The prelude to the X-Men Event of 2011! What does it mean to be a leader? What does it do to a person? What do the choices you make mean about the person you are? This is a story that delves into these issues and will give an X-Men reader what they need to know about their favorite mutants - before everything changes! Collecting X-MEN: PRELUDE TO SCHISM #1-4 and material from X-MEN SPOTLIGHT.

The X-Men event of the decade is right here! It's never been a more dangerous time to be a mutant. Even with their numbers at a record low, the world refuses to trust mutantkind. And after a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Of course it's at this moment, when the mutant race most needs to stand together, that a split begins that will tear apart the very foundation of the X-Men. From superstar writer and Marvel Architect Jason Aaron and a full roster of comics' top artists, this is an X-tale that will reverberate for years to come! When the dust settles, the X-Men landscape will be irreparably changed. Collecting: X-Men: Schism 1-5, Generation Hope 10-11, & X-Men: Regenesis

The mutants of the future finally come to understand the real sad meaning of mutantkind's past as a day trip from Utopia takes a tragic, bloody turn. In the wake of SCHISM's first casualties, can Generation Hope even exist anymore? Plus: A new light pings into existence on Cerebra - a new mutant life, in need of help before his nascent power consumes him. Can the world's newest mutant team save the world's newest mutant? Then, Generation Hope's resident wild man, Primal, is on trial, and the X-Men may lose custody. Can they get him free? Should they? And finally, Generation Hope discovers what happens when a light goes out. Collecting GENERATION HOPE #6-12.