X-Men; Powerless, Alan Davis

"Mutants are supposedly evolution's next step, but the High Evolutionary doesn't like where it's headed! All over the world, mutants are robbed of their powers, leaving X-Men and adversaries alike on the edge of defeat! But who is the Evolutionary's mysterious patron, and how is the disempowerment his next step? Plus: threats from the Acolytes, the Neo, and more! Guest-starring the New Warriors, X-Force and more than thirty years' worth of robots! Collects Uncanny X-Men #379-380, Cable (1993) #78, X-Force (1991) #101, Wolverine (1988) #149, and X-Men (1991) #99."








Proving that there really are no news ideas at all, here is the pre-House of M story of mutants losing their powers as the High Evolutionary and Mr Sinister devolve all mutants to baseline humans. Now, this is the kind of story that was obviously the inspiration for a later big event, and it's honestly (and unsurprisingly) handled a lot better by Bendis in House of M and by the X writers in every X-Men book after that until Second Coming.

Still, this is a pretty neat little book, that allows the X-Men to showcase what they do (go to space and beat up scientists mostly) whilst also giving Polaris a chance to do something with an actually interesting Magneto plotline.

The main problem with the book is that it's one of those classic X-tie ins which feature issues from half a dozen separate books, with competing art styles and plot lines to flesh out the idea. So alongside the main story in Uncanny X-Men and X-Men you also get a truly rubbish Cable story with some of the most pedestrian art imaginable and a totally out of place tale of Wolverine fighting robots with Nova and the New Warriors whilst dying of Adamantium Poisoning. He almost gets killed by a Spider Slayer, and it is awesome.

Also Try:
Brian Michael Bendis, Avengers: Disassembled, House of M
Brian Michael Bendis, Uncanny X-Men
Grant Morrison, New X-Men
Mark Millar, Old Man Logan