Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s “Days of Future Past” storyline in Uncanny X-Men #141-142 was set in a dystopian future in which the Sentinels have taken over the U.S. and mutants are being imprisoned in internment camps. Now a new miniseries, X-Men: Days of Future Past—Doomsday, will depict the events before that famous story, showing the 30-year slide into tyranny as the Mutant Control Act and the Sentinels turn mutants into second-class citizens. The miniseries begins at the crucial moment when Kate Pryde transfers her mind into her younger self in order to change the events of the future, and it leads right into the opening pages of Uncanny X-Men #141. The creative team for the four-issue miniseries is writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Manuel Garcia; the first issue will go on sale on July 12, 2023, with a cover by Geoff Shaw.
“My goal with this story is to fill in some missing gaps in the thirty-year period that Kate Pryde summarized in just four panels back in the day,” Guggenheim said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “Prior familiarity with the original story won’t be required. The end result is an event that feels like the X-Men story to end all X-Men stories. At least, that’s the bullseye we’re aiming at!”
IDW will include the original “Days of Future Past” story in its John Byrne’s X-Men Artist’s Edition (see “IDW, Marvel Extend Deal for Artist’s Editions”).
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