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So What On Earth (Or X-Haven) Did Cyclops Do Anyway? (Uncanny X-Men #600 And Extraordinary X-Men #1 SPOILERS)

big-spoilerBear in mind that much of Uncanny X-Men #600 was written when Rick Remender was still going to take over the Xbooks with Extraordinary X-Men. Much changed in the interim.

But even so… damn. In Uncanny X-Men #600, along with the Trial of Hank McCoy (such that it is), and the self-outing of Iceman, we have a rather sudden fruition of what Cyclops plan was.


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A Million Mutant March. And that's how the comic concludes, Bendis run ending in a positive moment of togetherness and happiness. So what the hell happened in the Eight Months Later between Uncanny X-Men #600 and Extraordinary X-Men #1 to turn this…

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Into this…?

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Well the M-Pox is a thing, of course, the Terrigen Mists killing and sterilising mutants.

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But still what did Cyclops do, after that moment of perfect brotherhood of man and mutant?

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And where exactly is X-Haven?

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Why do you need special technology to contact it?

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Could it, as Bleeding Cool earlier suggested, be…

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Whatever it did, it gave the unchanging Colossus…

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…a few changes too.

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Maybe we can get Rogue in Deadpool #1 to comment…

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Nope, sorry. Guess we're going to just have to read it to find out.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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