| X-Men Red | |
|---|---|
 Cover toX-Men: Red #1, art byTravis Charest | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Publication date | (vol. 1) February–December 2018[1](vol. 2) April 2022–December 2023 |
| No. of issues | (vol. 1) 11 (vol. 2) 18 |
| Main character | See below |
| ISSN | 2690-9863 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | (vol. 1) Tom Taylor (vol. 2) Al Ewing |
| Artist(s) | (vol. 1) Mahmud Asrar Carmen Carnero Rogê Antônio (vol. 2) Stefano Caselli Juan Cabal Andrés Genolet Michael Sta. Maria Madibek Musabekov Jacopo Camagni Yıldıray Çınar |
X-Men: Red is anAmerican comic book series published byMarvel Comics, featuring characters fromX-Men stories.
The first series was an eleven-issuecomic book series published byMarvel Comics in monthly installments between February and December 2018. It was written byTom Taylor and illustrated byMahmud A. Asrar. The book followed a new team of X-Men led byJean Grey following her return inPhoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey.
The second series featured the conflictingmutant factions on theterraformed Mars, renamedArakko.
X-Men: Red is part of theX-Men franchise and a sister book toX-Men Gold andX-Men Blue, which began ten months earlier. It follows the events of the 2017–2018 miniseriesPhoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey written byMatthew Rosenberg and illustrated byLeinil Francis Yu.[2] The series was promoted as part of Marvel'sFresh Start, a full company relaunch of publications.[3] The first issue, released February 7, 2018, was written byTom Taylor and illustrated byMahmud Asrar. It was available in ten differentvariant covers.[4] Taylor's initial plans for the series did not involve anycrossovers with other comic series.[5]
Jean Grey, a character recently resurrected after being dead for over a decade, assembles a new team with the intent to create a mutant nation.[6] Her initial allies areNightcrawler,Wolverine,Honey Badger,Gentle,Trinary, andNamor.[5][7] They useAtlantis as their headquarters.[8] After she attempts to convince the UN to recognize the mutant race as a nation with full human rights, Jean is framed for murder of an English congresswoman who is psychically murdered by a resurfacedCassandra Nova, who uses this to alienate Jean in the public eye and label her a fugitive. Jean's team is thereby forced to act in secret as she continues in her goal to "heal the world".
An annual was published in May 2018 to detail the events betweenPhoenix Resurrection andX-Men: Red #1.[5]
A second volume of the title written byAl Ewing was published during the "Destiny of X" relaunch of X-Men books and is a successor to Ewing'sS.W.O.R.D. series.[9]
These characters are credited as main cast in the respective comics.
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| X-Men: Before the Fall – The Heralds of Apocalypse #1 | ||||||||||||
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| Character codename | Real name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Honey Badger | Gabrielle "Gabby" Kinney | Joined inX-Men: Red #1. |
| Marvel Girl | Jean Elaine Grey | |
| Namor | Namor Mackenzie | |
| Nightcrawler | Kurt Wagner | |
| Wolverine | Laura Kinney | |
| Trinary | Shilpa Khatri | Joined inX-Men: Red #1 (flashbackX-Men: Red #2). |
| Gentle | Nezhno Abidemi | Joined inX-Men: Red #1 (flashbackX-Men: Red #4). |
| Storm | Ororo Munroe | |
| Gambit | Remy Etienne LeBeau | Joined inX-Men: Red #5. |
X-Men Red was formed byAbigail Brand to policePlanet Arakko.
| Character codename | Real name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Abigail Brand | Leader. Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #2. | |
| Cable | Nathan Summers | Field leader. Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #2. |
| Frenzy | Joanna Cargill | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #2. |
| Manifold | Eden Fesi | Joined and left inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #2 |
| Mentallo | Marvin Flumm | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #2. |
| Random | Marshall Stone III | |
| Vulcan | Gabriel Summers | |
The Brotherhood of Arakko was formed byStorm in opposition to X-Men Red and later fought againstGenesis' army during the Genesis War.
| Character codename | Real name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fisher King | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #1. Merged with fellow teammate Xilo inX-Men Red (vol. 2) #14. Died inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #18. | |
| Magneto | Max Eisenhardt | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #1. Died inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #7. |
| Storm | Ororo Munroe | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #1. |
| Sunspot | Roberto "Bobby" da Costa | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #1. |
| Khora of the Burning Heart | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #5. | |
| Wrongslide | ||
| Lodus Logos | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #10. | |
| Sobunar of the Depths | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #10. Left inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #13. | |
| Nova | Richard Rider | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #12. |
| Jon Ironfire | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #14. | |
| Kobak Never-Held | ||
| Xilora | Joined and merged with fellow teammate Fisher King inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #14. | |
| Syzya of the Smoke | Joined inX-Men: Red (vol. 2) #15. | |
The Great Ring of Arakko is the governing body ofArakko.
Prior to publication, the series generated interest for starringJean Grey, a character who was killed nearly 15 years earlier inNew X-Men #150 (February 2004).[8][10][11] According toreview aggregator Comic Book Roundup, the debut issue received an average score of 8.2 out of 10 based on 33 critical reviews.[12]
In a review forNewsarama,David Pepose praised the plot of the book for its focus on the coexistence of humans and mutants, which he said was the main premise of theX-Men franchise.[13]IGN reviewer Jesse Shedeen agreed, saying the "franchise has a bad habit of ... losing sight of the mutant metaphor and its allegorical power", but was gladX-Men: Red makes it a primary focus.[14] Although they foundMahmud Asrar's art to be flawed but adequate, both of them likedTom Taylor's portrayal of Grey and her supporting cast.[13][14] Pepose specifically liked that Grey was a leader instead of a symbol, love interest, or target.[13]
| Issue | Publication date | Writer | Artist | Colorist | Comic Book Roundup rating[15] | Estimated sales to North American retailers (first month) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | February 7, 2018 | Tom Taylor | Mahmud Asrar | Ive Svorcina | 8.1 by 34 professional critics | 98,468[16] |
| #2 | March 7, 2018 | 8.0 by 15 professional critics | 49,084[17] | |||
| #3 | April 11, 2018 | 8.1 by 10 professional critics | 56,531[18] | |||
| #4 | May 16, 2018 | Rain Beredo | 8.2 by 13 professional critics | 44,607[19] | ||
| Annual #1 | May 30, 2018 | Pascal Alixe | Chris Sotomayor | 7.5 by 16 professional critics | 38,444[19] | |
| #5 | June 6, 2018 | Mahmud Asrar | Rain Beredo | 9.1 by 10 professional critics | 38,372[20] | |
| #6 | July 18, 2018 | Carmen Carnero | 9.1 by 10 professional critics | 36,808[21] | ||
| #7 | August 22, 2018 | 9.0 by 15 professional critics | 39,634[22] | |||
| #8 | September 26, 2018 | 8.6 by 8 professional critics | 39,763[23] | |||
| #9 | October 24, 2018 | Rogê Antônio | 8.2 by 9 professional critics | 36,673[24] | ||
| #10 | November 7, 2018 | 8.5 by 10 professional critics | 31,821[25] | |||
| #11 | December 12, 2018 | 8.8 by 5 professional critics | 30,415[26] |
| Issue | Publication date | Writer | Artist | Colorist | Comic Book Roundup rating[27][28] | Estimated sales to North American retailers (first month) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | April 6, 2022 | Al Ewing | Stefano Caselli | Federico Blee | 8.6 by 17 professional critics | 26,735[29] |
| #2 | May 18, 2022 | 8.7 by 13 professional critics | Not yet available | |||
| #3 | June 15, 2022 | Federico Blee, Fernando Sifuentes | 8.9 by 11 professional critics | |||
| #4 | June 29, 2022 | Juan Cabal, Andrés Genolet, Michael Sta. Maria | Federico Blee | 8.6 by 10 professional critics | ||
| #5 | August 3, 2022 | Stefano Caselli | 8.3 by 9 professional critics | |||
| #6 | September 14, 2022 | 8.7 by 10 professional critics | ||||
| #7 | October 5, 2022 | Federico Blee, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo | 8.6 by 6 professional critics | |||
| #8 | November 2, 2022 | Madibek Musabekov | Federico Blee | 8.0 by 9 professional critics | ||
| #9 | December 7, 2022 | Stefano Caselli | 8.7 by 7 professional critics | |||
| #10 | January 4, 2023 | Stefano Caselli, Jacopo Camagni | 8.8 by 8 professional critics | |||
| #11 | May 10, 2023 | 9.1 by 7 professional critics | ||||
| #12 | June 14, 2023 | Jacopo Camagni | 6.9 by 4 professional critics | |||
| X-Men: Before the Fall – The Heralds of Apocalypse #1 | June 28, 2023 | Luca Pizzari, Stefano Landini, Raphael Pimento | Ceci De La Cruz | 7.8 by 10 professional critics | ||
| #13 | July 19, 2023 | Jacopo Camagni | Federico Blee | 8.1 by 5 professional critics | ||
| #14 | August 16, 2023 | Yıldıray Çınar | 8.4 by 6 professional critics | |||
| #15 | September 13, 2023 | 8.2 by 6 professional critics | ||||
| #16 | October 11, 2023 | 9.0 by 4 professional critics | ||||
| #17 | November 8, 2023 | 8.0 by 5 professional critics | ||||
| #18 | December 13, 2023 | 8.6 by 6 professional critics |
| # | Title | Material collected | Pages | Publication date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hate Machine | X-Men: Red #1–5,Annual #1 | 144 | September 18, 2018 | 978-1302911676 |
| 2 | Waging Peace | X-Men: Red #6–11 | 136 | March 19, 2019 | 978-1302911683 |
| # | Material collected | Pages | Publication date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X-Men: Red by Al Ewing – Volume 1 | X-Men: Red (vol. 2) #1–5 | 152 | November 2, 2022 | 978-1302932831 |
| X-Men: Red by Al Ewing – Volume 2 | X-Men: Red (vol. 2) #6–10 | 136 | March 7, 2023 | 978-1302947521 |
| X-Men: Red by Al Ewing – Volume 3 | X-Men: Red (vol. 2) #11–13,X-Men: Before the Fall – The Heralds of Apocalypse #1 | 120 | November 17, 2023 | 978-1302952280 |
| X-Men: Red by Al Ewing – Volume 4 | X-Men: Red (vol. 2) #14–18 | 136 | March 12, 2024 | 978-1302953430 |
