Legion of X #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeLegion of X #1 marks the debut of the Legionaries as a named team — Krakoa's internal peacekeeping outfit — and introduces a cluster of new characters who would ripple through the rest of the Destiny of X era, most notably Mother Righteous, Weaponless Zsen, Ora Serrata the Witness, and the Inward Watch. The issue also brings back Blindfold (Ruth Aldine) in resurrected form, resolving a long-standing Krakoan prohibition on precognitive mutants. As the final launch title of the Destiny of X initiative, it served as Si Spurrier's direct continuation of the theological and social questions he seeded in Way of X, reframing them through a genre-blending procedural-noir lens that was largely novel for the X-line.
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Announced on January 4, 2022, Legion of X was conceived by writer Si Spurrier as a direct sequel-in-spirit to his Way of X miniseries, and was originally developed under the working title 'Legionnaires' before the name change. Spurrier publicly cited Alan Moore's Top Ten as a structural influence, describing the series as a 'precinct-style ensemble story' set inside a Krakoan pop-utopia he likened to the idealism — and latent dangers — of the 1967 Summer of Love. Artist Jan Bazaldua, previously on Krakoan-era X-Force, joined as interior artist, with Federico Blee as colorist and Clayton Cowles as letterer; Dike Ruan provided the main cover.
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- Published May 25, 2022, by Marvel Comics; written by Si Spurrier with interior art by Jan Bazaldua, colors by Federico Blee, and letters by Clayton Cowles. Main cover by Dike Ruan.
- First appearance of Mother Righteous, who debuts on the issue's final pages as a mysterious 'wheeler-dealer of the astral plane' and becomes a major antagonist of the series.
- First appearance of Weaponless Zsen, an Arakkii warrior who joins Nightcrawler's investigation on the planet Arakko.
- First appearance of Ora Serrata the Witness and the Inward Watch, new Arakkii institutions introduced as part of the expanded Great Ring of Arakko world-building.
- First team appearance of the Legionaries (the Legion of X squad), composed of Nightcrawler, Legion (David Haller), Pixie, Juggernaut, Blindfold, Doctor Nemesis, ForgetMeNot, and others, operating from The Altar — a pocket dimension created within Legion's own psyche.
- Features the in-story resurrection of Blindfold (Ruth Aldine), whose precognitive abilities had previously barred her from Krakoan resurrection under Moira MacTaggert's restrictions.
- This issue was the final title to launch the 'Destiny of X' publishing wave and served as the ongoing continuation of themes Spurrier had introduced in his 2021 miniseries Way of X.
- Issue #1 was released with at least ten variant covers, including designs by Jamie McKelvie, Tom Muller, Ken Lashley, Todd Nauck, Nick Robles, Bob Quinn, Mike McKone, and Mico Suayan, as well as a second printing.
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Reprinted in Legion of X by Si Spurrier #1 (2022)
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