Gambit Gone #2 Gives Age of Apocalypse’s Cameron Hodge a Brand-New Look

Light spoilers for Gambit Gone #2 below.

Cameron Hodge has a new look, with a caveat. Marvel’s Gambit Gone #2, published Oct. 28, introduces the Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295) version of the X-Men villain with a redesigned body. The main-universe (616) Hodge is unchanged.

Per Marvel’s listing, the $4.99 issue is written by Steve Orlando, with pencils and inks by Edoardo Audino and Gerardo Sandoval, colors by Federico Blee and a cover by Simone Di Meo. Marvel bills the series as a follow-up to X-Men of Apocalypse.

What Hodge is doing

According to Screen Rant’s read of the issue, Hodge rallies the remaining anti-mutant human forces on the Age of Apocalypse’s Earth-295 for a final purge of mutantkind. He leads an anti-mutant faction called the Brother Magistrates and uses the remnants of the Morlocks as bait.

The new design

Screen Rant describes a musclebound body covered with spine-like biological protrusions along his back and the top of his head. His signature round glasses are now built-in lenses, and his face is more skeletal, with huge sharp teeth in a permanent grin.

The bigger change is the build. The 616 Hodge has a towering, scorpion-like robotic body with only his human face. This version walks on two legs and fights hand-to-hand.

Forty years of Hodge

For context, Hodge first appeared in X-Factor #1 (February 1986), created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice, so 2026 is his 40th anniversary.

He began as Warren Worthington III’s college roommate and X-Factor’s PR man, and was later revealed as the leader of the anti-mutant group the Right. He returned in a giant robotic body in 1990’s X-Tinction Agenda, the look the new Age of Apocalypse design departs from.

What’s next

Marvel’s solicitation for Gambit Gone #3, on sale Nov. 25 at $4.99, is headlined “Two worlds. Two Gambits. Two quests.” On the Age of Apocalypse world, one Gambit risks everything, even his own life, to defend the Morlocks from a force intent on making every mutant pay for Apocalypse’s crimes. On the other side, another Gambit leads Rogue into the heist of a lifetime.

It’s a smart swerve: four decades of Hodge stories have leaned on the cyborg horror, and this version trades it for something that can actually throw a punch.