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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #21
Plotted by BANEOFKINGS
Written by JUSTIN JORDAN
Art by CHRIS SAMNEE
“REIGNING PAIN IN NEW ORLEANS” Part Three of Four “THE 456”
Theme Song: Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Captain Jack Harkness arrives in New Orleans just in time for the arrival of the 456. Only humanity has no idea what the mysterious aliens are – where they came from or what their long game is. They only want one thing. Our children. And Xavier, who has just saved Danielle O’Connell from the wrath of Mike Milligan and the Kansas City mob whilst keeping his cover as a Vampire intact, has decided to join up with the FBI after fooling Klaus that he’ll be out of town in order to work with Harkness for a few days. But when Rebekah spots him with the FBI’s Chief Director – she knows he’s a spy – and informs Klaus immediately. Now, Jack and Xavier are running against the odds as their New Orleans base comes under attack by Vampires. Can they work out a way to stop both the 456 and the Originals? Luckily for them Mike Milligan has arrived and believes Klaus to be responsible for taking his bounty away from him, but first… he’s going to have to go to war on the Witches in the French Quarter if he wants the only thing that can kill an Original – a White Oak Stake! Meanwhile back at Xavier’s Erik learns of his friend’s trouble and decides to assemble the X-Men to help him – forcing the undercover Marcel to make an impossible choice. Does he let Klaus know about the impending reinforcements and honour family or does he side with his new friends and a new love interest in the form of Raven?
32pgs/Rated T…/$2.99

BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS #21
Plotted by BANEOFKINGS
Written by MATT KINDT
Art by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
“THE CITY RUNS RED” Act III Part One of Two “THE RETURN”
Theme Song: Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light
A SHIELD Helicarrier becomes the brutal battleground between a three way war between mutants, vampires and SHIELD Agents as Klaus Mikealson plunges everything into chaos when he recognises an old enemy – Nick Fury Jr. However as the events of Zero Day are about to be made public by Maria Hill, all of SHIELD’s computers are hacked into with terrifyingly accurate force, broadcasting only one message to the world through both the computers, and most worryingly of all, The Children. And not just the children from New Orleans – but everywhere throughout the world. All have stopped to speak in the same language at the same time. “We Are Coming. We Are Coming. We Are Coming… Back.”
32pgs/Rated T…/$2.99

X-FACTOR #19
Plotted by BANEOFKINGS
Written by PETER DAVID
Art by MITCH GERADS
“THE CITY RUNS RED” Act III Part Two of Two "RETURN"
Theme Song: Roy Orbinson - There Won't Be Many Coming Home
The X-Factor are on high alert when the people attacking their cabin in the woods stop to return home out of the blue, when the real fight is taking place in the skies on board the Helicarrier that has arrived to back them up. They soon are brought up to speed by Elijah Mikealson and learn of the current situation – the 456 are back. But what could have happened in the past that was so vital to have kept secret and why does nobody, not even the head of SHIELD, remember? The only place the files on the document can be found are at Xavier’s Institute, meaning that the X-Factor will have to infiltrate the building where most of them grew up under the gaze of several telepaths. Luckily they have allies that are willing to help them unlock the greatest secret that the X-Men have ever kept – Vampire Hunter Seth Gecko and perhaps a more unlikely ally within – Negasonic Teenage Warhead, who for some reason, the 456 don’t want. But the 456 are smart and learn quickly, and soon have a weapon in the form of the Institute's Kids, which are about to turn against the older X-Men in order to try and stop them from getting to the truth.
32pgs/Rated T…/$2.99


ASTONISHING X-MEN #21
'Intelligent Design' part 2/4 "And It's Time To Lend A Hand To Life"
Written by BRIAN AZZARELLO
Plot by NX01A
Art by JASON FABOK (Africa) & MIKEL JANIN (Utopia)
Theme Song: USA for Africa - We Are The World
•The Astonishing/Immortal X-Men crossover continues!
•Modern humans evolved in East Africa, and that's where humanity's next and possibly final evolution will begin!
•Fearing that his two kids are mutants like their aunt, Paul Bailey kidnaps them and takes them to be uplifted by the FUTURIST and ALPHA the ULTIMATE MUTANT's Protoculture into cosmically beautiful and powerful EXHUMANS! Their mother, SARA GREY, contacts her sister, JEAN, to help save the children with help from their ancestor, DORIAN GRAY (and the IMMORTAL X-MEN).
•From above, a beautiful organic ship shaped like a flower/squid hybrid slowly descends in the midst of the X-Men and the Exhumans. The uplifted and their makers seem nervous.
•'INTELLIGENT DESIGN' continues in this month's IMMORTAL X-MEN #12!
•Meanwhile, at the Savage Land Utopia... DEVIL DINOSAUR & MOONBOY watch a few dozen of their citizens and many Tian refugees use the cosmic portals to go become Exhumans! With more space, is it time to let the some of the remaining refugees fully integrate? Is it right to choose who to let in based on usefulness and telepathic truth scans?
•One S.H.I.E.L.D. agent didn't return home from Utopia. The PSI-COPS uncovered his assault on a young refugee girl, and LEGION made his fellow agents believe he was eaten by a dinosaur. His true fate lies deep within the bowels of Utopia as he comes face to talons with a very, very hungry SAURON. The telepathic fiction wasn't so far from the truth, after all.
32pgs/Rated T/...$2.99

IMMORTAL X-MEN #12
'Intelligent Design' part 3/4 'Like A Slow Voice On A Wave Of Phase'
Written by KIERON GILLEN
Plot by NX01A
Art by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
Kosh Variant Motion Cover by Amras Arfeiniel
Theme Song: David Bowie - Starman
•ELIXIR has been unintentionally restored to full mutant power by the Protoculture procedure! He now senses an unadvertised side effect in the cosmically uplifted hundreds: blind devotion to their creators! ARCHANGEL, CANDY 'SERAPH' SOUTHERN, DR. CECILIA REYES, THUNDERBIRD, WARPATH, and fan-favourite DORIAN GRAY must protect him so he can block the process from uplifting thousands more!
•From the stars, a VORLON! These enigmatic and invasive cosmic entities have sent a representative, KOSH NARANEK, to retrieve two Earth specimens that escaped their modification labs: the FUTURIST and ALPHA the ULTIMATE MUTANT! The duo aren't going back for more poking and prodding and adjusting without a fight, and they have hundreds of EXHUMANS willing to die for them! Was creating an army of cosmic beings to save them from the Vorlons their plan all along?
•SARA GREY's two children have been transformed into Exhumans! She should be furious and terrified but she has become the calm eye of a firestorm that survived the CANCERVERSE hidden deep within her sister, JEAN GREY!
•'Intelligent Design' concludes in next month's Astonishing X-Men #22!
32pgs/Rated T/$2.99

GENERATION X: EXECUTIONERS' SONGS #2 (of 3)
'And In Return You Gave Them Hell'
#mutantlivesmatter
Written by DAVID F. WALKER
Plot by NX01A
Art & Cover by JASON PEARSON
Theme Song: Tears For Fears - Shout
•Siris sensors, Plodex healing factors, Sidri cloaking, Uncreated armour, Chitauri plasma cannons, Z'noxx psi-claws... The mutant-hunting EXECUTIONERS use any and every bit of alien technology they can to kill mutants they deem too dangerous to live. After murdering mutant rights activist DENNIS HOGAN and injuring M and SKIN, they escape in a D'Bari transport with PENANCE clinging to its side.
•The one Executioner an enraged BANSHEE knocked out resists a weakened Monet's mental probes initially with his anti-telepathy ceramic mask and then by exploding. Fortunately, FBI Special Agent CHARLOTTE JONES warns them of the Executioners' tactics just in time for MONDO to bury their self-destructing prisoner deep underground.
•The Mass. Academy in nearby Snow Valley is a boarding school for the children of the rich and famous as well as secretly offering training for young mutants. One such student is Charlotte's son, TIMOTHY, whose mutant ability to visibly manifest the thoughts and memories of others just revealed their headmaster thinking about a massive cache of alien technology in the lowest sub-basement.
•Guess who the Executioners' next dangerous mutant target is?
32pgs/Rated T...$2.99