X-Men #12
X-Men #12 (Panini France, June 2025) is a milestone number in the French publisher's ongoing post-Krakoa anthology series, delivering two significant narrative developments at once: the French-language debut of Cable: Love and Chrome #1, which launches Cable's first solo ongoing of the 'From the Ashes' era, and the thunderous conclusion of the first crossover event between Jed MacKay's X-Men and Gail Simone's Uncanny X-Men — a structural first for this new generation of mutant titles. As an anthology collecting six distinct American issues in a single oversize volume, it also serves as the primary gateway for French-speaking readers into the 'From the Ashes' initiative, making it an editorially weighty chapter in Panini's long-running role as the steward of Marvel's X-Men line for francophone audiences. The Timeslide one-shot reprinted here additionally functions as Marvel's in-universe roadmap for 2025's X-Men storytelling, threading Bishop, Cable, and Tempus through a time-travel mission that foreshadows the year's key storylines.
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The Panini France X-Men anthology series launched in January 2025 as the publisher's dedicated vehicle for Marvel's 'From the Ashes' era, following the close of the Krakoa epoch. Each issue is released bimensually (every two weeks) and made available in both a standard softcover edition and a premium collector hardcover, a dual-format model Panini France maintained from the Krakoa-era anthologies. The American source material reprinted in this twelfth number spans three distinct creative teams — David Pepose and Mike Henderson on Cable: Love and Chrome, Steve Foxe and Ivan Fiorelli on Timeslide, and the Jed MacKay/Ryan Stegman X-Men alongside the Uncanny X-Men team — all edited under Marvel's Tom Brevoort, who oversaw the broader 'From the Ashes' relaunch. French translations were handled by Studio Makma, Panini's regular localisation partner for Marvel content.
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- Publisher: Panini Comics France — released June 2025 as issue #12 of the ongoing 'From the Ashes' X-Men anthology series; available in both standard softcover and a collector hardcover edition.
- Page count and format: 176 pages, standard comics trim (17×26 cm), full colour; collects six American issues in a single volume.
- US issues collected (all French-language premieres): Laura Kinney: Wolverine (2024) #2, Wolverine (2024) #5, Timeslide (2025) #1, Cable: Love and Chrome (2025) #1, Uncanny X-Men (2024) #8, and X-Men (2024) #9.
- Cable: Love and Chrome #1 — written by Ringo Award-winning writer David Pepose, illustrated by Mike Henderson; launches Cable's standalone series set in the dystopian future city of Salvation Bay, where he is stranded and caught in a civil war among Techno-Organic Virus sufferers.
- Timeslide #1 — written by Steve Foxe, art by Ivan Fiorelli; a double-sized one-shot pairing Bishop and Cable against Vacuna, a Children of the Vault creation designed to erase the X-Gene from history; functions as Marvel's in-universe preview of the 2025 mutant publishing line.
- The crossover conclusion reprinted here (Uncanny X-Men #8 and X-Men #9) pits Cyclops's and Rogue's rival X-Men factions against each other, representing the first inter-series crossover event of the 'From the Ashes' initiative.
- Laura Kinney's Wolverine faces Daredevil (the 'Woman Without Fear,' Elektra Natchios) in the Laura Kinney: Wolverine and Wolverine issues contained in this number, continuing her separate ongoing adventure from the main X-Men narrative.
- The anthology format — collecting twelve distinct 'From the Ashes' series issues across its first twelve numbers — mirrors Panini France's successful Krakoa-era approach of bundling the entire interconnected X-Men line into a single accessible periodical for French-speaking readers.
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