Probably fair to say that the X-Men and the Fantastic Four don’t exactly have a straightforward relationship at this point. Sometimes they’re best buds while other times they’re neighbors eyeing each other over the garden hedge with suspicion at what the others are up to. And then again, sometimes Reed Richards sticks his super elasticated and bendy nose in mutant business where it doesn’t belong and everyone rightfully gives him bombastic side-eye. However, this September, the two teams are joining forces against a threat that sounds genuinely horrible even by Marvel standards.
Marvel has announced DNX, a new five-issue comic book event series from writer Jed MacKay and artist Federico Vicentini. The series launches on September 2 and sees the X-Men and Fantastic Four unite to stop the X-Virus, a terrifying new threat designed to forcibly transform humanity into mutants.
The villain of the piece this time around will be the Chairman, the original Hank McCoy who of course, we know as Beast. This time around, McCoy is leading the supervillain group 3K, so when the X-Men turn to the Fantastic Four to help save one of their own, the White Beast prepares to unleash the X-Virus in a heavily populated area which sets off a huge change in the balance between humanity and mutantkind.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
Advertisement
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
Advertisement
01
How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
Advertisement
02
What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
Advertisement
03
What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
Advertisement
04
How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
Advertisement
05
You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
Advertisement
06
What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
Advertisement
07
How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
Advertisement
08
When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Advertisement
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Advertisement
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
Advertisement
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
Advertisement
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
Advertisement
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
Advertisement
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
Advertisement
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
Advertisement
‘DNX’ Is Marvel’s Next Major X-Men Event
MacKay said the series represents a huge turning point for his current X-Men run, with the fallout from Age of Revelation feeding directly into the present-day story.
“DNX is the next big milestone event of our X-Men (2024) run,” MacKay said. “Age of Revelation showed the future, and DNX shows that future’s impact on the present! The X-Men and 3K are on a collision course that has been set since issue one—and only one will survive. And with the Fantastic Four joining the fray, this is going to be an event that will transform the X-Men dramatically.”
Vicentini also said the project gives him a long-awaited chance to work with MacKay and the Fantastic Four. “I’m so happy to be working on DNX,” he said. “I love what Jed is doing with X-Men (2024), and I’ve been telling him for a long time that I wanted to work with him. Now the opportunity has arrived, and it’s an even bigger challenge because I finally have the chance to work on the Fantastic Four too!”
The first issue features a main cover by Kaare Andrews, along with variant covers from artists including Chip Zdarsky, Ryan Stegman, Marco Checchetto, Jim Lee, Jeehyung Lee, John Tyler Christopher, Artgerm, and Ken Lashley. DNX #1 will also be released in Marvel’s True Believers Blind Bags, with exclusive variant covers and rare one-of-a-kind sketch covers.
Advertisement
DNX #1 arrives on September 2.
Advertisement
Release Date
Advertisement
July 13, 2000
Runtime
104 minutes
Advertisement
Director
Bryan Singer
Producers
Advertisement
Avi Arad, Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter, Richard Donner
You must be logged in to post a comment Login