Happy New Year Beast fans! And yes, the future does look bright for Hank! I'm going to re-post the pictures heralding the return of the proper Beast:


Teaser for X-Force #48:



Cover for X-Force #49:



Alt-cover for X-Force #50:



Hank's long nightmare will eventually be over! The end is in sight, but it's going to take a few months to resolve. So what's the story? All we know for sure is that X-Force brings back an old version of Hank to fight the bad one currently running amuck. Yes, there will be two versions of Hank running around. It's the situation with X23 and Talon all over again. I don't know if they'll explain it.

I'm still of the opinion that Hank lost his soul just before or just as Krakoa started, creating the bad Hank and now X-Force is just finding his soul(thus, the REAL Hank) and stuffing it back into a spare clone body the bad one had made.