
OK, want the longer version? So, here’s the deal: the DAWN OF X era, which is what followed up HOUSE OF X, has all of mutant kind living on the island of Krakoa, and building a new nation focused on the protection and elevation of mutant kind. If it’s a sword of significance in the Marvel U - it’s in here. Magic swords, cosmic swords, and everything in between.

TL,DR - Apocalypse abandons his original Four Horsemen somewhere in another dimension, they hate it there, and have decided to travel through time and space to conquer our dimension, and take it as their own.īut, to save themselves some trouble, they’re deciding to go MORTAL KOMBAT on the X-MEN and Marvel Universe, and hold a giant tournament, pitting hero against Horsemen, and deciding the fate of the Marvel Universe as we know it. What is the X OF SWORDS storyline all about? In the vein of classics like FATAL ATTRACTIONS and MESSIAH COMPLEX, X OF SWORDS is a crossover that extends throughout all the different X-Titles, to make for one big epic story. Now, he’s taking things up a couple dozen notches with X OF SWORDS, and we cannot wait! Holy crap: has the X-MEN universe been good or what? Ever since Jonathan Hickman came in with HOUSE OF X and completely revitalized and reinvented the world of the X-MEN ( Click here to read all about HOUSE OF X and why it was so big!), the books have been some of the most top tier must-reads in the Marvel line-up. Now, X OF SWORDS - if you’re not reading X-MEN by now, you better start, because it’s one of the best things going in comics!
