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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published September 2008
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.05 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Axel Alonso; Will Panzo (assistant)
Notes Wraparound cover.

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Simone Bianchi
Inks Simone Bianchi
Colors Simone Peruzzi
Letters typeset
Notes Wraparound cover.

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita, Jr.
Letters typeset
Notes Variant Edition U.S. street date July 23, 2008, three weeks after the first printing.

Cover Details

Characters The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]; X-23 [Laura Kinney]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Simone Bianchi
Inks Simone Bianchi
Colors Simone Peruzzi
Letters typeset
Notes 2nd Printing Variant. The picture makes X-23 look like part of the team, but there not yet been a clear indication of her post-"Divided We Stand" status.

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

Genre superhero
Pencils John Cassaday
Inks John Cassaday
Colors Laura Martin
Letters typeset
Notes The recap page continues in the same form from the Whedon/Cassaday run, with the background of Wolverine's claw from the cover of the first issue.

22 page X-Men story "Ghost Box"

Characters The X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Wolverine [Logan]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa] (rejoins the X-Men); Emma Frost [White Queen]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]]
Synopsis The X-Men are settling into their new as-yet-unnamed headquarters in San Francisco. Storm arrives, explaining that she convinced T'Challa to let her "scope out" the team's current methods as he is helping fund them through Mutantes Sans Frontieres because she was bored in Wakanda. She arrives in time to join the team, in new street clothes designed to help them avoid anti-superhero sentiment, as they answer a call from the San Francisco police to help with a mysterious burning body. The unusual genetic code of the corpse and the notebooks found with it that describe the next destination of its killer send the team, now switched to more traditional superhero gear, to Chaparanga Beach, the graveyard of starships.
Genre superhero
Script Warren Ellis
Pencils Simone Bianchi
Inks Simone Bianchi
Colors Simone Peruzzi
Letters Joe Caramagna