Dark Horse Comics

When Leigh Ferguson’s high school friend becomes the latest victim of the ‘Skin Traders’-a mysterious band of surgically modified thugs who slice skin from their abducted victims-she knows X is the only person in Arcadia who can stop them. The only question is: who’s got thicker skin? o With a shocking Easter egg for longtime readers! o Perfect jumping on point for new readers.

With Arcadia in the grip of a war between the old gangs and the newly arrived militia known as ‘The Chosen,’ mob boss Carmine Tango arranges a meeting with a visiting billionaire. When X crashes the party, he’ll discover an enemy categorically unlike any he’s ever faced! ‘I like where X is headed and have bought in to Swierczynski and Nguyen’s world, lock, stock and bloody barrel!’-Unleash the Fanboy

Ruidoso and his partners have Leigh safely in custody, but Lt. Setter and his Dogs of War will stoop to any low to snatch her away. The struggle within the police force erupts into a full-on firefight when X shows up to enforce his own law-and what he does next will shock you!

The city of Arcadia has a cancer of crime, and X is the surgeon. Now he’s turned his scalpel to the Dogs of War, a corrupt unit of violent narcotics officers . . . but when a lone good cop stands in his way, can X remove the tumor without killing the patient?

It’s a bloody showdown on Arcadia’s rooftops as X is assaulted by the pig-faced Berkshire, a maniac who can no longer feel physical pain! As Leigh fends off a swarm of the city’s thugs, Berkshire shatters the lock around X’s neck . . . and the mask finally comes off!

The last time the Archon showed up in Arcadia, it was to deliver the beating of X’s life. X vowed that if the Archon ever showed his face in his city again, it would be for the last time. So when an enigmatic masked man arrives in town sniffing around for information on the Archon, he gains X’s full attention, whether he wants it or not! Be here for the first issue of the Marked for Death saga that starts in X and concludes in Captain Midnight!