cover by shawn martinbrough

geoff johns (w)/shawn martinbrough (p)

• THE SCOOP: Red-hot writer Geoff Johns (JSA) and penciler ShawnMartinbrough (Detective Comics) visit The House -- and shine a light into thedarkest corners of the mutant experience!

• THE STORY: Throughout the United States, desperate and fearfulmutants have banded together in small groups, living under the streets of ourlargest cities where they remain hidden from detection. They do not want to beheroes or villains... they only want to survive. More than just an urban legend,less than the horrific monsters America proclaims them to be. They've leftbehind their homes... their jobs... their loved ones. But for the Morlocks,there are still scores to settle! And even as the outcasts say last goodbyes,their fragile alliance begins to fray -- and anti-mutant paranoia leads to thedispatching of Sentinels to Chicago!

• THE FORMAT: This issue of the 4-part series is 40 pages, withads.