Sins of Sinister
2023Mr. Sinister hijacks the Quiet Council and corrupts Krakoa's resurrection protocols, inserting his DNA into every mutant brought back to life. Three interlocking timelines — set 10, 100, and 1,000 years in the future — reveal a nightmarish world where Sinister's influence has consumed mutantkind and threatens to birth a new Dominion. A brilliantly structured alternate-timeline event that doubles as a character study of Sinister's bottomless ambition.
11 core issues, 0 optional tie-ins/crossovers
Sinister seizes control of the Quiet Council and corrupts the resurrection protocols; the timeline fractures
Year Ten — Sinister-corrupted Quiet Council rules Krakoa; Essex's influence spreads
Year Ten — Storm leads a resistance against Sinister's corrupted Krakoa
Year Ten — Nightcrawler's Spark-powered acolytes fight Sinister's spread through the Waiting Room
Year One Hundred — Sinister clones have conquered Earth; the solar system falls
Year One Hundred — Storm's resistance is all but crushed; Sinister spreads to the stars
Year One Hundred — the Nightcrawlers make a desperate stand across the cosmos
Year One Thousand — Sinister approaches Dominion status; the universe is consumed
Year One Thousand — Storm's final gambit against a Sinister-Dominion
Year One Thousand — the Nightcrawlers' faith is tested against cosmic-scale evil
The timeline is reset — but the damage to Sinister's psyche and the seeds of his Dominion plan remain