My Quest to Read All X-Men Related Comics in Order from Beginning to Present time

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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.

 

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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 kill '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 aren’t 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.

I like this Bullseye character, first time I ever encountered him during this quest.

 

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Bullseye is the shit!

 

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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 kill 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 kill 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.

 

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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.

Later, Cannonball is hanging out with X-Force and he stumbles about Boomer & Sunspot kissing. He flips out and tells the team he wants nothing to do with them *clicks feelings button*

 

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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 psycho man from his future who kills thousands including his mother. He intends to kill 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 kill him, who had orchestrated events so that Wilson would mercy kill 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 kill 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.

 

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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.

 

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X-Factor #146

The X.U.E. members decide to intervene in the lives of people who knew their host bodies. Archer - “Jude Black” tries to prove to Rachel that he will not hurt her anymore, and plans to atone for his sins. They are soon attacked by three beings who identify themselves as the People’s Army of Genoshan Mutates, who have come to kill Jude Black for his crimes against their people. Meanwhile, Greystone also returns to the home of his human guise, Brian Young, to confront Brian’s abusive family and try to rescue Brian’s sister. Greystone reveals his true form, and is about to kill Mr. & Mrs. Young, but their daughter talks him out of it, and he is soon summoned away to help Archer. Havok meets with Multiple Man at a sports bar, the two friends reunited after much time apart. Havok asks Multiple Man to join him and his new allies, but Multiple Man turns him down. Polaris soon shows up, apparently Multiple Man rigged this meeting so that Havok and Polaris would also be reunited. The meeting is somewhat tense as Polaris assures Havok she forgives him for walking out on her, and they discuss moving on with their separate lives, when Havok is also summoned away to help Archer. Havok, Fixx, Shard and Greystone arrive, and the enemies quickly depart.

Generation X #42

Generation X is playing miniature golf, when Monet sees a spacecraft like structure, which was not there when they came in, and inside that craft is Bianca LaNeige...Emma Frost’s greatest enemy, who has come to get revenge on Emma. However right then, on the astral plane, Psylocke unwittingly triggers a chain reaction while the Shadow King, and the powers off all psionics in the universe are gone. The team leaves, realizing that Emma’s psi powers don’t work when she tries to make the locals forget what has happened. On their way home, they see Gaia in trouble, just having had a car accident and talking to Chief Authier. Gaia’s telepathic powers are not working either, and Chief Authier reveals that he was a psychic talent too, decides that it’s better to leave Gaia in the team’s hands. Meanwhile, Bianca, also affected by the psi-power loss, and her crew are struck by Albert and Elsie-Dee in their craft.

 

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Uncanny X-Men #359

The day of Rogue’s operation, her conversion from mutant to baseline human, has finally come. In a hidden observation room overlooking the operating room, Dr. Agee explains the situation to Senator Brickman, his wife Mallory (who is actually Mystique in disguise) and special agent Gyrich. Before the operation can start, Mystique steps out and goes into the lab disguised as a nurse and tries to kill Agee. Rouge finds out it is Mystique and leaves with her. They Rogue’s decision, Mystique naturally finds it a betrayal to her kind. Rogue insists she wants to touch and be touched like a normal person and incapacitates Mystique – although the metamorph quickly comes around and follows her. Rogue then tracks down Agee in the Mutopia building and touches him, sifting through his memories to discover whether he’s telling the truth to her about his machine. She discovers Agee’s previous attempts had proved failed, causing the death of a mutant patient and deforming of his mutant sister. Now, however, the machine finally appears to be working. Nevertheless, Rogue ultimately decides to destroy it, fearing it may used against a mutant’s will in the future. Afterwards she finally returns to the X-Mansion.

In Alaska, Jean Grey discovers she has lost her psionic powers. Jean struggles to cope with this and she and Scott decide to prolong their stay in Alaska, until she recuperates.

Cable #55-56

Cable is now living in Hell's Kitchen when he meets up with Irene Merryweather who is upset with Cable for messing with her mind in Switzerland. She tells him that she found Blaquesmith in trouble, so he goes to find him. When he arrives he sees Domino is there already, and the two have a slight argument. On her way home she is attacked by a mysterious villain who had been hired to kill her, and is apparently going by the name Blockade.

Cable senses some trouble for Domino and rushes to help, but by the time he gets there she is unconscious and he takes her to the hospital. From his psi-rapport with Domino he is able to detect who the attack was and he finds him. After beating his ass he goes into Blockade's mind and basically shuts it down leaving him catatonic forever. Police send a copy of the report to SHIELD who figures out that it is Cable, and he is now a wanted man.

X-Men v2 #79

Marrow becomes infuriated when a healded Callisto tells her she is leaving and wants her to stay with the X-Men. Cannonball, whom she has a crush on, must go back home to tend to his sick mother. Marrow, hurt by both events, goes on a rampage in New York and assaults several people. Cannonball, Storm and Callisto try to track her down, but Callisto keeps on cryptically implying that she made Marrow stay with the X-Men because Callisto’s life is in danger. Suddenly, the two officers that Marrow beat up during Operation: Zero Tolerance show up to arrest Marrow for the assaults. Before she kills them, Cannonball asks Marrow if she wants to still be a monster and Marrow agrees that she doesn't. Storm and Callisto arrive, the latter saying her goodbyes to Marrow and then leaves. Storm and Marrow begin to repair their relationship, as they take Marrow back home. A figure watches all this transpire and is glad that Marrow is now with the X-Men. Meanwhile, Beast recommends to Maggott to join Generation X in their Massachusetts Academy.

 

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Deadpool#18-20

Deadpool, who survived breaking his neck thanks to Death, kidnaps Dr Killebrew who informs him that he knows how to kill Ajax. He brings him to a German woman's home in the Swizz Alps and they take it over. When Ajax shows up, Deadpool traps him under an avalanche, along with the woman's (Ilaney) home. Apparently Deadpool must kill Ajax or be haunted by ghosts of his victims forever. When Killebrew informs Deadpool that he actually doesn't know how to stop Ajax, that's when he arrives again. Killebrew decides to help, and sacrifices himself top help Deadpool and getting killed by Ajax in the process. Wade and Ilaney jump off a cliff in order to escape, but unfortunately Ilaney doesn't survive the fall. Wade, infuriated, sets up traps for Ajax and finally lures him underwater where he is able to snap the mans neck. When he returns to Ilaney he finds that she actually did survive.

Deadpool is happier than he's ever been, but still doesn't understand why Blind Al won't leave after he set her free. He goes to Landau Luckman & Lake and captures Montgomery, who showed him his future and gave him optimism, to repay him. He brings him to a casino where he plans to use his precog abilities, however they wind up fighting a french guy. During the fight Monty is pushed out a window, but he lands in a pool. This makes him extremely happy because he thought he would die, proving there can be surprises in life. Unfortunately, when he gets back to LL&L the overboss Dixon has the memories erases because he doesn't want people liking Deadpool.

X-Force #79-80

With all of X-Force shackled in a desolated building in Las Vegas, Reignfire begins to explain his origin. He was not an evil Sunspot, which many had believed, but a clone of him created from his cellular material. Gideon injected a sample of Sunspot's blood into his container. With a set of genetic material to duplicate, the protoplasmic goo began to pattern itself on the DNA sample given to it and thus shared Sunspot's appearance and powers. Another added bonus was the fact that, when he was within close proximity, he could activate a telepathic link with his host and psychically imprint himself onto Sunspot—explaining why Sunspot would sometimes seem to be evil.

He intended to kill them all, but Warpath showed up and spoiled the plans. Skids battles Locus who is about to teleport Warpath’s head off. Skids’ powers interrupt the portal however, and she and Locus are teleported thousands of miles from Las Vegas to an icy wasteland. On the streets of Las Vegas, Doctor Joshua has arrived, and blasts Reignfire with an energy disruptor. Sunspot encounters Doctor Joshua, and takes the disruptor, which he continues to use on Reignfire - only Reignfire’s physical form is taken apart - but his remains engulf Sunspot, combining the two!

Moonstar uses a psychic arrow on Reignfire and learns that Sunspot is still in there and struggling to wrest control of his body. While X-Force continue to quell Reignfire’s destructive rage, they locate the disruptor, planning to free their friend from Reignfire’s hold. Eventually they trap Reignfire in a chapel, and bombard him with their powers, before using the disruptor on him, which separates Sunspot and Reignfire’s form. Sunspot, generally fine, proceeds to reabsorb all the power Reignfire stole from him, and Reignfire is left a withered husk. SHIELD arrives and takes the remains of Reignfire and Doctor Joshua into custody, leaving X-Force free.

Sunspot arrives at DaCosta International headquarters and explains his situation to the Board, and is cleared of any wrongdoings. Arriving in San Francisco after Sunspot arranged for them to fly from Las Vegas to San Fran, X-Force realize Sunspot’s trust fund is no longer frozen. Sunspot takes them to a warehouse which he is leasing from DaCosta International for the team’s new headquarters. Sunspot announces that he is taking them all to Hawaii for a vacation.

Meanwhile Skids and Locus are stuck in a snow-covered wasteland. Skids tells Locus they should work together to survive, but Locus only wishes her powers weren’t cancelled out by Skids’ power so she could scatter Skids across the globe. They begin to fight, before a mysterious stranger arrives and puts them in a trance.

Cable #57

Cable finds out that Blaquesmith is being held hostage in some tomb in Egypt. When he arrives he is suddenly affected, like all other pii-mutants, by Pyslocke/Shadow King battle, and like everyone else he loses his powers. He is able to free Blaquesmith, but now he has that to worry about.

X-Factor #148

Havok invites Polaris out to talk about their issues, when Peter Gyrich shows up to take him in for terrorism. Polaris saves him and the two are able to work together to defeat them. When one of Gyrich' droids malfunctions, Havok saves his life, but he still decides to arrest him afterwards. Luckily, Val Cooper shows up and overrides the decision, taking Polaris and Havok with her... and the two decide their relationship is officially over.

 

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X-Man #42-44

Nate & Maddie are flying over the Atlantic Ocean when an earthquake occurs and is approaching a small town. Nate is able to stop it, but his intervention causes an avalanche at the mountain. Nate & Maddie minimize the destruction, and then have fun in town before a fire breaks out that Nate can't control oblivious to some strange, mechanical creatures fanning the fire. During the commotion, the man named Ness or Witness finally finds Nate, just before he flies in the air and creates a thunderstorm, overexerting himself and passing out. When they go to find where he landed, he is gone.

Maddie finds him later at some hotel recovering. He wants to go back to New York to the X-Men to find out they he lost his Psi-Powers, but she won't let him. Meanwhile, murders are occurring in Dublin by some guy who is burning vicitims alive and stealing their energy. Nate tracks him down because he has life patterns of an Age of Apocalypse inhabitant, but when he finds him he sees he looks exactly like him.

Then we find out that it is actually Holocaust, now going by Nemesis, who can shape change now. With Madelyne's help, Nemesis's armor implodes, leaving him to escape in his human form. Apparently he has plans to go hook up with the Dark Beast.

 

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Exalibur #120-125

This will be the last 6 issues of Excalibur volume 1, which I'm pretty happy about.

Peter Wisdom has left Excalibur because he finds out that Kitty Pryde has a crush on some guy she worked with at SHIELD. Colossus & Meggan have issues because she called him out on having feelings for her. Douglock helped Moira & Wolfsbane get out of quarantine, thought Rahne was hella mad at him afterwards. Nightcrawler is starting to feel out of the loop when he hasn't heard from the X-Men in a while.

Excalibur is approached by Sabra, a mutant from Israel who is a member of Xavier's Underground. They help her with a the threat of Xavier's son Legion. While David was considered deceased, some of his alternate personalities remained trapped between life and death, manifesting as spirits. When the spirits started terrorizing Israel, Excalibur was called to stop them. After learning that the spirits were refusing death, Meggan used her empathy to calm their rage, convincing them to go "towards the light". In return for this help, Sabra gave Nightcrawler a disk that contained information on Xavier's whereabouts.

Later the team goes to Peru to a hidden Operation Zero Tolerance base that is still in operation, because the disk told them that Xavier may be there. The are attacked by Prime Sentinels who are dressed up as the X-Men. They learn that the Prime Sentinels need help, as one of the mutants bought here is responsible for killing all the others. When they break into the chamber he is being held in, they discover not Xavier, but Mimic! They battle him, with him using their powers again them, but finally subdue him and take him to Muir for medical attention.

Meanwhile, as the sunsets on Muir, a teary-eyed Meggan leaves the dock - when suddenly a boat arrives, and Captain Britain arrives home and suggests that he and Meggan get married next week. Meggan is excited, but she feels like she should tell him about her small crush on Colossus.

During the bachelor & bachelorette parties, Colossus tells Brian Braddock that he had feelings for Meggan, even though it was the other way around. Suddenly, Crazy Gang shows up with a new leader who wants revenge on Excalibur. We find out that the mystery leader is Feron, former Excalibur member who was pretty much forgotten about. He felt that Excalibur didn't care about him, because they had never searched for him after his disappearance. He discovered the Crazy Gang who were just burying one of their own: the Executioner. The Executioner was a robot, completely hidden in green robes, who wielded an axe. Feron stole the robes and the axe and posed as the Executioner to the Crazy Gang, turning them against Excalibur again. They invaded Captain Britain's bachelor party, but when Feron was unmasked, he and Excalibur settled their differences, once he realized that Excalibur was quite busy dealing with all other manners of threats. He and the Crazy Gang were then invited to the wedding.

Pretty much every character from the Excalibur series shows up on the wedding issue to tie up loose ends about what they've been doing I guess. Douglock has partial amnesia from drinking too much the night before, so he must get checked out. Moira decides to take a break from working on the Legacy virus. In the end though, Nightcrawler, Kitty & Colossus decide to leave Excalibur and head back home to the X-Men to help find Xavier.

Pretty cool final issue, but I'm interested to see how they fit in with the new X-Men.

 

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Uncanny X-Men #360 & X-Men v2 #80

These two issues were the 35 year X-Men anniversary so they were both double sized.

The impending launch of a rocket from Cape Citadel, Florida – the location where the original X-Men had their first battle against Magneto – stirs public controversy. In actuality, the rocket serves a secret project which aims at tracking and terminating all mutants worldwide. The X-Men’s old ally, Dr. Peter Corbeau, is also involved the project, but suddenly goes missing. Corbeau is actually abducted and held captive by a team of strangely familiar but unknown mutants, who have all being banded together by none other than the long missing Professor X.

They attack a cruise ship and kidnap former Shadowcat. They bring Kitty to Xavier’s hideout in an abandoned bunker in Florida. There, an uncharacteristically cold Xavier reveals he needs Kitty’s help. Kitty manages to shut down a computer virus that was connected to Xavier and was killing him, but before she can extract any answers, she is placed in storage. Elsewhere, Storm, Wolverine, Rogue and Marrow, investigate Corbeau’s disappearance. While the government considers the X-Men the culprits behind his kidnapping, the team has a secret rendezvous with their old ally, Val Cooper. Val indicates that Corbeau’s kidnapping may be somehow connected with the impending launch. Meanwhile, Colossus and Nightcrawler, desperate to enlist the X-Men’s help in finding Kitty, travel to the mansion in Westchester. There, they meet Cecilia Reyes, who tips them off to the current location of the X-Men and hands them over the old Blackbird to use. Elsewhere, Storm, Wolverine, Rogue and Marrow fly towards the Cape Citadel on a jet arranged for them by Val, intent on tracking down the missing Corbeau. However, in mid-air their plane is shot down by the counterfeit X-Men and a fight ensues. Thankfully, the team is rescued by the intervention of Colossus and Nightcrawler, who pick them up with the Blackbird. However, one of the evil “X-Men” damages the Blackbird and causes it to crash.

Kitty escapes from the “X-Men” and saves Dr. Corbeau from them too. The Blackbird is totaled but everyone is safe except for Nightcrawler. Shadowcat meets up with the others to stop the “X-Men” form hijacking the Benassi Rocket. Xavier turns out to not be himself and hijacks the rocket. Rogue absorbs the powers of Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine to temporarily become one super mutant. The real X-Men destroy the satellite. In the end, the fake Xavier changes himself into a mechanical creature calling itself Cerebro; it reabsorbs the fake X-men into itself.

 

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Cable#58

Blaquesmith sends Cable to Greece where he meets with a group of Askani worshippers who were formerly being led by Cha'vayre. Here he found a weapon from the future, but also made an enemy within the group. Meanwhile, SHIELD has been keeping tabs on Cable, and finally they decide it is time to attack him with a secret weapon called Agent 18.

X-Factor #149

While Havok was attempting to reform X-Factor, one of his time-traveling team members, Greystone, created an experimental time travel device to return him to the future. It exploded in mid-air, seemingly killing Havok and Greystone in front of their teammates.

This is the last issue of X-Factor v1 and I know that Havok was not killed, but transported to a different universe creating the Mutant-X series, which I probably won't be reading.

 

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Generation X #43-45

Bianca LeNaige and her alien crew hit the Massachusetts Acedemy, and Bianca fights Emma 1v1. Emma wins in the end, and we find out the beef started when Emma took over Bianca's failing business. And also boobs:

Bianca and her crew are then forced to fix up the school. Synch goes out to meet with the guys who put him in a coma, and surprisingly he gives them money to buy a new car in order to end the cycle of hatred, as he put it. Meanwhile Husk goes back home to be with Cannonball and their sick mother. When everyone gets back home, they find that the entire biosphere has been stolen and transported to a different place and time.

They decide that losing the biosphere isn't too big of a deal. Later in the issue, Emma Frost & Jono Starsmore get their powers back, and Emma tells the team that there are going to be some new changes, one being that Gaia is now formerly enrolled in the school.

Deadpool@21

Zoe Culloden finally reveals a holographic image of the upcoming threat: a big alien named Tiamat, which Deadpool is supposed to kill! Wade’s a bit hesitant about having to kill and teleports away. Zoe receives a message from Noah, Overboss Dixon's right hand man, about the mindwipe being done to Monty. She even discovers a hidden agenda of Dixon and teleports away together with Monty. At the same time, Gerry meets up with his old friend Dr. Strange. They discuss other heroes who might be suitable to deal with Tiamat, but Gerry is confident that Deadpool is the only perfect one. Some time later at the LL&L base, Dixon and Noah learn of Zoe and Monty’s departure, thinking they are traitors. Dixon dispatches Noah to a base of his where the radars have gone off-line. Noah leaves, telling Dixon he still trusts him and the Mithras Project. Once Noah is gone, Dixon thinks that’s why Noah is going to lose and he hopes God will forgive him for it. Back home, Wade gets the unsuspected visit of both Zoe and Monty, and she informs him about what Dixon did to Monty.

 

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Uncanny X-Men #361

Storm & Kitty Pryde meet up with Black Tom Cassidy in Korea in order to steal back Juggernauts power gem, which is causing him to die. Apparently he was lured to Korea by word of a second power gem to enhance his own, however he was tricked and his power gem was leeched from his own body. When they are brought to him, they find that he has disappeared so Storm & Kitty go investigate. When they find him, he is destroying the city but is also definitely gettnig deathly sick.

Suddenly Gambit shows up and begins to attack Juggernaut and we find out that he has also been hired to steal the gem. They arrive at the temple where the gem is being held and must fight off many of the people protecting it. Gambit is able to steal the gem, and though Storm & Kitty think he double crossed them, he winds up returning it to Juggernaut & decides to go back to the X-Men with them.

[X-Men v2 #81

Gambit is back at the Mansion and his reunion with Rogue isn't as bad as he though, as they started off joking with each other right off the bat. Wolverine warns him not to betray the team or Rogue ever again. Rogue & Gambit go off to Boston together to discuss their differences, where they are confronted with an evil woman named Kali.

They are able to stop her and Rogue & Gambit make up. Rogue tells him she loves him, but Gambit can not say it back which causes Rogue to fly off, unaware that some unseen force is purposely holding him back from saying it.

 

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X-Force #82

X-Force is approached by a kid named Jesse Aaronson, who is a mutant that goes by the name Bedlam. He tells them about how he met Domino and brought her to a place called the Aguilar Institute, where she could find Ekatarina Gryaznova, the woman from Zero Tolerance who implanted something in Domino's brain. In return, he needed help finding his long lost brother. However, Domino was captured and he needed X-Force's help to save her.

We find out that Gryaznova was a double agent, and Bastion transformed her into a horrible creature when he found out. She returned to Aguilar Institute where they made her a hybrid of nature's most efficient predators, and now goes by Gryphon.

X-Force makes it to the institute and Bedlam finds Domino first, and he manages to shut down the mechanical piece in her brain with his mutant power, therefore Domino no longer has her powers dampened. After defeating Gryphon, she self destructs the institute before they can get answers about it, killing herself in the process.

Wolverine v2 #131

Wolverine's wife, Viper who is now the ruler of Madripoor's underworld, had sent a group of Hydra men to a lost city where they contracted an extremely deadly disease. Now Logan must go find it so an antidote can be made before the infection spreads further. However, while on the mission he finds a Hyrda agent who tells him that Viper had lied to get Wolverine on the mission, since they never found the virus in the first place. He then gets attacked by a giant spider holding the virus, he kills it but not before he gets bitten. Obviously he survives due to his healing factor, and brings back a sample to Viper, but destroys it in front of her.