The displaced-from-the-future X-Man known as Bishop will star in a five-issue miniseries written by Saladin Ahmed and illustrated by Mario Santoro. The first issue will arrive in June.
The series follows in the footsteps of recent standalone X-Men miniseries like Rogue and Cyclops, delivering a self-contained story that digs into the character’s history while putting him through his paces. In this case, Bishop will reunite with his sister Shard, who appeared in X-Factor and seemingly died in a previous Bishop series.
“I’m having a blast doing a deep dive into the dark corners of Lucas Bishop’s time-travel traumatized mind!” Ahmed said. “I’m a writer who loves both family drama and spectacle, so getting to juxtapose the big visual comic book elements of temporal warping and explosive powers with the quiet pain and joy of sibling relationships is my happy place.”
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