leader?
"I'm just gonna throw this out there...I think Nightcrawler will die. "
Any reason why?
Personally, I don't think Kurt will die. That was the shock opening to the latest issue of X-Men: Legacy, Rogue stating that Nightcrawler is dead. So if he happens to survive the Necrosha story on Muir Island, then I don't think they'd 'kill' him straight away afterwards.
"I'm just gonna throw this out there...I think Nightcrawler will die. "
Any reason why? Personally, I don't think Kurt will die. That was the shock opening to the latest issue of X-Men: Legacy, Rogue stating that Nightcrawler is dead. So if he happens to survive the Necrosha story on Muir Island, then I don't think they'd 'kill' him straight away afterwards. "
I just think his death would have the most impact, not to mention, I don't remember him ever dying before. I may be wrong on that. And not that it makes any difference because I'd imagine following his death, he would end up in that brimstone dimension with his father and eventually find his way out.
NEW MUTANTS #13 Written by ZEB WELLS Penciled by IBRAIM ROBERSON Cover by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH Heroic Age Variant by JOHN TYLER “SECOND COMING”, CHAPTER SEVEN Nothing is going right for Cyclops, as he tries to prepare his army for war. The X-Men are falling apart at the seams. Schisms are forming regarding Hope and her importance while Bastion’s spy continues to terrorize them from inside their own home. 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #524 Written by MATT FRACTION Penciled by TERRY DODSON Cover by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH Heroic Age Variant by STEPHANE ROUX “SECOND COMING”, CHAPTER SIX A beloved X-Man died defending Hope, the returned mutant “messiah.” As they lay their comrade to rest, the remaining X-Men are left to question: Is she worth it? 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
X-FACTOR #205
Written by PETER DAVID
Penciled by VALENTINE DE LANDRO Cover by DAVID YARDIN Heroic Age Variant by TBA A SECOND COMING TIE-IN! The mutant hunter Bastion has sent the Mutant Response Division and the newly resurrected Bolivar Trask after X-Factor with one mission: Kill them all. And it seems thus far that all is going according to plan. Meanwhile in the jungles of South America, Strong Guy has to form an extremely unlikely alliance if he wants to save Monet from the MRD. 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
X-FORCE #27 Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST & CRAIG KYLE Penciled by MIKE CHOI & SONIA OBACK Cover by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH Heroic Age Variant by CLAY MANN "SECOND COMING" CHAPTER NINE This is the end of the line. The horror of what the X-Men face is fully revealed, and the reality sets in...every single mutant on the planet is going to die. They cannot hold out any longer. And X-Force goes on their final mission. 32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99
X-MEN LEGACY #236 Written by MIKE CAREY Penciled by GREG LAND Cover by ADI GRANOV Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH Heroic Age Variant by MIKE CHOI “SECOND COMING”, CHAPTER EIGHT Bastion’s plan comes to fruition as an impenetrable dome makes the Bay Area a prison. It’s bad enough for the millions of humans, but it’s even worse for the 98% of the world’s mutants who live there. 32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99
X-MEN: SECOND COMING – REVELATIONS: BLIND SCIENCE #1 Written by SIMON SPURRIER Pencils by PAUL DAVIDSON Cover by GERALD PAREL The X-Men are on the ropes, barely dodging a foe whose master plan has them fighting to survive. Discovering some suspicious activity just off the coast of their refuge, Utopia, the X-Men send their best and brightest to investigate, hoping to discover just what Bastion is plotting. However, the X-Club is in for more than they bargained for: namely, a trap designed just for them. Thrown into a war even worse than the one they’re coming from, the X-Club is left to wonder: How do they get back to the X-Men? And just how do they figure into Bastion’s master plan? 48 PGS./One-Shot/Parental Advisory …$3.99
X-MEN: SECOND COMING – REVELATIONS: HELLBOUND #1 (of 3) Written by CHRIS YOST Pencils by HARVEY TOLIBAO Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC Fighting for the future of mutantkind, the X-Men are locked in battle with Bastion, staving off his forces even by sacrificing themselves. When Magik is gravely injured in battle, she instinctively flees to the sanctuary of Limbo…only to fall into the clutches of a longtime adversary hoping to wrest the powerful Soulsword—and control of Limbo—from her grasp. Now, a small team of X-Men venture in after her, but they are met only by unexpected peril: a horde of demons out for blood, Magik nowhere in sight, and a concealed evil walking amongst them. 32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99
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