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Four scans apiece from Uncanny X-Men #524 and Second Coming: Hellbound #1.


In the the main book, the storyline reorients for the second month's arc, as Hope has made it to Utopia, island fortress defended by 150+ mutants, including virtually all of the world's most powerful telepaths.  Bastion's strategy is first to cut off any possible escape from Utopia (he's already put three of the five teleporters out of commission, and Cyclops has to commit the fourth to rescuing the third; and Donald Pierce escapes from the prison to destroy all their planes).

The other two stories in this issue are the preparations for Nightcrawler's funeral, and the X-Men reacting to Hope showing up; more than a few seem somewhat unimpressed that the messiah is a teenage girl with no obvious powers or clue about what she's going to do.  Cyclops sends Cable and Hope for a checkup with Dr. Rao, so Hope visits the med lab, where they have interesting stuff, like Jewish people.





At the funeral, Beast shows up to yell at Scott, various people talk, and Iceman gives a speech (?), which I nonetheless liked:



Over in the sideplot mini, which follows up on Magik getting sent to Limbo, Colossus and Cannonball are both pretty insistent on getting Magik back.  That means going to Limbo, which means they need Pixie -  Pixie is, however, in the "Magik can fuck off and die" camp:





Dazzler, Northstar, Gambit, and Trance.



I've not been a big fan of Harvey Tolibao's past art, which has often had a lot of really bulging veins/musculature, but I really liked his work on this issue.