X-Men: Second Coming

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"X-Men: Second Coming"
Cover to X-Men: Second Coming #1
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Publication date	March – July 2010
Genre	Superhero
Title(s) The Uncanny X-Men #523-525 X-Force vol. 3 #26-28 X-Men: Legacy #235-237 X-Factor #204-206 Cable #25 Second Coming: Prepare #1 X-Men: Second Coming #1-2 X-Men: Blind Science #1 X-Men: Hellbound #1-3
Main character(s)	ISBN 0-7851-4678-4

"X-Men: Second Coming" is a crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics that runs through most of the X-Men comic books from March to July 2010.^[1]

Publication history

Second Coming is the final part of a trilogy of stories that began with "

" storylines of 2009 in the X-Men books.

The story centers on the return of Cable and Hope Summers to the present day and Bastion's final campaign to destroy the X-Men.^[2]

Plot

When a firefight breaks out between Cable, Hope and the Purifiers, Wolverine and the others arrive to help. As the Alpha Team (

Rogue

, Nightcrawler and Hope leave.

Meanwhile, the New Mutants arrive at Cameron Hodge's facility.

of Bastion's powers.

In a missile strike,

Beast

arriving to place blame on Cyclops' shoulders.

Three and a half miles away from San Francisco, the X-Club investigate an oil rig and discover a ticking timer. Suddenly, it explodes, and Cyclops is certain that the X-Men's jets, the Blackbirds, have been decimated. Donald Pierce is found standing amid the debris and rues that he will not live to witness the decimation of the mutant race. Cyclops eliminates him with an optic blast and alerts the X-Men to expect an attack. With no teleporters, no planes, and no Cerebra, Cyclops announces that they are trapped on Utopia. Meanwhile, the X-Club Science team are caught in a trap of their own as they recover from the oil rig explosion. They are stranded just outside San Francisco and Utopia.^[5]

An offshore explosion rocks Utopia, sending the X-Men reeling. After gathering near the Bay, they find a massive dome of energy enveloping both San Francisco and Utopia. The X-Men quickly attempt to destroy the dome, to no avail.

With an army of Nimrod model sentinels’ continuing to emerge from Bastion's time portal, a massive battle between the X-Men, their allies and Bastion's forces ensues. The X-Men win this battle but with several members severely injured. Cyclops orders the strongest X-Men to guard the portal while the injured are quickly ferried back to Utopia. Bastion tells his minions that the host of Nimrod sentinels faced by the X-Men was only a scouting party.[6]

On Utopia, Cyclops gathers the core X-Men, and Beast explains that Bastion's portal is powered by an energy source of unknown origin. He also notes that the portal is temporal in nature connecting them to another period in history.

The X-Men then engage the Nimrods in battles all around the city. A Nimrod approaches Utopia and breaches its outer wall. Cyclops quickly shuts down several levels of the complex except for those most crucial and the resulting explosion destroys the Nimrod. Within the city and at the Port of Oakland, Storm, Surge, Iceman, Psylocke, Fantomex and Namor manage to destroy several Nimrods through coordinated efforts. Though at low power after a recent coma, Magneto defends the island against many Nimrods to buy Beast time to treat the wounded.^[7][8]

In the future, X-force fights it way into a sentinel Processing Centre where Cypher takes over the programming of Master Mold and they shut down all of the Nimrods in both the present and future. Their mission completed, X-Force retrieves Cable and Cypher, going to the time portal to escape back to the present. Unfortunately, in the ensuing chaos, X-23 is brutally burned while attempting to cross through the portal. X-Force comes to the conclusion that only inorganic matter is able to pass through the portal. With no other alternative Cable sacrifices himself to hold the portal open and allow the others to return home.^[7]

Back in the present, as all of the Nimrods suddenly shut down, the X-Men stare in shock.

. They have appeared around the globe.

Tie-ins and one-shots

As part of the cross-over, a number of tie-in mini-series and one-shots were released.

Revelations: X-Factor

Written by Peter David and drawn by Valentine De Landro, this story arc, starting with issue #204, features the reanimated leader of the Mutant Response Division, Bolivar Trask, as he tries to kill every member of X-Factor.^[11]

Revelations: Hellbound

Written by

Revelations: Blind Science

Written by Simon Spurrier and drawn by Paul Davidson and Francis Portela, this one-shot features members of the X-Club trying to unravel a trap set by Bastion.

Aftermath

After leaving the X-Men due to Cyclops' more militant style of leadership, Beast heads to L.A. to meet up with his girlfriend Abigail Brand who stands him up, only to meet up with Molly Hayes of the Runaways. The two discuss extinction, faith, and living life to its fullest.

Hope is at the Baxter Building with Dr. Nemesis and Rogue, receiving a physical from

. Upon giving Hope a clean bill of health, Reed suggests that Hope try to locate her family in an attempt to learn more about who she really is. On the way back to Utopia, Hope insists on doing just that.

Cyclops takes some time off to go hunting in the Savage Land, during which he encounters Steve Rogers, who suggests that Cyclops bring the X-Men out of the shadows and into the light as heroes. Rogers arranges to have the President award Scott the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which sways the people of San Francisco to welcome the X-Men back.

During a celebration held on Utopia, Cyclops absconds to converse with Hope, with the objective of discussing a plan to address the five lights. Hope becomes restless and expresses her desire to locate her family. Scott recognizes his improper behavior towards Hope, and resolves to handle the lights himself, while assigning a team to escort Hope to Alaska, which pleases her.^[13]

The story line spans-off a new ongoing series,

New Series	Cancelled Series
Uncanny X-Force #1-35 5.1 19.1	X-Force #1-28
Daken: Dark Wolverine #1-23 9.1	Dark Wolverine #75-90
Wolverine #1-20 5.1 300-317	Wolverine: Origins #1-50
Wolverine: The Best There Is #1-12	Wolverine Weapon X #1-16
Namor: The First Mutant #1-11	Cable #1-25
X-Men Vol. 3 #1-42
Generation Hope #1-17
X-23 #1-21

Reading order

The comic books involved include issues of

, released in March 2010.

March 2010

• Chapter 1: X-Men: Second Coming #1

April 2010

• Chapter 2: Uncanny X-Men #523
• Chapter 3: New Mutants #12
• Chapter 4: X-Men: Legacy #235
• Chapter 5: X-Force #26

May 2010

• Chapter 6: Uncanny X-Men #524
• Chapter 7: New Mutants #13
• Chapter 8: X-Men: Legacy #236
• Chapter 9: X-Force #27

June 2010

• Chapter 10: Uncanny X-Men #525
• Chapter 11: New Mutants #14
• Chapter 12: X-Men: Legacy #237

July 2010

• Chapter 13: X-Force #28
• Chapter 14: X-Men: Second Coming #2

Additional books

February 2010

• Prologue: X-Men: Second Coming Prepare

April 2010

• Cable #25 (renamed Deadpool and Cable #25)- released with chapter 2
• X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations: X-Factor #204 - released with chapter 4

May 2010

• X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations: Hellbound #1 - released with chapter 6
• X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations: X-Factor #205 - released with chapter 8
• X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations: Blind Science #1 - released with chapter 9

June 2010

• X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations: Hellbound #2 - released with chapter 10
• X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations: X-Factor #206 - released with chapter 12

July 2010

• X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations: Hellbound #3 - released with chapter 14
• Uncanny X-Men: The Heroic Age - released with chapter 14
• X-Men Phoenix Force Handbook #1

Collected editions

The comic books are being collected into single volumes:

• X-Men: Second Coming (collects Second Coming: Prepare, X-Men: Second Coming #1-2, Uncanny X-Men #523-525, New Mutants #12-14, X-Men: Legacy #235-237 and X-Force #26-28, 472 pages, hardcover, October 2010,
  ISBN 0-7851-4678-4
  )
• X-Men: Second Coming Revelations (collects X-Men: Hope, X-Men: Blind Science, X-Men: Hellbound #1-3 and X-Factor 204–206, 200 pages,
  ISBN 0-7851-5007-2
  )

References

External links

• X-Men: Second Coming at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)