Credits

• Pencils: Alex Ross
• Inks: Alex Ross
• Colors: Alex Ross

Characters

• Beast [Hank McCoy]
• Wolverine [Logan]
• Banshee [Sean Cassidy]
• Lucas Bishop
• Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]
• Angel [Warren Worthington, III]
• Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]
• Thunderbird [John Proudstar]
• Longshot
• Iceman [Bobby Drake]
• Cyclops [Scott Summers]
• Havok [Alex Summers]
• Cable [Nathan Summers]
• Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]
• Gambit [Remy LeBeau]

Credits

• Pencils: Michael Turner

Characters

• Psylocke [Betsy Braddock]
• Storm [Ororo Munroe]
• Shadowcat [Kitty Pryde]
• Phoenix [Jean Grey]
• Emma Frost [White Queen]
• Dazzler [Alison Blaire]
• Rogue

Credits

• Pencils: Terry Dodson
• Inks: Rachel Dodson

Storyline

Kingo Sunen, writer/director/producer/editor/actor of samurai movies, decides to cast ex-mutant Freddie Dukes in his first ever science fiction film, set in San Francisco against the backdrop of the Dreaming Celestial.

Characters

• Kingo Sunen
• Freddie Dukes [Blob]
• Dreaming Celestial

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Terry Dodson
• Inks: Rachel Dodson
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer

Storyline

Artist Guy DeMondue unloads a Sentinel at the docks in the dark of night with Simon Trask.

Characters

• Guy DeMondue
• Simon Trask
• Sentinel (Mark I)

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Terry Dodson
• Inks: Rachel Dodson
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer

Storyline

The X-Men give the Mayor a tour of their new headquarters and mutant embassy in the Marin Headlands. The Mayor warns them that Guy DeMondue is planning a "confrontational" art exhibit involving Sentinels.

Characters

• The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]
• Emma Frost [White Queen]
• Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]
• Beast [Hank McCoy]
• Angel [Warren Worthington, III]]
• The Mayor of San Francisco [Sadie]

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Greg Land
• Inks: 今敏
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer

Storyline

The X-Men attend the opening of Guy DeMondue's "Celebration of Mutant Kitsch" installation in Yerba Buena Gardens. Most of the crowd has dressed up like X-Men, or approximations thereof. There are also protesters due to the Sentinels being part of the installation. Suddenly Magneto, his powers apparently restored, attacks the X-Men, chucking Colossus through the big round window in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and somehow activating the two Sentinels.

Characters

• The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]
• Emma Frost [White Queen]
• Angel [Warren Worthington, III]
• Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]]
• Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr
• Magnus]
• Sentinels (Mark I)

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Greg Land
• Inks: 今敏
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer

Storyline

The X-Men fight the Sentinels, but Emma notices that the Sentinels strangely do not attack Magneto.

Characters

• The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]
• Emma Frost [White Queen]
• Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]
• Beast [Hank McCoy]
• Angel [Warren Worthington, III]
• Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]
• Wolverine [Logan]
• Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]]
• Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr
• Magnus]
• Sentinels (Mark I)

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Terry Dodson
• Pencils: Greg Land
• Inks: Rachel Dodson
• Inks: 今敏
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer

Storyline

The X-Men defeat the last Sentinel and subdue Magneto. They learn that his powers were generated by his extremely high-tech suit. Magneto berates them as unworthy to save the mutant race, and teleports out. Storm spots strange lights at the Dreaming Celestial and we see the High Evolutionary doing something with it, helped by a mesmerized Kingo Sunen. She arrives too late to do anything, but somewhere in space we see the Evolutionary, Magneto, and Fred Dukes discussing plans on the bridge of a starship.

Characters

• The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]
• Emma Frost [White Queen]
• Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]
• Beast [Hank McCoy]
• Angel [Warren Worthington, III]
• Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]
• Wolverine [Logan]
• Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner] Cannonball [Sam Guthrie]]
• Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr
• Magnus]
• Sentinels (Mark I)
• High Evolutionary
• Kingo Sunen
• Freddie Dukes [Blob]
• Dreaming Celestial

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Greg Land
• Pencils: Terry Dodson
• Inks: 今敏
• Inks: Rachel Dodson
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer

Storyline

With Emma broadcasting his thoughts to all known mutants, Scott announces that the X-Men are alive and that San Francisco is a mutant sanctuary.

Characters

• The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]
• Angel [Warren Worthington, III]
• Beast [Hank McCoy]
• Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]
• Emma Frost [White Queen]]

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Greg Land
• Inks: 今敏
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer

Storyline

Logan visits Guy DeMondue in his studio, only to find him dead.

Characters

• The X-Men [Wolverine [Logan]
• Cyclops [Scott Summers] (off-panel)]
• Guy DeMondue (dies)

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Terry Dodson
• Inks: Rachel Dodson
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer

Storyline

Simon Trask uses the fact that both he and a bouncer appear to be Prime Sentinels to talk his way into a club. Pixie and her date are leaving a Dazzler concert amazed that she's back and has put on a great show. A group of men in a van see her and put on masks similar to those worn by Hellfire Club guards. They get out of the van with baseball bats and other weapons and prepare to attack Pixie.

Characters

• Pixie [Megan Gwynn]
• Dazzler [Alison Blaire] (off-panel)
• Simon Trask
• Hellfire Cult

Credits

• Script: Ed Brubaker
• Script: Todd Sutherland
• Pencils: Greg Land
• Inks: 今敏
• Colors: Александър Въчков
• Letters: Piet Deunhouwer