X-Manhunt Omega #1

History

X-Manhunt was announced in December 2024 by executive editor Tom Brevoort, who had taken over the X-Men editorial group from Jordan White as part of the From the Ashes relaunch announced at SXSW in March 2024. Brevoort noted publicly that the increased editorial seniority reflected the X-Men's growing importance to Marvel Studios. The crossover ran through seven tie-in chapters across Uncanny X-Men, NYX, Storm, X-Men, X-Factor, X-Force, and Exceptional X-Men before all threads converged in this double-sized 48-page one-shot. Co-writers Gail Simone (the ongoing Uncanny X-Men) and Murewa Ayodele (Storm) were paired to co-author the finale, with interior art divided among Gleb Melnikov, Enid Balám, and Federica Mancin, and colors by Brian Reber.

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• Released March 26, 2025 (cover-dated May 2025); a 48-page one-shot serving as the finale of the X-Manhunt crossover, the second major event of Marvel's X-Men: From the Ashes era.
• Written by Gail Simone and Murewa Ayodele; interior art by Gleb Melnikov, Enid Balám, and Federica Mancin; colors by Brian Reber; cover by Gleb Melnikov with Morry Hollowell; editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski.
• Charles Xavier formally retires from the X-Men and departs Earth aboard a Shi'ar vessel with Lilandra Neramani — the first sustained on-page reunion for the couple since Lilandra's death in War of Kings #4 (2009), making this the effective 'first full appearance' of the resurrected Lilandra in the From the Ashes continuity.
• In-issue story title is 'X-Manhunt Finale: Dreams End'; the issue ends with a direct sequel hook to Jonathan Hickman, Iban Coello, and Federico Vicentini's Imperial series, where Xavier and Lilandra's story continues.
• Kid Omega (Quentin Quire) defeats Professor X mid-issue by deploying a quarantined Cassandra Nova thoughtform stored in his own mind — a notable character moment for Quire as a psychic of consequence.
• Cyclops and Storm have a full optic-blast vs. weather-powers confrontation intense enough to shatter Cyclops's visor; Storm ultimately stops Cyclops's pursuit of Xavier, underscoring the fracture lines between the From the Ashes X-factions.
• The climactic Iceland sequence at Reynisfjara sees Magik summon a massive stepping-disk demon, with John Wraith (Kestrel) operating a 'Storm god' construct on Sage's orders — bringing several characters from across all the tie-in books into physical proximity for the first time in the event.
• The collected edition X-Manhunt trade paperback reprints the full crossover including this issue; the one-shot shipped with at least four variant covers (David Marquez, Edwin Galmon, Phil Noto connecting variant, Tony Daniel).

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