The chart-topping super-team of Joss Whedon (TV's Buffy The Vampire
Slayer, Runaways) and John Cassaday (Planetary, Captain America) return
for more Astonishing X-Men! If you thought their past efforts were full
of shocks and surprises, hold onto your eyeballs because you haven't
seen anything yet! Things go from peculiar to just plain bizarre as Emma
Frost's erratic behavior sends the X-Men spinning in a nonstop downward
spiral. Will an unlikely union be the final straw? After secretly lying
in wait for months, the new Hellfire Club makes its move! Plus: The
X-Man destined to destroy the Breakworld stands revealed! Who is it, and
what will be their fate? And will the X-Men be able to protect Earth
from certain destruction at the hands of the Breakworld? When it's all
over, nothing will ever be the same! No, really, we mean it!