Astonishing X-Men
Emma Frost's loyalties are questioned as the cure storyline deepens and the team discovers the conspiracy behind its creation
Whedon puts the costumes back on and makes the X-Men superheroes again. A mutant cure is announced. Colossus returns from the dead. John Cassaday's art is the best the X-Men have ever looked. After Morrison's deconstruction, this is the perfect reconstruction
Whedon opens with a thesis statement: the X-Men need to be superheroes again. Cyclops and Emma Frost lead a new team — Wolverine, Beast, and a returning Kitty Pryde. When a geneticist announces a cure for mutation, the team is split. Then the real surprise: Colossus is alive, held captive in the basement of the Benetech corporation. His resurrection is one of the great emotional payoffs in X-Men history