Marvel has announced the conclusion to the X-Men’s ‘Messiah Trilogy’ at the Diamond Retailer Summit.

The X-Men: Second Coming crossover will conclude the trilogy that has focused on Hope, the first mutant born following the events of M Day in 2006, which saw all but 198 mutants transformed into normal humans.

The ‘Messiah Trilogy’ began in 2007’s Messiah CompleX with Hope’s birth, and continued this year with the X-Force-Cable crossover Messiah War.

“Like a lot of fans, I’ve been anxious to finish the journey and see what it all means,” X-Force writer Craig Kyle told Comic Book Resources. “This has been one of the longer sagas in X-Men history, and I think people are expecting a lot.

“They’ve invested a lot of time, money, and energy into these characters and this story. Like them, I’m expecting a big result at the end, and I think readers are going to get it.”

“We’ve known that we would end up here since the time we were finishing Messiah CompleX,” added X-Men: Legacy writer Mike Carey. “There’s a lot of things going on here.

“You could say, we’ve been building to this story ever since House of M, and you’ll see some resolution to these big plot threads.”

Second Coming will run across Uncanny X-Men, X-Men: Legacy, X-Force and New Mutants.

The crossover will begin in 2010 with the X-Men: Second Coming one-shot, written by Kyle and drawn by David Finch (Ultimatum).