Dates
- Cover date
- May 2009
- On sale
- March 25, 2009
- In stores
- March 25, 2009
- Pages
- 52
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Editions and covers (4)
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- 2nd printing
Second Printing Variant
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 75960606772500141
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Story arc: Messiah War
This is part 1 of 4. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
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Stories
- Messiah War, Chapter One · 33 pages
X-Force arrives in the year 2973 in order to try and help Cable and Hope fend off Bishop. The first person they meet is a very old (and still very crazy) Deadpool who leads them to Cable who isn't exactly thrilled with the unwanted help his father has sent him. Meanwhile, Bishop is also in 2973, making a deal with the ruler of this future world, Stryfe.
Publisher’s description
The birth of a single mutant child forever changed the landscape of the X-Universe. Some see the baby as the last hope for mutantkind's survival; others see it as the bringer of the Apocalypse... No one knows which side is right because Cyclops handed the newborn over to Cable, believing his son could save both the child and mutantkind. But Cable never came back. Now, months later, Cyclops has found his son hiding in the FUTURE... and he's sending in the one team that will do what needs to be done in order to ensure the survival of their species... X-FORCE. The X-Men event of the decade, "MESSIAH COMPLEX," continues here as the past, present and future converge in the pages of X-FORCE and CABLE. Continues next month in the pages of CABLE #13 and X-FORCE #14!
Reprinted in
X-Force / Cable: Messiah War (2009), X-Force / Cable: Messiah War (2009), Cable: The Last Hope (2018), X-Men Milestones: Messiah War (2020), X-Men: The Messiah Trilogy Omnibus (2026)