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The first issue ofMarvel’s latest X-bookhit comic shops yesterday. Sentinels is an ongoing series from the creative team of writer Alex Paknadel and artist Justin Mason that follows a team of soldiers tasked with taking on some of the world’s most dangerous mutants in order to prevent a predicted future apocalypse.
These new Sentinels are a squad of nanotech-enhanced soldiers working for Lawrence Trask – the mutant son of the infamous Bolivar Trask. Lawrence is a powerful mutant who has foreseen a catastrophe brought on by evil mutants, but while these Sentinels are fightingformutants, rather than against them, their origins are decidedly murky…
“This book is about flawed human beings doing a dirty job for a dirty cause, and Justin Mason and I are determined to make you care about each and every one of them,” Paknadel said in a statement when the series was first announced. “Whatever your expectations are going in, I promise this book will surprise you.”
Well, as you can see from our exclusive unlettered preview of next month’s Sentinels #2, some of those surprises might include the return of a few familiar faces…
Here’s what Marvel’s official synopsis has to say about the new issue:
“OPERATION: SHAW! The Sentinels have their orders: enter an enemy nation, infiltrate a maximum-security prison and escape with Sebastian Shaw! Can Lockstep bring his people home safely? Will Shaw get the better of the new Sentinels, or does a greater shadow hang over Graymalkin Prison?”
As readers of the first issue will have already discovered, the Sentinels first target was Omega Red, with Onslaught also making a cameo. Marvel has also promised, however, that this series will introduce “a major new enemy that will define the first year of the new ‘From the Ashes’ era.”
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Sentinels #2 is published byMarvel Comicson November 20.
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