X-MEN RED BY AL EWING VOL. 3

The calm before the…? After recent turmoil, Arakko catches its breath - but even as Storm begins a new romance, she has no time to rest. Xavier has questions about Magneto's death, and he's not asking nicely. Meanwhile, the White Sword - the Omega mutant healer who could raise the dead and bind them to his service - once had one hundred warriors. Now the last of the Hundred tells the tale of the one who destroyed them - one who is coming to test Arakko again! Plus: The origin of Arakko revealed! In ancient days, Genesis turned back the hordes of Amenth and forced Annihilation into a parley. What words were spoken in her mind? Apocalypse finally will know, and the echoes of those words might destroy him - and Arakko with him! Collecting X-MEN RED (2022) #11-13 and X-MEN: BEFORE THE FALL - HERALDS OF APOCALYPSE.

Writer Al Ewing began his career on the British anthology 2000 AD. Since breaking into American comics, he has written Jennifer Blood and spin-off series The Ninjettes for Dynamite Entertainment, and the Age of Ultron tie-in issues of Avengers Assemble for Marvel Comics. Ewing’s novels include the Pax Britannia series as well as The Fictional Man. With artist Greg Land, he relaunched Marvel’s Mighty Avengers; for All-New Marvel NOW!, gave the god of mischief a new assignment in Loki: Agent of Asgard. Ewing then took revamped versions of New Avengers and Ultimates, debuted U.S.Avengers; and joined the writing team for the “No Surrender” storyline in Avengers, which brought the Hulk back from the dead. His subsequent titles include Valkyrie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, the event series Empyre and the critically revered smash hit Immortal Hulk. Ewing has cemented his place in the Krakoan era of the X-Men titles comics with S.W.O.R.D. and X-Men: Red.