Marvel Comics has announced Reign of X, the next big arc for Jonathan Hickman’s X-Man opus. One of the new titles in that arc is Way of X, which features Nightcrawler leading a new team of mutants.
Written by Simon Spurrier, with art by Bob Quinn, the new team of X-Men will explore the dark mysteries of the X-Men’s new way of life.
Mutantkind has built a new Eden… but there are serpents in this garden. Some mutants struggle to fit in. Some mutants turn to violence and death. And the children whisper of the Patchwork Man, singing in their hearts…Only one mutant senses the looming shadows. Snared by questions of death, law and love, only Nightcrawler can fight for the soul of Krakoa. Only he – and the curious crew he assembles(including fan-favorites Dr. Nemesis, Pixie and Blink) – can help mutants defeat their inner-darkness and find a new way to live. This is the WAY OF X.
“I should probably just tell a lie for the sake of a neat elevator pitch and say that Way of X is a story about the creation of a new mutant religion. But it’s not – not really,” said Spurrier in a press release from Marvel Comics. ‘That’s kinda where it starts, for sure. Nightcrawler realises something’s wrong with the hearts and minds of mutantkind and sets out to fix it. But as he quickly discovers, this isn’t a job for priests and prayers … The question is, what do they have to become in order to fight it? Preachers? Cops? Executioners? Or something entirely new?
Way of X #1 is scheduled to arrive in April 2021.
