Mutant X

In the late 1990s, Marvel spun off a bold alternate-reality saga with Mutant X, a 32-issue series that reimagined the X-Men mythos through a dark, fractured lens. Driven primarily by writers Howard Mackie and Glenn Herdling, with distinctive art from Chris Giarrusso, Cary Nord, and Tom Lyle, the story follows Havok (Alex Summers) as he is thrust into a reality where his closest allies—including Storm, Iceman, and a vampiric Bloodstorm—have been twisted by tragedy and betrayal. This series matters for its ambitious, long-form exploration of a "what if" scenario that reshapes familiar mutants into something hauntingly unfamiliar, offering a complete, self-contained epic that stands apart from the main Marvel Universe.