STORY: "Share" (40 pages)  Professor X helps a mutant girl blinded in a school shooting.

What you need to know:
Not much.  Standard annual story without any wider impact.

Comments:
As usual with the annuals, this is a story you can quite happily skip.  It's a Professor X story where he takes an interest in a mutant teenager who's been blinded in a school shooting - always a touchy subject in the USA.  As you'd imagine, she's very angry about it, and he talks her round.

In fact, it's quite good, if a bit melodramatic.  Fiona Avery's script puts enough flesh onto the characters to make the story work, when it could easily have been an exercise in stereotypes.  Essad Ribic and Jimmy Palmiotti provide nicely understated art.

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FEATURE CHARACTERS
Professor X (last in Uncanny X-Men #389; appears between pages behind the scenes in Brotherhood #4, then in X-Men vol 2 #109; next in flashback in X-Force #117, then in Uncanny X-Men #390; also in flashback between pages 12 and 13 of the flashback in Uncanny X-Men #309)
Cable (last in X-Men vol 2 #108; leaves the X-Men after this story, and appears next in X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1)

SUPPORTING CHARACTER
Amelia Voght (in flashback following the flashback in issue #309 and preceding X-Men vol 2 #-1)

VILLAINS
Casey Fullerton-Smith (first and only appearance)

OTHER CHARACTERS
Amy Stringer (first and only appearance)

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