High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! X-Men: Die by the Sword is a five-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics in 2007. It was written by Chris Claremont, drawn by Juan Santacruz, and inked by Raul Fernandez. The story featured the teams New Excalibur and Exiles. It is notable that the storyline is published as its own mini-series, because historically a team-up of two teams is usually published as a crossover in the comic book series of the teams.