My Quest to Read All X-Men Related Comics in Order from Beginning to Present time
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Finally reading these again lol... starting with Gambit Vol. 2 which is only 4 issues.
Gambit v2 #1
Last time we saw Gambit he was abandoned by Rogue and the X-Men when they found out about his past with Mr Sinister. Apparently he made he was back to the states, and surfaced in Miami, one week before this a fallen star was spotted by many people including a priest of the Vatican, and a shrewd businessman named Oliver Stoker. Gambit is back to stealing things, and winds up stealing a cross which leaves him wanted by a very dangerous Miami gangster. While being hunted he meets a beautiful blonde haired women who fell from the sky, but doesn't speak. Shortly after he is shot by the gangsters men, falls into the ocean and is on the verge of drowning.
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Gambit v2 #2
He winds up being saved by two people of the Vatican, sent by Father Bonavita. Gambit winds up ? a young nun, whom he didn't realize was a nun lol. Then some zombies come after Gambit and wind up killing one of the priests. Gambit escapes and finds the 'fallen angel' Anielle, and they takes refuge in a church. Olivier Stoker shows up though, who is now known as the devil himself.
Gambit v2 #3
Gambit and Anielle make their escape and Sister Katrina (the one Gambit ? ) stays behind with Stoker. Gambit & Anielle head to France to meet Father Bonavita at the Vatican. Unfortunately they are stopped by the head zombie ? , Sybil and her eveil plague of locusts. Basically its like hell on earth outchea.
Gambit v2 #4
In the end, they all meet outside the Vatican, and Sister Katrina is transformed into an evil version of herself. Gambit must choose between saving her or Anielle, and he chooses Katrina. Basically he saved the human soul in need, rather than good/evil personified or some ? ... it was the right choice. -
Deadpool #11
Deadpool and Blind Al go back in time and he has to disguise himself as a young college student Peter Parker, but without ? up the timestream. Its pretty funny how they make fun of Spider-Man & friends from back in the day.
Cable v2 #48-50
A woman named Merryweather who works at a ? newspaper is assigned to investigate Sebastian Shaw. She uncovers a plot between Shaw & Donald Pierce to ? Cable. When she returns to work she finds everyone dead, and some Hellfire goons attack her, but before long Cable arrives and saves her. Cable winds up sneaking into Pierce's home, and finds out his plans to find Apocalypse, destroy him, and harness his power... which Cable must stop. Next we see a flashback of Apocalypse entombing one of his minions in some type of casket. We see that Shaw & The Hellfire Club are now in possession of this tomb and plan to let the minion out, after they were approached by a former friend of Apocalypse named Ch'Vayre.
Cable finds out about this thanks to his Mother Madelyn Pryor, who does not agree with Shaw unleashing this force. He arrives in London, where the Hellfire Club has unleashed this ancient man of great power. He destroys the building they are in and sets off to observe the world and see how worth the people are. Meanwhile, Cable and Merryweather go off in search of Ch'varye, Shaw & Peirce. -
X-Factor #139
Mystique being real as ? lately, she is currently pretending to be the wife of US Senator Ralph Brickman (who has disappeared a while ago). Basically her goal is to make it so finding Sabretooth is a major operation so she can handle him. Meanwhile we find out that Havok and his Brotherhood is all a ploy to find out the secrets behind the Dark Beast and take him down. We see that he has hundreds of innocent being held in pods for experimentation.
Excalibur #114
Meggan & Colossus return home, where Kitty is looking for Lockheed. Pete Wisdom almost gets killed by his ex-girlfriend who wants revenge on him for turning her in years ago after she tried to assassinate the queen of England.
X-Force #71
Now that they are on their own, they find out that its not as easy as they thought. Sunspot's father's estate is being sued and his money is locked down, and he was the only member of X-Force who had much money at all. They wind up saving a young kid named Richie Alegria who turns out to have a lot of money and offers them to work for him. Kid is a ? damn bauce.
X-Man #32-33
Nate is dancing at some club with Rita, Bux & Jam (the girls who brought him back to health after his run-in with the Brotherhood, when they are attacked by Jackknife who had previously been slaying a bunch of people in Nate's favorite park. Apparently he was a member of a group called the Forgotten which included Abomination, Threnody, and Roust (a young boy who Nate had helped in the past). After he defeats him, nearly killing him, the police want to take Nate in but the citizens of New York surround him and will not let the cops take their new hero.
Kitty Pryde: Agent of SHIELD #1-3
Kitty was recruited by the international law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. to repair the computer system of their flying headquarters. Kitty discovered the problem was due to Ogun’s spirit having infiltrated the computer system, and with the aid of Wolverine, she managed to purge Ogun's presence. During this time, Kitty was attracted to a S.H.I.E.L.D. intern her own age, and this made her begin to doubt her relationship with Wisdom. -
Generation-X #33-35
Two kids steal some stuff from the mansion, including Skin's gun & Paige's diary which they don't want anyone knowing about. They try to retrieve it but find out the girl who has it is the daughter of a cop whose been helping them. Meanwhile Emplate comes across Chimera & Dirtnap who just teleported from their fight with Wolverine & Venom.
Jubilee finds out about the gun and the diary when the young girl returns the items. Skin explains that the gun was used by him when his cousins and ex-girl forced him on a drive by against a rival gang. He faked his death after that incident, and that is what brought him to Gen-X. The girl gives them back their things but they must help her out in return.
Meanwhile back at the mansion, Chimera and Emplate arrive and attack, however the M twins wake up, combine back into M and morph themselves into their brother, Emplate, creating one being that is the combination of all three...
This new being, M-Plate, escapes with Chimera and Synch as its hostage. Gen-X also manages to lose the girl who stole their belongings (named Tracy) somewhere on the campus, as well as Artie & Leech. -
Excalibur #115-117
On Muir Island, Moira MacTaggart tries something drastic. Frustrated with her progress on the Legacy Virus, she decides to quarantine herself, which could very well mean the death of her if she doesn't figure out the virus, with no contact to the outside world. As she says her goodbyes and the door begins to shut, Wolfsbane (her adoptive daughter) runs in and gets locked in the room with no way out and no containment suit.
Meanwhile, Nightcrawler is trapped in some dark hole with a bunch of aliens. We find out it is the Sidri, who plan to ? him because of some mission way back in the beginning of the Nightcrawlers stay with the X-Men, when they were in space and failed to help these aliens. Colossus and the group go after him in Italy, but the Sidri are tough to beat. Obviously they defeat him and return home, where Kitty just got back from SHIELD and plans to tell Pete Wisdom about her new man.
X-Men v2 #71
Jean & Scott take a vacation from the team, leaving a house full of newcomers who are not getting along with the X-Men quite well. In Italy, Sebastian Shaw gets a message from someone who stops the flow of time and tells him to read it and then there will be a meet. Suddenly, the team sees news reports that the heroes who died due to Onslaught have returned, and the begin to feel a sense of hope.
Uncanny X-Men #351
Cecilia Reyes decides to leave the X-Men and go back to her hospital. She receives a lot of trouble from her co-workers. She also privately does a procedure on Daredevil who shows her his face and tells her she should use her powers for good. Then she does an emergency procedure on Pyro, who is brought in by police. She fixes him up, then accidentally helps him escape which leads her to being fired. After that day of work, she isn't too upset about it though, and heads back to the X-Men.
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Wolverine v2 #119-122
Wolverine got beef with a guy named McLeish aKa White Ghost, from way back 10 years ago. He met him in Hong Kong and they seemed to be friends, until he killed Logan's girlfriends dad. The guy is one of the best killers, and is back in New York stalking Logan. It seems as if he's playing mind games with Logan to make him go crazy, and eventually it works when Logan finds the body of him ex-girl from back in Hong Kong. He eventually meets him, and the guy is very unhealthy and old. Logan makes up some lie about his son being killed and the guy has a heart attack and dies.
Deadpool #12-13
While Deadpool is searching for Siryn, he meets up with his enemy T-Ray and they set up a fight for the next day. Then he is approached by Zoe Culloden of Landua Luckman & Lake, who tells him that he needs to go with her as she can tell is is slowly losing it, but he refuses of course. He finds Siryn, and fights Warpath when he won't let him see her. This ? Siryn off bad, and then Deadpool gets in her face when she declines talking to him. Later, she finds him ? and forgives him, kisses him, and says she loves him.
It turns out the next morning, it was Typhoid Mary all along, that ? cray. He gets home and finds out that Blind Al has been letting Weasel in his house, so he knocks Weasel out and sends Al off in to this room called "the box". Then he goes to meet T-Ray for their fight. T-Ray uses various magic tricks by using Japanese encrypted cards, and even manages to somehow make it snow. He wants Wade to remember how their argument began years ago, in the symmetry in the ice-cold snow. T-Ray takes out his scythe, and sticks it right through Deadpool’s heart! He collapses in the snow, remaining motionless for many hours…
X-Force #72
The young boy who paid X-Force to help him, Richie Alegria, turns out to have borrowed money from the Mob and now X-Force isn't sure they should have helped. However, they find out he borrowed the money to make a movie. Meanwhile, Warpath & Siryn are on their way to Nebraska to find answers about the massacre of Warpath's tribe. He finds Whitecloud, the only other survivor, who tells him the story of it all. Apparently back then Whitecloud was doing research about a group called Project Stepladder that was doing illegal research on humans and animals, injecting them with viruses. The group found out and exterminated the camp, and before Whitecloud could tell Warpath who was behind it all his head exploded. -
X-Factor #140-141
After being attacked by Sabretooth, Shard travels back to the future she came from and gets in with a team called Xaviers Underground Enforcers (XUE). Disgruntled by the X.S.E. tactics and the world they lived in, X.S.E. members Archer, Fixx, and Greystone went "rogue", joined forces with the mutant known as Genesis (possibly a future version of Forge) and formed the X.U.E. They wished to travel back in time to prevent their era from happening. While a member of the X.U.E., Shard was permanently linked to Fixx, a mutant with psionic abilities. This mental link allowed for the spirits of the X.U.E. (who are all linked to each other in like fashion) to enter present-day Earth in order to complete their mission from the future.
Cable #51-53
Cable takes the reporter, Irene Merryweather. with him to Switzerland to search Apocalypse's lair. They are attacked by Hellfire Club goons, but saved by a man who claims to be a believer in Cable and his ideals. They later found out it is Master Man, who is a villain from back in the day that was a ? sympathizer.
Later we find out that Ch'Vayre was sent here from Cable's future by Sanctity to ensure a meeting between Apocalypse and Cable. Master Man does help Cable with finding Shaw & Pierce, and Cable leaves Irene behind while she is sleeping to go find them. Master Man winds up dying, shielding a Cable from a bullet the Hellfire Club shot at him. Cable then arrives at Apocalypse's lair to find the Hellfire Club and its army fighting with the bases automated defense systems, it is an all out war. Shaw, Pierce & Ch'Vayre get into the lair and find that Apocalypse is gone. Pierce decides its time to ? Ch'Vayre since he is no longer useful, when Cable arrives. As the base self-destructed and Pierce fought Cable, a furious Sebastian Shaw sealed Ch'vayre inside one of Apocalypse's hibernation pods, which blasted into orbit. They are all able to escape and Shaw leave Pierce stranded in the Alps, saying he is terminated from the Hellfire Club.
Then this happens...
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X-Force #73-74
Warpath & Siryn are stopped by police in connection with the Whitecloud incident. They turn out to be corrupt and Warpath is about to keep Siryn & himself from being taken by them to whoever paid them off.
Then some guy named Edwin Martynec, who transforms into a beast, stops them from getting further information. He kidnaps them and reveals to Warpath that Stryfe was behind the Camp Verde Massacre. The break free and attack, but Martynec stabs Warpath with a needle that speeds up his heartbeat too fast, and soon he has no pulse... Siryn lets out a crazy scream that ? dude up.
As Warpath is dying we see his spirit in some type of hell world where he finds Stryfe. Dani Moonstar is then approached by one of the Valkyrie, a group she used to be apart of, who tells her about Warpath. She is able to transport her, Sunspot and Boomer to this hell world. While gone, Richie is approached by the mob again, but saved by someone who looks and has the same powers as Sunspot. In the Demon world, we see that Blackheart is the Demon who made an agreement with Stryfe to send him back to the living if he brought him Warpath destroyed. X-Force arrives and with their help Warpath defeats Stryfe and X-Force is sent back to earth.
Domino becomes wanted by a detective after he sees the tapes over her stopping a bank robbery. She then calls the Hellhouse looking for assassin work.
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Deadpool #14
Weasel and Blind Al escape from the box, and Weasel decides to take off in hiding. Al stays behind because she still feels there is good in Deadpool and wants to pay her debts. We also find out that T-Ray & Typhoid Mary had been working together to ? with Wade. Of course, in the end Deadpool is still alive and Zoe Culloden meets with him to transport him with her, calling it the beginning of his new life's work.
X-Factor #142
Wildchild meets up with Val Cooper, and Sabretooth shows up. He tries to get Wildchild to turn on her, but fails and they both leave. Wildchild tells Val that he'll be leaving X-Factor and going away for a while on his own, fearing that his feral state is returning.
X-Men v2 #72
Marrow & Wolverine have a fight and Marrow actually gets the better of him, stabbing him in the neck with one of her bones. He'd be dead without the healing factor, and he flips out but Cannonball uses force to stop him. Then Cannonball flips out on Storm for not giving Marrow a chance.
Sabra (a super powered being from Israel) and Gabrielle Haller (a member or the Israeli Embassy) track down a forger named George Odekirk who created Magnetos "Erik Lehnsherr" alias. However, Magneto had already killed him to prevent his identity from being discovered. -
X-Men #34-36
One of Nate Grey's homies, Jam, gets into a bike accident and she loses her arm. Somehow after Nate visits the hospital, her arm grows back and she wakes up from her coma, causing the whole city to believe Nate did it and he becomes a superstar. We see that Purple Man is behind this, and has plans for Nate. No idea who purple man is, but some of you might:
Nate then saves an entire crowd at a basketball game from some political terrorist bombing. However, they get brought into the police station and detonate themselves, leaving the world wondering how Nate could allow something like this to happen, and if he might even be behind it. Purple Man was behind it all, and we find out that he has one of Nate's friends, Bux, as his associate. We find out that Purple Man was using her to get at Nate, forcing her to work with him. When Nate & Purple Man finally meet we find out that he had been subtly manipulating both the population of Manhattan and Nate himself into accepting and embracing him as a modern messianic figure, who would become so psychologically empowered by hero-worship that he would literally change the reality of the world using the full potential of his mutant power. The plan ultimately fails when Nate learns the truth and loses his confidence, thus reducing his power. Jam's arm is once again lost, as it was just a psionic projection. Nate contemplates jumping off a building due to his failure, but a voice stops him...
The destruction caused by Nate vs. Purple Man standoff:
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@genocidecutter I'm not getting many reactions and responses, but I'll keep doing it. Helps me stay aware of what's going on in multiple books at once.
Generation X #36
M-Plate traveled with Chimera & Synch to a place on the edge of Time called the Citadel of the Universal Amalgamator, which was a weapon of vast power that could merge every individual consciousness into a giant "godhead". Generation X was able to follow with the help of some weird time travelers.
Uncanny X-Men #353-354
Rogue is having nightmares where she is stealing people's powers, like Wolverine for example. Angel is having issues with Psylocke, who is trying to convince him that he wants to be with her more than the team. Then a woman from Department of Education comes by and puts the school on some kind of probation. Meanwhile Wolverine is attacked, and when they see Rogue near him the X-Men all blame her. She runs off and then Sauron (original Brotherhood of Mutants member) pops up and attacks.
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@Seedz - reactions or not, I'm definitely reading these summaries. There's about a 10-year gap where I stopped reading comics altogether. These summaries of yours are definitely helping to bridge the gap from where I'd left off to where I started reading X-books again.
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@DrMindbener122 Oh word? True that, glad people are getting something out of this.
Uncanny X-Men #353-354 Continued
Suaron kind of beats the ? out the X-Men at first, but is defeated in the end by a powerful blast from Jubilee. Meanwhile, Rogue runs away setting off for The Agee Institute in Manhattan, a place where a scientist believes he can turn mutants into humans, or remove the mutant gene.
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X-Factor #143
From Bishop/Shard's alternate timeline, the group of traitors to their cause (XUE) make their way to present day earth. The only way that they (Greystone, Fixx & Archer) could travel to the past was by being transformed into one of Fixx's psychic fairies via Shard and they were able to inhabit the bodies of three recently deceased victims of a bus hijacking which led to a crash. Archer took over the body of an international terrorist named Jude Black and along with Fixx and Devlin Greystone set out to carry out their mission -- to destroy the future era in which they lived by stopping the events that put its horrors into motion. To do this, the X.U.E. lured Mystique to them in order to gain her (and X-Factor's) participation to stop the Dark Beast who kept a strain of the Legacy Virus infecting humans in a subterranean lab.
Cable #54
After fleeing from Apocalypse's lair, Cable crash lands in the Nation of Wakanda. He befriends the Black Panther, and later helps him out when his cousin teams up with Klaw. -
X-Force #75
This double sized issue starts out with Dani Moonstar, Warpath, Siryn, Sunspot & Boomer meeting at some giant festival in the middle of the desert featuring lots of punk-rock type people. Soon they find that Karma (original New Mutant student) is there as well, with a new hairstyle and she also hints that she is a lesbian.
We also see that Locus & Reignfire are still keeping tabs on Bobby. Moonstar and Warpath are soon attacked Selene. Selene explains her plan - to open the gateway to the nine dimensions and summon the unimaginable power from that. Selene’s plan is put into motion, but Moonstar musters the strength to wake Warpath, who breaks Moonstar from the frozen state she is in, and together, they remove the runestaff from Selene. But Warpath loses the runestaff, and it lands in a giant statue - bringing it to life. Boomer and Sunspot dance together - and end up kissing. Shortly after, Boomers boyfriend & Sunspots best friend, Cannonball, shows up and they neglect to tell him. X-Force begin to protect the crowds from the giant statue. Cable watches the events unfold, reluctant to get involved for fear of X-Force discovering he has been keeping tabs on them. Moonstar defeats Selene, by revealing Selene’s greatest fear to her. The combined efforts of X-Force, Cannonball and Karma soon take down the colossal man, with no loss of life. Afterwards, the festival ends, and Cable realizes that X-Force can take care of themselves.
Deadpool #15
Deadpool goes with Zoe Culloden to the Landau Luckman & Lake facilities. He gets into a lot of trouble and makes enemies with some of the higher ups, but in the end he winds up saving the day and they tell him they will offer him a contract. He completely sons this guy lmao:
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Generation X #37-39
In another dimension, M-Plate, D.O.A., Chimera and the Plasma Wraiths take Synch to the Citadel of the Universal Amalgamator where M-Plate reveals that he/she wants to merge all sentient consciousnesses together into one new entity. Generation X, along with Dirtnap go through an adventure in this universe trying to find them. When they finally do they are able to stop M-Plate's plan, and Dirtnap winds up swallowing her whole.
However he cannot digest the multiple DNA codes and he explodes, releasing the forms of Emplate and the twins, once more separate. The citadel starts to break down and all the people try to evacuate. Emplate and DOA escape with a lepton imploder, while Generation X loads back onto the interdimensional train except for Synch & Penance, who wants to stay and help the chained mutant, Gaia. The train pulls out of that dimension, heading into another vortex back towards the Biosphere. Just before the train vanishes into the next vortex, Elwood tells the team to try the Warp Chamber in the Diner. In the other dimension, Synch and Penance cuts through Gaia’s chains, and they escape the crumbling citadel through a hidden portal underneath the altar, which leads to the storage room at the Diner. The trio of mutants land on two bullies who were working at the diner. Gaia and Penance rush out of the diner, leaving Synch to take the brunt of the bullies’ wrath. The sadistic pair beat Synch until he is hardly breathing, and then leave him for dead on the side of the road, where the rest of the team finds him on the way to the Diner.
X-Men v2 #73-75
Joseph confronts Maggot about how they knew each other, but before he can respond they are attacked by Sabra who intends to ? 'Magneto'. However, Maggot finally reveals that Joseph is not Magneto, so Joseph secretly goes off with Sabra to discover the truth. At the Hulkbuster base, Senator Kelly arrives to free Charles Xavier, but discovers that he is missing. And in Rio, Sebastian Shaw agrees to the proposition that the Wraith brought to him earlier.
Down in the sewers, Marrow treats a dying Callisto. Angel flies to the sewers to finally overcome his fears over what happened to him years ago when the Marauders broke his wings. He enters the sewers but is attacked by Abomination. Marrow saves Warren and he invites her to come back to the X-Men and also discovers that she had some of his flechettes from when he had metal wings. Logan is hot on the trail of a murderer in Salem Center, who he believes to be Maggott and his pet slugs. He is on the way back to the mansion to confront Maggott when he is ambushed. Logan wakes up, naked and healing from what appears to be a vivisection. Next to him are Maggott, & the slugs. Maggot starts to cry and apologizes for what has happened.
Storm, Cannonball and Rogue find Maggott, who tells them that he thinks Eany and Meany are killing people, but Storm tells him otherwise. Beast and Cecilia, who is horrified over her new costume, find Wolverine and the real murderers, who aren’t the N’garai that Wolverine suspected were behind this. Marrow joins them in fighting the demons, but they are all captured and taken to the N’garai home world.
The X-Men are then transported to Ukraine, where they encounter many dead bodies and another cairn to the N’garai home world. Storm and the others follow. The X-Men encounter Pilgrimm in the other world and discover that the demons are the Ru’tai, who were inspired to overthrow the slave laboring N’garai after Wolverine came and slaughtered many of them. The X-Men attack Pilgrimm and the Ru’tai, but it is Cecilia who finally defeats the demon by accidentally cracking his Eye of Kierokk with her ass. The world falls apart as the X-Men escape with the civilians. They appear in Las Vegas. However, unbeknownst to them, Pilgrimm has traveled to their world in the disguise of a human student. Maggott is cleared of all charges while Marrow and Cecilia become more confident in their roles as X-Men.
X-Man #37
Spider-Man tries to talk Nate Grey out of erasing everybody’s memory of him. Nate ignores him and begins erasing the memory of him from the friends he recently made. When Spidey tries to stop him physically, Nate’s energies go wild, mixing with Spider-Man’s memories and creating an avatar of the Age of Apocalypse version of Gwen Stacy. That moment they are attacked by armored men. While Nate fights them, Gwen falls and Spider-Man tries to save her but she fades away. A furious Spider-Man returns to the roof shortly after Nate has been subdued and carried to their ship.
Uncanny X-Men #355
Wolverine is taking Sauron away, when he is stopped in the woods by the new Alpha Flight team. They claim he is wanted for murder in Canada. Rogue, on her way back from meeting the doctor who claims he can remove her mutant gene, sees the attack and brings back the X-Men. In the end Alpha Flight realizes that they had been set up by their bosses and decide to leave and have a serious talk with them.
Meanwhile in Alaska, Jean Grey is suddenly sporting her old Phoenix attire and Cyclops is worried about it.
Deadpool #16
Deadpool is not having such a good time, even though he refuses to admit it. Weasel has walked out on him and in return, Wade leaves a time bomb in Weasel’s now empty apartment. Blind Al is no longer talking to him. In an attempt to define if Wade is or is not their Messiah, Landue Luckman & Lake send him on a mission to Greece to kidnap a man named Mr. G, who hasn’t paid his debts. Wade drags Bullseye along with him and, after the usual soldier killing and such, they both easily succeed at their job. Even though they arent real buds, as such a thing doesn’t exist in their line of work, Bullseye warns Wade to take a vacation and try to figure out who he really is, or else things won’t turn out good for him. Elsewhere, Patch is enjoying a fun time as business is going well at his Hellhouse ever since both Deadpool and T-Ray have stopped showing up. When an angry Ajax and his soldier enter, claiming they are after Deadpool and want him dead, Patch even pays the guy to make sure he succeeds.
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Bullseye is the ? !
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Wolverine #123-130
Wolverine gets careless and winds up in a trap set by his former enemies, Roughhouse & Bloodscream. Fortunately he is able to escape & after a wild fight with Roughhouse, he defeats him and the two are arrested.
On his way home from training, Wolverine stumbles across an event where Captain America is raising charity. He sees he might be in danger, and the two wind up fighting together against a group of invisible men. They find goggles to help them see the enemies and then defeat them easily.
During a nightmare, Jubilee is attacked by Jessica Drew, Jean Grey, Psylocke, Rogue, Tyger Tiger, Yukio. All of them are female friends of Wolverine & are currently under the control of Viper. Kitty Pryde comes to her rescue and tells her that Viper did not get a chance to brainwash her. They meet Logan in Japan, and also meet up with another ally, the Black Widow. Finally Wolverine is about to ? Viper when Jubilee stops him and tells him to have mercy. We come to find out that Viper had blackmailed Wolverine into marrying her as a means to secure her criminal empire in Madripoor.
All star cast of females in that one:
All of the females leave except for Kitty, so Logan explains to her the whole Viper situation and then the two are officially married. After the Wedding Sabretooth shows up and battles Wolverine. We learn that Sabretooth's body is now forged with adamantium & right before he is about to ? Logan, Kitty saves him.
While Sabretooth hold Kitty prisoner, Hydra & the Hand are working together led by Matsuo Tsurayaba to take over Madripoor and Wolverine is left to fight them off. Reports come in that Hulk is now in town under the Joe Fixit alias, but it was just Wolverine hacking into a computer to throw off the opposition. Wolverine mocks the powers of different X-Men & Avengers to throw off the enemies, and eventually he meets up with Sabretooth & Kitty. The three fall into a trap set by Tsurayaba.
We also find out that Tyger Tiger, Viper & Jessica Drew are also being held captive. Logan, Creed & Kitty are able to free the prisoners and stop the Hydra/Hand takeover. The result leaves Viper as the ruler of Madripoor, and Logan still bound to her as husband and wife. -
X-Men v2 #76
In this issue we find out the origin of Maggot: At first, he kept his past to himself, but Maggott eventually revealed his origin to Wolverine. Maggott had been born a sickly child in Apartheid-era South Africa and was named Japheth. He was always very ill and he could not digest solid food. Feeling himself to be a burden on his family, he ran away from home. Having left home, hoping to die, he was found by Magneto who released the slugs from his body and revealed to Japheth his mutant power. This turned his skin blue for the first time, and he named the slugs Eany and Meany. Japheth immediately rejected Magneto's philosophy and his offer to join him after he shortly witnessed later the Master of Magnetism brutally massacre numerous white South African soldiers who were engaged in racist atrocities against black South African civilians (despite the fact that one of these civilians was Japheth's eldest brother who died in the violence).
X-Factor #144
Havok & Shard team up with Mystique and the members of the X.U.E. (from Shard's original timeline). They find out that Dark Beast has infected many humans with a strand of the Legacy virus that only affects humans, and if released they will destroy the human population. Dark Beast tries to escape with one of the infected humans, but is stopped by his former partner Random. They all catch up to them, and Dark Beast releases a gas that helps him escape. In the aftermath, Mystique makes a quick getaway back to more important things, while Ever promises to go back into the tunnels and look after the other infected prisoners of the Dark Beast. Random and Mary Stewart accompany him, while Havok and Shard join up with the X.U.E. to go about fixing the future.
X-Force #76
Domino begins working as a freelance mercenary at the Hellhouse. She winds up in a game set up by Arcade where she has to fight some talented foes. Even in her weakened state, she wins them all until she is forced to fight Shatterstar. Neither want to fight, but Arcade is holding Rictor hostage, so they must and Domino wins. Afterwards we find out the whole operation was set up by Mojo who is trying to keep tabs on Shatterstar.
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X-Man #38
X-Man & Spidey are able to defeat the random robotic-like attackers, and also stop a bridge from collapsing in the process. However, they are still hated by the city and after Spider-Man leaves Nate feels alone, until his mother Madelyn Pryor returns for him.
Generation X #40
Synch finally wakes up from his coma, and tells the police officer that the two bullies didn't do it #NoSnitching. Later, back at the school, Nicole (one of the St. Croix twins) tells the story of how her brother Marius, better known as Emplate, turned their older sister Monet into Penance as punishment for her not wanting to be partners with him to conquer a reality. Nicole and Claudette walked in the room after the transformation, and banished Emplate to another dimension. Penance followed along since he was the only person who could change her back. To make up for her older sister’s disappearance, the twins merged and took her place. After this touching story Nicole is determined to make things right with her older sister, and after joining with Claudette, they merge with Penance, releasing the real Monet. Now free, the real Monet feels guilty that her little sisters are now trapped in the form of Penance, since only her brother can reverse the terrible curse.
In space, a long time enemy of Emma Frost named Bianca Laneige materializes on an alien ship, using her mutant powers to transform the life forms into her dwarf slaves. She orders the ship to go to Massachusetts so that she can settle a score with Emma for imprisoning her in another dimension.
X-Factor #145
The X.U.E. from Shard's future have now teamed up with Havok, and Forge has given them a place to stay, even though he tells Alex he never wants to hear from him again. One of the X.U.E. members, Greystone, finds the child version of a ? man from his future who kills thousands including his mother. He intends to ? the child, but instead they wind up stopping a traumatic event in the boys life, thus possibly altering his future.
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Uncanny X-Men #356-358
Cyclops invites the original members of the X-Men to Alaska to have them check on Jean Grey who he is worried about because she began wearing her Phoenix costume. While in Alaska the team encounters some strange occurrences and then the town is attacked by savage crows. They are able to stop it, though they never figure out the exact cause. Later, while packing to leave Alaska, Jean Grey is attacked psyionically and before she is left catatonic she says "Betsy!".
Meanwhile, Bishop & Deathbird are still lost in an unknown part of space. They crash land on planet foreign to them and wind up fighting its inhabitants. They are rescued by a man named Karel, a fellow offworlder who was shot down and landed on this planet like them. He leads them to a portal that could return Bishop back to earth, however Bishop decides he must stay behind and help the people who are being attacked. He thinks Deathbird has left without him, however she decides to stay with him. They seem to have a love hate relationship with each other.
Deadpool #18 & Deadpool/Death Annual
Deadpool turns down an offer from LL&L to become the Mithras (messiah) when they tell him that a world altering event will be taking place soon. He then goes home and apologized to Blind Al. He says she is free to go, but suddenly is teleported away and punched off a cliff by a man named Ajax. He seemingly dies, but is saved by his former love, Death. She kisses him and makes him remember his past at Dr. Killebrews lab and his experience with Ajax. After endless taunting from Wilson, Ajax was given permission by Killebrew to ? him, who had orchestrated events so that Wilson would mercy ? one of the other inmates, which was against the rules. After removing his heart Wilson's healing factor first manifested itself, regenerating the mercenary a new heart but also costing him his sanity in the process. Taking the codename Deadpool, he hunted down and seemingly killed Ajax. Obviously Ajax has survived and he tracked down Killebrew & tortured him until he gave up the way to find Deadpool, thus the teleportation and punching off the cliff.
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X-Force #77-78
Reignfire & Locus begin to attack members of the DaCosta International board, as he plans to take everything that belongs to Sunspot. Meanwhile, X-Force has landed in Colorado where they stay with a former New Mutant, Skids, who is now a college student. Later, Dani Moonstar is attacked by Reignfire, whom she thinks is Bobby. Soon Locus & Reignfire locate and kidnap all members of the X-Force as well as Skids, who saved Boomers life with her forcefield. They bring them to Las Vegas to ? them, however they forgot about Warpath who has followed them there.
X-Men v2 #77-78
Storm receives a package from a woman who saved her life as a child in Africa named Ainet. It seems as if she is in trouble, and she asks Wolverine, Cannonball, Dr Reyes, Marrow & Maggot to join her in helping. They are taken to Africa with help of Psylocke & her new found teleporting abilities. When they arrive they find that a magical being named Ananasi has taken mind control over the villagers of Storm's home. Psylocke took Storm to the astral plane to fight Ananasi where it is revealed that he is truly the Shadow King. The Shadow King reveals to Psylocke that while he was defeated by Charles Xavier, he was not killed as everyone thought, since he can live feeding only on one dark thought in one man's heart. He only needed time and a chance. Psylocke injured the Shadow King with her psi-blade. The damage was transferred to every being under the control of the Shadow King at the speed of thought. This caused a chain reaction magnifying the assault a trillion times, which destroyed Psylocke's astral being. The wave of psi-energy was so intense and pure that it broke the psi-plane itself, damaging the collective subconscious of every being on Earth, the basis of the psi-plane. Most humans felt things such as déjà vu, nightmares, migraines or nosebleeds. However, those born with psionic, telepathic or intuitive abilities were overloaded and, in a sense, maimed. Jean Grey, Nate Grey, Cable, Emma Frost, Chamber and Bianca LaNiege were devastated. "Maddie" Pryor, Nate Grey's psionic construct made from Madelyne Pryor's psionic remnants, was completely obliterated. Dr. Strange and Spider-Man were also affected.
With the psi-plane damaged and the Shadow King controlling the astral plane, chaos manifested in the world. Psylocke was re-constructed as a creature of shadows due to her exposure to the Crimson Dawn. Her new shadow-astral form was both incredibly powerful and undetectable by the Shadow King. Psylocke pretended to be tempted by Farouk's offer of becoming the Shadow Queen; however, she only wanted to distract him while Storm was freeing the other X-Men. Farouk saw through the trick and Psylocke sent the X-Men to the physical word. She herself remained behind, weakened. Farouk then extended his influence to all the population on Earth. This stretched his power too thin, leaving his nexus point, which is a pink orb and is the equivalent of his soul and mind, vulnerable. Psylocke decides instead of predictably using her psychic knife, to instead subtlety bind his nexus in telepathic shadow tendrils, essentially trapping him in the astral plane while she focuses her power on him. The Shadow King screams in pain as he began losing his grip on all the minds he took, the people of the real world regain their sanity and senses. The Shadow King begins to be dissolved in the shadow, as he tells her that she cannot contain him. She tells him that she is only containing his soul and that the rest of him will disappear into nothing after being cut from its source. Shadow King reminds her that she cannot hold him forever. She is one mind as well and it will keep the total focus of her powers to stop him. As his face disappears from existence, he tells her that the instant she uses her telepathy again the barrier will be weakened and he will be free. Psylocke admits that it is probably true but she accepts this sacrifice, resisting even when Farouk tried to tempting her from the inside. This means Psylocke will not be able to use her psionic abilities any longer. -
X-Man #39-41
Once they relocate to Canada, the new Madelyne seems intent on forcing Nate to admit he needs her. Nate resists, and is troubled by a nightmarish vision of his end: battling a masked madman in a pyramid, a stranger watches from the shadows as Nate and half of the world are consumed by an explosion of his power. This causes him to unleash a huge burst of power in the real world, which awakens three of the Great Beasts: Tundra, Kolomaq, and Somon.
Nate destroys Tundra, and launches Kolomaq and Somon into space to keep them from destroying a nearby town. Madelyne refuses to play the part of the hero and help Nate fight, but returns to teleport him back to Switzerland. While recovering in Madelyne's care, Nate realizes that Threnody's mutant power might not only allow her to escape death, but also to drain his power, keeping it at controllable levels. He seeks her on the psi-plane, but Madelyne jealously interferes. Nate's effort is interrupted when the psi-plane shatters around him, robbing he and Madelyne both of their telepathy. This was a direct result of the battle between Psylocke & Shadow King on the Psi-Plane.
