:Sins of Sinister
{{Short description|Comic book storyline}}
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"Sins of Sinister" is a 2023 comic book crossover storyline during the Krakoan Age published in the X-Men franchise of books by Marvel Comics. The event involves a dark future brought about by Mister Sinister's corrupt machinations and his experiment in creating a batch of Mutants called Chimeras.
Sins of Sinister kick-offed with a one-shot written by Kieron Gillen and artist Lucas Werneck. Immortal X-Men by Kieron Gillen, X-Men Red by Al Ewing and Legion of X by Si Spurrier were transformed into three limited series: Immoral X-Men, Storm & the Brotherhood of Mutants and Nightcrawlers. The story was told across three different time periods: 10 years, 100 years and 1000 years in the future. The series' writers would then continue their current story plans after the finale one-shot, Sins of Sinister: Dominion.{{Cite web |title=NYCC 2022: A Twisted Fate Awaits Mutantkind in 'Sins of Sinister' |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/nycc-2022-sins-of-sinister-round-up-annoucement |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Marvel Entertainment |language=en}}
Publication history
In August 2022, Marvel comics posted a teaser "S.O.S." for the next big X-Men crossover.{{Cite web |title=S.O.S. ❌ January 2023 |url=https://twitter.com/marvel/status/1560695774916263937 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Twitter |language=en}} A later teaser revealed the crossover's official name, Sins of Sinister, and the involvement of Mister Sinister.{{Cite web |title=A new world. A new disaster. |url=https://twitter.com/marvel/status/1561821988267741185 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Twitter |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Enter an entire universe cursed by the Sins of Sinister. |url=https://twitter.com/marvel/status/1575885692776943616 |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Twitter |language=en}} In the Next Big Thing panel at the New York Comic-Con in October 2022, the X-Men epic is officially announced after months of teases. “Sinister's lurked around, being sinister for all the Krakoan Age. Eventually, he was going to make a play. This is it, and it's bigger than you can imagine, stretching across 1000 years of nightmares,” Gillen explained.
Sinister's machinations will create a horrifying timeline that will extend into several other spin-off limited series, each running for three issues. In Storm & the Brotherhood of Mutants from writer Ewing, Storm leads a new Brotherhood of Arakko across the wrecked landscape of Mars. Nightcrawlers from writer Spurrier features Sinister's private army of chimera assassins. And in Immoral X-Men from writer Gillen, the X-Men are sworn to crush a world that adores and respects them.
During the Professing X: An X-Men Panel in the Thought Bubble comic art festival, the writers talked about the upcoming event and showed off the designs of new characters appearing in the dark future including Wagnerine (chimera of Nightcrawler and Wolverine), a new Captain America whose DNA is mixed with those of Mister Sinister, Xible (a future version of Cable merged with the Arakki Xilo), Rasputin from Hickman's Powers of X, Auntie Fortune (chimera of Nightcrawler and Domino) and Ironfire.{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=2022-11-13 |title=X-Men Sins Of Sinister Revealed At Thought Bubble (XSpoilers) |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/x-men-sins-of-sinister-revealed-at-thought-bubble-xspoilers/ |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=Bleeding Cool News And Rumors |language=en}}
=Main characters=
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| {{hlist|Auntie Fortune|Destiny|Cable|Doctor Stasis|Exodus|Forge|Hope|Ironfire|Khora|Mister Sinister|Mother Righteous|Mystique|Nightcrawler|Orbis Stellaris|Professor X|Storm|Vox Ignis|Wagnerine|Wallcrawler|White Queen|Wiz Kid}} |
Issues involved
=Prelude issues=
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! scope="col" |Title ! scope="col" |Issues ! scope="col" |Writer ! scope="col" |Artist ! scope="col" |Colorist ! scope="col" |Debut date !Conclusion date |
| Immortal X-Men
|9–10 |Kieron Gillen |Lucas Werneck |David Curiel |December 7, 2022 |January 18, 2023 |
=Main series=
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! scope="col" |Title ! scope="col" |Issues ! scope="col" |Writer ! scope="col" |Artist ! scope="col" |Colorist ! scope="col" |Debut date ! scope="col" |Conclusion date |
| Sins of Sinister
|1 |Kieron Gillen |Lucas Werneck |Bryan Valenza | colspan="2" |January 25, 2023 |
| Storm & the Brotherhood of Mutants
|1–3 |Al Ewing | rowspan="3" |Paco Medina Patch Zircher Alessandro Vitti | rowspan="4" |TBA |February 8, 2023 |April 12, 2023 |
| Nightcrawlers
|1–3 |Si Spurrier |February 15, 2023 |April 19, 2023 |
| Immoral X-Men
|1–3 | rowspan="2" |Kieron Gillen |February 22, 2023 |April 5, 2023 |
| Sins of Sinister: Dominion
|1 |Lucas Werneck & Paco Medina | colspan="2" |April 26, 2023 |
Reception
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