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Uncanny X-Men

January 2012 44 pages 3.99 USD
Synopsis

Cyclops assembles the Extinction Team—the heaviest hitters in mutantkind deployed as a visible nuclear deterrent. Mister Sinister emerges from hiding with a scheme that will test whether raw power is enough to protect the species

Credits
Penciller
Frank Cho
Inker
Frank Cho
Colorist
Jason Keith
Characters
Boom-Boom Colossus Cyclops Cypher Danger Dazzler Domino Emma Frost Hope Summers Jubilee Magik Magma Magneto Mirage Mister Sinister Namor Pixie Prodigy Psylocke Stepford Cuckoos Storm Sunspot Surge Warlock Warpath X-Man
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Gillen's Uncanny X-Men: The Extinction Team (2012)

Gillen relaunches Uncanny with Cyclops's Extinction Team — the heaviest hitters in mutantkind, deployed as a visible deterrent. Magneto, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus (as Juggernaut), Magik, Danger, and Hope. This is Cyclops at his most militaristic: the X-Men as a nuclear arsenal. Gillen writes it with the intelligence and moral ambiguity the concept demands. Perhaps the best Uncanny since Claremont left