Dates
- Cover date
- July 1997
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct Edition
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Barcode 75960601198800311
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07148601198903
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- Closing Shop · 23 pages
Beast and his pals continue to try and wrest control of Karma's brother and sister away from Viper, which is hard when the twins insist on trying to punch you in the face while you are attempting to rescue them. The ensuing battle turns Viper against her ally Spiral and brings down the Body Shop. Leong and Nga are stuck in their adult bodies and leave to find their future with Karma.
Publisher’s description
Nga Coy Manh, recently altered by Spiral, is ordered by Viper to kill the Beast. As she hold a blade to his throat, her sister, Karma, takes mental control of the Beast, and rather than see Nga corrupted thus, forces the mutant to fight her mercilessly. Cannonball returns to consciousness, and carries off Karma, to let Beast fight his own way, but his momentum carries him into Spiral's Body Shop, where they are captured. Nga produces and controls a duplicate of Beast and the two battle, while inside, Viper explains her desire for revenge on Karma. Spiral begins the procedures to alter and enslave Karma. Then Nga/Beast enters, carrying the form of the real Hank McCoy, but when Spiral and Viper let their guard down, the Beast stops playing possum, and leaps to free Cannonball and Karma. The trio battle Spiral and Viper, damaging the former's devices, and the pair teleport elsewhere. The mutants and Karma's siblings escape as the Body Shop collapses. Karma takes Nga's and Leong's hands, and they head toward the teleporter, Gateway.
Reprinted in
X-Men: Onslaught Aftermath Omnibus (2025)