One of the X-Men’s worst enemies has just given them a new mission. And this time saving the world means bringing back nearly every teammate they’ve lost.

X-Men Forever #2 drops readers into what little remains of the mutant stronghold within the White Hot Room, where Mother Righteous is being questioned by her captors. Or rather, where Charles Xavier is being questioned after having usurped control of Mother Righteous’ quickly decaying form. With only moments left as the body he hijacked melts away, Xavier tells the others exactly what they need to do next, and it all comes back around to rounding up every mutant hero who lost their life at the Hellfire Gala and leading them back into battle.

Written by KIERON GILLEN Art by LUCA MARESCA Colorist FEDERICO BLEE Design by TOM MULLER & JAY BOWEN Letterer VC’s CLAYTON COWLES Cover by MARK BROOKS Variant Cover Artists DAVID MARQUEZ, GREG HILDEBRANDT, TIM HILDEBRANDT, PHIL NOTO and ARTHUR ADAMS Immortal means forever! The fight for Krakoa’s future begins here! Since RISE OF THE POWERS OF X began, there have been a few mysteries unrevealed! Now writer Kieron Gillen fills in the gap of what happened between the end of IMMORTAL X-MEN and the beginning of the end of the Krakoan Age!

It was during the events of the main story from X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023 when Orchis attacked mutantkind. After months of careful plotting, Orchis not only eliminated numerous mutant heroes in the attack, but they also forced Xavier to use his vast psionic powers to seemingly usher the survivors to their doom. Instead, the mutants who fell under Xavier’s control were displaced to the near-infinite expanse of the White Hot Room.

First seen in 1987’s “Phoenix” by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Bolton (from the pages of Classic X-Men #8), the White Hot Room is a realm that exists outside both time and space as they are understood in the Marvel Universe. While the White Hot Room has historically been home to the cosmic Phoenix Force, it has also taken on the role of a sort of afterlife for many mutants. Despite existing on what appears to be its own unique plane of existence, the White Hot Room shares an intrinsic tie to the M’kraan Crystal, which itself is considered to be a Nexus of All Realities.

Since the events of Fall of X began, the White Hot Room has become home to dozens if not hundreds of mutants across a variety of landscapes. While Bennet du Paris, better known as Exodus, led a veritable army of his people across a treacherous desert within the White Hot Room, others have made a home for themselves on Atlantic Krakoa, a subsection of the larger Krakoan island chain that was displaced by Mother Righteous herself.

X-Men Forever #2 is on sale on April 24 from Marvel Comics.

Source: Marvel Comics