Bishop: The Last X-Man #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBishop: The Last X-Man #2 is the issue where the series' core premise fully takes hold: Bishop, marooned in the far-future dystopia of Earth-9910, is embraced — against his will — as a mythic symbol by a band of outlaw mutants calling themselves the X-Faces. This second chapter of Joseph Harris and Georges Jeanty's run solidifies the book's central tension between Bishop as a flesh-and-blood man and the legend others have projected onto him, a storytelling engine that would drive all sixteen issues of the series. It also deepens the world-building of Earth-9910, one of Marvel's more fully realized alternate timelines of the late 1990s, filling out its power structure with the Chronomancer's forces pressing in on the rebel underclass.
In "Wish You Were Here," Bishop stumbles into a dystopian future where Trevor Fitzroy reigns as the Chronomancer and mutants live in constant fear. With his sister Shard held prisoner and the world reshaped by time itself, Bishop must navigate a reality where even his own past feels like a distant memory. Georges Jeanty’s striking interior art, with inks by Art Thibert and Allen Martinez, brings this fractured timeline to life, while Jason Wright’s colors and Jon Babcock’s lettering deepen the tension. The cover by Jeanty and Thibert/Martinez captures the haunting isolation of a man out of time.
In "Wish You Were Here," Bishop stumbles through a grim future where Trevor Fitzroy reigns as the Chronomancer and mutants live in constant fear. Trapped in a world that’s not his own, Bishop must navigate a dangerous new reality—unaware that his sister, Shard, is being held captive by the very man who now controls time itself.
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The series was launched in August 1999 as part of Marvel's ongoing effort to expand its mutant publishing line with solo character titles during the late Bronze/early Modern era. Writer Joseph Harris, fresh off Slingers, was paired with penciler Georges Jeanty, who had been working on Team Superman at DC, to take Bishop — a character defined by his relationship to future dystopias — into an entirely new alternate timeline. Jason Liebig served as the issue's editor, with Bob Harras as Editor-in-Chief overseeing the line.
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- Issue title: 'Wish You Were Here,' released September 22, 1999, with a cover date of November 1999.
- Creative team: writer Joseph Harris, penciler Georges Jeanty, inkers Art Thibert and Roy Allan Martinez, colorist Jason Wright, letterer Jon Babcock, editor Jason Liebig.
- The issue is set entirely on Earth-9910, Marvel's far-future alternate timeline ruled by the Chronomancer (Trevor Fitzroy).
- Supporting characters Nom, Link, Jinx, and Scorch — the full roster of the outlaw mutant band called the X-Faces — appear here as Bishop's newly established supporting cast, having had their first appearances in issue #1.
- The central dramatic conceit introduced and developed in this issue is that the X-Faces venerate Bishop as a mythic 'Last X-Man,' a legendary figure, while Bishop himself is simply a time-displaced man trying to survive.
- A Leinil Francis Yu variant cover was produced alongside the standard Georges Jeanty cover, offering two distinct cover options for this issue.
- Bishop (Lucas Bishop) was originally created by John Byrne and Whilce Portacio, first appearing in Uncanny X-Men #282 (November 1991), where he was established as a future-timeline mutant police officer from Earth-1191.
- The series ran for 16 issues total (October 1999 – January 2001), making this second issue an early installment in what became one of Bishop's longest solo runs.
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