Two lone figures pop out of the train at the Bayville train station: one in a hooded trench coat - named Kurt Wagner - is picked up by Ororo Monroe and Charles Xavier. The other, dressed in blue jeans and a Triumph t-shirt (the band, not the motorbike company), and a leather jacket, and sporting a red mullet with sideburns, is to go to the Inter Mundos Academy, founded by the Two Moons Mining Company, and its eccentric founder, John Carter. (This kid, with electric currents coursing about him, is James McAllister, a Métis from London, Ontario, Canada.)

"Mr. McAllister," shouts a fat, bespectacled, tall, blonde woman, "We've been waiting for you."