#20
Variant Edition - Cover B
February 2007 · 2.99 USD; 3.75 CAD · 40 pages
On sale 2007-02-14
Rated Rated T+
UPC 75960605543202021
Synopsis
Some S.W.O.R.D. personnel are sent towards the planet in a fast armored decoy ship as the main ship breaks apart. As it draws fire, Agent Brand, the X-Men and Hisako escape in two smaller pods. The pod carrying Colossus, Shadowcat, Wolverine and Hisako breaks up on entry and they are separated. Hisako starts to freak out a little bit and Wolverine tells her to take off the suit or act like an X-Man because he's putting her on the team. She chooses Armor as her code name. Colossus and Shadowcat fight their way out of their landing site, but word of their presence reaches Powerlord Kruun, who has captured Ord and many of the soldiers. Sydren, Lockheed and other soldiers are still free. Colossus is disturbed by the prophecy that he will commit genocide. While Kitty reassures him that there is no one set future, Cyclops, Emma, Beast and Agent Brand find a large stone mosaic of Colossus crushing the Breakworld and its sun in the tomb where all of the teams were to meet.
Notes
Issues 19-24 in this series each have a standard Direct Edition (Cover A) and a Variant Edition (Cover B) that were distributed to retailers in a 50/50 split ratio. Both copies of each issue share the same barcode number. All "Cover B" copies have "Variant Edition" printed on the cover and the cover depicts a single X-Men character. The entire cover (sans the UPC box) is colored using only two (2) solid colors and black.
The extra 4 pages come from the Dark Tower preview indexed below.
Reprinted in
- Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1
- Astonishing X-Men #32
- Astonishing X-Men #2
- Astonishing X-Men #4
- Astonishing X-Men #4
- Astonishing X-Men #2
- X-Men - La Collection Mutante #46
Credits
- Script
- Joss Whedon, Peter David
- Pencils
- John Cassaday, Jae Lee
- Inks
- John Cassaday
- Colours
- Laura Martin, Richard Isanove
- Letters
- Chris Eliopoulos
- Editing
- John Barber
- Editor
- Axel Alonso
- Assistant editor
- Sean Ryan
- Associate editor
- Nick Lowe, Andy Schmidt
- Creative director, executive director
- Stephen King
- Plotting, consultation
- Robin Furth
- Senior
- Ralph Macchio
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