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Date: |
October 2001 | ||||||||
Title: |
“Danger Rooms” | |||||||||
Plot: |
Following their believed defeat of Cassandra Nova, the X-Men, Professor X prepares to leave for a space trip with Lilandra, with no one but the Beast suspecting that the Professor’s body now houses Cassandra’s mind. Members of the Imperial Guard come to pick up the Professor. | |||||||||
Credits: |
Grant Morrison (Writer) • Ethan Van Sciver (Pencils) • Prentiss Rollins (Inker) • RS [Richard Starkings] & Comicraft’s Saida! (Letters) • Hi-Fi Design (Colors) • Pete Franco (Ass’t [Assistant] Editor) • Mark Powers (Editor) • Frank Quitely / Tim Townsend / Hi-Fi Design (Cover) | |||||||||
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| General | The Marvel Universe features a team of alien superheroes — the personal guard of the leader of the Shi’ar Empire — based on the Legion of Super-Heroes. This New X-Men run is notable because it produces new designs for several of the Imperial Guard, and adds or replaces a few existing ones, making it an analogue of the postboot Legion. |
| 22/23:3 | The ones beaming down are Smasher, Gladiator, Maestrix Lilandra, and Mammoth in the foreground, and probably a guard and Lilandra’s advisor Araki in the background. Smasher is a version of Ultra Boy, and this is the last time he’ll be seen in this costume; Gladiator is a version of Superboy (his real name is Kallark) or M’Onel; Mammoth is new, not corresponding to any specific Legionnaire. |
| Reprints | This issue was reprinted in the New X-Men E is for Extinction trade paperback collection. |