Marvel’s New Hellfire Gala Trailer Teases the Fall of Mutantkind
Subsequent month’s X-Males: Hellfire Gala 2023 #1 one-shot is ready to kick off the subsequent main occasion within the lives of Marvel’s X-Males characters, The Fall of X, and Marvel has launched a trailer for the brand new comedian e-book, teasing a few of the main twists that the X-Males might be coping with at this yr’s Hellfire Gala.
In a press launch, Marvel reveals, “FALL OF X will upend the age of Krakoa as we all know it and scatter your favourite characters and X-Titles internationally and past as they’re left reeling after stunning revelations, gorgeous betrayals, and inconceivable deaths on the Hellfire Gala.” It added, “The action-packed trailer spotlights the glitz and glamour earlier than revealing how issues take a darkish flip as Nimrod, the best menace to mutantkind, arrives, with a military of Stark Sentinels not far behind. And that’s simply the beginning of the evening’s uninvited friends…”
What does this one-shot need to do with the Fall of X?
The Hellfire Gala, basically a state dinner for the present world of mutants on the mutant nation of Krakoa, the place mutants can showcase their world achievements to the remainder of the world (together with the non-mutant superheroes), has been an everyday incidence within the X-Males Universe for a couple of years now. One of many common operate of the Hellfire Gala has been a vote on who will grow to be a member of the official “most important” forward-facing X-Males workforce (whereas the vote is an in-universe deal, followers are allowed to choose the ultimate member of the workforce, from a sequence of nominees).
This yr, although, the Hellfire Gala might be interrupted by a devastating assault that can arrange the Fall of X, which means that the present period of mutant unity on Krakoa is coming to an finish. Author Gerry Duggan is at the moment writing Invincible Iron Man, as effectively, and as you’ll be able to see from the trailer, Stark-built Sentinels are a significant factor on this new occasion.
What do the covers for the one-shot appear like?
One of many key previous facets of the Hellfire Gala has been the distinctive outfits everybody wears (evoking Self-importance Honest’s yearly Met Gala). The principle cowl for the one-shot, by Phil Noto, reveals off a few of these fashions…
2023 is the sixtieth anniversary of the X-Males, and J. Scott Campbell might be that includes a sixtieth Anniversary variant for the problem…
As famous, there might be a vote to find out who will be part of the X-Males’s “most important” workforce, and one variant shows the potential choices…
There might be a Valerio Schiti cowl spotlighting a few of the characters from Schiti’s upcoming sequence, G.O.D.S, with Jonathan Hickman, the person who created the Hellfire Gala throughout his earlier stint as the primary X-Males author…
Marvel has been celebrating the late, nice George Perez with variant covers spotlighting his artwork. On this variant cowl, we see him draw Polaris and Haovk…
Lastly, the upcoming return to the X-Males animated universe is well known with an X-Males ’97 Variant Cowl by Dan Veesenmeyer…
X-Males: Hellfire Membership 2023 #1 is due out July twenty sixth.
Supply: Marvel
