The X-Men’s greatest spacefaring adventures — starring the Shi’ar Imperial Guard, the Starjammers and S.W.O.R.D.! The Uncanny X-Men have a proud history of cosmic storytelling — dating back to Jean Grey’s emergence as Phoenix that first caught the attention of Lilandra, Empress of the Kree! Now, vital chapters of the Phoenix saga — including fateful clashes between the X-Men and the awesome forces of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard — are collected alongside other star-spanning epics! Meet the space pirate Corsair, leader of the renegades known as the Starjammers — and the father of Cyclops and Havok! See the X-Men battle the terrifying alien Brood! Witness Carol Danvers’ transformation into Binary! Watch the X-Men and S.W.O.R.D. in a desperate fight to protect Earth from destruction at the hands of the Breakworld! Tremble as the third Summers brother, Vulcan, visit his vengeance upon the Shi’ar! Join Rogue and Gambit on a honeymoon that’s out of this world! And hold fast as Captain Kate Pryde sets the Marauders’ sights way beyond the horizon! COLLECTING: X-Men (1963) 105, 107-108, 137; Uncanny X-Men (1981) 154-158, 161-167, 276-277, 475-486; Astonishing X-Men (2004) 19-24; Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men (2008) 1; Mr. and Mrs. X (2018) 1-5; Marauders (2022) 1-5; material from Uncanny X-Men (1981) 274-275 Industry legend Chris Claremont is best known for his epic sixteen-year run on Uncanny X-Men. Claremont’s focus on the themes of prejudice and tolerance struck at the hearts of comics fans, and he built an unparalleled following during the next three decades. Under his pen, the X-Men franchise spawned a vast array of spin-offs, many of them written by Claremont himself. His other credits include Iron Fist, Ms. Marvel, Power Man and Spider-Woman. Claremont has returned to the X-Men universe in New Exiles, GeNext, X-Men Forever, Chaos War: X-Men and Nightcrawler. Ed Brubaker is one of the most acclaimed writers in comics, a multiple Eisner Award winner. Following fan-favorite runs on Scene of the Crime, Sleeper, Catwoman and Gotham Central for DC, he moved to Marvel. His Captain America relaunch, in which he controversially revived Bucky Barnes as the Winter Soldier, won over fans new and old, and his revisionist take on the history of Marvel’s mutants in X-Men: Deadly Genesis resulted in a regular gig on Uncanny X-Men, Marvel’s flagship X-title. He and longtime artistic collaborator Michael Lark took up the baton on Daredevil after Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s legendary run concluded, and Brubaker jump-started Immortal Iron Fist with co-writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja. Marvel’s Icon imprint published Brubaker’s creator-owned Criminal and Incognito, and he has gone on to further success at Image Comics with such titles as Fatale, Velvet and The Fade Out. Beyond comics, Brubaker has written for TV’s Westworld and co-created the crime drama Too Old to Die Young. Writer/producer/director Joss Whedon is a veteran of film, television and comics renowned for his witty dialogue, genre-blending sensibilities and strong female characters. An Emmy-nominated, third-generation talent whose father and grandfather both wrote for television, Whedon got his start as a writer on the Roseanne sitcom in 1989 and soon moved into film where his writing credits included Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alien: Resurrection and the Oscar-nominated Toy Story. Whedon moved back to television, where he converted 1992’s lackluster Buffy film into the critically acclaimed Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series (1997-2003) and its vampire-hero spin-off series, Angel (1999-2004). Whedon’s sci-fi Western series Firefly (2002) was short-lived, but its popularity on DVD led to Whedon writing and directing a Universal feature film based on its characters, Serenity (2005). Whedon returned to television in 2009 with Dollhouse and explores terror in the 2010 feature film Cabin in the Woods. A lifelong comics fan, he entered the business with the 2001 Dark Horse mini-series Fray, featuring the Slayer of a dystopian future. He later co-wrote a Serenity mini-series for Dark Horse (with sequels to follow), helped plot IDW Publishing’s Angel: After the Fall series picking up where the Angel TV show left off, and serves as co-writer and “executive producer” of Dark Horse’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight series, a canonical continuation of the TV heroine’s adventures. At Marvel, Whedon is best known for teaming with John Cassaday on a popular Astonishing X-Men run (2004-2008) and taking over Runaways after series creator Brian K. Vaughan left the book. Whedon’s other Marvel credits include Giant-Size X-Men #3 (2005) and Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man #1 (2006). As a boy, artist Dave Cockrum (1943-2006) dreamed of working in the comic-book industry; after a six-year stint in the Navy, he headed straight for the big time. With a natural talent for illustrating super heroes, Cockrum landed a gig on Legion of Super-Heroes for DC Comics. Soon