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Issue: X-Man 51 Date: May-99 Story: Uninvited Guests (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Madelyne Pryor II, Ness; Roust, Jam, Bux, Marita Guest Stars: Spider-Man (Peter Parker) Villains: Threnody; Psi-Ops Gauntlet including Scanlon, Vise, Fontaine, Barone Other Characters: Conor and Breda MacAleer Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Mel Rubi Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Jason, Troy Editor: Frank Pittarese, Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate checks on his old friends in New York; they don't need him. In the old loft, he and Maddie don't notice Threnody in the shadows, but she sees them, together. In Dublin, Gauntlet interrogates the locals to find Nate, but the Irish are stubborn. Ness observes and realizes there's a sympathetic heart among them. Maddie and Nate pop right into the middle of it, and Gauntlet opens fire. Nate sends Maddie to the hospital with the wounded Mrs. MacAleer and psi-blasts ineffectively against the Gauntlet armor, while Ness and Scanlon chat. Nate negates gravity (like iss. 40), but Gauntlet was prepared for it. Just in time, Maddie ports away with him. They follow; she tries to port Barone out of his armor, but it's shielded. She gets knocked back, but cracks the armor, so Nate blasts away. In the ruins of the MacAleers' inn, Nate, Ness, and Maddie are surrounded by hordes of Gauntlet. Ness explains they are a powerful international government agency. Issue: X-Man 52 Date: Jun-99 Story: All Fall Down (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Madelyne Pryor II, Ness Guest Stars: Villains: Threnody; Psi-Ops Gauntlet including Scanlon, Vise, Fontaine, Barone Other Characters: Conor and Breda Virginia MacAleer, Liam, the Harrigans Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Luke Ross Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Jason, Troy Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Breda MacAleer rushes back from the hospital to find her inn under attack by Gauntlet. Maddie wants to flee, but Ness convinces Nate he'd just be found again, so they stay and fight. Maddie is knocked down, and Ness tells Nate to bury her alive to shield her. Scanlon has been overruled by the Overreach Committee, so Vise kills him, which Fontaine feels in her head. Vise confronts her, so she uses their comm-link to get through her armor and take over her mind. Vise is a mole, she's not the only one, and they have nukes. Fontaine jams Gauntlet's comm-system, and during the chaos mind-dumps the whole story to Nate and Ness. Nate leaves Ness to guard Maddie, who ports herself away before he can dig her up. Fontaine uses Scanlon's code to order all the loyal Gauntlet to evacuate the area; she and Nate get into the command ship through the exhaust vent, shielded in a psi-bubble. He blasts the engines, crashing it onto the remaining Gauntlet and an entire Dublin neighborhood. The MacAleers are furious about the personal devastation, and Nate explodes with anguish. Threnody reads about his death in the Bugle. Issue: X-Man 53 Date: Jul-99 Story: In Cold Blood (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Cyclops (Scott Summers), Phoenix (Jean Grey) Villains: AOA Infinites, Hatchet-9 Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Luke Ross Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Tinsley, Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Jason, Troy Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate dreams of being back in the Age of Apocalypse, with Infinites after him for sabotage. Jean wakes him; they and Scott are camping in Alaska. Nate had come to them, sensing something evil at the top of a mountain; as they climb up, two Infinites fall past them, fused together with a chunk of rock. At the top, they find many similarly mangled corpses, both Infinite and human, and then a piece of the Atlantic sea wall, which has a generator to dampen mutant powers. Infinites jump out of the snow and attack; Nate and Scott work together to protect Jean; Jean mind-reads that the Infinites don't know how they got here, but they're setting up a cloning facility to create an army. They enter the sea wall and split up, intending to destroy the Null Generator and the cloning pool. Hatchet-9 stalks them. Issue: X-Man 54 Date: Aug-99 Story: A Little Piece of Home (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Cyclops (Scott Summers), Phoenix (Jean Grey); AOA Forge, Theresa Villains: AOA Infinites, Hatchet-9 Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Luke Ross Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mark Bernardo Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Scott and Nate go to the clone pool, while Jean gets to the Null Generator, but she is powerless to shut it down. Hatchet-9 attacks her, and Scott realizes she's in danger and tells Nate they have to go help her. Nate battles Hatchet-9, and tricks him into damaging the Null Generator. It implodes and starts sucking all the AOA elements back to their own universe. The mutants, their powers restored, battle to get beyond the sea wall, without letting any Infinites escape. The sea wall disappears; the remaining mountain avalanches, and Jean and Nate put up a psi-bubble. Nate sees a quick vision of AOA Forge and his team, but comes to with Scott and Jean. Now they have to climb back down the mountain. Issue: X-Man 55 Date: Sep-99 Story: Trouble on the Homefront (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Cyclops (Scott Summers), Phoenix (Jean Grey); Dr. Peter Corbeau Villains: Jahf/"Jeff" and Modt; Threnody Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Mike Miller Inks: Elmer, Koblish, LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Jason Levine Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Aboard the Starcore, Corbeau sees the local Shi'ar stargate open, and a ship heading for earth. In Anchorage, Jean sends Scott and Nate to spend some time together, fishing. They come across another father and son, wounded, and bring them home, through a stormy night. The power is out, Jean can't telepathically find the doctor, and the road washes out. Nate, with no telepathy, can't comfort the wounded boy, and he realizes they aren't what they seem. They reveal themselves as Jahf and Modt, keepers of the M'Kraan Crystal, and attack Nate as an abomination. Nate fights back, but these two are powered by the crystal, which contains a neutron galaxy. So they get Modt to fall onto Jahf, stopping both. They came because of the dimensional rift (last 2 issues), and set up their ruse to test Nate's sense of responsibility. He passed, but Jahf still thinks he's too dangerous. Modt overrides his decision, and they port away. Nate's clothes were ruined, so Scott gives him his old X-Factor uniform, and he flies off. Threnody observes. Note: Nate next appears in Astonishing X-Men 1-3. Issue: X-Man 56 Date: Oct-99 Story: Greyville (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: illusions of Threnody, Madelyne Pryor II, Spider-Man, Cable (Nathan Summers), Phoenix (Jean Grey), Forge Villains: illusions of Violet and Ecco, Sinister; Threnody, Mysterio (Quentin Beck) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Mike Miller Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Mark Bench Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: In Greyville, Nate, Threnody, Maddie, and Spider-Man watch a drive-in movie together, when it is suddenly attacked by Ecco, the Sludge that Swallowed Secaucus. He plops the screen on top of it, while the others aid the panicked crowd. A SHIELD agent named Violet shows up, angry over a real-estate deal, while Ecco catches Spider-Man. Nate dives in after him, and realizes it is a collection of small entities under Violet's control. He gets Spider-Man out, and Threnody uses her death powers on Ecco, which knocks out Violet, and Ecco scatters like shiny cockroaches. The police take Violet away. Back on the farm, Nate relaxes with Cable, Jean, and Forge. They are attacked by Sinister on a flying horse; he easily kills Jean, Forge, and Cable. Nate attacks Sinister and finds an old man behind the mask. He realizes his life in Greyville was all too good to be true: he refuses to believe, and the illusion shatters. He wonders if he subconsciously created a paradise for himself. The real Threnody and her dead groupies have followed Nate all the way from Alaska. Nate decides the Purple Man is to blame, and gets angry. Mysterio observes, annoyed that he couldn't fool Nate into revealing Spider- Man's secret identity. Issue: X-Man 57 Date: Nov-99 Story: Behind the Curtain (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Threnody, Mysterio Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Mike Miller Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Troy Peteri Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate finds Killgrave, and since he can't trust his senses, he lashes out in all directions at once and kills him, but turns out it's someone else. He looks up: holomirrors shift, and he realizes he's in a sophisticated illusion, with actors who are now quite scared. Mysterio had abducted Nate while he was visiting a circus, and has used illusions to trick him into helping him steal. Nate is horrified that he has killed a relatively innocent man, and he lashes out with psychic energy, busting the ceiling of this undersea base and letting the water flood in. He rescues Threnody, then realizes it's still illusion, and makes it all disappear, even the actors. He shatters various illusions Mysterio throws at him, then throws him an illusion of complete victory. Nate leaves him to his delusions of grandeur, notes that his telepathy has returned, then collapses in the street, where Threnody finds him. Issue: X-Man 58 Date: Dec-99 Story: The Heart of Darkness (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Threnody and hordes of zombies Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Mike Miller Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/JL Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Threnody sits upon a throne of worshipful corpses, who pile on top of her, as she calls out for Nate. He wakes, orients himself, then pulls them off and flying away with her, out from under the piers of Seattle. Nate promises never to leave her again; she tells him it wasn't her decision to leave, but Maddie killed her (iss. 25). But then she absorbed all the death energies in the morgue, which are just as powerful as life energies. The dead are now addicted to her; she is addicted to death and is willing to kill (iss. 24). The dead crash in on them; Nate escapes with her to a boat in the harbor. She tells him she has been feeding off his strong death energies, and she needs to break her addiction. She sends him away, then goes to care for her baby. A mysterious creature observes. Issue: X-Man 59 Date: Jan-00 Story: The Ties that Bond (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Fantastic Four: Reed and Sue Richards (Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman), Johnny Storm (the Human Torch), Ben Grimm (the Thing); Franklin Richards Villains: Apocalypse, Caliban as Pestilence Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Mike Miller Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: In New York, Nate works out with the FF in their base in the West Side piers. He breaks the rules, swiping the psi-bafflers from Ben, then playing with his mind so he bashes Johnny and Reed. Sue sneaks up and makes him stand down. Nate had come to them, asking help in tracking down the other AOA exiles, and Reed was trying to test his powers. Reed finds his limits, which he believes are self-imposed. A mysterious creature goes through the computer systems and takes data on Nate to Apocalypse in Egypt. Nate bonds with Franklin over ice cream, both are impossibly powerful mutants. Reed can't do anything to help him, so he flies off, and Caliban attacks him in mid-air. Issue: X-Man 60 Date: Feb-00 Story: Out of the Loop (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: X-Men: Rogue, Storm, Colossus, Bishop, Wolverine, Gambit, Prof. X, Shadowcat Villains: Spider-Man, Morbius, and their vampires; Dark Beast and the Brotherhood: Membrain, Fever Pitch, Hemingway, Vessel, Wynter, Opsidian the Dark, Integer, Iron Maiden; Caliban, Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Ben Herrera Inks: Scott Koblish, Rod Ramos Colors: Matt Hicks Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Jason Levine Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate sees a newspaper headline than Jean's niece and nephew are missing (iss. 30). He smells Coldsnap-9 (iss. 28) and finds himself in a devastated city, littered with the poisoned corpses of heroes. He sees Stryfe's crest on the Latverian embassy (iss. 47), and sees his own reflection merged with Caliban. Spider-Man, Morbius, and their vampires attack him, and he begins to realize someone is playing with his mind. He flies off and sees Dark Beast's Brotherhood fighting the X-Men, and joins in. Fever Pitch kills Rogue, and Nate realizes he can't touch any of them: he's a ghost. Hemingway smushes Bishop; Storm electrocutes him; Fever Pitch catches Xavier, Wolverine, and Storm together and fries them all. Kitty is alone and surrounded; Nate reaches out with his psi-power and fells all of the Brotherhood (about five minutes too late). Nate realizes this is what would have happened if he had never come to earth. The illusion dissolves; Caliban has been testing him. He finds himself in Egypt, in Apocalypse's lair. Note: this is part of Apocalypse: The Twelve story line, which concludes in X-Men II:97. Issue: X-Man 61 Date: Mar-00 Story: Falling Forward (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Underseers, Overlords Other Characters: Urchaala, Fuzz, Grun, Marchalla Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Mike Miller Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Troy Peteri Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate is number 19X in an alien mine, unsure of who he is or how he got there. The miners all have helmets to fog their minds and keep them working. With much pain, he removes his helmet; the Underseers rush to control him, and he fights them off and starts a labor riot. An Overlord arrives and restores order by activating the prisoner's magnetic cuffs. Nate finds himself on a lab table, with a pregnant alien on the next one over. He frees himself, and Urch and her intelligent fuzzy logic program Fuzz arrive, and they save the newborn baby, Marchalla. Nate's TK is now limited to direct physical contact, and they run from the Underseers. Issue: X-Man 62 Date: Apr-00 Story: The Dark Side of the Sun (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Majestrix Lilandra Neramani Villains: Underseers, a Darkle Other Characters: Urchaala, Fuzz, Marchalla, Grunden Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Ben Herrera Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Troy Peteri Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate digs a passage away from the Underseers. Urch's mother was the pregnant alien (last iss.); she was sent to the prison camp twenty years ago, and Urch was born there. A Darkle appears with a warning; the Underseers are about to drill through, but Nate gets them away again. They deliver Marchalla to her father, then try to break out. The Darkle appears again and alerts the Underseers, and Nate and Urch have to slip out through the sewers. On the surface, Nate realizes he's on a Shi'ar world, and he has been imprisoned for crimes against the M'Kraan crystal (iss. 55). Lilandra shows up via hologram, and sends Urch meekly back to the mines. But Nate uses Fuzz to remotely psi-link to her, showing her the prisoners' lives. She relents, makes reforms, and releases Nate.
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