The Brood Saga Part 2
Welcome back Muties. In our last installment we discussed an overview of the first half of the Brood Saga, by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum. As a quick review, Lilandra, empress of the Shi'ar empire, was abducted by her sister Deathbird, in collusion with the parasitic alien race known as the Brood. The X-Men, along with their allies, the space pirates known as the Starjammers, rescued Lilandra and saved the Earth from destruction in the process. Unbeknownst to the X-Men, though, their mentor, Professor Charles Xavier, was infected with a Brood embryo. During a farewell celebration for Lilandra, the X-Men are captured by the Brood, to be used as breeding stock for the next generation of mutant Brood warriors. This takes us into an issue I've already discussed multiple times here on Feral Samurai as well as on my Patreon blog, that being Uncanny X-Men #162. The book opens with Wolverine on the run through a hostile alien jungle, battling the Brood soldiers that pursue him,
