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Issue Details

Issue #26
Published October 2008
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.05 CAD
Pages 36

Cover Details

Characters Beast [Hank McCoy]
Genre superhero
Pencils Simone Bianchi
Inks Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colors Simone Peruzzi
Letters typeset

1 page X-Men recap "Previously in Astonishing X-Men"

Genre superhero
Pencils John Cassaday
Inks John Cassaday
Colors Laura Martin
Letters typeset
Editing Axel Alonso; Will Panzo (assistant)

22 page X-Men story "Ghost Box Part Two"

Characters The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Synopsis The X-Men track the killer to a semi-functional spaceship at Chapanga Beach. They find the man working on something he calls a Ghost Box. After a difficult fight Cyclops orders the team out of the ship and has Storm shoot it down with lightning. Storm is distressed that Cyclops's orders might have resulted in her killing the man, but Cyclops is unapologetic. The man is still alive, but chooses death rather than revealing more about his purposes beyond referring to "the Annex".
Genre superhero
Script Warren Ellis
Pencils Simone Bianchi
Inks Simone Bianchi (ink washes); Andrea Silvestri (ink washes)
Colors Simone Peruzzi
Letters Joe Caramagna

1 page character profile "Michael Turner, 1971-2008"

Characters Michael Turner (in photo)
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes A one page tribute to the late Michael Turner, placed just before the last three story pages.