Astonishing X-Men
The X-Men investigate the source of the mutant cure while internal tensions surface over whether some mutants might actually want to be human
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