Cable and Bishop team-up to take down a time-traveling foe in Timeslide

A mystery villain is rampaging through time in Marvel’s Timeslide, searching for a way to end the X-gene before it began.

Timeslide by… two

Before we get into what Timeslide is, we want to make sure that fans know what it is not. Namely, it isn’t an event series or some kind of crossover. Instead, Timeslide follows a recent Marvel Comics trend of offering a premier, year-end title that packs a big story into a tidy little one-shot.

Writer Steve Foxe and artist Ivan Fiorelli’s take the reins for Timeslide, bringing both Bishop and Cable to the fore. The duo is on a mission through the time-stream itself, to hunt down and eliminate a villain who’s seeking to wipe out mutantkind itself, before it was even born.

But readers won’t just be traveling back through time in Timeslide, as the story will take Bishop and Cable forward as well. And since that’s the case, fans can expect to get some sneak peeks at stories that haven’t yet come to pass…

WHAT IS THE FATE OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE?

An X-Man from the future arrives in the present with a dire warning: One of mutantkind’s most hyper-advanced foes is eating his way through time, trying to stop the X-Gene from ever evolving in the first place. Only two X-Men can stop this chronal predator from achieving his goal – if they can tolerate working together long enough. Join Bishop and Cable on a trip through futures past, present and beyond.

“I was thrilled when Tom Brevoort reached out about Timeslide,” Foxe said. “These annual mega-issues have become a perennial favorite of mine, both as a standalone story of their own and as a sneak peak of what’s to come for the year ahead. Getting to structure this one around Cable and Bishop—two of my favorite mutants, and two I didn’t write much during my prior X-tenure—was icing on the chrono-cake.

“Ivan Fiorelli can truly draw anything, and this story proves that era by era on a tour of some of the X-Men’s most notable moments as a new threat opens his maw and threatens all of mutant history. We build on Cable and Bishop’s tumultuous relationship from Children of the Vault for a pulse-pounding ride that touches on some of my favorite parts of X-stories past—and teases some exciting upcoming mutant tales. And while the flash-forwards in this issue aren’t only X-related, it was exciting, as a diehard X-fan, to write the first Timeless that became TIMESLIDE!”

Your first look at the most unforgettable stories of 2025 begins here! Check out Kael Ngu’s cover and stay tuned for more news about TIMESLIDE #1 in the months ahead! For more information, visit Marvel.com.

Marvel Comics press release

Timeslide #1 caps off the year for Marvel fans, landing on the racks on December 25th. And being that that’s Christmas Day, you can probably expect to be able to grab a copy some time that week.