Uncanny X-Men #395

Cover: See note

Title: Poptopia Part one of four: Useless Beauty (22 pages)

Writer: Joe Casey
Pencils: Ian Churchill
Inks: Art Thibert and Norm Rapmund & Art Thibert
Colors: Avalon Studios
Letters: Richard Starkings and Comicraft's Saida Temofonte
Assistant Editor: Peter Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor in Chief: Joe Quesada

Feature Characters: Wolverine, Archangel, Iceman, Nightcrawler

Guest Star: Jonathan Starsmore (last in Generation X #75)

Supporting Character: Sugar Kane (a popstar, first appearance)

Villains: Mr Clean (a 'genetic cleanser', first appearance); 'Cyclops', Harmony Saccharine, the Burning Puddle, and other unnamed underground mutants (first appearance of all, many die)

Note: This issue had two covers, one of Chamber penciled by Ian Churchill, and one of Wolverine penciled by Barry Windsor Smith. I count Chamber as a guest star because Wolverine and Nightcrawler's discussion tells us that he has not yet joined the X-Men, having gone A.W.O.L. by not reporting to the Mansion after Generation X #75.

While exploring a mutant spike in London detected by Cerebra, Archangel, Iceman and Nightcrawler discover a large population of deformed mutants living in the sewers. Despite Nightcrawler helping in the birth of a baby, the sewer dwellers distrust the X-Men and attack them. The X-Men retreat, a battle not what they wanted. Soon after a man calling himself Mr Clean arrives and kills many of the mutants by setting them alight. Meanwhile, Jonathan Starsmore who was supposed to have come to the X-Mansion to join the X-Men, has instead returned to London. When he saves a popstar named Sugar Kane from obsessive fans, the singer becomes infatuated with him.

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