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RATED T+ $3.99 US 1 1 5 0 0 2 – DETAILS – INSIDE! 3 9 9 8 0 6 0 6 DIGITAL EDITION DIGITAL 9 5 7 BONUS BONUS Jamie Madrox was born with the ability to create exact duplicates of himself whenever there is physical impact upon his body. He can then absorb these duplicates through contact, taking their memories and skills. He’s walked many paths, but only one journey as…

One of Jamie Madrox’s duplicates was discovered in a secret underground bunker. Using Bishop’s time-travel tech, he met a team of duplicates with distinct super-powers from an alternate future where another duplicate is the emperor of a dystopian society. Jamie and the team fell in league with the Resistance led by Davey Miller (son of Layla Miller, the original Madrox’s widow) and Forge. Emperor Madrox’s shock troops decimated the Resistance and captured Jaimie so the Emperor himself could behead him. The Emperor then had a change of heart and tracked the duplicate team to the present day...as did his evil armies! writer artist color artist MATTHEW ANDY TAMRA ROSENBERG MacDONALD BONVILLAIN letterer cover artist VC’s TRAVIS LANHAM MARCOS MARTIN logo & design assistant editor editors NICK CHRIS CHRISTINA HARRINGTON RUSSELL ROBINSON & JORDAN D. WHITE

editor in chief chief creative officer president executive producer C.B. CEBULSKI JOE QUESADA DAN BUCKLEY ALAN FINE

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you don't look happy to see me, x-men. I'm happy to you just see you. said you hate everyone who isn't you.

do I contradict myself? very well, then I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.

we just got rid of you, but...it's still madrox. what's bishop, I happening. going on? thought you were oh, the time-travel police? you mean this seems like your the other jamie department, and his little dude. band of mashed- up heroes? this I already era really had put an insurance a thing for policy in place. that, eh? this is taken care of now. don't worry though. I killed all of them. your friends are dead.

…hmmm.

it's possible jamie madrox messed up the timestream even more than I thought he could. fifteen years from now. I think that went pretty “I know what you're all well, all things thinking now. he called our considered. them friends, but they are all multiple men like him. this is so confusing. and you're not wrong.

what “someday someone the hell these is that people... smarter than I will write a treatise on the plurality beeping they're noise? scared of madrox, examining of... how I can be so many different things...

“…and what it means for the greater human condition that I could be driven to war with myself.

“but that's boring. some of you are smart. some are dumb. some are shy. some are outgoing. some are good. some are evil. I just need some good ones.

“I have come for a simple reason.

no, this is the first time I've met you. I was in a bunker for a very long--

“you x-men did the thing that you always do.

oh no. what have you done now, you fool?

“you stuck your $#!&@ where you shouldn't stick your $# !& @.

so I've become “you stole the proverbial my future.” grinch. I've come to take your present. the future? what the hell happened? I left here two I think days from now that went and it was no, you pretty fine. left your well... timeline two days from now. umm... the timestream what the is like a real !# $? @ where stream. you are we? we're never stand where and in the same when we're one supposed twice. to be. but the when isn't here. no idea what that means.

a bomb. I'm basically they move faster than light and please okay, I can a magnet for can jump between timestreams. stop confession sense the radiation and if I had to guess, since we're in talking. time. I think tachyons you particles. a time-travel loop, someone who would bishop must in the can each one figured out how to blow up all blow up have given one air. sense has its own the futures that evil us our...oh... of you a bomb that? unique taste. conquered. as the timelines die, oh no. to stop me. tachyons our time travel becomes muddied. because I’m taste like... what? not who not you think good. I am.

basically, they are building dams in the timestream and we're getting swept up--

I mean, you've all done this I'm me. before, brought me here to it's yeah, we kind of the we all stop the emperor. and you died know. are. doing it. but I do end up you only logical but... stopping him...kind of...I stop do?! explanation him by letting him kill me. for all this, and the guilt changes right? him...into me. it is?! because I'm the emperor... or I was.

but...we came here to stop you, but umm... you're already dead. I guess we what now? go home? Now.

it's getting ugly here. anybody got any good ideas? bad ideas, even?

wait... this isn't right either. forge's time- travel bracelets really do suck. no, this is right.

so this is real? oh man. I get why everyone hates us, ya know?

yup. the x-men are going to be overrun by multiple men. and as much as that is a real ego boost, we have to stop it.

wait! warren! there I'm one of are good the good ones? ones!

stop them! they're making us look bad.

I'll find this emperor.

you! where is fine. there's your leader? more than one go way I can get to hell, information traitor. from you, chump.

sho w some respect. I'm jamie you pri m e . sure about that?