Astonishing X-Men 2004 #22 Direct Edition - Cover A - back issue - $3.00

Kruun aide Sylatin is revealed to be loyal to Kruun. Emma reveals to Danger that she knows that Danger's programming prevents her from killing and offers her a way out. Kitty tells Piotr she's realized you have to grab happiness. Beast is revolted with Kruun and refuses to continue towards the base without the whole team. Everyone meets up. They begin the assault on the moon, only to discover that it is a construct designed to fire a 10-mile-long bullet at the earth. Scott takes the one man repair craft to cover the main ship's escape and is hit. He floats dying in space.

Issues 19-24 in this series each have a standard Direct Edition (Cover A) and a Variant Edition (Cover B) that were distributed to retailers in a 50/50 split ratio. Both copies of each issue share the same barcode number. All "Cover B" copies have "Variant Edition" printed on the cover and the cover depicts a single X-Men character. The entire cover (sans the UPC box) is colored using only two (2) solid colors and black.