Phoenix Warsong #2 - Marvel

The real breakout of this story is not that the Phoenix may be residing in the Cuckoo's. That's just the next natural step. It went from Jean, to Madelyn, back to Jean, to Emma, then where to next? Oh yeah, the Cuckoo's. So what? The real story is that the Cuckoo's are not who they seem. Nobody's ever really questioned where they came from or why. And in this issue when they do try to question it, there's a mental block that make anyone who thought about it forget what they were talking about. Apparently those blocks have been in place ever since they arrived. No one noticed till now. And now that they have noticed, and know that they're there, Emma easily, if not painlessly, removes them from everyone. And on top of this weirdness, the other 2 Cuckoo's, the dead ones, rise up out of the ground to join there sisters. In the melee that follows, Wolverine ends up cutting off part of one of their arms and in doing so discovers that their skeletons are laced with nanotech. Which, once Wolverine knows what it is, he recognizes the smell from the World. Cyclops doesn't have happy memories of his trip there. "The last time I went to the World, I fought an artificially evolved supersoldier who could disintegrate people by looking at them. He was part of a team of monsters who were supposed to exterminate every mutant on the planet. Monsters bred in the World. Where your Cuckoo's come from.", Scott says to Emma. The final spash page of the story, is the Cuckoo's desending into the depth's of the World only to find caccoons, thousand of them, all filled with what appears to be more of their sisters. Now how the Phoenix plays into all of this, I'm not sure yet. But with only 3 issues to go, I'm sure we'll find out soon. Viva la X-men.