Marvel Is Officially About To Destroy One of the X-Men’s Most Iconic Universes
Marvel is set to pit two of the X-Men's most iconic alternate realities, House of M and Days of Future Past, against each other in a new comic that will destroy at least one of them. The story appears in X-Men: Incursions #1, the first of five one-shots revisiting the period before 2015's Secret Wars, and revives two of the franchise's most memorable "what if" worlds for a direct confrontation rather than simply revisiting them separately.
Written by Alex Paknadel with art by Jim Towe, the issue depicts the mutant-ruled reality of House of M colliding with the Sentinel-ravaged dystopia of Days of Future Past, with only eight hours before the impact destroys both universes. The apparent way out is grim: one universe can survive only if the other is sacrificed, echoing the multiverse-ending Incursions that originally wiped out the main Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe in the build-up to Secret Wars.
- Marvel pits House of M against Days of Future Past in new comic
- X-Men: Incursions #1 kicks off a five-part pre-Secret Wars series
- Only one universe can survive their eight-hour collision countdown
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Marvel's X-Men comics have spent decades creating alternate versions of their world through "what if" style stories, two of the most beloved being House of M, where mutants briefly rule the world, and Days of Future Past, a bleak future where robotic Sentinels have hunted mutants to near extinction. These stories were popular enough to inspire major films and spin-off comics of their own, and they normally exist as separate, self-contained tales that never interact.
The new confrontation revives a device called an "Incursion", a concept from the build-up to Marvel's 2015 Secret Wars event, in which colliding parallel universes could only be resolved by destroying one of them. That earlier storyline was a major turning point for Marvel's comics, so bringing the same mechanism back to threaten two fan-favourite worlds signals a significant moment for the wider X-Men mythology.
This new story arrives as part of a five-issue series revisiting the period before Secret Wars, written by Alex Paknadel and drawn by Jim Towe, giving long-time readers a fresh look at settings they thought were finished while raising the stakes by forcing two much-loved realities into direct conflict.