If you want to enjoy Marvel’s mutants and fancy a quick break from the rest of the X-titles whilst Marvel decide that they want to (once again) fiddle around with it’s continuity, then I’d say you should let your hands drift towards a copy of Astonishing X-Men #43. It’s ok, I know it will feel dirty and ever-so-wrong buying a book that you probably think no one else in the world reads, but just got for it.

For the previous bunch of issues of Astonishing X-Men, we had two story arcs playing out side by side. They were solid and I especially enjoyed the Brood story with Kitty, Agent Brand and Beast in outer-space (I saw it as some