Dates
- Cover date
- July 2009
- On sale
- May 6, 2009
- In stores
- May 6, 2009
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (4)
Copies of #14 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$2.99 cover
Direct Edition
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Barcode 75960606283601411 · shared with another edition
Source ↗ - Variant Edition - Ariel Olivetti Cover
Barcode 75960606283601411 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - 2nd printing
2nd Printing Variant - Ariel Olivetti Cover
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 75960606283601431
This edition’s page - Newsstand edition$3.99 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07447003249607
This edition’s page
Story arc: Messiah War
This is part 3 of 4. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
Also part of: Dark Reign
Creators
Stories
- Messiah War Chapter Four · 22 pages
Cable and X-Force prepare to storm Stryfe's fortress and rescue the captured Hope. Bishop and Stryfe clash as Stryfe learns that Bishop is planning on killing the mutant girl. Archangel confronts Apocalypse. Stryfe takes off his mask and Hope latches on to him, thinking he is Cable in disguise.
Publisher’s description
The sequel to 2007’s MESSIAH COMPLEX continues here! “Messiah War,” the much-anticipated sequel to “Messiah CompleX,” continues here! For the first time, Cable’s been separated from the girl he’s sworn to raise and protect — Hope, the so-called “Mutant Messiah” — and now she’s in the hands of his greatest enemy! Meanwhile, X-Force, sent by Cyclops on a desperate rescue mission to the deep future, scrambles to find their way out of a trap that will kill them in matter of hours. And if that’s not enough, an old — some might say ancient — enemy of the X-men reared his ugly head one last time.
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)