Marvel Comics recently teased a mystery final member of the new Marauders team ahead of the title's relaunch next March, but we definitely didn't see this coming! With a new creative team - writer Steve Orlando and artist Eleonara Carlini - this new era will see the villainous Cassandra Nova join the crew!
The twisted twin sister of Professor Xavier, Cassandra was introduced during Grant Morrison's revolutionary early 2000s run on New X-Men where she orchestrated the deadliest crime in mutantkind history when she unleashed a massive Sentinel on Genosha and killed millions. Later, she was part of a plan that culminated in Kate Pryde spending years floating through space alone.
Now, though, the Marauders need her help to untangle a mystery rooted in the earliest days of mutantkind. Do they dare trust her? Based on past experience, something tells us they really shouldn't!
"Cassandra Nova Xavier is back, with the same malicious mind and murderous hands as ever," Orlando reveals. "But how much has she changed since her last run in with the X-Men? Pryde and the Marauders have no choice but to find out, since Cassandra's only one who can lead them to mutantkind's earliest ancestors - a mystery two billion years old. She's little bit Xavier, a little bit Catherine Trammel, and the Marauders' only hope for success."
You can see Cassandra suiting up in an all-new variant cover by Carlini and find out if she’s really changed her ways when Marauders #1 hits stands on March 30. However, don’t miss the opening adventure of Steve Orlando’s run in Marauders Annual #1 on January 12 for a taste of what's to come.
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