№ 489

The Uncanny X-Men

October 2007 44 pages 2.99 USD; 3.75 CAD

Synopsis

Masque disfigures a subway car full of humans and posts a warning video online. The X-Men arrive after Sentinel Squad O*N*E soldiers are brutally murdered and find Skids, an undercover SHIELD agent.

Credits

Writer

Ed Brubaker , Mike Carey

Penciller

Salvador Larroca , Billy Tan , Marc Silvestri , Mike Perkins

Inker

Salvador Larroca , Danny Miki , Marc Silvestri , Andrew Hennessy

Colorist

Jason Keith , Stjepan Šejić , Raúl Treviño

Letterer

Virtual Calligraphy , Joe Caramagna

Characters

Collected In

X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Omnibus Companion Omnibus

Collects X-Men: Year of the Mutants Collector's Preview #1 and material from 18 other series. Every AoA companion - X-Man full run, Chronicles, all supplemental material.

Uncanny X-Men: The Extremists Trade Paperback

Collects The Uncanny X-Men #487-491. Ed Brubaker early Uncanny run with the Morlocks and Masque.

X-Men: Endangered Species Trade Paperback

Collects X-Men: Endangered Species One-Shot #1, X-Men #200-204, X-Factor #21-24, New X-Men #40-42, The Uncanny X-Men #488-491. Post-Decimation, Beast desperately searches for a way to reverse mutantkinds extinction-level losses.

In Reading Orders

2000s X-Men

Brubaker's Uncanny: The Extremists / The Rise of Apocalypse (2007)

Brubaker's earthbound arcs. The Morlocks return, Skrull infiltration is hinted at. Perfectly competent, rarely memorable. The real reason to read these is the slow build toward Messiah Complex

UPC: 75960602461248911