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

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X-Men: Dream's End

Uncanny X-Men #388 X-Men v2 #108 Bishop: The Last X-Men #16 Cable &87

In Washington D.C., Senator Kelly addresses the nation to talk about the threat of mutantkind. Xavier has information leading him to suspect that Mystique is planning on assassinating Kelly, though it is strange that she would let herself be so obvious. the powers of peoWolverine helps Rogue, who is manifesting ple she has absorbed in the past, to try and cope with the added personalities and powers.

All is well until she hears Mystique laugh in her head. Rogue discovers that Mystique is on Muir Isle. Xavier tries to contact Moira but discovers that he cannot reach her. On Muir Isle, Wolfsbane discovers Mystique and goes to alert the X-Men. Cable and the X-Men continue to watch Kelly, who is speaking in Boston. Kelly suddenly tells the people that they should not persecute mutants but, before he can continue, the Brotherhood of Mutants attack. As Rogue, Wolverine and Bishop reach Muir Isle, the entire island explodes! Unbeknownst to the X-Men, Mystique has mutated the Legacy Virus to only affect humans and plans on unleashing her new disease.

Cable is doubting if joining the X-Men was a right decision. Thinking back to an incident years ago, when he saved a very young Rogue from a few mutant-hating boys who tried to kill her, but then left her behind. He thinks that maybe her life would have been different if he had taken her along. Cable thinks that this was just one of many bad decisions in his life. His thoughts are interrupted by Avalanche, Blob and the Post crashing in on Senator Kelly’s speech. Cable tries his best to protect the senator and telepathically alerts Beast and Gambit, who are on the roof as back-up. The tide turns and now the X-Men gain the upper hand, when suddenly Cable recognizes a terminally ill man observing the battle. It’s Pyro, who is dying from the Legacy Virus. He points Cable to there being a fourth Brotherhood member in the female Mastermind and, indeed, she has been altering their perceptions. Cable takes the illusionist out but Post is already close enough to shoot Kelly once and for all. His powers flaring up a final time, Pyro engulfs Post in flame, killing him. Before he dies, Pyro urges Senator Kelly to change his anti-mutant views. Impressed by the former villain’s heroic act, Kelly promises that he will try to improve human/mutant relations.

Just as Rogue, Wolverine and Bishop arrive on Muir Island, the lab complex blows up right in front of them. The Toad is easily defeated and Bishop finds Sabretooth just in time to stop him from killing Wolfsbane, who is stuck among the debris. Having absorbed some of the explosion’s force, Bishop has enough energy stored within himself to blast Sabretooth two times, knocking him out. He frees Wolfsbane, ordering her to search for Moira, and runs into what seems to be senator Kelly. Bishop and Kelly argue quite a bit about their views on mutants, until Wolverine interrupts, attacking “Kelly,” who is actually Mystique in disguise. However, Bishop was aware of this and had tried to get through to her with words, rather than violence. In the confusion, she slips away, leaving the two X-Men to search for the missing Moira. Finally, they find her among the ruins, badly wounded, possibly not to survive the day. However, Moira has disturbing news: Mystique’s tampering with the Legacy Virus gave her the right idea for a cure. Outside, Rogue witnesses Mystique use Forge’s Neutralizer Gun on the unsuspecting Wolfsbane, permanently negating her mutant powers. Mystique insanely explains that, once her Legacy Virus has killed all humans, Earth will truly belong to the mutant race and, with the Gun, she can keep them all in check. Rogue tries to reason with her adoptive mother, who at first seems to give in but then rams a knife into Rogue’s gut, leaving her for dead. When Bishop and Wolverine arrive, they are caught in a Mexican stand-off, Bishop ready to use shoot Mystique with his own weapon, while Mystique threatens to Neutralizer on Logan, which would kill him as his healing factor is tied to his life energies. The situation is solved by Rogue coming around and stabbing Mystique with the bone claws she absorbed from Logan.

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Rogue, Bishop, Wolverine and Rahne fly across the Atlantic on a jet to get back to the mansion to deliver the dying Moira MacTaggart, who holds the cure for the Legacy Virus in her head. Rogue begins the surgery on Moira, but the X-Men head right into a storm, which makes things more difficult. While no one is around, Wolfsbane promises the unconscious Mystique that, when she kills her, she will make sure she screams. At the mansion Colossus is not happy and begins to realize that the dream of peaceful coexistence will never be fulfilled. Xavier talks to Colossus and apologizes for replacing the Russian’s dream with his own, but Colossus tells him not to and that it was his choice to join and stay with the X-Men. Rogue realizes that they will not make it to the mansion in time and is about to absorb Moira to get the data, but finally Xavier hears Moira’s calls in her mind. Xavier and Jean reach Moira and the two lovers begin the data transfer, but Xavier begins to flat line, as he does not want to live without Moira. Kelly begins his new speech on equality with mutant kind, but Cable temporarily leaves him to save Xavier. Cable and Jean convince Xavier to let Moira go, who finally passes away, after announcing her love for Charles. Cable returns to Kelly just in time to see him assassinated, not by a mutant, but by a human.

Damn so a lot of shit happened here.

Moira - RIP

Senator Kelly - RIP

Pyro - RIP

Post - RIP

Muir Island - RIP

Mystique - In the hands of the X-Men

Wolfsbane - RIP to her powers

Rogue - Powers out of control

 

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Cable #88-92

Cable visits the grave of his recently murdered friend Moira MacTaggert. He is having trouble dealing with her death, and recalls their experiences together. Later he catches a cab to a graveyard, where he is to meet someone Storm wanted him to talk with. That person is Nightcrawler, another man who was friends with Moira. As Cable didn’t attend her funeral, Nightcrawler reads a passage from the Bible which gives him some closure. Cable quits the X-Men, and suggests to Storm that the two of them go out for dinner and see a show together, and Storm agrees. Elsewhere, Cable’s activities are being monitored by a mysterious organization of women called the Dark Sisterhood, who are involved with mobsters, one of whom has been double crossing them, so the leader of the Dark Sisterhood, the Dark Mother, gives him a stern warning, and tells him that his family and all of his associates will be killed.

Cable has a training session with Shin who informs Cable of the organization called the Dark Sisterhood. Around the area, Cable is being monitored by members of the Dark Sisterhood. At the safe house, Cable confronts Blaquesmith about the Dark Sisterhood, but Blaquesmith is very vague in his response. Irene meets with the Beast, as she does some research on Cable’s infancy and the Techno-Organic Virus. On the way home, Cable confronts a homeless women, who reveals herself as one of the Sisterhood, and is wielding a psimitar. Cable rushes off to the safe house and is angry and demands to know what Blaquesmith’s connection to the Dark Sisterhood is. Blaquesmith explains his connection, namely that he met the organization a time before he and Cable were reunited in this time, and that he believed their goals were similar, so he provided them with technology, like the psimitar, and it was only later that he realized it was the Dark Mother and her Sisterhood.

Cable opens a hatch in the safe house which leads to tunnels beneath the city. He gives his two friends instructions on how to get to a car which will take them to the new safe house. He gives Irene a weapon and tells Blaquesmith that he is not sure he can trust him anymore. Making their way through the tunnels, they are unaware that they are being followed by one of the Sisterhood, who confronts them and claims that she wants sanctuary. Indeed, a team of the Sisterhood has invaded the safe house, while Cable is still setting some explosives. They attack him, but are no match for his skills. Irene and Blaquesmith learn that Sister Bonita wants sanctuary because she failed in her mission earlier when confronting Cable, and punishment is death. Sister Bonita then reveals that the Dark Mother fears Cable, but that they were never told why. As Cable continues to set the explosives in his safe house, he sees visions of his dead wife, and more of the Sisterhood attack him. He continues to fight them relentlessly, while the Dark Mother appears in the tunnel, and slays Sister Bonita. Irene and Blaquesmith make it to their getaway car, still unaware why the Dark Mother wants Cable, who manages to leave his safe house, which explodes behind him. Irene and Blaquesmith’s car was shot into a river. Blaquesmith disappears, and Irene, psi-shielded from the Sisterhood, bobs up and down under the dock.

Cable arrived at one of the Sisterhood’s bases. Inside, he finds many members of the Sisterhood, and his superb fighting skills takes them down with ease. In another room, numerous crooked gang leaders are being spoken to by one of the sisters, but Cable intrudes on the discussion, and gives them some information about how the Sisterhood became so powerful - because they inflict themselves on as many organizations as they can, influencing many, but giving nothing in return. He tells them that eventually, the world will be living under the rule of the Dark Mother, a tyrannical dictator. The Dark Mother then appears, and murders the gangsters. She disappears when Cable calls her a fool. Cable knows that this is a war, and gives the Dark Mother herself a warning.

Meanwhile, GW Bridge is summoned to a hearing regarding why he let Cable escape capture on more than one occasion. One of the generals is clearly under the influence of the Sisterhood, and under pressure to get information from GW. However, all records of Cable have been erased from their database, and GW is excused. Later GW Bridge is summoned to a meeting with General Deutsch, who informs him that Generals Austin and Sherman are now out of the picture, and that GW must either face a court martial or be relocated to Alaska. GW is certain that something is going on, but agrees to go to Alaska, determined to make contact with Cable.

Irene Merryweather calls an important phone number Cable gave her in case of extreme emergencies. She is soon rescued by Cable’s associates Casper and Wendy. They run various scans of her to ensure that the Dark Mother isn’t tracing Irene, before revealing that they have already faked her death for her, and explain that she needs to take a new identity if she wants to return to the real world, otherwise remain hidden forever. At the Xavier Institute, Jean Grey is concerned about Cable’s mysterious disappearance, and the Beast reports that one of Cable’s safe houses has exploded. They are curious as to why the Professor is not as worried as they are about Cable, and Charles points out that no one else has ever heard about the Dark Sisterhood, and that Senator Kelly’s assassin has died in prison, with the words “Cable made me do it” on his cell wall.

At college, Rachel Summers is convinced by two classmates to attend a Students Against Mutants rally, and is surprised to learn that Cable has been accused of killing Senator Kelly. Preparing for the rally, Rachel arms herself with a weapon.

Tonight, Secretary of Defense, Gina Anderson is at the head of the campaign against Cable, and plans to speak to the President about him. And, Cable contemplates his mission against the Dark Mother and wonders why she hates him so much. He is prepared to do whatever it takes to bring her down.

 

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Uncanny X-Men #389

At the Xavier Institute, Charles Xavier exercises, while he takes in the events that have occurred in the last few days. While he recalls the events that led to him and Moira to fall in love, Nightcrawler and several others monitor Cecelia Reyes in the Danger Room, who is fighting her addiction to the performance-enhancing drug called rave, by going cold turkey. Wolverine and Rogue take a break from meditating to drop by Shadowcat’s room, where Rogue reveals that Kitty had been researching the seventh volume of Destiny’s diaries, before she disappeared. After learning that Shadowcat may have known about her disappearance before it occurred, the two flip through the diary and find a section depicting them in the present, as well as Gambit and Storm, confronting Mystique in the hospital. In the hospital, Mystique warns the X-Men of a dark future for mutant kind. She tried to decipher Destiny’s diaries but failed. That is why she has given her remaining diaries to Xavier. However, many are still missing. At the mansion, Xavier helps Cecelia overcome her fears and helps her begin her journey on the road to recovery.

 

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Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom Mini-Series #1-6

Bishop has a nightmare about him and Gambit fighting Cyclops and Iceman who have turned against them. Xavier discovers that it was not a dream, but his mind had slipped into the future. Bishop is taken to the lab and examined; turns out that a symbiote is living beneath his skin. Gambit returns from a date with Rogue, suddenly the mansion explodes and seconds later is standing again – something strange is going on. Gambit is suspicious of his teammates, who tell him that Bishop has been infected by some symbiote. He tries to leave but Xavier and the X-Men attack. Bishop sides with Gambit when he sees that Storm is powering up for a killing stroke. They remember that Storm and the others left the mansion to search for Destiny’s diaries and suddenly these X.-Men fade away; they were only illusions. Only Xavier, Beast and Nightcrawler remain, but they are under some mental control. Bishop and Gambit think they are up against Styfe and leave the mansion. Gambit asks Bishop to trust his judgement, and they leave the X-men behind to depart to New Orleans. Once there Gambit admits to only having an idea that might possibly help, much to Bishop’s anger. They enter a mausoleum in a beautiful cemetery, and inside they find the Witness, who is an old friend of Gambit. Bishop is shocked, as he knows the Witness from the future, but always thought he was an aged Gambit. The Witness states that not everything is like it seems and then reveals that Stryfe followed the two X-men. He is cowering on the floor behind them, begging for help.

Stryfe has followed Bishop and Gambit to ask for help, yet Bishop gets angry and wants to fight him, for he has caused the deaths of many people. Gambit convinces him to hear Stryfe out, and he explains his history and how he only was considered the clone or the imitation of Cable. Therefore he started their enemity and later in demented state created the Legacy Virus which he now regrets. Styfe needs the X-Men’s help, because Cable is hunting him to kill him. Cable attacks the group with growing techno-organic material. Bishop and Gambit try to fight it, but are completely engulfed by it.

Suddenly it disappears and they are told that Cable has carried Stryfe away, apparently to kill him. Gambit deduces that to prevent Stryfe from ever coming back to life, Cable will kill him at a nexus point of time – the Witness’s mausoleum. They head to the graveyard, which has been completly turned into techno-organic material. Bishop and Gambit jump over the techno-organic stuff and enter the mausoleum. They find Cable, who made Stryfe experience every death he ever caused. Gambit and Bishop want to prevent Cable from killing Stryfe, who now explains the Bete Noir inside of Bishop. It’s an ancient evil energy that was banished to earth’s core by the Phoenix Force, but bonded itself to Bishop in the moment he returned from the future. It attempts to free itself through his energy-related mutant power. Before they can decide what to do with Stryfe, the Bete Noir erupts from Bishop’s chest.The Bete Noir erupts from Bishop’s chest, but Styfe and Cable contain it in a TK field. Bishop in contact with the evil energy knows its plan to kill everyone on earth and asks Gambit to kill him, to prevent it from getting free. Stryfe has another option, he absorbs the Bete Noir into himself and after apologizing for all his deeds dies of the power overload.

Both threats dealt with, Cable leaves. Bishop and Gambit want to check on the Witness, but he has already departed.

 

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Death of Colossus

X-Men v2 #109-110 & Uncanny X-Men #390

On Christmas Eve, a group of X-Men have a snowball fight in Salem Center, which eventually leads to Psylocke and Thunderbird rolling down a hill, where Neal and Betsy start to flirt, much to the annoyance of Warren. Storm meets with Gambit and Beast to discuss the diaries of Destiny and Storm decides that the diaries must be found, but Xavier must never know. That night, Betsy meets Warren at the wreckage of his penthouse, where he confronts her about Neal and breaks up with her. Betsy tries to convince Warren that she has no feelings for Neal, but Warren disagrees and tells her that their relationship is going nowhere. In Japan, Wolverine goes to Mariko’s grave and is found by Viper, who delivers a message from the missing Shadowcat telling him she is okay. That night at the mansion, the X-Men gather to celebrate. Storm handpicks a group of X-Men to go with her to find the diaries of Destiny and the new team of X-Men rejoins the others to spend their last few nights at the mansion.

After seventy-two hours in his laboratory, Beast is able to discover the cure for the Legacy Virus after deciphering the notes of the late Dr. Moira MacTaggart. Xavier, Cecelia Reyes, Gambit and Wolverine congratulate Beast, who explains to them how the cure works. However, Beast and Cecelia realize that the cure can only be released after its host uses his or her power, which will then kill him or her. Beast stores the cure in a cabinet and goes out to play basketball with Gambit and Wolverine to clear his head. Inside, Cecelia senses something wrong with Colossus, who tells Cecelia all about his dead sister, Illyana. Cecelia realizes what Colossus wants to do, but he knocks her out before she can stop him. He injects the cure into himself and, for the last time, uses his mutant power. Cecelia recovers and desperately tries to save Colossus, but there is nothing she can do, as the longtime X-Man leaves to be reunited with his sister.

Kitty Pryde writes a letter to Charles Xavier and tells him about the time she first met Peter Rasputin and knew that he would always be there to protect her. She was wrong then and, now, finds her self asking why Peter sacrificed himself. However, she knows that he did it to serve penance for the death of his sister, Illyana Rasputin, because he always blamed her death on himself. However, Kitty is tired of fighting for a world that fears and hates her, because she has lost too much. She attends college now and wants to live a normal life and to do her part to end the war, but in her own way. That is why she wants the Professor, to trust her and to let her do things her own way. Xavier reads Kitty’s letter and deletes every reference of her from the X-Men archives, showing that he is ready to let her go.

Meanwhile, Magneto finds the Neo and quickly forces his will over them. He announces to Domina that he is going to lead Genosha in a war against humanity and, at long last, he will deal with Charles Xavier.

 

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Deadpool #49

Deadpool is feeling down, because he was so easily betrayed by Ananastasia. By coincidence he meets five different women, each attractive in their own way, and arranges dates with them. With two he already spends some horizontal time, yet all five are really the shapeshifting Copycat.

In a school, two girls kill another pupil because she defeated them in a soccer game.

 

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Wolverine v2 #162-166

Surrounded by a number of security personnel, Senator Drexel Walsh is paranoid that he is next on the list of men he used to know that have been killed. Pulling out a restricted disk, he attempts to contact Ben Urich at the Daily Bugle to reveal the information. Unfortunately, he never makes contact as he and his guards are massacred and the disk destroyed by… Wolverine?! Waking up from another nightmare, Logan goes for a drive. He is joined, uninvited by Beast. They hit a diner and Logan tells his story to Hank when they are interrupted by a news report that talks about the death of Senator Walsh. When they show the footage, it is of Wolverine standing over the gutted body of Senator Walsh. In another location, Sabretooth is successfully undergoing the adamantium bonding process.

SHIELD has joined the manhunt and has placed the jurisdiction of the hunt to Sharon Carter, given Nick Fury’s history with the suspect. Though shut out, Nick Fury informs Dum Dum Dugan that he has called in his own tracker, the enigmatic Shiver Man. Meanwhile, Logan recieves a strange phone call only to hear a cryptic warning from “a friend” who urges Logan to look into his past. Just then, he and Hank are attacked by the Shiver Man.

After a difficult fight, Logan manages to slice off the Shiver Man’s arm, an act that seems to raise their foe’s curiosity more than pain or worry. Without further hostilities, the Shiver Man disappears. Heading back to their motel room, Logan receives a letter from Fury that invites him to the senator’s mansion to talk. There, the duo is met by Fury, whom Logan decapitates after short order. Beast and Logan have but a moment to examine the body, in fact a Life Model Decoy, before they are surrounded by Brent Jackson and a number of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, who have successfully sprung their trap.

Logan and Hank are incarcerated In the prison know as the Cage where all of the prisoners are depowered, thanks to a dampening field. Logan is attacked by a group that call themselves the Skulls which escalates into a full-scale prison fight. Eventually, the guards intervene, drag Logan off and toss him into the Hole. After the cafeteria battle, the Warden is not happy and orders his main man Tillis to do something about it. Unbeknownst to the Warden, Tillis has something in mind and shows one of his fellow guards, who is shocked by what he sees. In another section of the prison, Hank is accosted by inmates who are attempting to collect a bounty that had been placed on his head. He is saved, however, by the Kangaroo, who stabs Hank himself, having actually only wanted to collect the reward himself.

In New York, Dr. Strange suddenly feels a severe pain via a premonition of a returning, ancient evil. At the same moment, inside the bowels of the Cage, Reb introduces his discovery to his buddy Axel. It is a partially decomposed being by the name of Mauvais. After accidentally awakening him, they cut a deal with him. In exchange for killing Wolverine for them, they will release him. Meanwhile, at the medical ward, a member of the Skulls goes to finish off an already severely injured Hank McCoy. However, before he is able to kill him, Hank is saved by Peepers, who snaps and kills the Skull. Logan is drugged by Reb and Axel and taken to Mauvais. Once there, Mauvais bites him numerous times and even eats his eye, gaining strength in the process. Finally with enough power to escape, Mauvais disappears. Infuriated, Reb goes to kill Wolverine himself but is taken out by none other than Sabretooth with a number of agents in tow, who proceed to free Wolverine, Hank McCoy and Peepers from the Cage. Meanwhile, Nick Fury hires the Shiver Man to trail S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Brent Jackson.

In the new Weapon X facility, Logan is being held captive and learns that it is run by a man simply known as the Director. Years ago, he was a young soldier who was brutally injured by Logan himself during his escape from the original Weapon X facility. Since then, the Director has made it his life’s work to restart the program. He then informs Logan that they had reactivated his memory implants and he was the one who murdered Senator Walsh. The Director had help, though, in the form of Brent Jackson and Sabretooth. In New York, Maverick meets up with John Wraith and learns they are being recruited into the new program. Maverick declines and begins to clash with Sabretooth, who was sent there to do the recruiting. After a give-and-take battle, Sabretooth gains the upper hand, shoves his fist through his chest, and throws Maverick off of the roof of the building.

At the Weapon X facility, Wolverine is freed by the Shiver Man. After taking out a number of guards, Wolverine is confronted by Sabretooth himself. They begin to battle, but Wolverine discovers that Sabretooth is stronger and, right now, better than he is. However, before Sabretooth can deliver the killing blow, he is again saved by the Shiver Man. As he does, Logan is able to get Hank McCoy out of the complex before it explodes. Days later, Logan learns that Nick Fury has used his connections to cover up what Logan did while under the control of the program. As they talk, the Director tells Jackson that this is only the beginning and that it isn’t over yet.

 

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X-Force #114-115

After surviving apparent death in the Ural Mountains thanks to Bedlam’s force field, X-Force have gone even deeper undercover as they go about travelling the world and putting an end to organizations that are doing harm to mutants. In Buenos Aires, they destroy Gentechnic, a company which creates treatments for various diseases using the spinal fluid of infant mutants. While deciding on their next plan, Proudstar suggests they try and find out who tried to kill them, but it is agreed that it is easier if people think they are dead. In England, the destruction of Gentechnic did not go unnoticed by a mysterious woman. Her agents have discovered that five airline tickets have been purchased for Australia, and she orders Agent Corben be sent to intervene. At the airport, Domino has a bad feeling, so X-Force don’t get on the plane - just as well as the mysterious Agent Corben attacks it and causes it to crash on the runway. X-Force leap into action and fight her, bringing her down. Bedlam’s electrical powers prove useful in hurting her so bad that she confesses everything. Bedlam places her in a coma after X-Force learn who is after them.

X-Force kidnap Alistaire Stuart in London, and he tells them they have sent the spook world into a spin. X-Force want information from him, but he is reluctant to give it up, until they reveal that two days ago a British mutant tried to kill them, and that she was sent by Romany Wisdom. Alistaire reveals that Romany is the project director of a black ops initiative so far above conventional government she was impossible to touch. Thanks to the alien device that she took from X-Force during an earlier encounter, X-Force are able to track her down. They take out her arm with ease, before Romany confronts them. She explains that her facility stretches far and is fueled by a geothermal reactor, and that there are six thousand workers and their families present, suggesting X-Force don’t kill her. Romany reveals that after the way X-Force dealt with Agent Corben she has considered recruiting them, but X-Force aren’t supportive of that idea. Bedlam realizes that the facility is made of the same alien technology as the creature that latched itself to Domino, and Romany shows them a lab where psychopaths, murderers and rapists are being bonded with the alien device. Romany explains that they are building the technology to generate the tools needed to commence reconstruction of the world, improving the human race, and eradicating diseases and other problems that plague humanity. X-Force don’t agree with what she is doing, and learn that Romany’s body is comprised of the alien technology herself. X-Force refuse to join her, and are attacked by the symbiote creature. Realizing the base was made up of the device, and that the device was alive, Bedlam gives it a aneurysm, and the facility is destroyed in a massive explosion, which kill X-Force, save for Domino who is thrown clear. Recovering from her injuries, Domino is interviewed by Alistaire Stuart, and she relays X-Force’s story to him. Alistaire isn’t alone, however, as Pete Wisdom is listening in, and he suggests that Romany probably isn’t dead, after all, he was believed dead himself. Alistaire asks Wisdom if this game of his was worth it, to which Wisdom points out that X-Force saved the world. Alistaire asks about X-Force, and Wisdom is sure they will back when you least expect them.

 

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Deadpool #50-51

Deadpool screws up a job. While he is distracted by a phone call from nurse Veronica (aka Copycat), his intended target Maxy Millions sets a man on fire. Deadpool tries to save him, but is too late, instead he promises to take care of the man’s son. Christopher is very angry at Deadpool at first, but later puts on a similar costume calling himself Pool Boy.

Together they track Maxy Millions down, but suddenly Pool Boy points the gun at Deadpool for not preventing his fathers death.

Wade predicted the attack and the gun was not loaded. They then make up and hunt down the killer Maxy Millions. Christopher slips an explosive device in his pocket and detonates it with a remote control. Later Wade sends Christopher off to Oxford with a new identity, a full paid tution and some money. Still Christopher partially blames him for his fathers death and tries to blow up Deadpool’s warehouse the same way, but Deadpool disarmed the bomb.

Copycat believes that Deadpool is seeing someone else and gets very angry. In her appartment Copycat is slowly losing her sanity – she can morph into anyone she wants to, still she can’t make Deadpoool call her.

The two killer sisters find another victim. A woman from the school district checks out the Mercy house, since the girls have not been to school for weeks. The sisters kill her like they already did their parents and a few other people.

 

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Series Conclusion

Generation X #71-75

Monet, Jubilee, Chamber and Skin discuss their new team uniforms, while planning what they are going to do now that Banshee and the White Queen have given them a day off. Monet, Jubilee and Chamber go to New York City, where Chamber meets a teenage punk girl. As it turns out, the girl is deaf, which is why she was so startled when Chamber “spoke” to her, but after a few minutes, the two begin to communicate easily with their thoughts. Later on, when Rana asks to know more about Chamber, he clams up and becomes stand-offish. Chambers tries to assure Rana that he isn’t turning her down because she is deaf, but Rana isn’t so convinced. Rana gives Chamber her address, asking him to write to her. Unfortunately, he throws the letter away on the way home.

Meanwhile, M and Jubilee find themselves on the subway train, and Jubilee shows a small plasma firework to a child sitting opposite her, moments before anti-mutant terrorists take over the carriage, spouting off hate towards mutants, and blaming mutants for the death of Senator Kelly. Jubilee and Monet quietly discuss a plan, but Monet is not confident that she can use her telepathy to take the unstable terrorists down - but believes she can do so with her physical combat skills. Things take a turn for the worse, when the little kid points to Jubilee and announces that she made sparks with her hands. Monet leaps into action and disarms the first terrorist, while Jubilee engages another with her plasma blasts. Monet takes down more of the terrorists, but Jubilee is injured by another - and almost shot, until Monet rescues her at the last second. The civilian passengers look at Monet with fear and hatred, so she uses her telepathy on them to erase these events from their minds, before leaping into the subway tunnel. Jubilee recovers from the ordeal, and discusses the attack with Monet, who asks her not to tell anyone about the mind-wipe.

Skin tests out some new moves on Banshee, impressing his mentor. Banshee phones Moira MacTaggert, only he speaks to Charles Xavier, and finds out she's died. Banshee storms out of the mansion, and ignores Skin as they get into Banshee’s jeep. When they almost miss their turn off, Banshee snaps out of his mood, apologizes to Skin and drives to a pub. Banshee vents some emotion, talking about his and Moira’s relationship, and Skin compares it to his former life. They begin discussing their business, and Banshee instructs Skin to wait in the jeep and when he phones him, to bring the suitcase from the boot inside. Banshee is abducted by his associates. Skin quickly follows them in the jeep, unaware that the thugs have gagged Banshee so he cannot use his mutant powers. Banshee struggles to defend himself, and ends up with a bullet in his thigh. Skin takes control of the situation, by ramming the jeep into the thugs’ car, and forcing it into a ditch. During the process, several of the thugs are taken out by the impact, and Skin quickly takes the others out by using his powers against them. Skin rescues Banshee, who congratulates him on a great effort, while the wounded Banshee tells Moira that he will see her soon, but not just yet.

Husk reveals to the White Queen her new system for tracking any incidents of terrorism to mutants. While her teammates are out for the day, Husk uses the time alone to familiarize herself with the Academy’s new security system. Something goes wrong though, and the mansion is plunged into darkness. Investigating the goings-on, Husk encounters some ghosts of children that use to attend the school years ago when it was a girls boarding school. One of the ghosts pursues Husk and reveals to her that she was abused while at the school. With this information, Husk tracks down the girl’s now elderly sister, and reveals this information to her, before comforting the old woman.

The White Queen recalls killing her sister, Adrienne Frost.

Skin and Jubilee notice how despondent Banshee has become, sinking deeper and deeper into depression, constantly drinking alcohol. Husk informs her teammates that her next planned mission is to go and help some protesters who are fighting against the destruction of a once-protected forest, where an oil company intends to start drilling. But when the White Queen is informed of the mission, she rejects it, revealing that she invests in the oil company. The White Queen meets with a detective, who tells her that there has been financial activity in Adrienne’s accounts, but the White Queen responds that she doesn’t have time for this and uses her powers on him - apparently killing him - witnessed by a shocked Monet. Monet quickly informs her teammates, who discuss the matter. Later, Jubilee visits Chamber and learns that he has been invited to join the X-Men. When Chamber informs Monet, Husk and Skin, Husk is clearly annoyed, but the discussion turns to what the rest of them are going to do - stay with a drunk and a psychotic, simply waiting to graduate to the X-Men or get out and do something for themselves. After a lengthy discussion, Jubilee and Skin decide to return to LA, while Monet announces she is returning home and Husk declares she is going to help the protestors up North. Generation X inform Banshee that they all want to leave, which snaps him out of his drinking. He says some nice words, before the kids tell him they want him to inform the White Queen due to her current attitude. The next morning, Generation X say their goodbyes to each other after Banshee told them they need to leave as soon as possible. Husk has a teary goodbye with Chamber, who reveals he left a note for her, before Monet departs in a limousine, leaving Jubilee, Husk and Skin, while the White Queen watches them all, frowning. Not long later, the White Queen receives a phone call from the Professor, and an x-copter arrives to collect her. Banshee takes one last look around the Massachusetts Academy, before he too departs.

 

[VulcanRaven]

I am still trying to figure out where to start.I read that I should start with the 70s and giant sized x-men.I want to make sure I see all of the characters join the team and all major changes and story lines in chronological order.I can't find giant sizes x-men issue #2 in my catalog.

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

@VulcanRavenhttp://crushingkrisis.com/collecting-x-men-comic-books-as-graphic-novels/x-men-reading-order-guide/

That website right there is a really amazing for reading order stuff. There is no giant size #2 that was a one shot issue for when some major members joined the team like Wolverine and storm and others. After that issue it goes right back into uncanny X-Men

 

[VulcanRaven]

@SunflowaSeeds thanks

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

Series Conclusion

X-Man #71-75

30 years ago in Kansas, a couple found a spaceship with something horrible in it that killed them and detonated a huge chunk of the field.

Nate tries to help a blind nun with nightmarish visions. He finds that the visions originate from a parallel world and takes her there. That world is under attack by Qabiri, a being from a higher plane of reality who intends to destroy all worlds that have developed superbeings capable of crossing between parallel worlds. The world’s premier superhero team has for the most part already fallen when Nate and Sister Perpetua arrive. Of interest is that the nun and the team’s leader, Nikola Zeitgeist, look identical. Nate learns from the injured members of the Protectorate of how Qabiri appeared and, without warning, eradicated most of humanity. Nate decides to confront Qabiri and lean what this is about. He learns that Qabiri is from a world far higher in the spiral of worlds and is afraid of spiralwalkers from below contaminating his Earth. Hence, he has started to destroy Earths that can spawn spiral walkers. As the two men fight, on the ground Nicola sees one of them being tossed away and orders Technocrat to teleport them there to finish Qabiri off. Instead, she finds a beaten Nate. A moment later, Qabiri destroys the world. While Qabiri arrives on Nate’s Earth waiting for him, Nate, Perpetua and Nicola flee to a broken Earth. Upon arrival, there is confusion as none of them is aware of having brought them there. They are joined by a third woman named Hassan, who is another lookalike of the two women. Nate brings them to his homeworld and tries to explain that they aren’t counterparts, but parts of one being. The women don’t take the news well, apart from Perpetua. Nate forces them to see the truth and eventually merges them. That moment, Qabiri arrives. He’s just a bout to kill Nate when the newly merged woman fights him. Qabiri recognizes her as Idris, a lost member of his own race. Nate realizes that Idris is still missing too many parts of herself and that therefore they can’t win yet. He threatens that he now knows what Qabiri fears and teleports himself and Idris away. Between the worlds, Nate decides that they have to find out what scared Idris so much that she shattered herself across worlds. Nate takes Idris to the Brilliant City and then lures Qabiri there as well, before he can destroy Earth. In the city, its inhabitants are not interested in what Idris has to say, considering her tainted. They pass the same judgment on Qabiri, leading him to destroy parts of the city in anger. Nate telepathically links Idris with her other selves and they learn the awful truth that Idris had been trying to forget. They are at the bottom of another Spiral and are as broken a universe as any below them. With the citizens in despair and Qabiri broken Idris asks Nate to turn her back into sister Perpetua. Later, Nate blames himself but realizes he has to bear this sin.

A boy and a girl are trying to escape from a Kansas town but are stopped by the Harvester, a malevolent being which is terrorizing it. The boy, a telekinetic, briefly manages to burn a cry for help, into a sunflower field, long enough for Nate Grey to notice it. Nate visits the town and the boy, Mike, leads him to the alien Harvester. Nate quickly learns that the Harvester’s people more or less helped along in the evolution of life on Earth to create power sources for them to harvest and the time is upon them. Nate finds he can’t fight the Harvester, as his energies are interwoven with any living being on Earth – save for Nate who’s an outsider. When he offers his energy instead, he is told that his energy is tainted. Nate takes Mike away and indirectly asks him to become his successor as a shaman, after which Nate then goes to fight the harvester. He dissolves them both into energy. Through the Harvester, Nate’s “tainted” energy flows into every living being and thus “spoils” the crop. Mike is the only one to realize Nate’s sacrifice and he decides to learn to become a shaman.

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

Wolverine v2 #177-169

Wolverine, aka Patch, is invited to participate in the yearly Bloodsport tournament held in Madripoor by “his friend.” When he makes his way over there, Logan runs into his wife, Viper, who is overseeing the tournament.

In the first round, Headhunter defeats Oddball, Puma defeats Gamecock, Taskmaster defeats Cat, Zaran defeats Razorfist, Anaconda defeats Forearm, Toad defeats Eel, and Patch defeats Speed Demon. In the second round, Taskmaster defeats Zaran, Puma defeats Anaconda, and Patch defeats Toad. The final battle of the second round involves Logan’s “friend” decapitating Headhunter. Logan is then shocked to learn the identity of his “friend” – Mister X. Before Logan’s next match against Puma, Jae gives Logan some water which turns out to be poisoned. After barely winning, Logan becomes suspicious that Viper has poisoned him and confronts Jae Lo about it. In the next match, Mr. X easily defeats Taskmaster. Next up is the final match – Logan versus Mr. X. At first, X has the upper-hand but after Taskmaster shoots a flaming arrow which engulfs the cage in fire, Logan discovers what X’s power is – he’s a telepath. Taking his rage to an animalistic level, Logan is able to gain the advantage. In a fluke, X is able to capture the belt and win the tournament. Before Logan can finish him off, Blok steps in protecting his master. Just then, the floor collapses and Logan finds himself alone. Later, Logan prepares to leave but Viper stops him when she tells him that Ogun is back.

Remembering a moment of his past, Logan recalls the time he witnessed his mentor, Ogun, being stabbed in the gut with a sword from Hana. Ogun not only survived, but killed Hana. In present day, Logan and Viper are combing the streets of Madripoor looking for Ogun. As Ogun proceeds to jump from body to body, Logan tries to prevent Viper from killing the innocent people Ogun possesses. After Ogun possesses a number of people, he invites Logan to finish this at the docks later that night. That night, Logan is shocked to see Viper there. He discovers that she herself has been possessed by Ogun. Ogun next attempts to make his way into Logan’s mind, but finds it too bestial and heads back into Viper. Once he is there, Logan stabs Viper in the gut which drives Ogun out of her and into the night sky. Angry, Viper tells Logan that she isn’t going to grant him their deal, their divorce, because he stabbed her. Logan tells her fine and to make her way to the hospital on her own, and she concedes granting him the divorce.

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

Deadpool #52-53

The Mercy sisters kill Killer Dick, a famous musician. Finally the police investigate and the press braodcasts news about the “Switchblade Sisters“. Deadpool decides to get involved, wanting to collect the rewars, but the girls beat him to Detective Huff’s appartment, where they kill his ex-wife and seriously injure the policeman. Deadpool questions him at the hospital, but one of the Mercy sister is there too, dressed as a nurse. They fight on the hospital’s roof and Deadpool falls off after receiving a bullet in his shoulder. On the street he gets up, but the two sisters approach from opposing sides and sandwhich him between their cars, however Mary forgot to buckle herself and falls face front through her car’s window. Deadpool’s legs are broken as he got sandwiched between the Mercy sisters cars. He crawls home, and Mary too tends her sisters injuries. At the same time the police hunt them down; they find their city appartment with a storage chamber full of dead bodies and also an adress of a second home where the girls are hiding. Grace is slowly dying of internal bleeding and Mary puts her out of misery right before the police arrive to find more dead bodies in this place. At his warehouse Deadpool is sitting in a wheelchair while waiting for his healing factor to kick in. He arranges a meeting with nurse Veronica only to reveal that he knew it was Copycat all along. He promises to think about renewing their relationship. Later, fully healed he chases Mary across the town and finally kills her.

Peter Gnucci learns that he will only inherit aunt‘s money if he kills the one responsible for her death -- Punisher.

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1-4

A nightmarish memory of war torn Egypt plagues Cyclops’ dreams. He relives the battles fought from the point of view of a young En Sabah Nur who cares not for his own people, but for the death and destruction he can wreak. Scott usually awakens yelling and in turn wakes the other crewmembers on the ship from which he now works. His only friend Achmed defends him against the angry Sallah who doesn’t like being awoken night after night. Things eventually settle down and in the morning they port in El Jadida. Meanwhile, Jean Grey reenacts the final moments before Cyclops sacrifice thanks to Danger Room technology. Cyclops’ son, Cable, using a holographic projector in his NYC safehouse, also mourns his father’s image knowing he should have been the one to sacrifice his life. Back in Morocco Achmed takes Scott out into the marketplace where the latter spots a beautiful woman staring at him. The next moment she’s gone, but after Scott looks into a nearby mirror and sees his face become Apocalypse-like he takes off and runs into her in an alley. The woman, Anais, gives him cryptic clues about who he really is. After telling Scott his friends are most likely dead by now Scott takes off toward the ship. There, he’s almost taken out by a sniper who turns out to be Gauntlet. Scott uses some deft maneuvering to defeat the former Dark Rider and ultimately decides to leave the crew so they can be safe. Walking down the dock Scott runs into Anais once more. Underneath the Moroccan sands, along an ancient hallway, Ozymandias ponders the impending return of his master and of those who must seek him out.

Memories of Apocalypse’s past haunt Scott until he’s brought back to reality by Libyan border patrol. The interrogation of the truck driver illegally transporting them begins and Anais takes the opportunity to flirt with some of the guards. She then lures three of them away hinting at a sexual rendezvous, but all is not as it seems. Meanwhile in New York, Cable and Blaquesmith discuss Cyclops’ sacrifice and Cable’s disappointment that it should have been him. Not much later, Cable is at Xavier’s in the Danger Room running a simulation against Apocalypse. The simulation turns on him and Jean reveals herself as the culprit. They both bear their souls about Scott until Ozymandias teleports in and offers them information. They arrive back at Ozymandias’ sanctuary where he gives them some help in their search for Scott. Back at the Libyan border Anais transforms and begins killing the guards one by one. Meanwhile, Scott has another flashback to Apocalypse’s childhood and attacks the man left guarding him. Anais rushes over and Scott tells her he wants her help, her guidance, for he doesn’t know what’s inside him and fears he might like it.

Scott’s nightmares continue as he and Anais currently find themselves in Farafirah. Anais leaves the recently awoken Scott to secure them transportation to Akkaba, where all his questions shall be answered. Unfortunately for Farafirah, they’ve been hit with a deadly plague recently and the body pile is mounting. Bearing witness to this are Cable and Jean who are hot on Scott’s trail. Jean’s attempts at a telepathic contact prove fruitless so they go about their search the hard way. They come across someone who rented a room to them and when Jean tries another mind contact it works for a brief moment and the trail is hot once more. Scott, meanwhile, is kidnapped and dragged into the sewers by Pestilence, horseman to Apocalypse. All parties, including Anais and Gauntlet converge in the sewers for a final showdown. A partial collapse of the tunnel ends the hostilities, leaving Scott and his fellow X-Men separated. Scott takes off for Akkaba knowing he’ll finally get the answers he’s been searching for. Cable figures out where his father must be headed thanks to a dropped train ticket with the destination printed on it.

With the help of a young Egyptian boy Scott makes his way to the dilapidated city of Akkaba. He is soon joined by Anais who wants to be the vessel for Apocalypse. When Scott doesn’t give it up willingly she threatens to take it by force. The timely arriving of Cable and Jean prevents that from happening. Cable battles Anais one on one while Jean tries to get into Scott’s mind. She finally manages, but Apocalypse asserts control and hits her with an optic blast before taking off. After Anais gets away, Cable tells Jean he’s going after Scott to deal with it once and for all. Meanwhile, at Cable’s New York safehouse, Blaquesmith deletes the records of Apocalypse and Gauntlet from the computer files in an attempt to hide his involvement in the attempted assassination of Cyclops. Back in Akkaba, Cable battles with Cyclopalypse and is losing badly. It isn’t until Scott regains control and returns to his human form that Cable finally realizes he can’t kill him. He doesn’t have to, though, as Jean was able to use the psychic rapport she and Scott shared to finally get into his mind and shut it down. Then, using her awesome telepathic power, she separates Apocalypse’s essence from Scott’s body, which is then skewered by Cable and his psimitar. All seems to end happily, but as Anais points out in a brief meeting with Cable and Ozymandias surmises in his temple, can anything Apocalypse touches remain pure?

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

X-Men: Eve of Destruction

X-Men v2 #111-113 & Uncanny X-Men #391-393

After arriving back from "the dead" Cyclops meets with his father Corsair in the woods. Father and son go fishing, but nothing either of them says can break the ice. Scott finally has enough when his father reveals that he thought Scott could cause fire with his powers. Scott snaps at his father and asks why Corsair never came back for him and Alex, though he clearly had the means. After dancing around the topic for a few moments, Corsair reveals that he was ashamed to return, because he could do nothing but throw his children out of a crashing plane and watch his wife get murdered. Scott realizes that his father has been through a lot and, even though he will never understand him, Scott Summers will always love his father.

The world watches a live news report from Trish Tilby, reporting live from Genosha, which has prepared to launch a genetic war against humanity. Due to the recent cure for the Legacy Virus, Magneto now has a powerful army, ready to fight with him. In response to Magneto’s threats, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers are standing ready to fight Magneto if necessary. Trish then reveals that the Genoshan freedom fighter, Quicksilver, was found weeks ago, aimlessly wandering on a ship in Russia. Magneto then responds to an interview and explains to the world that he will no longer watch as mutants are slowly killed off and will remove humans if necessary, if they do no surrender. Magneto then departs and retrieves his rallying symbol for his troops. What the world does not know, however, is that the symbol is Charles Xavier!

Jean Grey heads out to assemble a new team of X-Men to save Charles Xavier and to stop Magneto from leading Genosha against humanity. Jean first breaks Frenzy out of the Pentagon and “convinces” her to help out. Next, she finds Northstar, who reluctantly agrees. Jean then contacts two unknown mutants, Hector Rendoza and Paulie Provenzano. Jean brings them all to the mansion, where she encounters Sunpyre, the sister to Sunfire, and Jean accepts her help. Cyclops and Wolverine are already in Genosha. However, the new team must leave immediately, which isn’t as bad as it seems, since they have insider information, thanks to the newly reformed Frenzy. Suddenly, the doorbell rings and Jean opens it to find Dazzler, a former X-Man, who is in a weary condition.

Wolverine and Cyclops aid human refugees off Genosha and into Wakanda with the aid of Polaris. Wolverine sniffs out Blob and Random, waiting to ambush them, but, before he can attack, Cyclops stops him and shows off a double ricochet optic blast, which worries Wolverine as it is uncharacteristic of Cyclops to show off. The two reach the rendezvous point, but are ambushed by the Homo Sapiens Liberation Army. Cyclops cuts loose with his powers and defeats the group before Wolverine can even move, which once again troubles Wolverine. Elsewhere, Magneto delivers a speech to his army in front of the chained Xavier, while Amelia Voght watches and wonders if war has truly finally come to her doorstep.

Magneto uses his magnetic powers to stem the flow of iron to Xavier’s brain, preventing him from using his telepathy. Elsewhere, Phoenix’s X-Men race towards Genosha. On board, Northstar realizes that Frenzy may be mind controlled by Phoenix into aiding the team. Phoenix takes everyone into a mental Danger Room in Dazzler’s mind, where they learn that the Mojoverse was destroyed by Mojo’s “Age of Apocalypse” production. Worse yet, Longshot may be dead. Before Phoenix can question Dazzler further about the tragedy, Magneto rips apart the Blackbird and brings the team down to the ground in the middle of Magda Square. Upon seeing the chained Xavier, Dazzler lashes out against Magneto, who turns her powers against her and seemingly kills Dazzler. Angered over the death of Dazzler, the interim X-Men attack but Paulie is jettisoned into the atmosphere and Northstar gives chase. Frenzy, who is mind controlled by Phoenix, is easily defeated and so is Sunpyre, who tries her best to stop Magneto. Magneto attacks Wraith, who turns Magneto’s skin invisible and disorients him. Cyclops and Wolverine arrive and Cyclops takes down Magneto while he is disoriented, but the latter man recuperates and stops Cyclops. Magneto is about to tear the adamantium from Wolverine’s skeleton again but discovers that he cannot, for Amelia Voght has freed Xavier and he is using his telepathy to prevent Magneto from accessing his powers. Dazzler reveals that she did not die and has been posing as Xavier on the cross, while Amelia snuck the real one out. Wanting to end the battle now, Wolverine stabs Magneto in the gut and the X-Men leave Genosha in the hands of the people. The next day, the interim X-Men decline an invitation to stay with the X-Men, leaving only four left.

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

Cable #93-96

Two weeks ago, Rachel Summers attended the Students Against Mutants rally, where the organiser, Connie Moore, plans to cause an explosion and blame it on mutants, as she is a member of the Dark Sisterhood. Claiming to be an FBI agent undercover, Rachel prevented the Sisterhood from setting off an explosionthat was meant to incite more anti-mutant hate. Rachel then leaves the university, knowing she has to find Cable.

In Alaska, GW Bridge is doing research on certain women in power - all of whom were appointed by Secretary of Defense, Gina Anderson.

Today Cable’s plot to destroy the Dark Sisterhood is going well, as he releases a “virus” of sorts that erases their memories. In the process, he erases all information that the Dark Sisterhood has on him from their computer database. Cable is at a new safe house, but later, some members of the Dark Sisterhood track him down - however, every one of them falls victim to his mind-erasing plan.

Irene Merryweather, under her disguise of Margaret Brundage, investigates the sudden mass appearance of women whose memories have been wiped. Irene gets a phone call from Cable, who asks her to meet him. Irene does, and finally reunited with her friend, she learns that Cable knew his associates would take care of her following her car crash. Cable has been investigating the Sisterhood, and reveals the complex history that he has uncovered. He explains that every member of the Sisterhood is a descendant of the Dark Mother. He tells Irene about how the members of the Sisterhood have been placed in important positions throughout the country, and how recently men, like GW Bridge, have been transferred out. At the same time, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate are both killed in co-ordinated attacks, which the media announces Cable is responsible for. Irene realizes what the Dark Mother’s plan is, and when Cable tells her that the plan is called the Sixth Progression, Irene tells him that the Sixth Progression is the order of succession to the White House - meaning Gina Anderson, sixth in line to the Presidency and currently the Secretary of Defense, will be sworn in as President if all of those ahead of her are killed - and it looks like the plan will succeed, as Gina Anderson is flown to Washington, while the President holds an emergency meeting. At the same time, GW Bridge demands to see Henry Gyrich, showing him research and proof that the Sisterhood have been strategically placing its members into positions of power. When Gina arrives in Washington, she believes she is about to be informed that the President and the other senior officials have been killed in an explosion, but she is told that they have been rescued, just before the explosion, as her plan was discovered. She is placed under arrest for treason. Meanwhile, Cable and Irene Merryweather have arrived at Xylon Corporation, the headquarters of the Dark Mother and her Sisterhood, when Rachel Summers arrives to help them out. Shortly, a huge squadron of SHIELD officers descend on Xylon, and start to attack the Dark Sisterhood. Cable finds the Dark Mother. Words are exchanged, as the Dark Mother reveals why she has been framing Cable, and hates him so much - because she cannot predict his actions, and that three centuries ago, her brother named him as her nemesis. Their battle is a physical one, and when the Dark Mother’s cloak falls back, Cable is shocked to see that she looks like Jean Grey. The Dark Mother claims to be Jean’s grandmother, many times removed, which makes Cable her grandson. She prepares to kill Cable, but Irene comes to his aid, and the Dark Mother goes into a catatonic state when she can’t read Irene’s mind thanks to a psi-shield. Rachel arrives and tells Cable that the Dark Mother probably isn’t their relative, that she just had surgery to make herself look like Jean and confuse them. The three then depart, leaving the Dark Mother cationic on her throne, ready for the SHIELD agents to find.

Rachel Summers Back!

 

[SunflowaSeeds]

Deadpool #54-56

Deadpool heard about Peter Gnucci only inheriting Ma Gnucci’s fortune if the Punisher is killed and so offers to perform the kill for three million dollars. Peter agrees and Deadpool hunts the Punisher down, yet talks too much before killing him and is shot instead. After his healing factor kicks in Deadpool returns home, where he receives a phone call from Copycat, wanting to sort out their relationship. They are cut short as the TV reports another Punisher sighting. Deadpool rushes towards the area, and sees the Punisher jumping off a bridge to escape from the police. While the law believes the Punisher dead, Deadpool recognizes a boat in the water. When the Punisher swims to the surface he is staring right into Deadpool’s rifle. Deadpool and the Punisher fight, but are interrupted by the police and end up in a river. The Punisher takes off his costume and cuts Deadpools leg, rendering him unconscious. Costume and blood mix, letting the police think the Punisher is killed. Peter Gnucci is happy, with the Punisher gone, he now inherits Ma Gnucci’s fortune. He goes to his bank and collects a check over 300 million dollars, but outside drops the check. He runs after it on the street and is run over by a truck. Deadpool awakes tied up at the Punisher’s place. He frees himself with aknife and again they fight all over the city. Finally they crash through a window of a TV shop, right as the news broadcast Peter’s death. Deadpool now without employer backs down and apologizes, only to receive a TV set on his head by the angry Punisher, who then leaves. Later Deadpool feels alone and meets with Vanessa for a romantic date.

Wade and Vanessa have spent the night together. As Deadpoool prepares to leave for an assignment, she gets suspicious that he might see another woman, and after Wade left, Theresa calls and leaves a message on the answering machine to meet her at a flower exhibition. Vanessa, impersonating Deadpool, meets with Syrin and beats her up pretty badly for messing with her boyfriend. Later Wade and Vanessa are at the warehouse again and suddenly it knocks. It’s Syrin demanding an explanation for the incident at the exhibition. Deadpool doesn’t know what she is talking about and Syrin leaves in tears. Deadpool runs after her and Vanessa too leaves, understanding that he doesn’t love her. Suddenly the warehouse blows up, courtsey to Kid Deadpool, who presents a new girlfriend and wants to say a final goodbye.