Dead X-Men #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDead 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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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.
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Reprinted in Dead X-Men #[nn] (2024)
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