Astonishing X-Men #53
In Astonishing X-Men #53, written by Marjorie Liu and illustrated by Mike Perkins, the team races against time to stop Susan Hatchi after she openly confesses her crimes, believing no one can stop her. Tracking Karma to an abandoned Russian military base, they uncover horrifying evidence of her experiments—human subjects programmed to detonate, trapped in a deadly web of her design. The cover by Dustin Weaver captures the tension of this chilling confrontation.
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While Wolverine recovers from the bomb explosion, the X-Men confront Susan Hatchi, who surprisingly admits to everything she's done, since she believes there's nothing they can do to stop her. Tracking Karma, they travel to an abandoned Russian military base where they find human victims, subjects of Hatchi's gruesome experimentation and programmed to explode rather than escape.
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