X (Dark Horse Comics)

X
Cover of X #1 Art by Rick Leonardi and James Palmiotti
Publication information
First appearance	Dark Horse Comics #8 (Mar. 1993)
Created by	Joe Phillips Wade Von Grawbadger
In-story information
Notable aliases	John Doe, John Smith, The X-Killer, Lord Alamout
Abilities	Expert swordsman and marksman Skilled hand-to-hand combatant Regenerative healing factor

X is a comic book character who starred in his own self-titled series published by Dark Horse Comics for their Comics Greatest World imprint. He is a dark anti-hero vigilante with little true feeling and a strong tendency to kill.

After the character debuted in Dark Horse Comics #8, his own self-titled series began with a cover date of February, 1994, ending with issue #25 in April 1996.

Dark Horse re-launched the title with issue #0 in April 2013, and a new creative team of Duane Swierczynski and Eric Nguyen.

Series Creative Staff Information

Below is a list of those who worked on the book. When repeated, only last names are used.

2013 Re-launch

X, whose law is that one mark means a warning, the second one death, takes on a collection of business, law, mob, assassins and politics. This includes characters such as Mayor Teal and Police Commissioner Anderson as well as the Llwellyn brothers, their hired assassin named Gamble, Mob boss Carmine Tango and highly connected army officials.

While it is debatable if X ever truly aligns with anyone else, he does team up with or use another person in order to benefit from them. Essentially, X either kills you or he does not, mostly disregarding any prior use.

These people may be antagonistic or beneficial (sometimes both) to X. Because of this and other characteristics, they do not qualify as a villain or ally: