'Trust No One' Inferno images tease the new Marvel X-Men series while paying homage to the orginal
Update: Three new "Trust No One" new teaser images to Marvel and writer Jonathan Hickman's upcoming four-issue X-Men limited series Inferno is helping define what the publisher is calling the writer's next chapter in his grand X-Men vision.
Series artist R.B. Silva's images pay homage to house ads for 1989's original X-Men crossover Inferno and depict all the major players in the series.
Valerio Schiti and Stefano Caselli also provide artwork for Inferno.
The three images group Mystique, Moira MacTaggert, and Destiny as enemies who can't be trusted, Colossus, Psylocke, and Bishop as allies who can't be trusted, and Magneto, Emma Frost, and Xavier as leaders who can't be trusted.
"I'm very excited that we're finally getting to share with everyone the follow-up to House of X/Powers of X,” Hickman said in an announcement accompanying the new images, which will all be available as a variant cover to September 29s debut issue.
Check out all the new teasers images in our gallery below and more information about the "high-stakes" series, which Marvel promises breaks alliances, reveals secrets, and lights the X-Men's worlds up in flames to threaten what for the last couple of years has looked like a bright future.
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Jonathan Hickman's new X-Men series Inferno is coming into focus. Marvel Comics has a variant cover to Inferno #1 by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau (seen above and fully below) along with new information about the "heartbreaking saga" and what it's calling a "day of reckoning" to mankind's leaders and "shocking pay-off" to Hickman's overarching storyline.
Inferno is a four-issue limited series written by Hickman with each 40-page issue illustrated by a rotating cast of artists beginning with Valerio Schiti (SWORD, Empyre), who the publisher describes being known for "masterfully depicting large-scale action alongside intense human drama..."
"There will be an island—not the first, but the last…" Those were Destiny's foreboding words she uttered to her wife Mystique at the beginning of Hickman's "age of Krakoa" revamp of the X-Men line. And it looks like the Marvel mutants will soon arrive that that moment.
According to Marvel, the series involves the promises both made and broken by the rulers of Krakoa to Mystique regarding her deceased wife Destiny and how the sometimes-hero/sometimes-villain isn't taking the broken parts sitting down.
They've strung her along and denied her desire to be reunited with Destiny for too long and now's she's ready to back up her threat to burn Krakoa to the ground.
Inferno seems to follow the themes Newsarama recently highlighted as the key to the immediate future of the X-Men titles and perhaps the identity of the murder victim (and real murderer) at the center of the upcoming The Trial of Magneto series.
According to the publisher, "Mutantkind's bright future is threatened like never before as Hickman brings his game-changing plans to a head."
Marvel says readers can expect more revelations "from the lives of Moira MacTaggert, Nimrod's revenge, vicious power plays, and more in this pivotal chapter in X-Men history."
"I'm very excited that we're finally getting to share with everyone the follow-up to House of X/Powers of X," Hickman says in Marvel's announcement. "The story is 160 pages over four issues drawn exquisitely by Valerio Schiti, R.B. Silva, and Stefano Caselli. I cannot wait for people to read it."
Artist Mark Brooks has created new teaser artwork for Inferno that is an homage to his own earlier House of X/Powers of X image, depicting all the major players of Krakoa as they "brace themselves for their biggest shakeup yet."
Inferno already seems like it'll be a candidate to be added to Newsarama's list of the best X-Men stories of all time.
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