EXCLUSIVE: Learn What Led the X-Men's Emma Frost to Her Wedding to Tony Stark

Emma Frost prepares for her shocking wedding to Tony Stark in this CBR exclusive preview of next week's X-Men #26


Emma Frost goes through a number of changes in her life in the wake of the Hellfire Gala tragedy, and these changes set the scene for Frost marrying Tony Stark in this CBR exclusive preview of next week's X-Men #26.


X-Men #26 comes from writer Gerry Duggan, artists Javier Pina and Jim Towe, colorist Marte Gracia and letterer Clayton Cowles, and continues the Fall of X crossover, which kicked off with this year's X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1, where the X-Men's annual celebration of mutant life on the island nation of Krakoa was interrupted by a devastating sneak attack by the anti-mutant organization, Orchis. Armed with a way to turn all the medicine that the X-Men had made for humans into a deadly delivery system, Orchis was able to blackmail Charles Xavier into sending almost all the mutants on Krakoa through teleportation gates, nominally to Mars. However, a handful of X-Men who had been trained to resist Xavier were able to avoid being forced through the gates. They instead used one of the few remaining mutant teleporters to send them to safety, where they now strike back at Orchis clandestinely as a new version of the X-Men.


The X-Men's clandestine mission has led Emma Frost to take on an undercover role working with Tony Stark, Iron Man, and this issue shows how that role will eventually lead to the two deciding to get married.


X-MEN #26

GERRY DUGGAN (W) • JIM TOWE & JAVIER PINA (A) • COVER BY LUCAS WERNECK

X-MEN CONNECTING VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS

X-MEN CONNECTING SKETCH VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY ALEX ROSS

MARVEL ICON VARIANT COVER BY JAVIER GARRON

CORNER BOX VARIANT COVER BY MARK BROOKS

X-MEN 60TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT COVER BY JORGE MOLINA

“WE’RE NOT LOSING AN X-MAN… WE’RE GAINING AN AVENGER!”

The moment we swore would never happen—heck, the moment EMMA FROST swore would never happen—is here at last! As the Frost/Stark knot is tied in INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #10, Emma’s mutant family reacts to this surprise news!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


Two of the people who escaped the Hellfire Gala tragedy without being killed or sent away by Xavier were Emma Frost and Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime, who was at the Gala because his wife, Typhoid Mary, is a mutant. Mary was sent through the gates, and is now believed to be dead (don't worry, though, the mutants who were sent through the gates were not killed, but rather just scattered throughout the Marvel Universe), so Fisk has teamed up with the X-Men to take down Orchis. Last year, during the Devil's Reign crossover, we learned that Emma Frost had worked for Fisk when she was younger, before going off on her own. Recently, in the Fall of X tie-in issues of Immortal X-Men, we have learned that Wilson Fisk is now the White King of the Hellfire Club, with Frost helping him take over that role.


In the preview pages, we revisit the moments directly following the Hellfire Gala attack (now dubbed the new "Mutant Massacre," with Orchis framing the X-Men were the murders of all the other human attendees at the celebration), where Fisk agrees to team-up with Frost, but by requiring her to once again go to work for him.


In a separate sequence, we see Kitty Pryde, now going by the name Shadowkat, trying to sneak into an Orchis base to kill the former X-Men member that the mutants all believe was the "X-Traitor," Firestar. However, Firestar did not actually betray the X-Men. During the Hellfire Gala attack, Jean Grey was fatally wounded. Before she died, she telepathically contacted Firestar and asked her to go undercover in Orchis and pretend to be a traitor. Firestar agreed, and so Jean Grey used her mental abilities to alter everyone's memories, including the heads of Orchis, to now remember that Firestar was a traitor. This now allows Firestar to work against Orchis from within, but it leaves her in the middle of a hate group, and her own teammates now wanting to kill her (as Jean died before letting anyone else now of her bold gambit).

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