COVER BY: SIMONE BIANCHI WRITER: WARREN ELLIS PENCILS: SIMONE BIANCHI INKS: SIMONE BIANCHI COLORED BY: SIMONE PERUZZI LETTERED BY: CHRIS ELIOPOULOS THE STORY: The superstar team of Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi take the X-Men to the "Second Stage"! "Messiah Complex" pulled the X-Men team together, "Divided We Stand" tore them apart. Now the X-Men are back to business -- with a new look, a new base of operations, and a mystery to solve that will take them into previously uncharted territory and test them to their core. It all starts on a spaceship hovering 300 hundred feet above the twisted wreckage of Chaparanga Beach. Its sole inhabitant: the mysterious Subject X. Five minutes -- just five minutes is all he needs, all he's asking for. Can the X-Men afford to give it to him? Rated T+ …$2.99 IN STORES: August 13, 2008