Astonishing X-Men
Cyclops exposes the Hellfire Club members as mental projections while S.W.O.R.D. teleports the X-Men, Ord, and Danger onto their ship to confront the Breakworld threat.
Collects Astonishing X-Men Saga #1, Astonishing X-Men #13-24, Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1. Joss Whedon complete Astonishing X-Men — Gifted through Giant-Size finale.
Collects Astonishing X-Men #13-18. Whedon/Cassaday's Torn -- Emma's loyalties questioned as the Hellfire Club strikes.
Collects Astonishing X-Men #13-24, Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1. Whedon/Cassaday's Torn and Unstoppable -- Breakworld saga and Kitty's sacrifice.
Collects Astonishing X-Men #1-24, Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1. Joss Whedon and John Cassadays complete Astonishing run -- the Cure, Danger, and Breakworld sagas.
Collects Astonishing X-Men #13-26 and Giant-Size #1. Whedon and Cassaday's complete second half — Unstoppable and the Breakworld saga's epic finale.
Cassandra Nova, embedded in Emma's psyche since Morrison's run, manipulates the team from within. Each X-Man is psychically broken. Wolverine thinks he is a Victorian gentleman. Cyclops is rendered powerless. The Hellfire Club reforms. Whedon's character work is at its sharpest
Emma Frost's loyalty is tested when Cassandra Nova, lurking in Emma's psyche since Morrison's run, manipulates the team from within. Each X-Man is psychically broken: Wolverine believes he's a frightened child, Cyclops loses his powers, Kitty phases through the floor into the Earth. The Hellfire Club reforms. Emma appears to betray everything — but nothing in this arc is what it seems