Dead X-Men #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeDead X-Men #4 serves as the closing chapter of the four-issue miniseries that functioned as the connective tissue between the twin Krakoan-era finales, Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X, bringing the Krakoan Age's sprawling multiverse storyline to a head through a team of second-tier mutants rarely afforded that much narrative weight. The issue is notable for centering Jubilee, Prodigy, Frenzy, Cannonball, and Dazzler — all killed at the Hellfire Gala — as the agents whose timeline-hopping mission ultimately persuades Professor X to abandon his plan to erase Krakoa's history by killing a young Moira MacTaggert. As the finale of a miniseries in which every chapter title was a Björk song, it also stands as one of the more deliberately idiosyncratic editorial flourishes of the Krakoan publishing program.
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Writer Steve Foxe had already been working within the Fall of X ecosystem on Dark X-Men when Marvel tapped him to script Dead X-Men, a four-issue limited series announced at New York Comic Con 2023 as a companion to Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X. Foxe worked in close coordination with Kieron Gillen and editor Jordan D. White to ensure the series had genuine plot consequences for the broader line rather than functioning as a mere sideshow. The book's intentionally large rotating art team — Bernard Chang, David Baldeón, and Vincenzo Carratù across various issues — was a deliberate structural choice tied to the series' multiverse-hopping premise, with Foxe teasing a 'secret' behind the need for so many pencilers.
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- Released April 17, 2024; cover-dated June 2024. Written by Steve Foxe; interior art by Bernard Chang, David Baldeón, and Vincenzo Carratù; cover by Lucas Werneck.
- The story is titled 'Hyper-Ballad,' continuing the series-wide conceit of naming each issue after a Björk song.
- This is the concluding issue of the four-part Dead X-Men limited series (2024), a tie-in to both Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X, the dual miniseries that ended the Krakoan Age of X-Men comics.
- The five featured protagonists — Jubilee, Prodigy, Frenzy, Cannonball, and Dazzler — were elected to the X-Men at the 2023 Hellfire Gala and subsequently killed by Nimrod; they were resurrected by Rachel Summers (Askani) specifically for this multiversal mission.
- The alternate-timeline cyborg Moira MacTaggert (Moira II.4) is killed in this issue when Juggernaut (Cain Marko of the same divergent timeline) crushes her.
- Dazzler (Alison Blaire) experiences a death and resurrection within the issue itself, a nod to her unexplained pattern of resurrections dating back to New Excalibur.
- The climax of the issue directly interlocks with Rise of the Powers of X #3: the Dead X-Men interrupt Professor X at the moment he is about to kill the young Moira MacTaggert to prevent Enigma from achieving Dominion status, persuading him to abandon the plan.
- Rachel Summers appears throughout as Askani, communicating with the team from No-Place X via the White Hot Room; supporting characters from the divergent Moira II.4 timeline include alternate versions of Abigail Brand, Sunspot, Juggernaut, and Smasher (Josiah Guthrie).
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Reprinted in Dead X-Men #[nn] (2024)
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