X-Treme X-Men #21

Name: X-Treme X-Men #21
Brand: Marvel
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Apr 2003 · Marvel · 2.99 USD; 4.75 CAD

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“Schism Part 2: Broken Faith”

★ 1st appearance — Elias Bogan

About this Issue

X-Treme X-Men #21 marks the debut of Evangeline 'Vange' Whedon, a mutant civil-rights attorney whose blood-triggered transformation into a red dragon gave the Marvel mutant landscape one of its most conceptually unusual characters: a legal advocate whose monstrous power is activated by the very violence she works to prevent. Her arrival deepened Claremont's ongoing project of exploring mutanthood through civilian and institutional lenses rather than purely through combat—a thematic thread running through the entire 'Schism' arc. The character proved durable enough to survive M-Day with her powers intact, recur through the Krakoan era in the comics, and cross over into the Fox television series The Gifted, confirming that her debut had genuine creative staying power beyond the issue itself. As the second chapter of the 'Schism' story arc, the issue also advances one of the series' central dramatic tensions: the philosophical rift between Storm's X-Treme team and Professor X's Xavier Institute over what the X-Men's mission should actually be.

In "Schism Part 2: Broken Faith," tensions explode at Xavier's when a protest over a young mutant murderer spirals into chaos after a Mutant Rights League member is transformed into a monstrous threat. Emma Frost races to uncover the truth behind Jeffrey, while Sage begins to suspect that Bogan is manipulating events—and targeting Emma. With Salvador Larroca's dynamic art and Chris Claremont's sharp storytelling, this pivotal issue deepens the rift within the X-Men, all captured in a striking cover by Larroca.

writer Chris Claremont · artist, inker Salvador Larroca · colorist Liquid Graphics · letterer Tom Orzechowski · cover Salvador Larroca

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History

X-Treme X-Men was born out of a tense editorial reshuffling in 2001, when Joe Quesada removed Chris Claremont from both core X-titles and offered him the choice of writing one shared title under incoming writer Grant Morrison's influence or launching an entirely new third book; Claremont chose the latter, and X-Treme X-Men was the result. By issue #21, the series was in its 'Schism' arc—a deliberate pivot away from the Destiny Diaries quest that had defined the opening year—and was functioning as a more grounded, detective-inflected X-book running in parallel to Morrison's conceptually radical New X-Men. Salvador Larroca, who penciled the first 24 issues of the series, provided the art, and his cover for #21 was part of an ambitious (if ultimately incomplete) plan for a six-issue connecting image across the arc's covers.

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First appearance of Evangeline 'Vange' Whedon (Earth-616), a mutant civil-rights attorney whose mutant power causes her to involuntarily shapeshift into a red dragon upon contact with blood.
Written by Chris Claremont and penciled by Salvador Larroca; lettered by Tom Orzechowski and colored by Liquid! Color.
Released February 19, 2003 (cover-dated April 2003); story titled 'Schism (Part 2) – Broken Faith.'
The issue's cover was originally designed as part of a six-connecting-cover image spanning the 'Schism' arc, but two planned covers were scrapped and the remaining covers were printed out of order.
Villain Elias Bogan—an old Hellfire Club associate of Sage and Emma Frost—is confirmed as the mastermind behind the Alaskan murders driving the arc's plot.
Other characters appearing include Professor X, Storm, Wolverine, Bishop, Sage, Emma Frost (White Queen), and Sebastian Shaw (in a photo cameo).
Evangeline Whedon went on to appear across multiple Marvel titles and retained her powers after M-Day; she was later adapted into Fox's live-action series The Gifted, portrayed by Erinn Ruth.
The issue is collected in X-Treme X-Men Vol. 3: Schism (trade paperback, 2003), alongside issues #19–23 and X-Treme X-Men: X-Pose #1–2.