We don't have twenty years. The Shadow King you fought is not the one you're fighting now. He's boosted his powers somehow, and he's on the verge of escaping into the real world. If that happens, darkness everywhere. You need to trust me.
Appearing in "Act I: Life of X, Part Three"
Featured Characters:
- Logan (Possessed by the Shadow King)
Supporting Characters:
- Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)
- Bishop (Lucas Bishop)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III)
- Charles Xavier (Psychic projection)
Antagonists:
- Ministry of Defence
- Metropolitan Police Service
- Superintendent Blake (Apparent death)
- Numerous unnamed officers
- British Army
- Commander Keene
- Metropolitan Police Service
- Shadow King (Psychic projection)
Other Characters:
- X-Men (Referenced) (Deceased)
- Mysterio (Quentin Beck) (Referenced)
- X-Men (Referenced)
- Numerous samurai (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Gambit (Remy LeBeau)
- Fantomex (Jean-Phillipe)
- Mystique (Raven Darkhölme)
- Rogue (Anna Marie)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Mentioned)
- Amahl Farouk (Mentioned)
- Sentinels
- Scotty Logan (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Hulk Gang (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Jadie Logan (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Maureen Logan (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Charles Xavier (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Mutants
- Humans
- Abstract Entities
- Sentinels (Illusion or holographic simulation)
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe
- Astral Plane
- Wastelands (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Earth (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Amerika (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Hulkland (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Logan Ranch (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Hulkland (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Amerika (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Astral Plane (Mentioned)
- Earth (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Wastelands (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Earth
- Hell (Invoked)
- Astral Plane
Items:
Synopsis for "Act I: Life of X, Part Three"
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
SHADOW KING SHOWDOWN!
• The X-MEN continue their fight against the SHADOW KING!
• But when OLD MAN LOGAN loses himself in the ASTRAL PLANE and Shadow King’s illusions, will he ever find his way back to his teammates? AND WHAT OTHER HORRORS AWAIT OUR TEAM?
• Brought to you by the incomparable ED MCGUINNESS and eXcellent X-Men scribe, Charles Soule, ASTONISHING X-MEN continues to be the X-Book you can’t afford to miss.