Rogue: Shadows of the Past

Rogue (2026) #1-5

by Erica Schultz, Luigi Zagaria (Illustrator)

Rogue learns you can’t outrun your past!

Rogue has a great life now with her husband, Gambit, and the Uncanny X-Men — but there are still skeletons in her closet...that come out when she least expects it. She has worked so hard to leave her villainous past behind. Unfortunately, it won’t stay buried. But what past sin would make Rogue leave Haven House? Do Mystique and Destiny hold the answer? Rogue and Mystique have always had a complicated relationship, and it’s not getting any easier. And the X-Man thought her Brotherhood of Evil Mutants days were long behind her, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. What exactly happened at Project PEGASUS? And what does it have to do with Sabretooth and Constrictor?

COLLECTING: Rogue (2026) #1-5

Genres: Comics, X Men, Marvel

120 pages, Paperback

Published October 27, 2026

About the author

Erica Schultz is an American comic book writer, letterer, and editor. She is the first woman to write a Spawn comic, and is best known for her writing work at Marvel on titles like Daredevil, X-23, and Hallows' Eve.

Reviews

[Grace’s Literary Land · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay I love rogue and gambit and all, but the story was…really something. Instead of developing the feelings Rogue gets when she discovers the thing we discover in the first part she literally spends two seconds going “oh maybe I was trying to make myself feel better” and then NEVER REFLECTS AGAIN. Honestly, the story didn’t feel great and if it was another character besides Rogue whom I love, I might’ve dropped it halfway.

[Matt Sautman · Rating 2.75 out of 5]

On one hand, I love how this expands on both Mystique’s recent solo series and the ongoing Uncanny X-Men Gail Simone has been writing. The ending, however, undermined much of what I did enjoy about this more personal quest to make sense of a trauma that was echoing back into Rogue’s life. The timeframe also felt slightly off with at least one character’s appearance across issues. So many fun and deeply personal elements creep in at a slow down pace, but the pace fails to work with an ending as rushed and anticlimactic as this one. I am hopeful maybe the story thread left here will be picked up again by either Simone in the main series or another writer. I would not recommend reading this without background on Simone’s current run and the Mystique short series since both of those provide foundational context for some aspects that otherwise may make less sense. Even then, this book may be better for hardcore fans with that background knowledge. I would not label this a good gateway book for new comics readers who only know Rogue from adaptations.

[morgan ☽ · Rating 3 out of 5]

love seeing rogue and gambit, but this was kind of lackluster and just sort of fizzled out at the end

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.6 stars