Cable and Bishop are back! The time-traveling duo will be anchoring Timeslide #1, this year’s version of Timeless, the one-shot that teases the future of the Marvel Universe.
Written by Steve Foxe with art by Ivan Fiorelli, the one-shot will find Cable and Bishop traveling the timestream to prevent a mystery villain from wiping mutant-kind from history. In the process, they’ll get a glimpse of what’s coming up for Marvel heroes and villains, including teasers of events, characters, and more.
What’s perhaps most interesting about this beyond the title change is that X-Men editor Tom Brevoort noted that time travelers like Cable would be off the table for a while. Seems like “Christmas” is the outset of a while. And in case you think Brevoort is somehow unaware this is happening, he is very much aware. In fact, it was his idea!
“I was thrilled when Tom Brevoort reached out about Timeslide,” Foxe said via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “These annual mega-issues have become a perennial favorite of mine, both as a standalone story of their own and as a sneak peak of what’s to come for the year ahead. Getting to structure this one around Cable and Bishop—two of my favorite mutants, and two I didn’t write much during my prior X-tenure—was icing on the chrono-cake.
“Ivan Fiorelli can truly draw anything, and this story proves that era by era on a tour of some of the X-Men’s most notable moments as a new threat opens his maw and threatens all of mutant history. We build on Cable and Bishop’s tumultuous relationship from Children of the Vault for a pulse-pounding ride that touches on some of my favorite parts of X-stories past—and teases some exciting upcoming mutant tales. And while the flash-forwards in this issue aren’t only X-related, it was exciting, as a diehard X-fan, to write the first Timeless that became TIMESLIDE!”
Check out the synopsis and Kael Ngu’s cover for the issue, below. It hits stores on December 25, 2024.
WHAT IS THE FATE OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE?
An X-Man from the future arrives in the present with a dire warning: One of mutantkind’s most hyper-advanced foes is eating his way through time, trying to stop the X-Gene from ever evolving in the first place. Only two X-Men can stop this chronal predator from achieving his goal – if they can tolerate working together long enough. Join Bishop and Cable on a trip through futures past, present and beyond.
