‘Dark X-Men’ Raise Hell In August From Foxe & Scharf
by Tony Thornley
Sometimes superheroics need to be balanced with some less than heroic characters. In August, the Dark X-Men are about to do just that.
From writer Steve Foxe, artist Jonas Scharf and cover artist Stephen Segovia, Dark X-Men will see longtime X-villain and Queen of Limbo Madelyn Pryor form her own team of X-Men, apparently filling a void left by the main X-Men team (that seems like a spoiler). Featuring mainstays Archangel, Gambit and Havok, and drawing in darker characters and villains like Emplate, Zero, Azazel, and Albert and operating out of the Limbo Embassy in New York, this is an X-Men team unlike any other fans have seen before.
Following the explosive events of the Hellfire Gala, Madelyne Pryor realizes the world needs the X-Men now more than ever. Havok, Archangel, and Gambit have served on teams before…but never one that looks like this! And how does Gimmick, breakout star of Children of the Atom and 2023’s Marvel’s Voices: Pride, fall under the Goblin Queen’s sway? Find out in the most horrific installment of the X-Men saga yet!
“Picking up Madelyne Pryor’s journey is a WILD and terrifying honor,” Foxe shared. “Maddie is coming into Dark X-Men with a sense of autonomy she’s rarely had over her life—but she’s doing so during the FALL OF X. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say things aren’t happy-go-lucky for anyone in the mutant orbit right now, and that includes tempestuous redheads who’ve plopped a giant demon castle right off of Central Park.”
“I’m excited for readers to find out how this unlikely cast got summoned under one roof—the ones at Maddie’s side by choice, the ones stuck in Limbo by circumstances out of their control, and the ones who don’t make it out of the first issue alive—and to watch Jonas Scharf unleash a whole new brand of gothic horror-action on the Marvel Universe,” he added. “This is X-Men by way of Evil Dead and we’re not leaving until we burn the whole place to the ground.”
Check out the first cover to Dark X-Men from Segovia, and be sure to pick up the series in August!
