A new school year at Xavier's Institute For Higher Learning has opened to new students and old. The Professor is away dealing with business. Jean, aka The Phoenix, is dead and Scott, the head of the school has taken up with fellow teacher Emma Frost the former enemy of the X-Men who can read minds and has the ability to turn her body into solid nearly indestructible diamonds. The other teachers are Beast, Kitty Pryde, and Wolverine. Kitty makes it clear that she doesn't trust Emma and that she will be keeping an eye on her. When Wolverine shows up he and Scott get into it in front of the students which is a great start to the school year.
Meanwhile, a Dr. Kavita Rao announces that she has found a cure for the mutant gene. She prances out a small child she has cured on national TV. The students at the school are in an uproar with some thinking that they want the cure, others thinking that they don't need it, and the rest not knowing what to think. Around the world, people are starting to line up at centers to receive the cure. Hank, the Beast, breaks into her lab to get a copy, but she catches him and freely gives him a sample knowing that if the X-Men back the science it will go better for her.
Hank himself is considering taking the cure if it works since he is becoming more beast than human, which leads to a fight with Wolverine in front of the children. But there's more here than meets the eye. There's a mysterious alien named Ord from Breakworld who draws the X-Men out to fight by taking hostages at a party then fleeing into the night. What does he have to do with this? And what secret is Nick Fury keeping from them this time? You're not sure if you can trust Emma, but at times you do feel sorry for her because the ghost of Jean is everywhere. Joss Whedon lives up to his reputation and Cassady is an incredible artist, as is Martin a beautiful colorist. There are lots of surprises in store for this first book in the series that leave you wanting more.
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