Casey's Maximum Mutants
Uncanny X-Men 423

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Comic Description: Uncanny X-Men #423 Universal
Grade: 9.6
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0138203012
Owner: kc120us

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Winning Set: Casey's Maximum Mutants
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“Holy War - part1” The X-Men wake one morning to discover six crucified mutants on their front lawn, including Jubilee, Magma, Skin and Jesse Aaronson. Together with Nurse Annie they attempt to resurrect the dead mutants by using Archangel’s healing blood. Cyclops gets mad at Nightcrawler for not doing an adequate job as leader of the second X-Men squad, and belittles him in the conference room in front of almost every other X-Man. Cyclops learns from Nightcrawler and Havok that the Church of Humanity may have been responsible for the crucifixions, and gets mad at Kurt again for not telling him about the Church when they first ran into them a while ago. Meanwhile, Archangel’s healing blood proves to have a limit when Annie and Wolverine refuse to take any more from him, though luckily enough they managed to revive Jubilee and Magma. When Kurt tells the X-Men that he was fully ordained as a priest, there are a lot of suspect looks, and when he tells them that they were all at the ceremony, they get even more concerned for him. Husk learns of Jubilee’s resurrection and Skins death, before seven of the X-Men head for St. Michael’s church, where Kurt tells them the ceremony was held and where he has been serving as a priest for some time now. The X-Men find traces of no one, until Phoenix rips apart the church floor, discovering a underground laboratory of horror. <br /><br />Why Magma is wearing her old New Mutants uniform is unknown, as it would seem more appropriate that she be either in her Hellions costume, or in civilian clothes, though it is probably just so she is recognizable. <br /><br />Havok, Polaris and Nightcrawler were confronted by the Church of Humanity at the dig site they were visiting, "several weeks ago" in Uncanny X-Men #422. <br /><br />Jesse "Bedlam" Aaronson was presumed dead after the end of X-Force [X-Force #115], even more so when he was not amongst the other former members who confronted X-Statix, then calling themselves X-Force, though, now he is dead. <br /><br />Of the six core Generation X members (Jubilee, Monet, Husk, Chamber, Synch and Skin) only four remain alive, as in addition to Skin’s death, Synch was killed in Generation X #70, though Jubilee and Husk have since then both died and been resurrected (within the space of an issue) thanks to Archangel, and Monet was planned to die in Chuck Austen’s first arc on Uncanny X-Men, "Hope," but that part of the script was changed. <br /><br />Phoenix is able to tell that the blood on the church floor is mutant blood as opposed to human or other, the same way she could tell that the bullet Lilandra shot at Xavier in New X-Men #133 was alien not of Earth – by a manifestation of her power where she can see things at a sub-atomic level. <br /><br />This issue has a cover price of 25 cents as a special promotion by Marvel Comics.<br /><br />
  
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