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No similarity between any ofthe names, charactors, persons, and/or institution in this magazine with or dead person or insiitution is intended, and any such similarity which may exit is purely coincidental WWW.MARVEL.COMmT i £4. ROT | 5 mo a) 4] 9g Dy; z Ne ts IMEDUSAl SBUACKIBOLTS ISO} ALESNEWSINHUMANS) Fis ERY STAN ‘CON e & y ey Ui, alTeh a hdd aa SUT Pa |S Li ‘ALL RIGHT! LET'S GET TO WORK! (Mel ghey ‘YOU...6EEM 50 HAPPY, DR.TRUE. BUT I's ust Z JUST DONT ATLEAST THIS CHEMISTRY. IT'S. UNDERSTAND WHY YOURE Y/ TIME THE PROBLEM ISN'T |" SCIENCE. SMILING. MUTANTS ARE | geLATED 10 SOME SUPER. AND THROUGH ON THE verse OF] “Vii OR KILLER ROBOTS S SCIENCE, ALL EXTINCTION. ‘OR AN UNSTABLE ~ WITCH OR A TIME ANOMALY. Yes, QUITE ‘, TERRIGEN. A. MIRACULOUS. DON'T WANT TO CHEMICAL AGENT FoR INHUMAN. FoR’ CONTRADICT YOU, WHICH CATALYZES ‘MUTANTS, TERRIGEN sa ~~ Ss PRINCCO CERTAIN TELOMERES CONTACT CAN CAUSE “ NO, OU IN INHUMAN THE M-POX SONY must aivare ‘CONTRADICT ME. AS A. LARGE AMOUNT OF GASEOUS TERRIGEN 1S CURRENTLY PRESENT IN EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, "THIS IS RATHER TROUBLING. TERRIGEN ‘MUST AFFECT THE X-GENE, OTHERWISE ‘ORDINARY HUMANS WOULD BE GETTING, ‘SICK AS WELL. PERHAPS IF We EXCISE THE WHEN NEVER, EVER I ACTIVATED, X-GENE, THROUGH BE AFRAID TO <_ THOSE TELOMERES SOME SORT OF GENE DISAGREE WITH ME, EXPRESS NEW TRAITS-- THERAPY? IT MIGHT ‘AND T WILL DO JF YOU INSIST. ‘OUR APPEARANCE YOU THE SAME _/ALL RIGHT, BASE CHANGES; WE GAIN, ‘COURTESY. A PRINCIPLES. POWERS. ‘SAVE YOUR LIVES. ‘BUT EVEN IF WENAH, I DON'T THINK MUTANTS ARE DONE FOR JUST HOW CAN YOU BE 50... RELAXED ABOUT ‘ALL OF THis? IDEA WHAT WE'RE /G0ING 70 DO. HONESTLY, ‘SEEMS LIKE WE'RE IN ‘APRETTY BIG I ‘ALREADY TOLD. ‘YOU. NZ S fa “ THROUGH SCIENCE, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. THOUSAND YEARS AGO, OUR ONLY METHOD. FOR CREATING A RECORD OF ‘OURSELVES WAS TO PAINT “SOMETHING ON THE WALL, OF A CAVE. BUT NOW, WITH LITTLE MORE THAN A THOUGHT, I CAN CAPTURE THIS MOMENT. FOREVER. IN FACT, T CAN SEND IT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLDL To THE CAVEMAN, WHAT 1 JUST DID WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE. THE ACT Now, ITS THE ACT OF A. CHILD. THE ONLY ‘DIFFERENCE...THIRTY THOUSAND YEARS OF SCIENCE, DR. MCCOY! HOW. MUCHTIME DO YOU THINK WE HAVE? WELL, I DON'T KNOW, ISO. I DO KNOW THAT THIS CRISIS KILLED MY OLD FRIEND ‘JAMIE MADROX, AND IT DROVE CYCLOPS MAD. HE DIED TRYING TO SOLVE IT, AND He GOT POOR ALCHEMY KILLED "AS WELL. AFTER THOSE TERRIBLE EVENTS, INHUMANS AND MUTANTS HAVE AGREED TO A PERIOD OF DETENTE, IN HOPES THAT YOU AND T ‘CAN FIND AN ANSWER THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE ANY MORE DEATH. NOW, T KNOW THAT A TRUCE IS NOT. THE SAME THING AS PEACE. IT MEANS THERE'S A TICKING CLOCK IN THE BACKGROUND, "ALL THE TIME. BUT STILL. TAM, ‘SMILING. TAM HAPPY. TAM CONFIDENT. DO ‘YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE THis IS A PROBLEM WE CAN ATTACK WITH OUR ‘MINDS, AND My MIND IS EXCEPTIONAL. ‘ACCORDING To QUEEN MEDUS: ‘50 15 YOURS. I..THATS veRY Nice OF HER TO. SAY. TM STILL VERY NEW TO ALL OF THIS, AND T DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF AN EDUCATION BEFORE T OH, PLEASE. CAME TO NeW ATTILAN, ( T HATE MODESTY. ‘BUT--TM WORKING ‘ON CHANGING INTO My DIAMOND FORM MORE QUICKLY, LEAPING OFF A CLIFF PROVIDES QUITE, THE INCENTIVE. MUSING A TIMER, WAITING A BIT LONGER EACH TIME TO TRIGGER THE CHANGE. BUT. WHY, MS. FROST? THAT...THAT SEEMS DANGEROUS. BOLT DIDNT KILL C¥CLOPS. IT" WHAT ACTUALLY WAS ALL A TRICK. YOUR TRICK. ‘OF COURSE IT'S DANGEROUS. THAT'S THE POINT. I NEED THE PRESSURE. IT'S THE CLOSEST I CAN GET ‘TO WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE TO FACE BLACK BOLT AGAIN. BLACK BOLT? WHY DO YOU WANT ‘TO GET ANYWHERE NEAR HIM? ‘I SHOULD THING ‘THAT's OBVIOUS. HE KILLED SCOTT. DON'T BELIEVE ‘THE POPULAR NARRATIVE, GIRLS--REVENGE IS ACTUALLY, ‘QUITE SATISFYING AND WONDERFUL. BUT. Ms. FROST...HE DIDN'T KiLL Scott. IT WAS THE MISTS. ‘THE TERRIGEN. BLACK yOu. REMEMBER HAPPENED... DONT your ‘OF COURSE I BO. DON'T BE RIDICULOUS. ae Ceca DONT: WORRY ABOUT ME, LADIES.aie == She Rell, T DESIGNED THIS WITH THE IT'S BASED. HELP OF SOME OF Von OUR CEREBRO THE ENGINEERS ON TECHNOLOGY, BUT YOUR NEW ATTILAN, | PEOPLE ASSURE ME IT WILL CRYSTAL. INTEGRATE WITH YOUR SHIP'S SYSTEMS SEAMLESSLY. THANK YOU, ‘BEAST. WE PRIMARILY USE THER LV. TO TRACK KNOWING IN ADVANCE IF THERE ARE MUTANTS IN ITS PATH WILL HELP US GET THEM OUT OF Saas CM TUL 6o AHEAD AND GET ‘ HPINSTALLED THE CLOUD’ NOT 100 FAR FROM A POPULATED, : ‘ODDS ARE PRETTY LOW THERE ARE INHUMANS OR MUTANTS LIVING THERE, BUT BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. AGREE, Irs, ‘YEAH. WE GO. 50 NICE WELCOME TO. ALL OVER THE WORLD. ‘To SEE YOU, TAKE A TOUR WITH NOT EVERY COUNTRY’S ALL FLINT! YOU US ANY TIME YOU THAT HAPPY WHEN THE CLOUD TOO, GRID. WANT, ISO. ROLLS THROUGH--WE'VE HAD IT'S BEEN ‘SOME PRETTY CRAZY TIMES, way TOO ‘TRYING TO KEEP THE ‘SOMEDAY, MAYBE, BUT RIGHT NOW T HAVE TO STAY IN, NEW ATTILAN. 77M HELPING DR: McCOY RESEARCH THE TERRIGEN PROBLEM. MAYBE IT'S. ‘A PROBLEM FOR MUTANTS. T’M NOT ‘SURE IT'S THAT MUCH ‘OF A PROBLEM FOR US. ‘OF CouRSsE ITS. WE ALMOST WENT TO SERIOUS, STRAIGHT-UP WAR WITH THE MUTANTS A. FEW MONTHS AGO, AND IF THIS SITUATION DOESNT GET FIXED, FPILL HAPPEN AGAIN.16 a /_ NICEY-NICE RIGHT noWeut ewe bout na Cute ron THEA POX SSdur te mirare wae Tey 78 DESTROY He last \"FeaRiceN CaSUs ma a OS a T BELIEVE THAT. THEY DID IT ONCE, AND We LOST HALF THE TERRIGEN IN THE WORLD. THEY'LL DO IT AGAIN, AND THEY'LL KILL ANYONE WHO GETS IN THEIR WAY. DR. McCOY ISN'T LIKE THAT. VE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH HIM FOR MONTHS NOW. HE WANTS TO AVOID VIOLENCE AT ALL ‘costs, THis Is YOUR MOST UP-TO-DATE DATA ON THE ‘CLOUD? "YES. WE TOOK THOSE READINGS YESTERDAY. WHY? DO ‘MUTANT WE HAV; FROST'S STILL OUT THERE, FAR AS. WE KNOW. MAGNETO, IceBoy. t Hare Tar | 7 UNDERSTAND ) wis YOURE SAYING, BUT WE'RE DONG (7 | everYTHING WE CAN. HENRY McCOY 1S A GENIUS. POSSIBLY. THis Is JUST WHAT T SEE AFTER A QUICK PASS, ‘BUT FROM WHAT T CAN TELL... YOU SEE SOMETHING UNUSUAL?TM sory, FINISH OUR CONVERSATION G BEAST, WE'LL HAVE TO LATER. YOU CAN STAY, OR IF YOU HAVE TO GET BACK TO NEW ATTILAN... WARNING. 4-GENE CARRIER DETECTED IN PATH OF TERRIGEN CLOUD. TIME TO. CONTACT: FOU! MINUTES. ALL GET THE personneL, V suuTTLe READY SCRAMBLE FOR FOR LAUNCH--THIS EMERGENCY 4’ IS GOING TO BE TIGHT! CRYSTAL, ‘YOURE ABOUT TO ‘SAVE A MUTANT'S Lire-- <1 WOULDN'T MiSs THIS FOR THE WORLD.To BEFORE I LEAVE ae HERE, THROW SOMETHING. = AraM AT ME WITH YOUR POWERS. VERY BECAUSE I ASKED. ? HARD, VERY FAST, WITHOUT. DO IT OR DONT. | WARNING. E DONT CARE, 4 HONESTLY MORE ‘CURIOUS ABOUT THIS RIDICULOUS PLACE, THAT ‘SEEMS...UNWISE. ‘WHY WOULD I THIS PLATFORM WEIGHS A THOUSAND TONS, AND TM BALANCING IT ATOP A SPIRE ‘A METER WIDE.WHAT DID YOU WISH TO Discuss? (My POINT IS THAT IF WE ATTACK AGAIN, THEY WILL BE READY FOR US. THE REMAINING TERRIGEN CLOUD, 1S ALL THAT EXISTS IN THE 2 ‘AH. OF COURSE. EMMA, LISTEN TO ME. LWANT THE REST OF THE PLANET AS MUCH AS ANYONE J ALIVE, BUT THERE ARE CERTAINREALITIES WE ‘MUST FACE. ‘THE INHUMANS WERE INCREDIBLY ‘POWERFUL TO BEGIN WITH, 2} | AND MORE OF THEM APPEAR ‘ON THE PLANET EVERY DAY BECAUSE OF THAT DAMNED CLOUD., THE ONLY REASON WE DESTROYED AS MUCH TERRIGEN AS WE DID IS BECAUSE We TOOK “THEM BY SURPRISE. AND EVEN THEN, WE LOST. WELL, YOU KN WHO WE LOST. WORLD. IT's THE ONLY WAY NEW INHUMANS: CAN ACCESS THEIR POWER, ‘AND IT's BOUND UP IN THEIR “TRADITIONS. IT's SACRED, ‘TO THEM. THAT'S WHY MEDUSA HAS HER SISTER GUARDING. ‘THE CLOUD IN THAT UGLY SHIP. THEY CLAIM IT'S A. HUMANITARIAN MISSION, BATTLESHIP. THEY ARE PROTECTING THAT TERRIGEN FROM US. BLACK BOLT ALONE CAN VAPORIZE MY PEOPLE WITH A SINGLE WORD. KARNAK CAN SEE ALL OUR WEAKNESSES. NOT TO Sem MENTION ALL THE NEW ONES...WHO KNOWS WHAT POWERS MEDUSAS PEOPLE CAN ACCESS. TM Just NOT SURE HOW WE COULD-- WHY, ERIK...YOU SOUND ‘AFRAID.THANK YOU, ERIK. JUST WHAT T WAS LOOKING FOR. VERY KIND. NOW, LISTEN. HAVE A PLAN THAT WILL GIVE US EVERYTHING WE WANT. THE SECOND TERRIGEN CLOUD WILL BE DESTROYED. "THE PLANET WILL BE MADE SAFE FOR MUTANTKIND. TWILL HAVE MY REVENGE ON THE WOMAN WHO ORDERED SCOTT'S DEATH, AND THE MAN WHO ‘CARRIED IT OUT, TNEED YOU. I NEED YOUR POWER, YOUR IMMORALITY, ‘AND THE MONSTERS WHO CALL YOU THEIR LEADER. AND YOU ARE THE DARKEST MAN1S A CHANCE To SEE WHAT THE WORLD INIGHT HAVE BEEN LIKE IF THAT ASTEROID HADNT HIT, FASCINATING STUFF Just FASCINATING. 60, YOU'VE GOT YOUR DINOSAURS AND SUCH, BUT ALSO VARIOUS EVOLUTIONARY DIGRESSIONS FROM THAT TIME. M < WONDERFUL, / IT'S AN ENTIRE PRESERVED BIOSPHERE- MANY OF THE PLANTS AND ANIMALS HERE SURVIVED ‘THE K-PG EXTINCTION EVENT, AT THE END OF THE CRETACEOUS. As ino. aa FASCINATING. “aaa Ua ‘YUP. WHY ARE WE HERE? WELL, YOU) RECALL THAT WHEN. WE VISITED CRYSTAL ON THE RiLV., WE LEARNED THAT ‘THE REMAINING TERRIGEN CLOUD Is IN FACT ‘SHRINKING. SOME TERRIGEN IS SURELY BEING ABSORBED AS NEW INHUMANS ARE CREATED, BUT THE RATE T SAW WAS HIGHER THAN EXPECTED. T ‘SUSPECT ENVIRONMENTAL DISPERSION IS ‘OCCURRING, rs ‘AND. YOU THink THAT MISSING TERRIGEN IS HERE? NOT. THE SAVAGE LAND Is PRISTINE. 4 THERE SHOULD BE NO TERRIGEN HERE AT ALL. BUT IF IT DOES APPEAR, THis DETECTOR WILL SEND OUT A SIGNAL. TE DON'T THINK IT WILL \ HAPPEN. BUT BETTERaa - WHAT CAN, eile 20 FOR YOU. q EMMA? IT'S BEEN... Ev) Eh QUITE A WHILE.WHAT ABOUT. AN INCREDIBLY UNIQUE SPECIMEN!WE'RE ALL GOING 70 DIE UNLESS YOU HELP ME. L NEED ALLaS] y eel Tae { i: YOU INVITED. ME INTO YOUR HOME SIX MONTHS AGO, MEDUSA, AS PART OF THE ‘TRUCE BETWEEN OUR PEOPLE ‘AFTER THE DESTRUCTION (OF THE FIRST CLOUD AND CYCLOPS! DEATH. T HAVE, LIVED AMONG YOU EVER SINCE, WORKING. WITH YOUR SCIENTISTS TO "TRY TO FIND AN ANSWER ‘TO WHAT SEEMS LIKE AN INSOLVABLE Puzzie. MEDUSA. ‘QUEEN. InUMan. PLEASE Tee ME THAT ra WAS THE PREAMBLE TO YOU DESCRIBING AN INGENIOUS. ‘SOLUTION. THE TERRIGEN'S ABILITY TO CAUSE CHANGE IS MIRRORED IN THE X-GENE--THE TERRIGEN CREATES A NEW ATTACK FOR THE SPECIFIC GENOME OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL MUTANT., WE'RE NOT. LOOKING FOR A SINGLE CURE--WE HAVE’ TO FIND A NEW ONE FOR EACH MUTANT. HUNDREDS, EACH UNIQUELY DIFFERENT. 180 TOLD ‘ME WHAT YOU LIKE TO Say, HENRY. "ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH SCIENCE.” Do You STILL BELIEVE THAT?BEAST HASNT. /< FOUND & SOLUTION. T/L CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HIM IN EVERY WAY T CAN-- HE'S A GOOD MAN, \ “BRILLIANT AND HONEST. BUT A /, Day WILL COME WHEN THE MUTANTS LOSE THEIR PATIENCE WITH HIM, WITH US, AND WITH THIS ‘TRUCE. ANOTHER \TATTACK WILL COME. WE WiLL, NOT START THAT FIGHT... -BUT WE MUST BE READY 70 WIN IT.lo |= del tel EIry. THE HELLFIRE CLUB. IT's BEEN ALONG TIME SINCE I DID ANYTHING UKE THIS. ITLL BE NICE TO SEE IF T'Ve STILL GOT THE SKILLS. ‘SOMETIMES YOU WONDER IF THE ONLY REASON YOURE STIL WORKING Toe NEO. 13 BECAUSE OF SOUR NOW. SOULL NEED A TSU NOME, PLAUSIBLE BACKSTORY, AND THAT WILL ‘TAKE TIME. OH. KNOW, EMMA. T THINK. THAT'LL BE MY FAVORITE PART. MM. MY MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD ME THAT A REPUTATION WAS THE LAST THING 4 GIRL pur PERSONALLY, T'Ve ALWAYS FOUND MINE TO BE VERY, TLL GET THINGS GOING (ON MY END. WHEN DO YOU THINK LL ALL HAPPEN? Mccoy HAS TWO MONTHS LEFT. NO SOONER THAN, ‘THAT. T'LL NEED THAT TIME TO FINISH PUTTING THE PIECES. TOGETHER FOR MY PLAN IN ANY CASE THERE'S A BIG ONE T STILL HAVE “70 HANDLE. ‘ABTER THAT, THOUGH,elyi=l=h ce eda Pl ac lee apesIT WAS BEAST. THE ONE AT NEW ATTILAN, ‘OH? AND WHAT DID THAT GROUCHY OLD KITTY CAT HAVE TO. HE WANTS TO MEET ON MUIR ISLAND. HE SAYS HE HAS AN UPDATE ON HIS TERRIGEN RESEARCH, BUT WOULDN'T. GIVE DETAILS. HE WANTS EVERYONE ‘THERE. EVERYONE. A REPRESENTATIVE FROM EVERY MAJOR MUTANT. GROUP. ‘SUCH DRAMA. ‘SOMETIMES DON'T YOU WISH WE'D JUST TEXT ABOUT THESE, THINGS? TELL ME, HOW DID HANK ‘SOUND? HAPPY? LIKE SOMEONE WITH GOOD NEWS? WELL...NO, ACTUALLY. THE ‘OPPOSITE. AM. see. WELL, DON'T WORRY, DARLING. EMMA'S ( SED HERE TO SAVE THE DAY. (WHY ‘ARE YOU HERE, Ma. BEAST _ Tas BEEN A Busy, BUSY MUTANT OVER THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS, DILIGENTLY DOING SCIENCE THINGS TO SAVE ‘OUR PEOPLE FROM THE BIG, BAD INHUMANS. WELL, SO HAVE T, STORM-. ALTHOUGH T HAVE MY OWN APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM. LESS... SCIENTIFIC, WHICH IS PROBABLY FOR THE BEST. TM NOT MUCH GOOD INA LAB. / 1D NEVER HAVE PASSED CHEMISTRY AT ALL IF TT WEREN'T FOR THE ‘MAGICAL POWER ‘OF SHORT SKIRTS,CHECKLIST NOV Ta es M INHUMANS US X-MEN #0 DECEMBER) 2016) @ INHUMANS US X-MEN «1 @ EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #1? UNCANNY &-MEN) #16 JANUARY 201? UU TESS Stil ahr INHUMANS US X-MEN #3 ALL-NEW X-MEN #1? pelo Ae area eG LOY Oh See (SALOU Te Ta eet Set = ec Uo TUTE SS) Uo Rat STLT=L Elta FEBRUARY el? 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