Craig Kyle

The biggest and best adventures of Marvel's mighty mutants - these are the X-Men Milestones Mutants have never had it worse. The mutant population is down to a mere 181. In the last year, only one mutant has been born - the girl called Hope, believed to be the "Mutant Messiah" who will reignite the species. Hope was raised in the future by Cable, and now the two have returned But the Human League is bent on eradicating Earth's final mutants - and they see Hope's death as the final nail in the coffin. As Bastion and his allies unleash a merciless all-out assault on the X-Men, everything rests on Hope's shoulders. Will this be mutantkind's end? COLLECTING: SECOND COMING: PREPARE (2009), SECOND COMING (2010) 1-2, UNCANNY X-MEN (1981) 523-525, NEW MUTANTS (2009) 12-14, X-MEN LEGACY (2008) 235-237, X-FORCE (2008) 26-28

The biggest and best adventures of Marvel's mighty mutants - these are the X-Men Milestones The psychic vampire Selene is on a mad quest to devour enough souls to ascend to godhood, commencing a terrible reign over the planet The X-Men, X-Force and New Mutants stand ready to oppose her, but the Black Queen has brought backup - an undead army of the X-Men's deceased friends and foes Meanwhile, on the graveyard island of Genosha, Selene's real plan begins: to resurrect Genosha's entire mutant population - and suck the life right back out of every single one of them Can the X-Men defeat their zombified greatest enemies and stop Selene's bloody power play? COLLECTING: NEW X-MEN (2004) 32; X-FORCE (2008) 11, 21-25; NEW MUTANTS (2009) 6-8; X-MEN: LEGACY (2008) 231-234; X NECROSHA (2009); X NECROSHA: THE GATHERING (2009); MATERIAL FROM X-FORCE ANNUAL (2009) 1

The birth of a single mutant child changed the landscape of the X-Men's world. Some saw the baby as mutantkind's last hope; others as its doom. Cable took the girl into the future, believing he could save both "Hope" and their entire species. But Lucas Bishop has wreaked havoc across time and space trying to hunt them down. Now Cyclops sends X-Force into the future to help Cable and Hope - and the Messiah War begins Can a weakened Cable triumph over Bishop, Stryfe and Apocalypse, raise Hope to adulthood and bring her home? And what happens when Hope's mutant powers manifest? Cable and Hope's survival skills will be put to the test like never before...and the fate of mutantkind rests on their shoulders COLLECTING: X-FORCE/CABLE: MESSIAH WAR 1, CABLE (2008) 13-25, X-FORCE (2008) 14-16, X-MEN: HOPE 1