Phase 3: The Destiny of X

What’s it about? The events of Inferno have quietly torn apart the fabric that kept Krakoa woven together from the shadows. As the Quiet Council reels from the burden of powerful new knowledge, mutantkind soldiers on, unaware of the secrets beneath Krakoa’s surface… and how some of its most deadly foes now have the chance to uncover those secrets too.

Any recommended reading? Destiny of X is set to launch this spring, so we can’t definitively say what’s worth checking out yet—especially as, unlike with the Reign of X, Destiny will see the X-book line largely overhauled with multiple new titles. Just five familiar series are returning: Wolverine, Marauders, X-Force, X-Men, and New Mutants. They’ll be joined by four new series including Knights of X, a continuation of Excalibur that sees Betsy’s latest iteration of the team trapped in Otherworld; Legion of X, the spiritual successor to Way of X that sees Nightcrawler establish a new Krakoan peacekeepers; X-Men Red, which focuses on Storm’s rule of the mutant’s new Martian colony; and lastly Immortal X-Men, a series that follows the Quiet Council as it rebuilds in the wake of Inferno.

What are the big events?

We don’t know what X-book-specific crossovers are yet to come here, of course, but we do know at least one major dust-up is brewing on the horizon. This week Marvel announced Judgment Day, the first major event that the X-Men will truly participate in since the beginning of the Krakoan Age. Pitting mutantkind against the Eternals—who claim to have uncovered a deadly secret about Homo Superior’s ascendance and now want to go to war with Krakoa over it—with the Avengers caught in the crossfire, it’s set to begin in 2022.