№ 124

New X-Men

May 2002 36 pages 2.25 USD; 3.75 CAD

Synopsis

Professor Xavier and the X-Men confront Cassandra Nova in Shi'ar space as her plan to weaponize an empire against mutantkind reaches its climax

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In Reading Orders

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: 07148601772105