I actually don't have a ton to say about this issue. It's thoroughly enjoyable, but also pretty straight-forward: the Guardians, Starjammers, and X-Men manage to get through the Shi'ar defenses, but find themselves face-to-face with the Imperial Guard searching for an escaped Jean. The most intriguing part is the machinations of J'Son, who crashes the trial and grandstands in a way that lets Jean know that the Shi'ar murdered her family. I have to say, for someone who was awful at continuity when he wrote the Avengers, Bendis is doing a great job of taking even the more obscure parts of the X-Men's history -- like the "End of the Greys" storyline -- and making them matter. It's unclear if J'Son wanted simply to cause trouble for the Shi'ar or if he's somehow spoiling to get Jean to turn into Phoenix, but, either way, it's not probably not well intentioned.
*** (three of five stars)
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