Look at this happy family. See, Scott, you never had to leave Alaska. You had everything you needed right at home. A loving wife. A beautiful baby boy. Legions of demon hordes who will stab you in the back at a moment’s notice.
Yes, life is good for Scott Summers of Earth-Whatever Number This Is.
Check out Michele Bandini’s variant cover for What If…? Uncanny X-Men #1, out June 3, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
W: Gerry Duggan | A: Jan Bazaldua | Main cover: Lucas Werneck | Variant cover: Michele Bandini
WHAT IF…CYCLOPS HAD STAYED WITH MADELYNE PRYOR? Imagine a world where Madelyne Pryor, the Goblin Queen, had survived the Inferno. What would have happened if Cyclops had saved her soul? What would have happened if he and Maddie had raised their son, Nathan Summers? What would that world look like? And why would that be the most terrible thing to happen to mutantdom and Earth itself?
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