Writer Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils Chris Bachalo
Inks Tim Townsend, Wayne Faucher, Jon Holdredge, Jaime Mendoza, Victor Olazaba & Al Vey
Colors Chris Bachalo
Great cover! Magik should be on every cover.
Maria Hill is still trying to get Cyclops’ whereabouts from Hijack. Hijack has a frame Howard the Duck cover on his wall. What is that about?
One of Hill’s agents tells her that they have a positive Cyclops sighting in Chicago. Also that he and his X-Men are having to fight another batch of Sentinels. Which surprises Hill.
The SHIELD Hellicarrier is over Akron, Ohio. Which I know Bendis either is from Cleveland or lived there, so that probably explains the location.
I like the use of black and white coloring to show that Cyclops and the Cuckoos are in Maria Hill’s mind.
Cyclops confronts Hill about the Sentinels. The Cuckoos confirm that Hill believes SHIELD has nothing to do with them. They also reveal that Hill is attracted to Cyclops. I could be cool with this pairing. Scott deserves to date a non-telepath.
While the five of them were having this psychic conversation, the other agents on-board were unconscious.
Madipoor. Blob is trying to get some more of the mutant growth hormone drug, that he is clearly addicted to. He discovers that Dazzler is the source. Without the drug, he won’t have his powers.
Mystique is disappointed in Blob. Clearly he was going to steal the drugs. She tells him that she would have given him more.
Mystique as Dazzler, looking good too, is on the Hellicarrier. She updates Hill that Magneto was just at Madipoor. Hill approves Dazzique’s plan to follow the Magneto trail.
We see that the NotMysterio person has a live video feed from the Hellicarrier as he continues to work on Sentinels.
Hijack leaves his house, he finally put on some pants. SHIELD has a man tracking him.
Cyclops is having a team meeting, all members are present. Fabio is out of his hero uniform – not sure if that was a one time appearance.
Cyclops is wondering how they are being tracked. He figures it has to be through Cerebro. They all list the suspects – Magneto, Xavier, Stark and Richards.
Emma and Magik, at the same time, name Hank McCoy.
Tempus offers that they should turn off Cerebro. Cyclops tells her that is a good idea.
Cyclops and Magik teleport to the Jean Grey School. Emma is surprised she wasn’t included.
Emma tells the team that is no longer a revolution, they are at war.
At the School. Storm comes immediately to tell the two to leave. Iceman, Rachel and Beast come out to repeat the sentiment.
Storm makes a rare witty comment, that Cyclops has his own Beast to talk to.
Cyclops confronts Beast. Beast doesn’t want to prove his innocence. He hates Cyclops so much.
Cyclops stops talking, as he gets a massive migraine.
On the final page, it looks like Cyclops full on optic blasts Beast on a major scale.
Issue ends with SHIELD knowing that Cyclops is at the Jean Grey School.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 