Era #5, Part 03: Uncanny X-Men #251-255

Grade: A-

The X-Men are dead -- long live he X-Men! The slow dissolution of the team that started during the last run is complete. Those that are left disappear through the Siege Perilous to escape the Reavers who've returned stronger and ready for revenge.  With the X-Men gone, Donald Pierce and his cyborgs turn their attention to Muir Island forcing a new team to emerge. It is one of my favorite runs memorable for its casualties, the return of Storm and the rebuilding of the new X-Men.

[4-Stars] 251 - "Fever Dream" The Reavers are back under the leadership of Donald Pierce and Lady Deathstrike. They take back their old base while the X-Men are out. Psylocke sees the trap when they reappear, and she convinces her teammates to escape through the Siege Perilous. Wolverine returns to find himself alone against a savage band built to destroy their most hated foe. They are brutal and without mercy.

[4-Stars] 252 - "Where's Wolverine?" Wolverine finds an unlikely rescuer in the Californian hideaway, Jubilee. She hides him from the Reavers giving his overtaxed healing factor a chance to work. It may be too little, too late as the final surviving X-Men begins hallucinating.

[4-Stars] 253 - "Storm Warnings" A young girl is found in the center of a massive storm in Cairo, IL. FBI Agent Reisz begins investigating her when the hospital staff notice that she isn't a normal runaway, but he may be developing an unhealthy obsession in her capture. Storm is back as child and already on the run from a mysterious villain.

[4-Stars] 254 - "All-New, All-Different -- Here We Go Again" The Reavers target Muir Island in their hunt for Wolverine. Polaris, Amanda Sefton, Brigadier Alysande Stuart join Banshee and Sunder in defending the injured Morlocks within the facility.

[4-Stars] 255 - "Crash and Burn" Forge recruits a reluctant Freedom Force to look for the X-Men on Muir Island. They arrive in the middle of the battle against the Reavers. It is a conflict with deadly consequences for Freedom Force.