At this weekend's New York Comic Con, Marvel Comics confirmed that the end of the X-Men's revolutionary Krakoan Age is very nearly upon us.
Now, we have details about a pair of intertwined series that will close out mutantkind's current era this January: Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X, along with a first look at one of the tie-in titles set to spin out of these events, Resurrection of Magneto.
In 2019, we witnessed the dawn of the Krakoa age in Jonathan Hickman's groundbreaking House of X and Powers of X, two interconnected five-issue limited series that spanned mutant history and the future. Now, the Krakoa Age ends in the same dramatic fashion, with each of the aforementioned titles delivering half of the story that will bring the Krakoa Age to its conclusion.
They'll feature the X-Men of today and the X-Men of tomorrow as they wage the final war against extinction across their entire existence. Evolution is inevitable. Extinction, however, is optional.
The two series are fittingly crafted by some of the Krakoa's defining architects, writer Gerry Duggan (X-Men) and artist Lucas Werneck (Immortal X-Men) delivering Fall of the House of X and writer Kieron Gillen (Immortal X-Men) and artist R.B. Silva (Powers of X) delivering Rise of the Power of X.
Writer Al Ewing (X-Men Red) and artist Luciano Vecchio (X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023) will collaborate on Resurrection of Magneto.
Krakoa has just begun to fight in Fall of the House of X #1. Mutantkind has never had a greater fall. From the highs of Krakoa - their own glorious nation, a place where they were safe and happy - to the lowest of lows. Outlawed, hunted, killed, most of their kind missing or dead, and now, one their greatest leaders, Cyclops, is on trial facing a death penalty.
Ready or not, the time has come for the X-Men to make their final stand against the forces that have struck them low. The day is now. The place is here. The tale of the house Xavier built will long be told...and few will forget this darkest chapter.
And the fight for Krakoa has been lost in Rise of the Powers of X #1. Ten years ago, the mutants returned from their exile to try and reclaim the Earth from the forces of Orchis. They failed. Now, within the victorious Orchis with their gauntlet choking the world, Nimrod and Omega Sentinel put their plan within a plan into action.
They are to summon their binary god to consume everything in their accession. All that stands between them is the X-Men. What can they do? They're the X-Men. They'll find a way. That's their power. So begins a story beyond time and space, with the rise of powers beyond our petty human intelligence.
Are the X-Men about to return to the hallowed halls of the X-Mansion? Will the endless cycle of death and resurrection finally end? We'll find out next year, but after half a decade of the Krakoa Age, it sounds like a fresh start beckons...