Setting the stage for the second season of the smash-hit Disney+ animated series!
Extinction day has come and gone, and your favorite X-Men are lost in time! Can they survive? And just where — or when — are they now?! Leading directly from the end of season one to the start of season two, no X-MEN ’97 fan can miss this one! Cable was raised with one purpose: to destroy Apocalypse! But with the X-Men gone, who will he recruit to the cause? And will these new soldiers fall in line with Cable’s lethal methods? The future freedom fighter will need to turn them into an effective team quickly as Pestilence, one of Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen, is loose in Madripoor. When the ensuing the battle culminates to reveal a much deeper threat, can Cable rally his X-Force to face the unimaginable? Or will they fall to Apocalypse’s looming shadow?
COLLECTING: X-Men '97: Season Two (2026) #1-5
Artist Salva Espin worked in animation and video-game design before making his Marvel debut on World War Hulk: Damage Control; he also provided cover and interior artwork for Wolverine: First Class and Incredible Hercules early in his Marvel career. Espin has since been the series artist on Exiles with writer Jeff Parker, Generation Hope with Kieron Gillen and Deadpool with Daniel Way. He returned to the Merc with a Mouth with Deadpool vs. Carnage and Deadpool & the Mercs for Money.
Setting the stage for the second season of the smash-hit Disney+ animated series!
Extinction day has come and gone, and your favorite X-Men are lost in time! Can they survive? And just where — or when — are they now?! Leading directly from the end of season one to the start of season two, no X-MEN ’97 fan can miss this one! Cable was raised with one purpose: to destroy Apocalypse! But with the X-Men gone, who will he recruit to the cause? And will these new soldiers fall in line with Cable’s lethal methods? The future freedom fighter will need to turn them into an effective team quickly as Pestilence, one of Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen, is loose in Madripoor. When the ensuing the battle culminates to reveal a much deeper threat, can Cable rally his X-Force to face the unimaginable? Or will they fall to Apocalypse’s looming shadow?
COLLECTING: X-Men '97: Season Two (2026) #1-5
Creators
Artist Salva Espin worked in animation and video-game design before making his Marvel debut on World War Hulk: Damage Control; he also provided cover and interior artwork for Wolverine: First Class and Incredible Hercules early in his Marvel career. Espin has since been the series artist on Exiles with writer Jeff Parker, Generation Hope with Kieron Gillen and Deadpool with Daniel Way. He returned to the Merc with a Mouth with Deadpool vs. Carnage and Deadpool & the Mercs for Money.