Astonishing X-Men #18, printed in 2006


I picked up this one because it had Emma Frost (who shares the last name with Killer Frost) on the cover. It actually has many Emma Frosts in various outfits, which seems right up my alley.

This one is much harder to jump right in to. One of the Emma Frosts seems to be laying on the floor after being shot. Someone crazy talks about having lost his mind. He has the X-Men jacket on. Meanwhile, a brunette lady is being growled at by a blue beast man. Professor McCoy, apparently. He seems to have gone feral. The lady has a plan though, she was given a metal box by Prof. Summers in such a case. It has a yarn ball in it.



MEANWHILE, two bad guy looking dudes go busting in somewhere. One is bluish and mechanical looking and the other looks almost zombie like with a piece of metal on his face. The blue one is apparently mind hacking the computer or something and the other one is smashing stuff.

Some dude wakes up, named Peter, and calls out to the guy with the gun, named Scott. Pete remarks on the shootingness of the situation and is assured by Scott that he is an X-Men and does not shoot people. As he shoots some shadowy figure.



Back to the baddies, they get attacked by a woman in some big seethroughish armour. Wolverine shows up and decapitates the blue dude. Kitty wakes up and screams "NO!!" and seems to be with those Scott and Pete dudes. Apparently Kitty thought she and Pete had a son, but they were tricked and it's just a blob. I wonder what's going on there? Kitty is told she must find "her" or the green blob will destroy them all. Apparently "she" is Emma.

More fighting with Armour girl and Wolverine vs blue man and brute man. Blue man put his head back on, btw. The Beast man comes back in a fancy suit and pins the two baddies to the ceiling using a "big magnet". Wolverine and Beast banter a little bit, then they talk about some group called Nova, something about Emma zombify Kitty. Apparently old school looking Emma.



Cut to Emma Frost laying in what looks like a cave or a ditch or something. She looks pretty dead on in the inside when an angel shows up and she says she belongs down below. Maybe she was burried or something, I dunno. The angel turns out to be Kitty who pulls here up. Maybe she was in her own head because now she's with the rest of the group. Apparently people have been hallucinating or something. Because of some woman named Cassandra Nova? I'm really confused at this point. It seems Cassandra Nova has been infecting Emma's brain or something, using Emma's guilt against her for some bad stuff she did. Apparently she has survival's guilt and thinks she's evil.



Kitty, meanwhile, wants to shoot her for sticking three years of horror in her head but Scott talks her down, saying Cassandra is really at fault. He then tries to plead with Emma to break free of her mind control. Then the baddies break in, some fighting happens, they get... beamed up in to some spaceship plane thing and uhh are gone. The brunette girl who rescued Beast apparently has no eyes and says the X-Men have gone far away and not all of them will be back.

So uhh... I think I really need more context for this one because it was just a major ball of confusing.

Next time: More X-Men!