Things never get easy for the X-Men. Right after A.X.E: Judgment Day and Dark Web, the Mutants are thrown into another crossover event, Sins of Sinister. This time, however, it’s an X-Men-only crossover.
The tagline is: “From his vaunted position on the Quiet Council of Krakoa, Mister Sinister has plotted and schemed. Now, at last, his plans come to fruition beyond his wildest dreams … and his darkest nightmares! Can the X-Men survive the experience? Can anyone?”
If we are to believe Marvel, Sins of Sinister is set in “a horror timeline that makes Age of Apocalypse look like the X-Men Swimsuit Special.” This story takes the Marvel Universe further and further into a dark future, dramatically escalating the stakes with each startling time jump. 10 Years … 100 Years … 1000 Years…
This crossover could be confusing because three current series are renamed for the occasion Immortal X-Men, X-Men Red, and Legion of X are—respectively—replaced by the limited series Immoral X-Men, Storm & The Brotherhood of Mutants, and Nightcrawlers.
Current X-Men writers Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing, and Si Spurrier are in charge of writing the new titles, joined by artists Paco Medina, Andrea Di Vito, and Alessandro Vitti.
What to read before Sins of Sinister?
First, it’s not obligatory reading for the crossover, but there was foreshadowing in Power of X.
Keiron Gillen built up the Sins of Sinister event in the Immortal X-Men series.
- Immortal X-Men Vol. 1
Collects Immortal X-Men (2021) #1–6. - Immortal X-Men (2021) #7
- Immortal X-Men (2021) #8
Sins of Sinister Reading Order
Sins of Sinister Reading Order: Collected Editions
It’s a bit early, but Marvel already announced for September a hardcover book collecting the Sins of Sinister event (details about the issues that are collected coming soon).
- Immortal X-Men by Kieron Gillen Vol. 2
Collects Immortal X-Men (2021) #7-10. - Sins of Sinister
Collects Sins Of Sinister #1, Immoral X-Men #1-3, Storm & The Brotherhood Of Mutants #1-3, Nightcrawlers #1-3 And Sins Of Sinister Dominion #1. - More to come soon.
Sins of Sinister Reading Order: Issue by Issue
What follows is what has been announced by Marvel. This list will be updated if necessary as the event progresses.
- Immortal X-Men (2021) #9
- Immortal X-Men (2021) #10
- Sins of Sinister #1
- Storm & the Brotherhood of Mutants #1
- Nightcrawlers #1
- Immoral X-Men #1
- Nightcrawlers #2
- Immoral X-Men #2
- Storm & the Brotherhood of Mutants #2
- Immoral X-Men #3
- Storm & the Brotherhood of Mutants #3
- Nightcrawlers #3
- Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1
After Sins of Sinister
We’ll talk about that later…
Hello friend, whenever there’s a X-Men Event, I’m there lol 😉
I’m here to help.
Look, I’ll be honest, I was a disappointed with all the Art errors found in AXE Judgment Day. I’ve posted several of them on my twitter, mostly it happened in every book the writer Keiron Gillen was involved.
Today was the prelude issue Immortal X-Men 10 and I already found art error. That makes me to not have much faith on this event that he’ll be writing.
After the AXE Judgement Day event, the Story where Magik gives Limbo to Madelyne Pryor happens in New Mutants 25-28, then she changes her armor, from the Black one to a new armor, Gold one. Then Dark Web happens, where Magik is wearing her new Gold armor. Then, in Immortal X-Men 10 she’s wearing once again the Black armor. She shouldn’t cause this event supposedly is after the events of Judgement Day and Dark Web.
Anyway, I’ll read it and help out if I can with the reading order.
https://twitter.com/XMenNation1/status/1615804555496677376
I’ll never understand why it is so hard for the editors to coordinate this kind of stuff. It’s like nobody care, and I don’t believe it’s the case. Anyway, it’s confusing. Not entirely why I’m having a hard time staying involved with the X-titles. I stop reading a lot of those books and I mostly try to keep up for the events.
I have read Sins of Sinister #1 and it was a nice story. I enjoyed. But man, I get furious with the team behind Kieron Gillen books. He can NEVER get it right the sitting order of the characters around the table of the Quiet Council. I mean, he knew the book about the 12 members of the QC would require to pay attention to that. So, how come the artist who works on his team always gets wrong?
I have a picture here which explains better then words
https://twitter.com/XMenNation1/status/1618346361640095744
Basically he established that Magik is replacing Destiny, Beast is replacing Sinister, and Namor is replacing Mystique on the QC, at page 29. Then on page 31 he already got it wrong placing Namor next to Magik. That side where Magik is should be Xavier, Hope and Magik. The artist mistakenly draw Hope, Magik and Namor. That’s a little mistake but is so annoying. So very annoying that they can’t get it right just 2 pages after.
And this is not the first time, the event AXE Judgement Day was filled with these mistakes. Also the books Immortal X-Men are filled with those mistakes. I don’t see these mistakes in other X-Books. Basically this is happening with Immortal X-Men and anything Kieron writes. The books AXE Death to the Mutants were a shame in terms of mistakes about panels, showing characters that shouldn’t be there etc etc.
I’m a bit disappointed but I’ll still read this crossover. I wish I had a huge megaphone to scream very loud so that they can hear and try to fix those errors.
Kieron didn’t even fixed the errors found in Immortal X-Men 1 to 5 and released the TPB edition with the errors in it. People who were hoping to buy those issues fixed in the TPB version got scammed.