is a crossover storyline running through the issues of (Vol. 2) and with cover dates of May through July 2009 as well as a one-shot titled published by Marvel Comics. Writer Craig Kyle describes it as being the follow up to 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". Marvel announced that the issues in the storyline is being collected into a hardcover volume, "Messiah War", to be published in September, 2009, thus: ; ; ; and . My compilation is based on this collection, with Cable #11-12 consisting of the story arc "Wasteland Blues", a subplot to the storyline. Even so, this compilation, and the storyline itself is by no means complete because will start a four-issue "Messiah War Aftermath" on July 22, 2009.