X-Men: Second Coming

Cable returns to the present carrying Hope, a girl he believes is the mutant messiah. Cyclops has staked his leadership of the X-Men on this moment, and now his faith in her is put to the test.

No one can say whether Hope will save mutantkind or destroy it. What is certain is that a campaign to wipe out mutants has made her its target, and it is unlike anything the X-Men have faced before.

The story closes a run of X-Men events that spans four years. It begins with the Decimation of mutantkind in House of M and continues with the first new mutant birth in Messiah CompleX.

This is a crossover event, so the action moves between several teams and series. The collection gathers the Second Coming chapters with issues of Uncanny X-Men, New Mutants, X-Men Legacy and X-Force.

The fight is costly. Many characters are wounded and several die, and the question left hanging over the survivors is whether one girl justifies the price.