Cover: Lucas Werneck

Dead X-Men #2

Apr 2024 · Marvel · 3.99 USD

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“Army of Me”

About this Issue

Dead X-Men #2 deepens one of the Krakoan Age's most ambitious structural gambits — the use of Moira MacTaggert's past lives as traversable alternate timelines — by sending the resurrected team into Moira's seventh life, previously sketched in outline only in Jonathan Hickman's House of X #2, and expanding it substantially for the first time. The issue's central revelation, that without the Trask family Hank Pym simply builds his own Sentinel-equivalents from Ultron technology, pointedly reinforces the Krakoan era's thesis that AI-driven mutant persecution is a structural inevitability rather than the work of any single villain. As part of the Fall of the House of X crossover, it serves as a rare companion piece that meaningfully retroactively colours earlier Hickman-era lore while closing out the Krakoa saga.

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writer Steve Foxe · artist, inker Peter Nguyen · artist, inker Bernard Chang · artist, inker Guillermo Sanna · colorist Frank Martin · letterer VC's Cory Petit · cover Lucas Werneck

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History

Written by Steve Foxe and released February 28, 2024, Dead X-Men was a four-issue limited series functioning as a tie-in to the Fall of the House of X event, edited by Jordan D. White and Lauren Amaro under editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski. The series employed a rotating, multi-artist structure on every issue — issue #2 credited Peter Nguyen, Bernard Chang, and Guillermo Sanna as pencillers alongside colorist Frank Martin — a format that Foxe is reported to have described as an intentional creative choice rather than a scheduling accommodation. The series was understood by some readers and critics as also serving to give narrative closure to the diverse X-Men lineup killed at the 2023 Hellfire Gala before they could serve a single issue as a team.

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Released February 28, 2024; titled 'Army of Me' — all four issue titles in the series are Björk song titles.
Written by Steve Foxe; pencilled by Peter Nguyen, Bernard Chang, and Guillermo Sanna; coloured by Frank Martin; lettered by Cory Petit; edited by Lauren Amaro and Jordan D. White.
The five core Dead X-Men are Jubilee, Prodigy (David Alleyne), Frenzy (Joanna Cargill), Cannonball (Sam Guthrie), and Dazzler (Alison Blaire) — all killed at the Hellfire Gala and resurrected by Rachel Summers (Askani) for this mission.
The story sends the team into Moira MacTaggert's seventh life — first depicted in House of X #2 — expanding it to reveal that after Moira assassinated the Trask bloodline, Hank Pym created Ultron-based Sentinels in their place, demonstrating that anti-mutant AI is an inevitability in this cosmology.
Alternate-universe first appearances in this issue include Emma Frost-7 (appears and dies), Henry Peter Gyrich-7 (dies), Dr. Hank Pym-7, and Senator Steven Shaffran-7, all designated as Life-7 variants of established Marvel characters.
The primary antagonist threading through the issue is the cyborg version of Moira MacTaggert (designated Moira II.4) who escaped her own timeline at the end of issue #1 and is now interfering with Moira's earlier lives.
Minor villain characters appearing in this issue's alternate setting include Mentallo, Tower, Stinger (both Alliance of Evil veterans), and the obscure Resistants member Quill (the latter identified as the Resistants/Mutant Force Quill, not the Xavier School student of the same name).
Cover art for the main edition is by Lucas Werneck; a 1:25 incentive variant exists by Carmen Carnero, and a Marvel '97 homage variant by Michele Bandini was also offered.