SNEAK PEEK: ICYMI GIANT-SIZE Preview of MARAUDERS #26, NEW MUTANTS #23, X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO #4, & PHOENIX SONG: ECHO #2

By Chad Burdette

on November 25, 2021

This week in the X-Universe, MARAUDERS #26, NEW MUTANTS #23, X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO #4, & PHOENIX SONG: ECHO #2 are on the docket for release from MARVEL COMICS.

MARAUDERS #26

The Marauders meet up with an unexpected guest in MARAUDERS #26.

Check out our review of MARAUDERS #25 then check out the preview of this week’s issue:

Variant Cover by Meghan Hetrick

Marauders #26
HOW TO FIGHT YOUR DRAGON!

While a new representative of Krakoa hits the international stage, the Marauders find themselves face-to-snout with He-Whose-Limbs-Shatter-Mountains-and-Whose-Back-Scrapes-the-Sun, FIN FANG FOOM himself!

Writer: Gerry Duggan
X-Universe Architect: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Matteo Lolli
Colorist: Rain Beredo
Letterer: Cory Petit
Designer: Tom Muller
Editor(s): Jordan D. White
Standard Cover Artist(s): Matt Wilson Russell Dauterman
Variant Cover Artist(s): Meghan Hetrick
Format: Ongoing Series
Page Count/Cover Price: 28 pages/$3.99

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NEW MUTANTS #23

The NEW MUTANTS battle an old foe…the psychic entity known as the Shadow King continues in NEW MUTANTS #23…

Check out our review of NEW MUTANTS #22 then check out the preview of this week’s issue:

New Mutants #23
FALL OF THE SHADOW CHILDREN!

No more New Mutants. Now there are only shadows—and the beast that’s stalking them through infinity. Amahl Farouk executes his master plan—but is he the one in control?

Writer: Vita Ayala
X-Universe Architect: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Rod Reis
Colorist: Rod Reis
Letterer: Travis Lanham
Designer: Tom Muller
Editor(s): Sarah Brunstad
Standard Cover Artist(s): Martin Simmonds
Variant Cover Artist(s): Maria Wolf
Format: Ongoing Series
Page Count/Cover Price: 28 pages/$3.99

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X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO #4

Wanda comes face-to-face with an older version of herself in this week’s X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #4 as the Trial of Magneto reaches its penultimate issue…

Check out our review of X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO #3 then check out the preview of this week’s issue:

Paco Medina Variant:

W. Scott Forbes & Israel Silva Variant:

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #4
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE!
A Wanda divided cannot stand…but there are many other things she can do. Chaos comes to Krakoa.

Writer: Leah Williams
X-Universe Architect: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: David Messina Lucas Werneck
Colorist: Edgar Delgado
Letterer: Clayton Cowles
Designer: Tom Muller
Editor(s): Jordan D. White
Standard Cover Artist(s): Valerio Schiti & Marcio Menyz
Variant Cover Artist(s): Paco Medina, W. Scott Forbes & Israel Silva
Format: Limited Series
Page Count/Cover Price: 28 pages/$3.99

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PHOENIX SONG: ECHO #2

The Phoenix Force has chosen a new host! Spinning directly out of Jason Aaron’s Avengers storyline “Enter the Phoenix” comes PHOENIX SONG: ECHO and the exhilarating story packed with revelations about both Echo’s ancestry and the Phoenix Force mythos as well, continues in Phoenix Song: Echo #2 this week…

Check out our review of Phoenix Song: Echo #1 then check out the preview of this week’s issue:

Derrick Chew Variant:

EVERYBODY WANTS THE PHOENIX!

Echo finds herself besieged on all sides as the eyes of the human and mutant worlds zero in on the Phoenix! But the deadliest threat is buried in her past…and her future. A new ally with strange powers of his own claims to have the clues Maya needs to stop her timeline from unraveling, but can a cosmically powered fighter really trust this handsome stranger? Enemies abound as Echo struggles with her newfound strength…and the weaknesses she doesn’t even know yet.