In this X-Men's series, Scarlet Witch took away the powers of 99% of all mutants on earth. The Phoenix decided to get involved and possessed and corrupted Cyclops, the leader of the X-Men who then struck down Professor Xavier. It took all of the Avengers and the X-Men to bring him down. The Phoenix Force was dispersed across earth creating new mutants. Cyclops, with Emma Frost and Magneto, have joined forces to start recruiting mutants for the new Charles Xavier School for Mutants. At the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Kitty Pryde, Beast, Iceman, and Storm are concerned about this as no one has ever trusted Magneto and now they aren't sure about Scott after what happened to the Professor. They would, of course, rather have these mutants under their roof learning.
It goes without saying that in this world the law and others like them want to lock up mutants. Beast, however, has another plan to try to change things. He finds a way to go back in time to when he and Scott were just starting out as X-Men in order to bring back the past Scott to see his future self in order to prevent him from becoming that. Like a Christmas Carol in a weird, yet cool way. Only it all goes awry when all of the X-Men insists on coming too. Back then Jean didn't have her telepathic abilities yet and more importantly, she's still alive. Neither side knows what to make of the other when they arrive back in the present. Jean's psychic powers become suddenly activated and she has to figure out how to use them herself on the fly.
Kitty Pryde helps Jean begin to learn how to use her powers and boy does she. Some would say she might be abusing her powers. Kitty also gets the old X-Men and begins to train them in combat. Warren Worthington III meets up with Angel, his adult counterpart and goes on a mission with him which leaves him shell-shocked.
Meanwhile, Scott has left the mansion with Wolverine in pursuit. He comes across Mystique who tells him half-truths and sows dissent into his head in order to try to keep the X-Men busy battling themselves so she, Sabertooth, and Lady Mastermind can do what they need to do in peace. When Scott gets back to the mansion he feels as though he is not the leader of the team, just like Mystique predicted.
This stunning book ends on a real cliffhanger that will have you asking "who?" Bendis really comes through with the writing as always and Marquez's art is incredible especially with the hallucination sequences. Garcia does an amazing job with the color bringing in dark reds for the X-Men and Mystique fight scenes but keeping it light and airy for the scenes with Angel. I really loved this comic even better than the previous one and with that ending, I can't wait to read the next one.
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