Sabretooth: The Adversary
Victor LaValle · Leonard Kirk · Rain Beredo
Story era 12 · King in Black and the Krakoan Age
LaValle uses the Pit and its prisoners to examine Krakoa’s laws and excluded voices, then follows the ensemble into a horror-and-escape sequel.
Book 1 of 2 in Sabretooth by LaValle — The Adversary and the Exiles · 0 of 2 owned · 304 pages in all
Setup & reading order
- After House of X / Powers of X and Creed’s sentence
Read Sabretooth #1–5, then Sabretooth & the Exiles #1–5 as a direct sequence before the 2023 Hellfire Gala.
Optional context & path
Path: Sabretooth by LaValle. Related projects that read well in this order; the order is a suggestion, not a requirement.
Useful background and earlier stops: House of X/Powers of X · The Krakoan era — political spine and finale.
Only required setup and earlier volumes in the same project affect the queue. Everything here is optional.
About these books · 4 sources
Publisher and reference pages describe the editions. Reviews and reader discussions offer different views of the stories.
The books
Sabretooth: The Adversary
Book 1 of 2 · King in Black and the Krakoan Age
Creed’s imprisonment beneath Krakoa exposes the cruelty hidden under the mutant nation’s promise of paradise.
See reading checkpoints9781302931452Planned edition#1–5Edition sources
Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.
Duplication · Sabretooth: The Adversary
These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.
No shared contents are recorded with other books in the plan.
Things to know
- LaValle’s two miniseries form a connected prison and escape story. The final Creed hook continues in the separately authored Wolverine: Sabretooth War.
- The much larger Sabretooth War omnibus would append Wolverine #41–50. That is a different content choice, not an equivalent format upgrade.