№ 126
New X-Men
July 2002 52 pages
3.25 USD; 5.25 CAD
Synopsis
Cassandra Nova's defeat comes at a cost as Xavier, the X-Men, and Lilandra deal with the aftermath of her assault on mutant-human relations
Characters
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: 07447001772107