Not just any book. The book. The Book of the Others, whence all knowledge comes. To know the past is to know the future. To learn from the past is to change the future. Would you change yours, Scott Summers? It is all here, after all. The reasons why this Utopia of yours will come crashing down all around you. How your enemies will bring you low. How destruction will come upon you, from without and from within. Would you like to see why Utopia cannot possibly work? 
Appearing in "A Tale of Two Islands"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Crone (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- X-Men
- Cyclops (Scott Summers)
- Wolverine (Logan)
- Pixie (Megan Gwynn)
- Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)
- Trance (Hope Abbott) (Cameo)
- Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi) (Cameo)
- Iceman (Bobby Drake)
- Dust (Sooraya Qadir) (Cameo)
- Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)
- Surge (Noriko Ashida)
- Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro)
- Armor (Hisako Ichiki)
- Onyxx (Sidney Green)
- Emma Frost
- Prince Namor McKenzie
- Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier)
- Dazzler (Alison Blaire)
- Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (Cameo)
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) (Cameo)
- Warpath (James Proudstar) (Cameo)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Cameo)
- X-23 (Laura Kinney) (Cameo)
- Domino (Neena Thurman) (Cameo)
- New Mutants
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Void fragment (Cameo)
- Sean Madrox (Mentioned)
- Summers Rebellion (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Ruby Summers (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Hecat'e (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Trevor Fitzroy (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Eugene O'Neill (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Lemuel Gulliver (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Mutants (Main story and flashback)
- Mutant-Fairy Hybrids
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids
- Cyborgs (Only in flashback)
- Lilliputians (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-616 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Europe (Only in flashback)
- Poland (Only in flashback)
- Warsaw ghetto (Only in flashback)
- Poland (Only in flashback)
- North America
- United States of America
- California
- New York (Mentioned)
- New York City (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Europe (Only in flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Earth-1191 (Only in flashback)
- Earth (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- United States of America (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- New York (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- New York City (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Manhattan (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- New York City (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- New York (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- United States of America (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
- Earth (Only in flashback) (Cameo)
Items:
- Book of the Other (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Cyclops' Visor
- Wolverine's Suit
- X-Uniforms
- Siryn's Wings
- Shatterstar's Swords
- Magneto's Helmet (Cameo)
Synopsis for "A Tale of Two Islands"
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
Utopia. The sanctuary for mutants to escape a world that wants them extinct. So is it the ideal home for X-Factor? That's what Cyclops believes when he invites the world's only mutant detective agency to relocate to their floating island retreat and take up residence there. But will Madrox and his team believe that it's the best place for them? What old faces will pop up, and what old acquaintances will be renewed? And will there even be a Utopia left when the mysterious Crone shows up and threatens to bring the entire place crashing down into the Pacific?
Notes
- It is unclear when this issue takes place since, in the main X-Factor series, the group isn't assembled the way it is here until issue #206 and events from this issue are mentioned in issue #205.
Trivia
- Dazzler and Longshot briefly rekindle their relationship.
- Boom Boom, a former romantic interest of Rictor, seems much more at ease with Rictor and Shatterstar's relationship than Wolfsbane.[1]
- Darwin tells Professor X he was looking for him after his "death". This is actually how he came into contact with X-Factor.[2]