Cover art by Mike Mignola. Beyond the Farthest Star, script by Chris Claremont, pencils by Dave Cockrum, inks by Bob Wiacek; The X-Men were ambushed and are now at the mercy of the deadly Shi'ar renegade Deathbird and her sinister accomplices the alien Brood (see the last pages of Uncanny X-Men #161 to see how it happened); Now, the feral X-Man Wolverine fights the battle of his life within and without as a Brood embryo attempts to hatch inside his body, thus killing him and usurping his body and mind--forever!; reprinted from Uncanny X-Men 162. 36 pgs.