![]() ![]() House of X and Powers of X established that Moira MacTaggart, a longtime ally of the X-Men, was secretly a mutant with the power of reincarnation. Image: Valerio Schiti/ Marvel Comics What is Inferno about? It’s a team that lives up to the incredible pedigree of HoXPoX. ![]() Schiti most recently launched SWORD with Al Ewing, and his flair for drama is as striking in the political machinations here as it was in that title’s space opera. Hickman began this era with the titanic two-series-that-were-one, House of X and Powers of X. Jonathan Hickman returns and is joined by Valerio Schiti’s pencils, David Curiel’s colors, Joe Sabino’s letters, and, as on all of the Krakoan X-Comics, Tom Muller’s design work. Now, Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Destiny, Emma Frost, and the long-hidden Moira X are entering a conflict which threatens to damn the entire nation in the new book Inferno, which kicked off on Sept. While the X-Men have escalated their position in the universe and gathered their power, however, secrets and tensions have seethed just under Krakoa’s surface (and at times quite literally). ![]() ![]() In the follow-up event X of Swords, they reunited with their lost brethren, and the recent Hellfire Gala established Mars as Planet Arrakko, placing the X-Men on a galactic stage. Two years ago, in Jonathan Hickman’s House of X #1, a few words transformed Marvel’s X-Men comics: “While you slept, the world changed.” In the Dawn of X, the X-Men cemented their island, Krakoa, as a nation-haven for mutantkind. ![]()
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