After months of teases, Sins of Sinister, an all-new X-Men event, was just announced at the "Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing Panel" at New York Comic Con.
The crossover begins in January's Sins of Sinister #1, a giant-sized one-shot by Immortal X-Men creative team, writer Kieron Gillen and artist Lucas Werneck. After that, it's said we'll bear witness as the current Krakoan era crumbles and enters a new Marvel Comics age brought about by Sinister’s corrupt machinations.
Immortal X-Men, X-Men Red, and Legion of X will be transformed into three limited series: Immoral X-Men, Storm & The Brotherhood of Mutants, and Nightcrawlers.
Series writers Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing, and Si Spurrier will pen their respective new titles, joined by artists Paco Medina, Patch Zircher, and Alessandro Vitti. Tackling three separate time periods, each superstar artist will draw an issue of all three titles as consecutive issues propel the Marvel Universe further and further into a dark future, dramatically escalating the stakes with each startling time jump.
10 Years...100 Years...1000 Years. The Powers of Essex will seek to stretch beyond the limits of time and space! All three writers will then continue their current story plans after the X-Universe-shattering finale one-shot, Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1.
This universe-melting X-event will introduce a horrifying timeline that makes the Age of Apocalypse look like the X-Men Swimsuit Special as Mister Sinister’s repulsive plans come to fruition. Currently playing a dangerous game with the very timestream of the Marvel Universe in the pages of Immortal X-Men, Sinister’s uncontrollable lust for domination will finally be satisfied, but at what cost?
It's the end of the world as we know it, but at least Sinister feels fine. For now. Can that last? Especially when we discover that he really is his own worst enemy. Infamous for his long-term meticulous manipulating, Mister Sinister’s scheming will yield unpredictable results in an overarching saga that pays off plot threads that have been haunting fans since Jonathan Hickman’s House of X and Powers of X.
Sinister has been planning all this since the beginning...and is going to have to see through to the bitter end.
Check out some Sins of Sinister artwork below by Leinil Francis Yu along with a full event checklist. Marvel Comics will no doubt reveal more between now and January, so stay tuned for details as we have them.