X-Men ’92’s New Series’ First Look Shows Wolverine Is Still the Best There Is At What He Does

Regardless of what decade or timeline he might be fighting in, there's nobody who can take down an enemy quite like Wolverine can.

In a preview for X-Men '92: House of XCII #1 provided by Marvel, the X-Men from the 1990s era have officially returned and are taking on any army of Sentinels in space. Wolverine, Rogue, Gambit, Cyclops, Storm and Jean Grey all board an orbiting satellite to stop the Sentinel threat while Beast mans the Blackbird from above. Facing an army of the mutant-hunting robots created by Bolviar Trask, Wolverine manages to destory one of them in what appears to be a single blow. "I thought I smelled scum," the character says as he's doing it. "If Trask is on this station, I'm not wasting my time with these tin cans."

The Sentinels first appeared in 1965's X-Men #14 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The machines were intentially programmed to locate, hunt, capture or kill mutants in an effort to rid them from the population. Sentinels are typically armed with energy weapons and restraining devices, have the ability to fly and can detect mutants at long ranges, while their bodies are also relatively impervious to damage. Later incarnations of Sentinels come with more specific upgrades to defeat certain mutants on the battle.

What brought the X-Men specifically to space isn't immediately clear in the preview; although, Cyclops says that they're here to stop the Sentinel threat for "forever" so that the team "might just have a shot at bringing Professor X's dream to life." Cyclops also says that the X-Men's home "doesn't stand a chance if Trask gets his latest model online," which could explain how Wolverine was able to kill one of the robots with relative ease. Wolverine and Rogue also allude to a tragedy at X-Mansion seemingly caused by the Sentinels, as Rogue says she's there to let "my fists do the thinkin'."

While the X-Men are back in the nostalgic 1990s in X-Men '92: House of XCII, the five-issue series bring in some modern mutantkind developments as well. The synopsis for the first issue reads, "Everyone’s favorite ’90s incarnations of the X-Men have returned…but this time, everything is even all-newer and all-more different! Mutantkind is taking a huge leap forward by founding their own nation on the island of Krakoa, guided by Professor X, Magneto, and a mysterious long-lived woman who knows more than she should. That’s right – the ’90s X-Men are tackling the Krakoan Age thirty years early… and it’s NOT going to go the way you expect!"

X-Men '92: House of XCII #1 comes from writer Steve Foxe, artist Salva Espin, colorist Israel Silva and letterer VC's Joe Sabino, with cover art by Silva and David Baldeón and variant cover art by David Talaski, David Nakayama, Scott Williams and Sebastian Cheng. The issue releases on April 13 from Marvel.

Source: Marvel