The initial issues of Wolverine and the X-Men mainly featured the Jean Grey School and its faculty and students.

The main antagonist in the book was a new Hellfire Club made up of homicidal genius children, led by Kade Kilgore.

According to writer Jason Aaron, the book would follow the events of issue #18, in which the character Broo was shot in the head, and would return to the same type of stories that they were doing before Avengers vs. X-Men.

Wolverine leaves Cyclops' Utopia and founds the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning with Kitty Pryde, Beast, Iceman, and several other mutants as junior faculty and students.

Beast brainwashes representatives of the New York State BOE to have them grant the school an educational charter.

[4] Angel loses his board seat on Worrthington Industries, due to a corporate coup initiated by the Hellfire Club.

Wolverine then realizes he cannot financially keep the school open, so he travels to a casino planet with Quinton Quire.

Wolverine does not make it back with the casino winnings, but it turns out Krakoa can create diamonds, so the school does not have any more financial problems.

Wolverine initially stays neutral, but Cyclops comes to school to secretly recruit Rachel Summers, Iceman, Gambit, and Angel.

Eventually, the Phoenix Force is defeated by Hope, but Broo is shot in the face by Kade Kilgore while investigating Oya's mysterious new friend.

[6] Angel has returned to his family's Worthington Industries and hires Murdock to prove the executives were planning to illegally obtain control.

Angel is no longer interested in his business and decides to recruit new mutants for the school, he eventually travels to Brazil to enroll Iara Dos Santos, a.k.a.

Now with some downtime, Kitty Pryde and Bobby Drake go on a date and Storm argues with her ex-husband the Black Panther during a tele-conference, then shares a passionate kiss with Wolverine.

Wolverine decides to take Oya, Jia Jing, Broo, Quentin, Glob Herman, Shark Girl, and Eye-Boy to Savage Land in order to teach them survival.

He decides to change the past by sending his younger self a key to a special vault left behind by Dog Logan.

Quentin Quire and Snot-Boy are teleported to a secret island by The Philistine and start their first day at the Hellfire Academy.

The Philistine, who received his powers from a mystical device called the Siege Perilous, can block Quentin's telepathy and read his mind.

The conclusion of the arc shows Manuel and Maximilian become new students at the Jean grey School, Oya and Quentin are now dating, Broo is finally cured of his feral state by a mysterious blue-skinned apparition, and Kade trapped within the Siege Perilous.

Two new students, Joseph and Josephine Bricklemoore join the school, but it turns out that they are double agents working for S.H.I.E.L.D.

He earns the respect of his fellow students after destroying a Builder battle ship and even steals a kiss from a female Smasher.

Edan Younge, CEO of the mysterious Phoenix Corporation, tries to recruit Quentin Quire and sends Faithful John to the school to kill Evan in order to prevent him from becoming Apocalypse.

With the help of Cyclops and new student Nature Girl, Faithful John is defeated, Evan is saved, and Edan Younge is killed.

In a last ditch effort to turn him from an evil path, Wolverine infiltrates a Hellfire Club party and confronts Quentin with Magneto's helmet for psychic protection, but fails.

Storm returns later and destroys the party pretending to be under Quentin's control, thus putting him on probation with the Hellfire Club and undermining his plans.