Marvel Comics and X-Men #17 Spoilers & Review follows.
Galactic Political Intrigue and Retro Costumes On A Stealth Mission?!
The book has a few more variant covers in addition to the above.
Plus the main cover.
The book’s opening pages include a dramatis personae and creators’ credits page.
Looks like the galaxy remains in turmoil after Empyre and…
…Imperial Guard were not able to protect the Shi’ar Empire’s new Magistrix Xandra from being kidnapped.
X-Men Shi’ar frenemy Deathbird asks the mutants to go on a stealth mission to find Xandra.
Looks like the Shi’ar Empire has a Krakoan gate that allows the X-Men to get where they are needed without a spaceship.
Jean Grey using her telepathy…
…to locate a dissident who…
…who was a Stygian disguised as Shi’ar.
The X-Men locate Xandra..
…with Smasher being reinforcements to the party.
Xandra is freed and…
…owes a debt to the X-Men…
…that they can collect on anytime, but not in April 2021.
The Pulse:
A really fun done-in-one issue story-wise with some nice galactic escapism in the X-Men tradition. It is beautifully penciled by Brett Booth, but the rest of the creative team is firing on all cylinders too. 9 out of 10.
