Alex Paknadel and Jim Towe Show Kate Pryde the Mutant Paradise She Never Got in X-Men: Incursions

Marvel's slate of Secret Wars-adjacent multiverse one-shots has a new entry: X-Men: Incursions, written by Alex Paknadel with art by Jim Towe and colors by Fer Sifuentes-Sujo, ships November 18 with final order cutoff on October 12.

The premise leans into "it's a wonderful life, but flipped": Doctor Strange pulls the older, Days of Future Past version of Kate Pryde into the House of M reality to see what mutantkind looks like when it actually wins, rather than gets subjugated. Paknadel has described the issue as giving Kate a glimpse of the world she could have had if circumstances had broken only slightly differently, using the House of M cast as a backdrop for a very personal gut-punch.

Towe's art is said to draw on multiple eras of X-Men illustration while leaning on quiet, dialogue-free panels to carry the emotional weight, a necessity given how much ground a single-issue multiversal story has to cover. Paknadel also hinted he's not finished with the X-office yet, teasing unannounced projects still to come.

Source: AIPT