Ashley Allen and Germán Peralta, the creative team behind Magik and Magik & Colossus, will assemble a team led by Magik to battle a demonic invasion from Limbo this November in X-Orcists.
The five-issue miniseries sees Illyana Rasputin join forces with Juggernaut, Madelyne Pryor and others to stop a demon “unlike anything they’ve ever seen before” in the five-issue miniseries. This marks the third series by the creative team focused on the mystical mutant.
“Round three, baby!” Allen said. “In all seriousness, I’m incredibly grateful to continue this journey with Germán and the rest of the Magik team, telling the story of a character so close to my and fans’ hearts. Magik and Madelyne are both women who have been told what their paths should be, only to choose their own destinies. Exploring this has been such a powerful and rewarding experience and I’m excited for fans to see these two characters reclaim their power, evolve from their pasts, and discover what it means to truly wield themselves.”
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When a demon escapes Limbo and begins terrorizing humans and mutants alike, Magik and Juggernaut of the X-Men team up with Madelyne Pryor, the Queen of Limbo, to take it down. But this demon is unlike anything they’ve ever seen before, and they’re going to need help to stop its ruinous rampage.
“If you had told me as a kid that I would be drawing X-Men comics, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Peralta said. “This is a special X-book exploring the mystical and dark side of the mutant world—what more could I ask for? Well, I think just one thing, and luckily, that happened too: having Ashley Allen again as the writer!”
Ben Harvey draws the three main characters on the main cover, shown above, while Dike Ruan draws a pair of variants featuring rivals Magik and Madelyne Pryor. Russell Dauterman meanwhile brings the two together on his variant:
Also, I believe the title is pronounced like the early 1970s horror film classic, “Exorcists,” and not like I keep wanting to pronounce it when I see it in writing, which is more like “ex-orcs.” That might just be me, though.
X-Orcists #1 arrives Nov. 18.