Messiah War

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"Messiah War"
Cover of X-Force/Cable:Messiah War TPB Dec, 2009 Featuring Cable, Deadpool & Domino, art by Ariel Olivetti
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Publication date	May – July 2009
Genre	Superhero Crossover
Title(s) Cable vol. 2, #13-15 X-Force vol. 3, #14–16 X-Force/Cable: Messiah War #1 X-Men: Future History - The Messiah War Sourcebook #1 X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #1-3
Main character(s)	X-Force Cable Hope Summers Stryfe Bishop Deadpool Apocalypse
Creative team
Writer(s)	Craig Kyle Christopher Yost Duane Swierczynski
Penciller(s)	Mike Choi Clayton Crain Ariel Olivetti
Colorist(s)	Sonia Oback
Hardcover	ISBN 0-7851-3157-4

"Messiah War" is a crossover storyline running through the issues of Cable and X-Force cover-dated May– July 2009 and a one-shot, X-Force/Cable: Messiah War, published by Marvel Comics.^[1] Writer Craig Kyle described it as the follow-up to Messiah Complex and "the middle chapter of what I think will be a major three-part saga, which will continue to define and redefine the X-Universe moving forward".^[2] The final chapter is X-Men: Second Coming.