X-MEN LEGENDS | Cyclops & Havok says goodbye to Adam X

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Issue Date: 

May 2021

Story Title: 

The Burning Blood – part two: This Fouled Birth, this Scorched Earth

Staff: 

Fabian Nicieza (writer), Brett Booth (penciler), Adelso Corona (inker), Guru eFX (color), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letterer), Laure Amaro (assistant editor), Mark Basso (editor), Jordan D. White (senior editor), C.B. Cebulski (editor-in-chief), Joe Quesada (chief creative officer), Dan Buckley (publisher), Alan Fine (executive producer)
X-Men created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby

Brief Description: 

Corsair just shot Adam X for a bounty but it turns out that Adam has been bio-engineered to protect important organs, meaning he is fine. Cyclops and Havok demand answers and, aboard the Starjammer, Corsair explains that Adam X is the result of a Shi’ar project mixing former Emperor D’ken’s DNA with that of their late mother, Katherine Summers. He is in fact their half-brother and both Erik the Red and the Shi’ar Empire are after him. Erik the Red keeps his hostages in the Blue Area on the Moon and demands Adam. The heroes decide on a plan. Corsair distracts Erik the Red, while the other Starjammers free the Summers grandparents. Cyclops, Havok and Adam X then attack the Claws and Adam takes them all out with his power. Corsair calls the Imperial Guard and Adam X finally has to confront Lilandra. He assures her he means no challenge to her rule and they arrive on the compromise that he will be allowed to live in peace, after Oracle makes everyone including himself forget about his precise origins. Afterwards, Adam is back on the Earth farm and offers his help to the ill owner. While not remembering his exact origin, for the first time in a long time he feels at peace.