WRITERS CHARLES SOULE + JEFF LEMIRE ARTIST JAVIER GARRÓN COLORIST DAVID CURIEL LETTERER VC’s CLAYTON COWLES COVER ARTISTS LEINIL FRANCIS YU + DAVID CURIEL VARIANT COVER ARTISTS GABRIELE DELL’OTTO; MICHAEL CHO; TERRY DODSON + RACHEL DODSON; ARDIAN SYAF, VICENTE CIFUENTES + MORRY HOLLOWELL ASSISTANT EDITORS CHARLES BEACHAM + CHRIS ROBINSON EDITORS WIL MOSS + DANIEL KETCHUM X-MEN GROUP EDITOR MARK PANICCIA EXECUTIVE EDITOR NICK LOWE EDITOR IN CHIEF AXEL ALONSO CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER JOE QUESADA PUBLISHER DAN BUCKLEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALAN FINE
INHUMANS and X-MEN created by STAN LEE + JACK KIRBY VICTORY MEANS LIFE, DEFEAT MEANS EXTINCTION.
For the INHUMANS, the Terrigen Mist unlocks their true nature, securing a future for their race. For the X-MEN, the cloud is poison and means the extinction of their kind. Leaders of both parties were working together for months to find a way to coexist, but time has now run out. If the Terrigen remains, the mutant species is terminated. If the Terrigen is destroyed, the Inhuman legacy comes to an end. Now there is only one option: WAR.
The X-Men struck surgically, apprehending the most powerful Inhumans so that they could then go destroy the last remaining Terrigen Cloud without any interference. But the X-Men’s plans were foiled by the young Inhumans who avoided capture. Those same Inhumans infiltrated the X-Men’s base on Muir Island and may have discovered the key to ending the war.
Meanwhile, Medusa and several of her generals have made progress in escaping from their prison in Limbo. And elsewhere, Karnak is fighting his way past Fantomex and Jean Gray in THE WORLD…
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