Dead X-Men #3

History

Dead X-Men was conceived as a four-issue limited series written by Steve Foxe — who had already established his X-Men credentials on Dark X-Men and X-Men '92: House of XCII — and edited by Jordan D. White, the long-tenured architect of the Krakoan line. Issue #3 specifically carries an unusually large artistic team: Lynne Yoshii, Bernard Chang, Javier Pina, and David Baldéon all share interior duties, with Frank Martin on colors and Cory Petit lettering, a production choice that reflects both the dense timeline-hopping structure of the script and the compressed four-issue schedule demanded by the Fall of the House of X event slate. The series was announced as spinning directly out of Rise of the Powers of X, positioning it as a companion piece to the main Kieron Gillen event title rather than a standalone story.

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• Released March 13, 2024; issue title is 'An Echo, a Stain,' named after a track from Björk's 2001 album Vespertine — all four issues in the series are titled after Björk songs.
• Written by Steve Foxe; interior art by Lynne Yoshii, Bernard Chang, Javier Pina, and David Baldéon; colors by Frank Martin; cover by Lucas Werneck; edited by Jordan D. White.
• The five core 'Dead X-Men' — Frenzy (leader), Cannonball, Dazzler, Jubilee, and Prodigy — were all killed at the third Hellfire Gala and resurrected by Rachel Summers (operating as Askani from No-Place X) for this timeline-hopping mission.
• Issue #3 takes the team through Moira MacTaggert's ninth life (where she allied with Apocalypse, surrounded by Archangel-clone Horsemen called 'the Host') and then into Moira's fifth life, the Faraway timeline set on Earth's moon, where Charles Xavier built a militant mutant nation.
• In Moira's fifth life, the resident X-Men are led by Psylocke (Betsy Braddock) — who is married to Cyclops in this reality — alongside Banshee, Wolfsbane, and Sway; this marks the first full depiction of that team in an ongoing comic, as the fifth-life timeline was only briefly referenced in Hickman's House of X #2.
• Sway, one of the most obscure X-Men in the Marvel catalog (introduced in X-Men: Deadly Genesis as a member of the doomed second X-Men squad), receives a significant spotlight moment when she uses her time-manipulation powers to halt Cannonball mid-flight.
• Mother Righteous is held captive in No-Place X throughout the issue, trading barbs with an exhausted Rachel/Askani, while Beast and Dr. Cecilia Reyes monitor the comatose cyborg Moira in the Faraway base on the moon — tying this series tightly to events in Rise of the Powers of X #3.
• The series was collected in a trade paperback edition (ISBN 9781302957438) containing all four issues, with a cover by Lucas Werneck.

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