№ 120
New X-Men
January 2002 36 pages
2.25 USD; 3.50 CAD
Synopsis
The X-Men mount a desperate final assault to reclaim Professor Xavier's body from Cassandra Nova before she destroys everything he built
In Reading Orders
2000s X-Men
The Man from Room X / Imperial (2001-2002)
Cassandra Nova hijacks Xavier's body. The school goes public. Morrison establishes mutant culture as a real thing — fashion, music, drugs, politics. The X-Men stop being a superhero team and start being a species
Grant Morrison's New X-Men
Imperial (2001-2002)
The scope expands. Cassandra Nova hijacks Xavier's body and travels to the Shi'ar Empire to destroy everything he built. Meanwhile, the X-Men deal with a world that now knows Xavier is a mutant. Jean's Phoenix powers resurface. Xorn, the mutant with a star for a brain, is introduced in a standalone issue (#127) that ranks among the best single X-Men issues ever written
UPC: 07148601772101