The Age of Krakoa continues in the next installment of collecting all its stories in their entirety! The Trials of X are more massive than ever! As Storm battles the Lethal Legion on Mars, there are explosive problems on the Peak - and the mole inside S.W.O.R.D. stands revealed! With Station One crashing to Earth, Abigail Brand is ready to make her move! Wolverine hunts the leviathan that lurks off the shores of Krakoa - but can even he take down a hidden creature of the deep that's bigger and stronger and older than math can figure? The Marauders have their hands full too - with He-Whose-Limbs-Shatter-Mountains-and-Whose-Back-Scrapes-the-Sun himself, Fin Fang Foom! And the wheels have come off the Hellions bandwagon. They might all hate one another, but Nanny loves her latest addition! Orphan-Maker, though, has other feelings - and dangerous ideas!
Writer Al Ewing began his career on the British anthology 2000 AD. Since breaking into American comics, he has written Jennifer Blood and spin-off series The Ninjettes for Dynamite Entertainment, and the Age of Ultron tie-in issues of Avengers Assemble for Marvel Comics. Ewing's novels include the Pax Britannia series as well as The Fictional Man. With artist Greg Land, he relaunched Marvel's Mighty Avengers; for All-New Marvel NOW!, gave the god of mischief a new assignment in Loki: Agent of Asgard. Ewing then took revamped versions of New Avengers and Ultimates, debuted U.S.Avengers; and joined the writing team for the "No Surrender" storyline in Avengers, which brought the Hulk back from the dead. His subsequent titles include Valkyrie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, the event series Empyre and the critically revered smash hit Immortal Hulk. Ewing has cemented in his place in the Krakoan era of the X-Men titles comics with S.W.O.R.D. and X-Men: Red.
Acclaimed author and screenwriter Benjamin Percy broke into comics in 2014 with a two-issue Batman story arc for Detective Comics. He is also known for his work on Nightwing, Green Arrow and Teen Titans for DC Comics, and James Bond: Black Box for Dynamite Entertainment. Percy has written two seasons of Marvel's Wolverine podcast series: Wolverine: The Long Night, which was listed as one of the top fifteen podcasts of the year by Apple and won the iHeart Radio Award for best scripted podcast in 2018, and Wolverine: The Lost Trail. In print, he is a key contributor to Jonathan Hickman's Dawn of X initiative as writer of X-Force and Wolverine. Percy is taking Johnny Blaze back to basics for the character's 50th anniversary in the pages of Ghost Rider.
Gerry Duggan has become one of Marvel's most influential writers, having first made an impression at the House of Ideas with a lengthy and always surprising Deadpool run alongside his frequent writing partner, Brian Posehn. Among Duggan's solo credits are Nova, Hulk and multiple tie-ins to the Secret Wars event. He added Deadpool to the revamped roster of Uncanny Avengers and brought his unique blend of action and humor to All-New Guardians of the Galaxy, leading up to the cosmic event series Infinity Wars. Marauders and Cable established him as a vital part of the storytelling team for the Dawn of X era, a role he has cemented further by launching the blockbuster new X-Men title. Duggan's earlier collaboration with artist Phil Noto -- The Infinite Horizon, a re-imagining of Homer's The Odyssey in a dystopian future -- earned an Eisner Award nomination for Best New Series.
A winner of Marvel's 2008 Chesterquest international talent search, Italian artist Jacopo Camagni has worked extensively on the publisher's all-ages titles - including Black Widow and the Marvel Girls, Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil, Marvel Adventures the Avengers, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Marvel Adventures Super Heroes and Skrulls vs. Power Pack. Camagni illustrated the limited series Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe, and has worked with fellow artist and frequent collaborator Matteo Lolli on various Deadpool projects including Hawkeye vs Deadpool.
Italian artist Matteo Lolli kept Marvel's all-ages series fresh and exciting with his lively pencils on titles including Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Marvel Adventures Iron Man and Marvel Adventures Super Heroes. He brought his talents to the regular Marvel Universe with Marvel NOW!'s first Thunderbolts Annual, then followed one of that team's members into a showdown with an Avenger in Hawkeye vs. Deadpool. Lolli's flair for the Merc with a Mouth soon led him to the ongoing Deadpool series.
Artist Stephen Segovia has worked with several publishers on a variety of titles, including Cast for Nautilus Comics in his native Philippines and Shadowmancer for UK publisher Markosia. In the United States, he has contributed to such titles as Top Cow's Tokyo Nights and M.I.T.H.; Dynamite's Red Sonja, Battlestar Galactica and Witchblade: Shades of Gray; Harris' Vampirella; and DC's Countdown to Mystery. His Marvel credits include Dark Wolverine, Wolverine: Manifest Destiny, X-Treme X-Men and Superior Carnage.
