Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #2 [Direct Edition]

(January 2009)

Previously in Astonishing X-Men (Table of Contents: 1)

X-Men / recap / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

The Last Testament of Scott Summers (Table of Contents: 2)

X-Men / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Warren Ellis

Pencils

Clayton Crain (painting)

Inks

Clayton Crain (painting)

Colors

Clayton Crain (painting)

Letters

Joe Caramagna

Genre

superhero

Characters

Scott Summers; X-Men [Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Wolverine [Logan]; Armor [Hisako Ichiki]; Storm [Ororo Iqadi T'Challa]; Beast [Hank McCoy]; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Shadowcat [Kitty Pryde]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]] (flashbacks)

Synopsis

In a world where Cyclops decided to approach Subject X cautiously instead of letting Wolverine take him out quickly, a suicidal Scott Summers is the only X-Man surviving in a ruined mansion filled with ghosts.

Reprints

• in Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box (Marvel, 2009 series) ([August] 2009)
• in Astonishing X-Men (Panini France, 2005 series) #52 (septembre 2009)
• in Astonishing X-Men (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 - Ghost Box ([November] 2009)

Indexer Notes

The script in the back of this issue makes it clear that the older flashbacks were supposed to be portrayed by mixing distressed artwork from those time periods into the current art, but this was not done.

4 (Table of Contents: 3)

X-Men / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Warren Ellis

Pencils

Kaare Andrews

Inks

Kaare Andrews

Colors

Kaare Andrews

Letters

Joe Caramagna

Genre

superhero

Characters

Hisako Ichiki [Armor]; Logan [Wolverine]; Hank McCoy [Beast]

Synopsis

In a world where the annexation took several years, Hisako journeys to a supposed evacuation point with a deranged Hank McCoy and a Logan who is confined to a wheelchair due to the adamantium on his legs being warped early in the fighting.

Reprints

• in Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box (Marvel, 2009 series) ([August] 2009)
• in Astonishing X-Men (Panini France, 2005 series) #52 (septembre 2009)
• in Astonishing X-Men (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 - Ghost Box ([November] 2009)

Indexer Notes

There is a large numeral "4" above Logan and Hisako in the panel occupying the lower half of the first page. In the absence of any other explanation, I am assuming it is the title of the story.

Cover Process by Simone Bianchi (Table of Contents: 4)

X-Men / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Simone Bianchi

Inks

Simone Bianchi; Andrea Silvestri

Colors

Simone Peruzzi

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Emma Frost [White Queen]; Wolverine [Logan]

Synopsis

Preliminary sketches, pencils, inked but uncolored artwork, and the final art for the cover of this issue.

Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes Script by Warren Ellis (Table of Contents: 5)

X-Men / text story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Warren Ellis

Pencils

Clayton Crain (painting, part three); Kaare Andrews (part two)

Inks

Kaare Andrews (part two); Clayton Crain (painting, part three)

Colors

Clayton Crain (painting, part three); none (part two)

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Indexer Notes

Scripts for the two stories in this issue, with art excerpts from the first story (referred to as "part three") and uncolored art excerpts from the second (referred to as "part two"). Note that the stories in the previous issue were referred to as parts one and two, so it's not clear whether this "part two" should have been "part four" or whether there is some other error.