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The X-Man known as Bishop came to modern times from his future of the 2070s to track down a time-traveling murderer named Fitzroy, and ultimately found a home with the modern-day X-Men (which he grew up idolizing in their future, but his past). Now, that dark future of Bishop's is coming back to haunt him... and possibly give him one thing he sorely misses: his dead sister, Shard.

In a new five-issue series simply called Bishop, Wolverine writer Saladin Ahmed and Storm artist Mario Santoro are teaming up to create a definitive Bishop story which Marvel says is intended to encapsulate "the heart and history of the character—all while putting them through the wringer on their most challenging and legacy-defining missions yet!"

"I'm having a blast doing a deep dive into the dark corners of Lucas Bishop's time-travel traumatized mind!” Ahmed says. “I'm a writer who loves both family drama and spectacle, so getting to juxtapose the big visual comic book elements of temporal warping and explosive powers with the quiet pain and joy of sibling relationships is my happy place.”

Set in the modern-day (at least for now), the series kicks off when a group of villains from Bishop's dark future known as the Final Brotherhood (a play on the classic Brotherhood of Evil Mutants' moniker, I would imagine) with the singular goal to snuff out Lucas Bishop once and for all. To stave that off (and avoid some wild timeline shenanigans), Bishop will end up teaming with his sister Shard - a '90s hero who died not once, but twice in comics.

"Bishop has always lived by a strict code. But that code will get called into question when his sister, Shard, is sent to the present right before she died!," reads Marvel's description of the series emotional core. "Will Bishop adhere to his principles and protect the timestream? Or will he risk it all to save the most important person in his life?"

Bishop #1 (of 5) is scheduled to debut on June 5 at your favorite comic store.

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