
The first issue of Marvel's latest X-book hit comic shops yesterday. Sentinels is an ongoing series from the creative team of writer Alex Paknadel and artist Justin Mason that follows a team of soldiers tasked with taking on some of the world's most dangerous mutants in order to prevent a predicted future apocalypse.
These new Sentinels are a squad of nanotech-enhanced soldiers working for Lawrence Trask – the mutant son of the infamous Bolivar Trask. Lawrence is a powerful mutant who has foreseen a catastrophe brought on by evil mutants, but while these Sentinels are fighting for mutants, rather than against them, their origins are decidedly murky...