Why it's Hot:
- X-Factor, Legion, Guido, and more appearances
- Fabian Nicieza story
- Andy Kubery and Steven Butler art
- Jim Lee cover
Synopsis:
"One Step Back--Two Steps Forward (Muir Island Saga, Pt. 4)" Continued from X-Factor #69. The original X-Men unite with the new for the final showdown with the sinister Shadow King. This is one battle not everyone will be walking away from. Epilogue can be read in X-Factor #70, which starts a new era for the X-Teams. Synopsis - Legion, having been possessed by the Shadow King, had just blown up half of Muir Island. Professor Charles Xavier and a few S.H.I.E.L.D. agents walk through the rubble to discover the fate of Xavier's students. They find Legion standing among the various X-Teams; everybody is being held in a sort of stasis. The Shadow King (through Legion) explains to Xavier that Jean Grey was able to get a teke-shield up just in time. This is no bother - he's still going to kill everyone and rule the Earth. One of the accompanying agents...
