Written by CRAIG KYLE & CHRISTOPHER YOST
Pencils by ALINA URUSOV & CLAYTON CRAIN
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN

'WHO THE HELL IS ELI BARD?'
After Warpath's shocking discovery last issue, now it can be told... the origin and history of the mysterious man who betrayed the Purifiers, killed a Technarch, and plans a dark future for X-Force and all of mutantkind. Welcome to first century ROME, and meet the man named Eliphas and his Black Queen...the woman the X-Men know as SELENE.