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Overview

Part 1 (of 6)! They're back and they're bimonthly! The chart topping super team of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday return for another full year of Astonshing X-Men! If you thought last year's run was full of shocks and surprises, hold onto your eyeballs, cause you haven't seen nothing yet!

In the present day, Emma Frost is forced to confront the deal she made so long ago with Cassandra Nova, even as she was sending the Mega-Sentinels to destroy Genosha. In exchange for saving her, by bestowing the secondary mutation of Emma’s diamond form, Cassandra would gain Emma as a plant within Xavier’s group, even though Emma would not remember it until Cassandra allowed it. Now that that time has come, Emma stands with Cassandra, Sebastian Shaw, Ellie Phimister and the one who has brought them all together, the cloaked Perfection, who informs Emma that her game will be first. Elsewhere in the Institute, Logan trains the remaining students in combat himself, since the Danger Room is no longer a high-tech training facility. Meanwhile, Beast and Cyclops each try to lose themselves in their work, shunning the company of others. Miles away, SHIELD Director Hill meets has Special Agent Brand of SWORD meet her at the SHIELD helicarrier, though the meeting is useless. Brand refuses to submit to an administrative lease and storms off the carrier, rocketing to SWORD’s orbital space station, the Peak, where she is informed that they have news. Back at the Institute, Kitty is still unsure of her relationship with Piotr, after a romantic dream of the two of them, which leads into a horrific nightmare of her father, she is even more confused. However, after building up enough courage, Kitty finds herself visiting Piotr in his room and rambling about their relationship, until he defines it once and for all with a passionate kiss. Having witnessed this via her telepathy, Emma intends a little seduction of her own and tries to prompt Scott to their bed. Engrossed in paperwork, he rebukes her, so she uses her powers to wear his “favorite outfit,” the exact form of his former wife in her green Phoenix costume.

Astonishing X-Men (2004)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

Astonishing X-Men Volume 3

This would be the third series that runs by this name, but the first ongoing series. Astonishing X-Men is a volume that was started in 2004 by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday as part of the X-Men: Reload event. It was meant to become the prime X-Men series, and was so for some time. It featured the return of fan-favorite X-Man Collossus, the introduction of S.W.O.R.D. and Breakworld among others. The series lasted for 68 issues and was the only series that did not receive the Marvel Now logo, even though it was published during that time. It was recently cancelled and then replaced by Amazing X-Men Vol.2 as part of Marvel Now.

Collected EditionsAstonishing X-Men: Gifted (#1-6)X-Men: The Adamantium Collection (#1-6)Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous (#7-12)Astonishing X-Men: Torn (#13-18)Astonishing X-Men: Unstoppable (#19-24)Astonishing X-Men Omnibus (#1-24)Astonishing X-Men by Whedon and Cassady Ultimate Collection (#1-24 & Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1)Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box (#25-30 & Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1-2)Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic (#31-35)Astonishing X-Men: Monstrous (#36-37, #39, #41)Astonishing X-Men: Children of the Brood (#38, #40, #42-43)Astonishing X-Men: Exalted (#44-47)Astonishing X-Men: Northstar (#48-51)Astonishing X-Men: Weaponized (#52-56 & Astonishing X-Men Annual #1)X-Men: X-Termination (X-Treme X-Men #12-13, Age of Apocalypse #13-14, X-Termination #1-2 and Astonishing X-Men #60-61)Astonishing X-Men: Unmasked (#57-59 & #62-68)Motion Comics

Marvel Knights has released motion comics based on this series, being released through video services; iTunes, Playstation Store, Hulu, and Netflix, and released on DVD/Blu-ray through Shout! Factory. The series collects the entire run by Whedon, and Cassaday, adapting issues 1-24.

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