X-Men Deadly Genesis HC Ed Brubaker 1st Print

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X-Men: Deadly Genesis HC
by Ed Brubaker (Author), Trevor Hairsine (Illustrator)

What happens when the skeletons in your closet finally break down the door and come looking for you? The X-Men are about to find out! In the wake of the tragic events of House of M, the mutant community is in turmoil, and the X-Men are bearing the brunt of this New World Order. Amid the chaos, a new enemy awakens, one whose very existence will haunt the founding members of the X-Men like nothing has before. Who is this new threat? How is he tied to Professor X’s darkest secret? Cyclops, Wolverine and the others must find out soon, before they and those closest to them go mad! X-Men: Deadly Genesis, by Wizard Top Ten creators Ed Brubaker and Trevor Hairsine, is a mysterious blend of horror and super-heroics, as well as a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Giant-Size X-Men #1, that will have X-Men fans talking for years to come! Collects X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1-6.

Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Marvel

Ed Brubaker took what we thought we knew about the new X-Men and Professor Xavier and turned that knowledge on it’s head. Much like Brad Meltzer did on DC’s “Identity Crisis”, Brubaker created a brand new story based on established continuity without disturbing it, in fact, he enhances it. Major story that had reverberations that spawned other major events. Cover by Marc Silvestri. 1st printing.

In addition to the main plotline about the X-Men and the Mystery Mutant, each issue of the series features a backup story introducing a new mutant character. In each of these, after the character learns of their powers, they use them to overcome a challenge in their life, which brings them to the attention of a woman who specializes in helping mutant youths. That woman is Moira MacTaggert.

In issue 1, a young girl named Petra runs away to Central Park, using her power of terrakinesis to survive.
In issue 2, a young boy named Armando Muñoz, becomes a scientific wonder when he is dubbed Darwin, the Evolving Boy.
In issue 3, Suzanne Chan survives the crossfire of a gang war and solves her parents’ murder by using her power to freeze and review time, taking on the name Sway.
In issue 4, Gabriel, a young orphan in the care of Moira MacTaggert, learns of his mutant power to control and manipulate energy, while dealing with flashes of memory of his life treated as an outcast in the Shi’ar Empire (while under the rule of D’Ken). He then gains the codename Kid Vulcan.
In issue 5, a young Emma Frost, following the events of the Emma Frost series has just begun working as a stripper at the New York Branch of the Hellfire Club (from here, she will go on to work her way up to the rank of White Queen). Xavier and Moira MacTaggert approach her about joining the X-Men, but she refuses. She briefly encounters Kid Vulcan outside the club before Xavier erases her memory of the encounter, which explains why in the current storyline of the same issue, Emma has a vague recognition of Vulcan.
In the current storyline, it is revealed in that Petra, Sway, Darwin, and Kid Vulcan were placed under the tutelage of Moira MacTaggert, much like the original X-Men trained under Xavier. When the original X-Men were lost during their fight against Krakoa the Living Island, Xavier appeared and psychically accelerated the training of Moira’s students in order to send them to rescue his own. In the present, Vulcan claims that Xavier left his team to die on Krakoa (presumably, had Emma Frost accepted the invitation to join, she would have become the fifth member of this team and died on Krakoa as well).

Collects X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1-6. Near mint, 1st print.