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

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Cable #59-62

These 4 issues make up an arc called the Nemesis Contract, where Cable is being hunted by SHIELD.

Cable is in a lot of pain now that his TK powers are gone, thus letting the techno-virus run rampant in his body. Next we see a man named Jack Truman AkA Agent 18, out in the African wilderness taking a break from his job as a SHIELD agent, until he is found and assigned to his new mission... taking down Cable.

Truman meets up with GW Bridge, suspicious of his past with Cable, and then apparently Truman has something to do with having Bridge transferred away from the case, and off to Washington. After reading more files, Truman begins to suspect that Cable is not a villain at all. In any case, he devises a plan to let loose an electrical beast named ZZZAX on the streets of Hell's Kitchen in order to bring Cable out. This works as Cable defeats the creature, but is found by Truman.

The two begin to fight, each respecting each other as they do, until they are stopped by SHIELD claiming they will take over from here, which pisses Truman off. Cable uses this moment of distraction and is on the run again. Meanwhile, SHIELD blows up half of Hell's Kitchen looking for him. Finally Truman finds him again and beats the shit out of him, however he notices how weak Cable is, and decides it is not over and he will get answers.

Cable is kept hostage with a SHIELD scientist named Belgrade, and Truman begins to regret taking Cable in. We find out that Belgrade plans to cut the techno-material out of Cable's body and use it to upgrade a group of 'Nemesis Robots'. GW Bridge & Truman both find out the truth, and both plan to do something about this cover-up. Irene Merryweather meets up with Bridge and he tells her Cable's location, therefore Blaquesmith is able to contact him telepathically and wake him out of his coma. Then, Truman arrives and removes Cable from his shackles. We then find out that Belgrade did infect some of his robots with the virus, however they became uncontrollable and killed him. Now these four robots are on the loose in the SHIELD aircraft, where Cable & Truman are. Nick Fury is finally briefed on what's going on and he heads into the aircraft to help take down these robots. Fury & Cable work together to take out the robots. Then Truman finds Cable and the two have one final battle before the building collapses around them. Cable escapes but Truman is injured badly, and the last we see of him is while he is being transformed by SHIELD... we will see what they turn him into (pretty sure its Deathlok).

Meanwhile, Bridge & Irene go to the Daily Bugle and convince the man in charge to let her write a story on the real truth of this whole cover-up. Fury fires all parties responsible for the cover-up and they face charges in the Senate. The only people whose name are left out are Cable & Truman.

 

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Deadpool # 22

Deadpool is really pissed that Zoe Culloden & Monty stopped by unannounced so he punches her, and teleports away to meet with Siryn. Cable sees him approaching Siryn while X-Force is asleep and takes him outside to talk. Deadpool pisses him off, probably by insinuating that he is a pedophile, and the two fight. However, while fighting the two have a bit of a breakthrough where they understand each other, and tell their trouble. How touching...

Meanwhile, Overboss Dixon officially succeeded in sending off his right-hand man, Noah, to his death. He seems to regret it, but obviously he is going power-crazy and Zoe, Deadpool & Monty find out about it.

X-Force #83

Cannonball visits home to check on his sick mother. While getting some air, he tracks down a girl who seems to be in trouble, however she leads him into a trap and is attacked by some giant alien-like creature named Ulysses Dragonblood. They knock out Sam, and we find out that they were meaning to set someone else up. The two, Ulysses & Arcadia, are then attacked by an enemy. Cannonball defeats him, but more follow.

In San Francisco, Bedlam begins to be hunted by people he formerly worked for. X-Force stops them from taking him, and we find out these agents work for M.U.S.E. an agency dedicated to placing mutants in safer locations, basically working to protect mutants. Finally, Bedlam tells his life story, beginning with his parents death when he was five. He and his brother were split up, and he had tests being run on him until he was 15 when MUSE finally saved him. However, MUSE believes that his brother is a figment of his imagination created when all of his family was taken from him.

 

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This next one has nothing to do with any X-Men really, but its on the reading list so I'm just going to read the summaries of it.

Live Kree or Die #1-4 (Ironman v3 #7, Captain America v3 #8, Quicksilver #10 & Avengers v3 #7)

Apparently a group of Kree soldiers called the Lunatic Legion want revenge for the Avengers destroying their empire. They set up a deal with a business woman to retrieve a power plant. Tony Stark finds out about this and heads to the plant where he is attacked by Carol Danvers, who he'd recently pissed off calling her an alcoholic. During the fight the Kree arrive and steal the plant. Danvers flies after them, ignoring Avengers protocol to help an innocents first.

Captain America gets a call from Danvers, now known as Warbird, that she is fighting the Legion and he goes off to find her, but not before she is captured. They are basically hosting a concentration camp, gassing prisoners to death. Cap arrives and frees Warbird and the prisoners. Cap is furious when she says she didn't tell any other Avengers, but is quickly back to fighting. Once again Warbird tries to prove herself and flies off to fight, but is captured again and taken towards to moon.

Quicksilver meets with Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch, and the three teleport to the Blue Area of the Moon to find Warbird. They find out that the Kree are trying to turn all humans into their race. They split up and Quicksilver rescues Warbird and leaves her in a room, telling her to stay out of trouble but once he’s gone, she takes a drink of something which resembles alcohol and transforms into Warbird, drunk once again (I like this bitch). Wonder Man arrives and they start to defeat the Kree but drunken Carol shows up shooting wildly, injuring some of the Avengers, and forcing a retreat to earth.

Warbird receives a court martial at the hands of her fellow Avengers, the proceedings being chaired by Thor. Iron Man, Captain America and Quicksilver provide evidence against her relating to her alcoholism, her lack of professionalism and her inability to follow Avengers procedures. Before a verdict is forthcoming, the Vision receives a call from the Moon saying the Lunatic Legion is still a threat. They bring along the reserves, Justice & Firestar and head for the moon without Warbird who quits. They begin to defeat the opponent, however Carol decided to head for the moon herself, but the air gets too thin and she heads back to earth for a drink. They manage to defeat Kree, but who knows what Warbird will do now.

 

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X-Force #83

We find out that the people who attacked Cannonbal, Ulysses & Arcadia are Argos, Stranglehold, Zona & Pyre and they make up a group called The Sword.

Arcadia teleports the rest of X-Factor to help them. They defeat The Sword and we find out that Ulysses is protecting Arcardia because she has reality shifting powers that she still is not sure how to use correctly. There is a race of people called the Deviants who are battling each other and want to use Arcadia as a weapon against their enemy. Ulysses returns with her to their home planet, however this is not the end of that battle.

X-Men Liberators #1-4

This should be a cool little mini-series focusing around Wolverine, Nightcrawler & Colossus (3 guys who used to be good friends before they switched teams and shit).

Wolverine & Nightcrawler accompany Colossus on a trip to Russia. While on their way we see a man named Sergei running a sort of concentration camp called Province 13 for raising mutants to use as weapons. However, one of the more viscous mutants escapes, and his touch kills. While Colossus is off at his parents grave he is attacked by Sergei's troops, but he escapes. However, Wolvering is injured in the forest by the creature who escaped Province 13 and he is taken prisoner after the creature runs away. Province 13 also finds Omega Red in the Savage Land and brings him back.

Nightcrawler is able to rescue Wolverine, though he is very weak. Omega Red confronts Sergei about why X-Men are involved with Province 13. As a team they are able to take down the whole operation, and Sergei kills himself in the process.

 

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These next four issues are a crossover arc involving Nate Grey & Cable, its called Blood Brothers.

X-Man #45-47 & Cable #63

Nate & Maddie are still in Ireland and he has a nightmare about destroying the world accidentally. He wakes up and sees an image of some tech-gnome casting the dream into him, but it disappears. Meanwhile, we see the guy named Ness, who has been stalking Nate, mixing it up with some strange creatures from his race known as the Hellbent. Two strange twin girls and their pet wold try to kill him, but only manage to kill his friend. Before he dies, he warns him to go to the Philippines to deal with this Tech-Gnome crisis, which is where Nate & Madelyn Pryor are currently teleporting to.

In the Philippines they find the base of the mysterious Blaquesmith who appears to be the creator of the Tech-Gnomes and the man messing with Nate's dreams all as tests to see what Nate is all about, and to prepare him for this end of the world possibility. Nate and Maddie are then teleported by him to Latveria, where a strange pyramid crashes down from the sky destroying Castle Doom (Dr Doom hasn't been in Latveria since the Onslaught arc). The Avengers are called off from interfering by Nick Fury, who says no one is to go there without word from him first.

Suddenly, the door to the pyramid opens and out comes Stryfe!!! along with his crew, the Dark Riders, ready to set up shop now that the powerful psis of the world are at their weakest.

Madelyne teleports to Scott and Jean’s house in Alaska and saves Jean from being slain. Back in Latveria, Nate reclaims his telepathy, after being attacked by Psynapse and becomes more powerful than ever. He is captured, however, by Stryfe who starts siphoning Nate’s psi-energies into himself.

As Madelyne returns to Latveria, she is reunited with Cable. Meanwhile, in Tramahoi, Ness is about to demand some answers from Blaquesmith. Next, Cable and Madelyn storm the Castle (no pun) and must fight a bunch of robots. Finally, Cable makes it to Stryfe in time to save Nate Grey, however the two are defeated after Cable loses his edge with Stryfe making jokes about raping his dead wife... lol fucked up.

As soon as the tables turn in Stryfe's advantage, Madelyn Pryor becomes a traitor and takes his side. Cable & Nate are able to escape while Maddy & Stryfe look over their newly conquered country. However, Nate Grey wakes up wanting to save Maddy, and when the pyramid starts growing, he rushes in. Meanwhile, Ness has showed up and realizes this is the place he foresaw Nate destroying the world. When Nate he rushes Stryfe and is attacked, Maddy shows her true colors and protects him. He steals much of her life energy, and Cable rushes to her side while Nate & Stryfe battle one on one. Suddenly, Ness appears in the pyramond, urging Nate to remember his vision. Nate uses his telekinesis, locking Doom’s Power Siphon device on Stryfe’s head, catching him into an energy-feedback-loop cycle, until he overloads and explodes. The crisis past, Ness, Nate, Madelyne and Cable all gather together as a new day dawns for Latveria.

 

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THE HUNT FOR XAVIER

The next 6 issues revolve around the X-Men finally trying to find Charles Xavier after he went missing during Zero Tolerance.

Uncanny X-Men #362-364 & X-Men v2 #82-84

We start off with SHIELD trying to take down Pyro in Nebraska, who is spiraling out of control spreading fires and seemingly called for Xavier. Nick Fury approaches the X-Men about this and asks for their help finding him.

In Nebraska, the X-Men succeed in saving lives from Pyro and dousing his flames, however he becomes burnt out and near death when SHIELD steps in and takes him into custody. We also see that some unidentified figure was possibly the cause of the fires, and Pyro was just running from him. Meanwhile, we see that Xavier is on the run with an unknown accomplice. Also, Dr. Cecilia Reyes is now running her own medical office at the Salem Center where she recieves a huge package from Moira MacTaggart. It turns out to be her own version of cerebro, which Kitty uses to try to find Xavier. They receive two different matches for his bio-signature, one in San Francisco and one in Russia so the X-Men split up to find him.

Storm, Colossus, Rogue & Gambit make it to Russie and come across a giant ice palace where they think they'll find the professor, and once inside they find a lot of dead monks.

There they encounter a huge crystal barrier, and upon entering find themselves in a world of altered realities where a little girl called Nina uses her psychic powers to try and keep them away. Nina is taking her orders from someone that she calls "Charley." The X-Men find a way out of their warped reality; strong emotions. When they escape Nina's guardian, Renée (who was an old friend of Charles Xavier and was part of the Genoshan war), identifies them as the X-Men. Nina is upset, though; they have let in the very monster that she was trying to prevent access to her. It is called Cerebro, and it has come for Charles Xavier, and it is to eliminate all opposition.

 

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Hunt for Xavier continued...

The real Professor Xavier is revealed to be on Alcatraz Island, apparently a prisoner of the new Brotherhood of Mutants. Charles lookin like a G in his prison suit though...

Meanwhile some other form of Cerebro hunts down a latent mutant female and apparently kills her? Maybe. Then it makes its way to Area 52 in Utah.

Wolverine, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler & Marrow arrive in San Francisco. They pay a visit to an old friend of Wolverine who winds up telling them they can find Professor X with the Brotherhood in Alcatraz, and when they arrive there they are attacked. The Brotherhood still has Toad & Blob but Mimic & Post have also joined now.

Their enemies know their tactics and training. It becomes evident why when they find Xavier, who turns out to be not their prisoner, but their teacher. A powerless Xavier tells them that enemies can be bound together by the need to fight a mutual foe. A foe which has gained sentience because of Bastion; a foe called Cerebro. At that moment a unit of Cerebro crashes in, calling itself Cerebrite Beta. It has come for Xavier, and to catalogue the mutants with him.

 

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Hunt for Xavier Continued...

Back in the ice palace in Russia, the other X-Men try to fight off the other Cerebrite Alpha. The little girl Nina helps them, which we find out is a mutant with reality warping powers and the same bio-signature as Charles Xavier. They are able to fend it off and escape with their lives. Later, Renee Majcomb tells the X-Men about how Charles saved Nina from Bastion during Operation Zero Tolerance, and helped her escape. During the story Cerebrite Alpha returns and bonds itself to Colossus. The X-Men are taken down yet again, leaving Nina unprotected. Storm is apparently killed. Cerebrite Alpha takes Nina and heads off to be with Cerebro, where humanity awaits their final program.

Cerebro Prime is checking over current activities concerning mutants when his current base is detected. He quits the base, taking his files with him, and ordering the discorporation of his fake X-Men as he leaves. His base explodes due to the self-destruct.

Back at Alcatraz the X-Men & Brotherhood fight together against Cerebrite Beta. The creature apparently kills Toad, Kitty & Mimic. Blob explains that Cerebrite Beta is an unit commanded by Cerebro, who was created by Bastion during Operation: Zero Tolerance. Xavier explains that Kitty, Toad, and Mimic were not killed, just moved somewhere else. He feels the only to get Kitty back is to be "moved" by Cerebrite Beta too, much to Marrow's horror. As Nightcrawler, who had gone back to the jet, flies over-head, he sees the X-Men vanish. He decides to go to Tajikistan to find the other X-Men, thinking they can help him find his team-mates; if they are even alive.

The X-Men not taken by Cerebro (Rogue, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Gambit, plus Renée) are heading out in the X-jet to find Xavier. Suddenly Cerebrites Bet and Alpha attack the jet. Cerebro explains to Xavier of his creation; Bastion was indeed his accidental creator, and his mission is to scan and catalogue every human on Earth. Once catalogued all hostilities will cease. To do this they need to bond. Xavier wont do it, so Cerebro grabs Nina, threatening to rip the information out of her mind on how to reactivate his telepathic powers. At that moment the X-Men arrive, after bailing out of the jet during a fight with the Cerebrites. Xavier has no choice; he allows Nina to reactivate his powers.

Cerebro activates the Xavier protocols, and swiftly the X-Men are killed. However, it turns out to be a trick made by Xavier and Nina. Xavier quickly uses his powers to stop the Cerebrites so the X-Men can take them out. But Cerebro's mind is still active, and tries to activate the nanos that will sweep the power-lines and scan and catalogue every human on Earth! Xavier and Nina enter the astral realm, where Nina is able to reprogram the nanos so Cerebro scans human minds instead. Seeing them as individuals confuses him to the point where he dissipates into nothingness. With Xavier returned to them, and Cerebro defeated, the X-Men decide to return home.

 

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Toad gets sonned whenever he makes an appearance.

 

[earth two superman]

Every time I come in here I'm impressed by how serious seeds takes this.

 

[Knives Amilli]

Operation Zero Tolerance was an underrated crossover to me and I wish it would've been written in modern times. I mean shit the x men were pretty fucked during that storyline; you legit felt the sense of peril and helplessness for them.

 

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I promise I'll start back up again soon y'all.

 

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Wolverine v2 #133-138 // The Great Escape

Wolverine is chilling with Carol Danvers at a bar and she's getting mad drunk because she's still depressed over being dropped from the Avengers. Suddenly they see that the UN is being attacked by a female mutant named Powerhouse who is trying to prove a point about human/mutant relations. Wolverine & Carol head to the destruction and they manage to stop her, even though Carol is extremely reckless.

Meanwhile some mysterious female alien who hops bodies has made its way to earth and in the wreckage of the UN fight, manages to take control of Wolverine. He begins attacking Carol & the police until Vision, Firestar & Justice arrive to confront him. He defeats them easily and then takes out Moon Knight, who arrived to try and help. Next he squares off against Captain America, Black Widow & Falcon as well as two villains named Cardiac & Solo. Lastly, he also defeats Human Torch, Black Cat, Darkhawk, Rage & Speedball. Finally, the woman in his body tells him that her name is Aria and it was all a test because she needs help defeating a man named The Collector who has millions of prisoner entrapped on his planet, and Logan accepts.

Once they make it to the Prison world, they are separated after defeating alien guards they meet up again, but she is now in the body of a different alien. However they are soon both captured by Sidri aliens & taken into custody. While in prison Logan is able to unite the prisoners and come up with an escape plan. In another section Aria is taken from the body she is in and placed in an inhibitor. Unfortunately, the Starjammers find out about this and decide to side with the Collector. Logan is eventually able to get free and rescue Aria as well as let all of the prisoners free, who begin to riot. During the struggle the planet begins to break apart around them. Just then the massive form of Galactus appears before them. Together Wolverina, Aria & the Starjammers decide to try and attack Galactus’ converter in an attempt to stop him. Unfortunately, their plan is for naught and both Torgo and Aria are injured. Logan attempt to take out the converter himself, but his bone claws break while he strikes it. At that moment, Ch’od arrives via teleportation and pleads with Logan to come back with him. Logan denies until Torgo and Aria arrive on the scene. Torgo stays behind while the trio teleport away. Aboard the Starjammers ship, Logan watches the planet blow up and learns that Aria has died. Back on Earth, Logan meets up with Carol Danvers in an attempt at reconciliation. He knows Carol will forgive what he did to her but he will never forgive himself for what he did afterwards.

 

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Generation X #47

Forge comes to the school to build them a new danger room in the gym, since the biosphere was stolen. Emma also tells Artie & Leech that they will soon begin training in the use of their powers. While Forge is giving the kids a lesson, a cyber-morph (a form of artificial intelligence that Forge deactivate and programmed into the danger room) named Paradox comes alive and attacks. The kids finish him off with ease.

Cable #64

Cable decides to finally tell Irene Merryweather his life story, which he'd been promising her all along, so she could write about it. This is basically a retelling of the Origin of Cable, which I've already read so I won't get into this issue summary. You can wikipedia Cable and read all that lol, hella complicated.

X-Force #84

We start off seeing Skids & Locus, who had been captured a couple issues back, being held prisoner somewhere in Latveria. Skids is trying to excape, but Locus has been reduced to a whimpering coward on the floor. We find out it is some old lady named Pandemonia who imprisoned them and plans to use them to finally escape the mountain they are staying on. She teleports with the two girls, taking control of their minds, and winds up in the X-Force base and is able to control all of them, minus Cannonball & Moonstar & Jesse Aaronson. When they return home, they find the place has been redecorated into some type of dungeon. Then they come face to face with their teammates, however they are certainly not normal.

After being attacked they retreat and meet up with a guy who is familiar with witches and magic, he tells them to go visit Jennifer Kale who is a very powerful sorceress. She easily figures out the identity of Pandemonia and helps the 3 of them to defeat her. After they return her to where she came from, Skids is reunited with the team and Locus talks some shit before leaving. The only question now is, Moonstar was using some very strange new powers that she never had before, which could be a result of her run-in with Arcadia.

 

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Deadpool #23-25

The next three issues are called Dead Reckoning.

Apparently Deadpool & Zoe Culloden finally think he is ready to proceed to the confrontation with Tiamat. Deadpool apologizes to her about her partner, Noah's, death and lets her know that he is done joking around about this whole mission, and he will be 100% focused. They arrive at the base where they find Noah & other corpses. Back at the base, Dixon tells his agents to contact the “second string” like planned. Monty fears something is up and that he knew what, but Dixon made him forget. Back at the Deadhut, Gerry and Blind Al are approached by Blackout agents and Gerry recalls that he taught Dixon well. Deadpool gets attacked by Tiamat.

But then, she notices a panel on which Tiamat kills the merc. She tries to warn Wade about it, but Dixon teleports her back to base. She learns the truth that Dixon set them all up, and gave Monty the mind-wipe because he told him Deadpool would survive the confrontation, where he would go to and how Dixon could deal with that and call in his other helper. He slaps Zoe in the face, upsetting Monty, who fights, Dixon giving Zoe the chance to escape. A beaten up Deadpool also manages to escape back to the Deadhut, where Al takes care of him, but Wade believes he’s a loser. Zoe arrives at Wade’s home as well, where she notices a time bomb, which explodes, destroying the entire Deadhut! Later, Dixon summons the man he believes is the true Mithras:

Tiamat rushes through some Landau, Luckman & Lake Blackout agents and kills them all. He escapes back into the ocean of Puerto Rico, where he takes some time to recover. In Chicago, Gerry desperately searches at the Hellhouse for clues about Deadpool’s whereabouts, but he is nowhere to be found. Later at the San Francisco Golden Gate Park, Gerry reveals his real name to Blind Al and Zoe: he is actually Gerry Lequare, the formerly believed dead, fourth “L” member of Landau, Luckman & Lake! Years ago, Gerry went undercover in an attempt to train Deadpool better for his big fight against Tiamat but it looks like Gerry failed a little. At the same time at the LL&L operation base, Dixon explains to Captain America what being a Mithras is all about. After seeing Monty’s bad condition, he thinks Dixon lies about most things, but still wants to defend the Earth from an alien threat. In outer space, a comet flies at full speed and kills some Shi’Ar crewman, and even worries the Watcher.

In Egypt, Dixon and his aides prepare Captain America for his confrontation with Tiamat and give him a robotic suit to wear for his own protection. Elsewhere, Blind Al, Gerry and Zoe are still searching for the missing Deadpool. Gerry has an idea: he sends Zoe back to the Landau, Luckman & Lake base so she can rescue Monty and he travels with Al back in time. They travel a few months back, where Deadpool was confronting Sasquatch. The real Deadpool is trying to figure out why Zoe and Noah were so stubborn to have him as the Mithras, even though Noah wasn’t certain that they had the right target. After a pep-talk from Al, who tells him a story of an adventure she had with a true hero during World War II, they travel back to the present. Cap is defeated by Tiamat but luckily Wade arrives on the scene. But on that very moment, the strange comet (the Messiah) also lands on Earth and is revealed to be the Destroyer, the true enemy. With Tiamat being too stubborn to kill Wade, his council bosses strip him off his powers and armor and temporarily give it to Deadpool. They telepathically teach him what the Destroyer is all about, stripping humans of free will, and Wade realizes the danger and manages to defeat him and bring Cap back to normal.

Some time later, Zoe is promoted as new Overboss of Landau, Luckman & Lake. Dixon gets put into a mental institution, watched over by the three main bosses of LL&L. After receiving a kiss from Monty, Zoe decided that he is of no longer use to the company. Captain America doesn't remember much of the whole thing and has been sent home. Unfortunately, Deadpool, Blind Al, Gerry, Tiamat and the Destroyer have all vanished from sight. Zoe suggests that the company forgets of ever having met Wade, and heads to her training.

 

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Wolverine v2 #139

In Hardcase’s bar, Logan is attempting to reconcile with the death of Aria when Cable arrives to check up on him. Before long they are attacked by a lobster-like creature and later they are engulfed in a ship fighting more animal looking monstrosities. They come to find out that their creator is Arnim Zola.

They manage to escape the ship, and Zola gets away. We find out as he flees that he is holding Viper, Wolverines ex, hostage.

Cable #65

Some weird stuff going on in this issue. First of all Cable has to fight a machine that is destroying building in Hell's Kitchen. Meanwhile, Blaquesmith meets with Ozymandias who shows him prophecy's of the return of Apocalypse. Apparently, two of the prophesies have already been fulfilled (which includes the current state of New York being pitch black). Ozymandias tells him that the only chance humanity has is a group of beings coming together with special powers, and them being known as "The Twelve".

Meanwhile, back in New York Cable is approached by Rachel Summers from the future and she plants an idea in his brain of vast importance that he will be able to use later. Afterwords, he destroys the attacking robot thing. As the issue ends we see this man/machine floating over a dark NYC.

Generation X #48-49

Emma is informed that academy is having financial problems, so she’ll have to ask her older sister, Adrienne, for a loan. Later that day, Paige returns back at the school and has an awkward reunion with Chamber. M and Jubilee have yet again another confrontation and Jubilee has had enough. She challenges M in a Danger Room session. At the end of the fight, M shows how much of a boss she is:

Meanwhile, outside the school, a cab stops. After the driver gets paid, none other than Maggott steps out! Maggott has settled into the school, but later in the woods, the kids are ambushed by a hunter who calls himself the Slaughter! He shoots Maggott’s slugs and wants to keep them as trophies. The Slaughter quickly defeats the kids using his advanced weapons and after tying them up escapes with the slugs. Synch synches Maggott’s powers in order to free themselves, and together they go after the Slaughter. Maggott tries to finish the battle, but the Slaughter escapes, mentioning that there are many more trophies out there for him to get. Maggott can’t live with the fact that the Slaughter might hurt someone, and decides to leave and track the Slaughter down. At the same time, Emma visits her older sister, Adrienne, and asks her to loan some money. At first, Adrienne refuses but, after using her powers and learning about Generation X, she agrees to help out, but only under one condition. Emma agrees, and takes her sister to the school, where she introduces her as… the new headmistress!

 

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Gambit v3 #1

Nice, a 25 issue Gambit solo series. This should be interesting.

Gambit has been saved from freezing in Antarctica by a mysterious person called New Son. Now indebted to him, the New Son, in contact with Gambit through the Courier Jacob Gavin, orders him to steal certain objects. At first this is an ancient gauntlet of extraterrestial origin from an old temple, then he has to destroy the cargo of a convoy to Croatia. He runs into the X-Cutioner and if not for Rogue secretly following him, Gambit would have been terminated. A woman named Fontanelle enters the dreams of Jean Luc LeBeau and the Courier to gather information about Gambit.

Pretty sick how Gambit used gum against X-Cutioner.

 

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Deadpool #25

Wade successfully completes a mission by rescuing the beautiful Princess Ophelia and hands her over to the sultan’s twin-brother, despite the fact she hates that. With the aid of his new sidekick and personal pilot, Ilaney, Wade heads back to his new Deadhut in Bolivia, where he has an argument with Monty about Blind Al, who’s left Wade’s side. Ignoring Monty, Wade moves over to his next assignment. After rescuing his new field handler, Alestair Finchley, from Hand ninjas, Wade has Ilaney transport him to an AIM factory in the desert. However, things go wrong there after Wade freaks out when he’s attacked by AIM and a woman flying on a giant, flying rabbit! He even almost kills Ilaney during his insanity, but luckily he misses and together they escape from AIM, though fail the assignment. Afterwards, Wade pays a visit to his psychiatrist, Dr. Bong, and tells him about this adventure. After hearing it, Bong concludes that Wade has gone completely insane.

 

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Cable #66-68

Cable is telling his waitress crush his life story when suddenly, as prophesied by Ozymandias to Blaquesmith, the Harbinger of Apocalypse decides to attack New York City.

When NYC begins to be evacuated, Cable goes to fight him and realizes he's met the creature before. Back in issue 50 the Hellfire Club found out about it and intended to use it to track down Apocalypse for the Hellfire Club's exploitation. The Harbinger defeated the Hellfire Club and disappeared, but Cable tracked him down. The Harbinger told Cable that his programming dictated that he should bring destruction and chaos to the world, but he wanted to judge humanity himself before obeying. Apparently now after judging the world, he decided they deserve destruction. Just when it looked like things were getting bad for Cable.... guess who shows up!

Unfortunately the Avengers only have 4 with them (Cap, Ironman, Wonderman & Vision) and they are having a tough time defeating the Harbinger. Lucky Thor shows up and is able to use mjolnir to open a rift in space and send the abomination through it. They know they don't have much time till he returns so they go back to the Mansion to make plans. Eventually the Harbinger returns to NYC and meets with Apocalypse who plants a bomb inside of him and tells him that he is to self destruct and destroy the city.

Meanwhile, Ozymandias tells Blaquesmith of The Twelve and tells him that all he knows is Cable must be the gatherer of these twelve. They return to NYC and Blaquesmith lets Cable know that if the city perishes it might mean that Apocalypse will never rule, according to the prophecies. Of course Cable doesn't care, as he will not sacrifice the city. He and the Avengers team up but to no avail, until finally Ironman gives Cable is flying boots. He grabs the Harbinger before he explodes and flies above the Atlantic Ocean, where he detonates. However, it seems that Cable was saved by someone right before the blast, though everyone else thinks he is dead.

 

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X-Force #86

All eight members of X-Force have arrived in Almost Reno and find it deserted, when they are suddenly attacked by a young man in flames. He engages Proudstar in battle, which gets the young mutant accidentally killed when Proudstar defends himself. Domino explains to X-Force more of what she has learned about the mysterious Aguilar Institute. They eventually find Mary, the mutant girl they met last time, in a diner with one other mutant named Zak. Mary reveals that the SHIELD agents returned and took everyone away, but she hid and did not use her powers, as that is how the bad guys would find her. The SHIELD agents return, demanding Mary be returned to them, but Moonstar challenges them, as she suspects they are not SHIELD agents at all. Whoever they are, they open fire, but are soon taken down. Mary uses her powers on one of them and discovers the name “Damocles Foundation” at the top of his thoughts. The name is familiar to some of X-Force. As if on cue, Odysseus Indigo arrives.

He reveals that he is the brother of Ulysses Dragonblood. He explains that after the nuclear testing in this town, the Damocles Foundation used their advanced technology to undo the reproductive damage, which resulted in the children being a hybrid of mutant and Deviant, but that the genetic alteration is unstable, which is why the entire population has been quarantined. X-Force inform Odysseus that they are taking Mary into protective care, but he warns them that he will be back for her.