The Uncanny X-Men , #500 Second Printing

Published: September 2008

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Wraparound cover, shipped 50/50 split with the Greg Land wraparound cover. Alex Ross states in an interview at http://www.wizarduniverse.com/072108alexrossxmen.html that the Phoenix figure is Phoenix as distinct from Jean Grey, who appears as Marvel Girl.

Michael Turner Sketch Variant Cover

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Sketch version of the Turner variant cover.

Terry Dodson Sketch Variant Cover

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"Sketch" (pencil and ink) version of the Dodson variant cover.

Previously in Uncanny X-Men...
SFX Part One: Prologue: The Extraordinary Dream of Kingo Sunen

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Kingo Sunen, writer/director/producer/editor/actor of samurai movies, decides to cast ex-mutant Freddie Dukes in his first ever science fiction film, set in San Francisco against the backdrop of the Dreaming Celestial.

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Fred Dukes no longer sports the excess baggy skin he was left with immediately after his depowering.

SFX Part One: Prologue 2: The Extraordinary Cargo of Guy DeMondue

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Artist Guy DeMondue unloads a Sentinel at the docks in the dark of night with Simon Trask.

SFX Part One: Chapter One: The Mayor and the Queen in Exurbia

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The X-Men give the Mayor a tour of their new headquarters and mutant embassy in the Marin Headlands. The Mayor warns them that Guy DeMondue is planning a "confrontational" art exhibit involving Sentinels.

SFX Part One: Chapter Two: Superstars of the Spandex Scene

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The X-Men attend the opening of Guy DeMondue's "Celebration of Mutant Kitsch" installation in Yerba Buena Gardens. Most of the crowd has dressed up like X-Men, or approximations thereof. There are also protesters due to the Sentinels being part of the installation. Suddenly Magneto, his powers apparently restored, attacks the X-Men, chucking Colossus through the big round window in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and somehow activating the two Sentinels.

SFX Part One: Chapter Three: The Exploding Plastic Inevitable

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The X-Men fight the Sentinels, but Emma notices that the Sentinels strangely do not attack Magneto.

SFX Part One: Chapter Four: The Fix Is In...!

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The X-Men defeat the last Sentinel and subdue Magneto. They learn that his powers were generated by his extremely high-tech suit. Magneto berates them as unworthy to save the mutant race, and teleports out. Storm spots strange lights at the Dreaming Celestial and we see the High Evolutionary doing something with it, helped by a mesmerized Kingo Sunen. She arrives too late to do anything, but somewhere in space we see the Evolutionary, Magneto, and Fred Dukes discussing plans on the bridge of a starship.

SFX Part One: Epilogue One: Vox Populi

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With Emma broadcasting his thoughts to all known mutants, Scott announces that the X-Men are alive and that San Francisco is a mutant sanctuary.

SFX Part One: Epilogue Two: Exit the Artist

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Logan visits Guy DeMondue in his studio, only to find him dead.

SFX Part One: Epilogue Three: Enter the Pixie

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Simon Trask uses the fact that both he and a bouncer appear to be Prime Sentinels to talk his way into a club. Pixie and her date are leaving a Dazzler concert amazed that she's back and has put on a great show. A group of men in a van see her and put on masks similar to those worn by Hellfire Club guards. They get out of the van with baseball bats and other weapons and prepare to attack Pixie.