At San Diego Comic-Con, big X-Men news has been announced.
We are currently seeing everything fall apart in the current Avengers: Armageddon event. The world will be heavily impacted by the end of the story. Chip Zdarsky, who is the writer behind that, revealed the upcoming plans.
As the Avengers need time to regroup, a new roster of X-Men will rise up to become “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.” A new series, Maximum X-Men, will be written by Christopher Yost with art by Tony Daniel.
As you can see, the roster includes Storm, Wolverine, Psylocke, Justice (Vance Astro), Bishop, Colossus, Iceman, and Firestar. For their first challenge, they’ll be taking on Annihilus from the Negative Zone.
Chris Yost is no stranger to the X-Men. He had this to say:
“I’ve worked on my fair share of X-Books over the years, but MAXIMUM X-MEN is everything I love about comics rolled into one— it’s underdog heroes saving the world from the biggest Avengers-level threats imaginable, it’s mind-breaking action and drama and everything people expect from X-Men, all with a classic Claremont vibe. Rolling MAXIMUM X-MEN out as part of the new world post-Armageddon only lets us spotlight the need for a story like this… and to top it all off, I get to work with legendary artist Tony Daniel. As a life-long X-Men fan, it doesn’t get any better!”
Tony Daniel has been working with Jed MacKay on X-Men and said this about the new title:
“The X-Men have long been my favorite characters since discovering Giant Size X-Men #1 in the fourth grade. I’ve always dreamed of working on my favorite characters so it’s an incredible honor to launch MAXIMUM X-MEN with Chris. I’ve been a fan of Chris’s writing for a long time, but this is our first time joining forces. I’m already in love with the story in the first issue. Its vibe and energy reminds me so much of the kind of X-Men stories I loved as a child and I can’t wait for the audience to see what we have in store.”
Maximum X-Men #1 written by Chris Yost with art and cover by Tony Daniel is on sale December 2, 2026.
What the Heck is going on?!? 