Story by Daniel Way. Art by Jason Pearson, Nick Bradshaw. Cover by M.W Kaluta.
MONSTROUS. Mentallo has the perfect plan: take mental control of the denizens of Monster Island and use them to extort his old employers at Roxxon. But when his monsters attack Tokyo at the same time the X-Men are in town helping one of their own cope with a family tragedy, the mutant heroes are drawn into the conflict. Can Wolverine, Cyclops, Emma Frost and Armor take on an entire island of giant monsters? Collects ASTONISHING X-MEN [2004] #36, 37, 39, 41 and material from STRANGE TALES [1951] #81.