# Astonishing X-Men (2004) #26

Published: 2008-08-13T00:00:00+0000
Series: Astonishing X-Men (2004 - 2013)
Creators: Brian Reber (colorist), Simone Bianchi (penciler (cover)), Warren Ellis (writer), Simone Peruzzi (colorist), Vc Chris Eliopoulos (letterer)

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The superstar team of Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi take the X-Men to the "Second Stage"! 
"Messiah Complex" pulled the X-Men team together, "Divided We Stand" tore them apart.  Now the X-Men are back to business -- with a new look, a new base of operations, and a mystery to solve that will take them into previously uncharted territory and test them to their core.  It all starts on a spaceship hovering 300 hundred feet above the twisted wreckage of
Chaparanga Beach.  Its sole inhabitant: the mysterious Subject X.  Five minutes -- just five minutes is all he needs, all he's asking for.
Can the X-Men afford to give it to him?
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