How he died: Hey, we're back with Grant Morrison again! One of the other big concepts the writer introduced was yet another potential dystopian future for the X-Men; this time, during the Here Comes Tomorrow arc, the team collapsed in on itself after another of Jean Grey's deaths (she's fond of those), Beast was taken over by an ancient evil called Sublime and reduced the entire planet to rubble in pursuit of the ultimate power - the Phoenix Force. Skipping 150 years into the future, we catch up with Wolverine - not looking any different - teamed up with a new team of X-Men, launching a last-ditch attack against this evil Beast in order to stop him from totally decimating the remaining pockets of mutantkind on Earth. Which unfortunately doesn't work, as Sublime/Beast switches off his healing factor and then guts him, leaving him to die slowly. How he came back: We say it doesn't work, it just doesn't work out for Logan. Well, for Future Logan anyway, which we're mostly okay with, since the cowboy hat he'd taken to wearing wasn't really to our taste. At the very end of the story arc the resurrected Jean Grey (in the form of the Phoenix), whom Beast thought he was controlling, decided to fix everything. She exorcised her friend of the nefarious Sublime, hoped out of the timeline and sent a message back to the past, to the exact moment Cyclops stopped caring about saving the world and everything went wrong: she told him not to give up, but to live! Which he did. By banging Emma Frost a lot. Which Wolverine later though was disrespectful to the memory of Jean, but it meant he didn't die in the future, so what's he complaining about?
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
