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Index to X-Men Volume I, since 281 including annuals, related
Version 2.1, last modified June 9, 2001
by Robert Diehl (rfdiehl@yahoo.com)
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 381
Date: Jun-00
Story: Night of Masques (24 pages)
Feature Characters: Phoenix, Beast, Storm, Gambit,
Cable; Cyclops
(in flashback)
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars:
Villains: Neo Shockwave Riders
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Adam Kubert
Inks: Tim Townsend
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Wes
Abbott
Colors: Richard Isanove
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras
Synopsis: Note: Claremont returns as writer, and six
months have passed since last iss.
Jean shows Nathan a secret cavern full of
treasures, which she found with Xavier before
the X-Men were founded. She encourages him
to embrace his life after Apocalypse, and they
go outside to Venice, during Carnival, and
waltz. Jean has a vision: her memories of Scott
interrupted with joker cards. She realizes it's a
warning from Remy.
Just then, Hank swoops down on a rope and
grabs her; he was also summoned to Venice.
They see Neo Shockwave Riders closing in,
and battle ensues, with Ororo joining in.
Nathan gets hit with a psychic whip, and his
T-O virus goes wild. Jean gets hit with a psi-
shark, which starts eating her memories, and
she must use the Phoenix force to get rid of it.
Remy shows up just as the Neo port away,
defeated. Nathan is worried that Jean may
become Dark Phoenix again and considers
psi-blading her, but Hank guesses his
thoughts and tells him to have more faith.
One Neo is captured; Jean demands her
memories back, but he takes poison rather
than answer questions. Jean enters his mind,
risking her own life.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 382
Date: Jul-00
Story: Lost Souls (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Phoenix, Beast, Storm, Gambit,
Cable;
Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Colossus (in
visions)
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars:
Villains: Neo Shockwave Riders; Neo Lost Souls:
Lament, Dirge, Requiem, Desolation; Mojo,
Belasco, Bastion, Dire Wraiths, Fenris,
Apocalypse (in visions)
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Tom Raney
Inks: Scott Hanna
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Saida
Temofonte
Colors: Brian Haberlin
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras
Synopsis: Nathan says Shockwave Riders were
legendary in his time. Remy has him guard
their bodies as they go into the psi-plane after
Jean. She sees a vision of the Neo's land, in
synch with nature, but now ruined by battle.
A Neo attacks her, is immune to her psi, and
beats her in hand-to-hand combat. Then she
pulls out the Phoenix.
Remy, Ororo, and Hank arrive, and they are
attacked by the Neo Lost Souls, who merge
with them. Meanwhile, Cable is attacked by
the Shockwave Riders again, but he has
learned their moves.
Remy sees his worst moment: the Mutant
Massacre; Ororo sees villains who have hurt
her and hers; Hank sees humanity turning
against him; Jean sees Apocalypse.
Nathan uses his psimitar to send energy to
them all, giving up his own advantage against
the Neo. Remy stops blaming himself and
laughs; the others also free themselves with
hope. They all return to the physical world
and insist they have no quarrel with the Neo,
who won't listen to reason, and run away to
fight another day.
Remy explains that he originally invited them
all to Venice (last iss.) for a rescue mission.
Despite some doubts, they agree to help him.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 383
Date: Aug-00
Story: Moscow Knights (38 pages)
Feature Characters: Phoenix, Beast, Storm, Gambit,
Cable
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Alexei Mikhailovitch Vazhin, Maj. Debra
Levin
Villains: Simyon Borisovitch Kurasov; Ransome Sole,
Big Casino, Sketch, Bludgeon, Cudgel,
Manacle, Revenant, Galadriel; Neo including
Farahd; Tullamore Voge and his hounds
Other Characters: Kara
Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Adam Kubert
Inks: Tim Townsend, Dan Panosian
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Saida!
Colors: Richard Isanove
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras
Synopsis: Ororo flies to Moscow and makes a
whirlwind suck up Kurasov, so they can chat.
He's a criminal boss also educated by Achmed
El-Gibar, and she wants a favor.
Two days ago in a ex-KGB research facility:
the X-Men meet Vazhin, who called in a favor
from the Thieves Guild. He sends them to
Sole's trendy nightclub to free Levin. Jean
disguises them, even reconfiguring their
minds, except for Hank, who makes a
spectacle of himself as a distraction, and
Ororo, who stands by as backup. The security
system picks up on them anyway, and Sole
has Sketch draw a new reality and capture
them. Manacle manacles Ororo, but she
defeats him, then flees Revenant's images of
the dead from her past.
Kurasov goes to Sole, delivering an
unconscious Storm LMD to him, while the
real Ororo sneaks in through an airshaft.
Sole is auctioning off the X-Men, to either
Voge or Farahd's Neo. Bludgeon and Cudgel
interrupt Storm's rescue of Levin; she
thunderbolts 'em, and Sketch takes this
chance to rebel, redrawing the LMD to have
machine gun arms, and freeing the X-Men.
Jean and Nathan telepathically get the
customers to evacuate; Hank hits Sole's
pressure points so he releases Kurasov. Remy,
Ororo, and Hank trick Manacle into weaving
a thorny cage. Revenant attacks Jean but soon
vanishes in horror; Sole attacks her, and she
releases the Phoenix, which inadvertently
knocks out Nathan.
The Neo port away with Sole and his thugs,
including the renegade Neo Galadriel. Levin
takes charge and covers up the whole thing.
The slave Sketch is free, and the slaver Voge is
captured.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 384
Date: Sep-00
Story: Crimson Pirates (24 pages)
Feature Characters: Gambit, Phoenix, Cable, Storm,
Beast,
Wolverine, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Forge
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Alexei Mikhailovitch Vazhin, Maj. Debra
Levin; Tessa
Villains: Killian and his Crimson Pirates and Sea
Dogs:
Bloody Bess, Vassily, Broadside; Tullamore
Voge and his Hounds; Simyon Borisovitch
Kurasov
Other Characters: Dmitri Koniev, his wife and daughter
Irina
Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Adam Kubert
Inks: Tim Townsend, Lary Stucker
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Colors: Richard Isanove
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras
Synopsis: In Moscow, Killian and his pirates shoot men
in limos and kidnap the defense minister,
Koniev.
Levin and Remy sit with Voge, who says
nothing, obviously waiting for rescue. Vazhin
determines he's human from an alternate
earth. Suddenly, Levin aims a gun at Voge and
pulls the trigger. It's a blank, but enough to
distract him, while Jean invades his mind.
But first, she sees Logan, back at the mansion
and using Cerebro despite the headache it
causes him. He wants help against the Goth,
who have stolen much of the team and Salem
Center (X-Men II:103). She says she's
investigating similar abductions by Voge, who
shows up with his Hounds, saying he's an old
hand at defeating "mentats." He attacks
Logan; Jean quickly sends him back to his
body, then realizes who Voge is.
In Westchester, Kurt and Forge get the
overloaded Cerebro under control, and Logan
wakes up swinging. He says that, for a
moment, he wanted to become a Hound.
Jean collapses; Nathan goes to the astral plane
after her and finds Onslaught, then Jean
inside, then is horrified.
Koniev demands entry; Vazhin knows him
well and realizes it's a trap. The X-Men
prepare, and Killian's Sea Dogs enter, to
rescue Voge.
Nathan realizes he's been purged of the T-O
virus: even his scars are gone. Ororo sets up a
hurricane wind, then freezing cold and
lightning, and Remy takes down Broadside
and Killian in turn. Ororo's wind stops, and
Remy gets a psimitar through the chest.
Nathan has been possessed and felled them
both.
Levin plans to kill Voge and flee; Jean wakes
in Hank's arms and says Nathan is lost. The
Sea Dogs get to them, shooting Vazhin. Hank
burst through a wall; they fall and escape into
the river.
Killian and Voge decide to flee the authorities.
Hank, Jean, and Levin are very wet and very
mad.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 385
Date: Oct-00
Story: Shell Game (23 pages)
Feature Characters: Phoenix, Archangel, Beast, Storm,
Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Colossus, Rogue,
Psylocke, Gambit, Thunderbird III, Cable
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars:
Villains: Killian and his Crimson Pirates and Sea Dogs
including Bloody Bess; Tullamore Voge and
his Hounds; The Goth and his Goth: Beldame,
Sanguine, Wanderer
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer & Art: Chris Claremont, German
Garcia, Michael Ryan, Randy Green
Inks: Panosian, Pepoy, Ketcham
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's
Albert, Saida
Colors: Richard Isanove
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras
Synopsis: To stay alive, Remy has made a deal with
Bloody Bess (X-Men II:104), and she takes the
X-Men to Madripoor to help abduct slaves.
Logan, Jean, Rogue, Hank, and Kurt arrive
from Hong Kong, and they fight their
teammates.
Ororo attacks Jean; Nathan uses TK and
telepathy to hold off Logan; Remy attacks
Rogue. But Beldame senses they are holding
back, so she touches Ororo, sending her
powers out of control, and Bess is able to
enslave Jean.
Hank throws Angel onto Bess then dances
with Piotr. Kurt rapidly ports Beldame around,
and Neal refuses to attack Rogue, despite his
slaver collar. Kurt and Hank throw Piotr at
Betsy, but she instinctively uses her new TK to
hurl him back.
Rogue takes her glove off and threatens Remy;
he tells her to trust him, and she does. But
Nathan zaps her with his psimitar, she knocks
Remy's cards loose, and the room collapses.
Even Logan is knocked out, and Nathan is
disturbed to realize he enjoyed the battle.
In their base in caves in China, the Sea Dogs
are categorizing and assembling their slaves
for transport. Goth, the head Goth, reneges on
his promise and enslaves Gambit's team.
Jean has cast illusions to switch places with
Beldame. She knocks out a guard,
telepathically links minds with Forge, and
instructs Hank to deactivate all the slaver
collars. Then Betsy creates her psychic katana
and destroys the slavers' transmat.
Gambit's team, free of control, attack the Goth
and Sea Dogs. Neal, Ororo, and Remy try to
overload Goth with energy, but he blasts them
all before Remy can throw a card, but Rogue
quickly absorbs his power, charges the card,
and blows up Goth.
The X-Men capture the rest of the villains and
free the captives. Remy reassures Rogue, who
feels bad about killing Goth.
Note: previews of Ultimate Spider-Man and
Ultimate X-Men follow.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 386
Date: Nov-00
Story: For Those in Peril (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Phoenix, Beast, Storm, Rogue,
Cable; Cyclops
(in a vision)
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars:
Villains:
Other Characters: Capt. Aleytys "Lee" Forrester, her
crew
including Paolo;
Credits: Writer & Art: Chris Claremont, Thomas
Derenick
Inks: Norm Rapmund
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Saida
Colors: Richard Isanove
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras
Synopsis: Remy takes the team dancing in his favorite
jazz club in New Orleans. Nathan isn't into it:
he thinks mutants should keep a lower profile.
Remy is suspicious of him, saying his attitude
changed in Moscow (iss. 383). Jean and
Nathan both miss Scott, whose body was
never recovered.
Jean gets a telepathic call from Lee Forrester,
captain of the fishing trawler Arcadia, who
has had brief romances with Scott (iss. 144),
Magneto (iss. 148), and Nathan (Cable 12-
14). She is now caught in Hurricane Sam, so
Ororo takes Nathan and Rogue to rescue her.
Remy hints to Rogue to be careful of Nathan,
but she just gets frustrated with his obscurity.
An Air National Guard plane in the storm gets
hit by lightning, and Ororo is knocked out by
flying debris. Rogue has Nathan continue to
Lee's ship while she swoops down and catches
her, then gets hit by a wave and is forced to
steal part of Ororo's power so she can make it
to the Arcadia.
The storm breaks the windows in the ship's
wheelhouse, and Nathan uses his TK to keep
out the sea and breaks off his telepathic link to
Jean, who has been monitoring with Hank
and Remy. Rogue holds up the mast until the
crew can weld it in place and announces that
they are mutants and X-Men.
Nathan telepathically projects to the damaged
plane to guide them toward the ship. Rogue
checks on Ororo, thankful that the X-Men
have taught her to hope rather than despair,
then flies and catches the plane, while Nathan
makes a TK tube so the flight crew can slide
down to the ship.
Ororo recovers and says their only hope is to
get to the hurricane's eye, so she, Rogue, and
Nathan use their powers to cut through the
worst of the storm.
Rogue, pushing the ship, gets caught in the
undertow and is in danger of drowning when
she sees a light and goes toward it. She thinks
she sees Scott, but it is Nathan. She thanks
him, and he hints that he saw Scott, too.
Rogue's hopes are raised.
They make it to the eye. Nathan points out to
Rogue that they still need to lift the trawler up
and over the storm to safety. "Piece o' cake,
Sugah."
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 387
Date: Dec-00
Story: Cry Justice, Cry Vengeance! (23 pages)
Feature Characters: Phoenix, Beast, Storm, Rogue,
Gambit, Cable
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Lilandra, the Imperial Guard including
Gladiator, the Starjammers: Corsair,
Hepzibah, Ch'od, Raza; Cerise; Prof. X and
Cadre K
Villains: Dark Phoenix (in flashback), Mandroids;
Webwing, Hussar, Neutron, Star Hammer,
C'Cll and B'Nee
Other Characters: D'Bari ("asparagus") people, Everett
K. Ross,
Dora Milaje, Lee Forrester, Billy, Matheson
Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Salvador Larroca
Inks: Tim Townsend
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Saida
Colors: Richard Isanove
Asst. Editor: Pete Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada
Synopsis: Note: this is part of the Maximum Security
crossover.
Years ago and light-years away, the D'Bari
solar system was destroyed (iss. 135, Jul-80)
by Dark Phoenix, who had replaced Jean,
wanting to experience humanity.
Today, Jean and Hank are shopping in a
market in New Orleans, where the X-Men are
recuperating in a secret hospital. Ross, regent
of Wakanda, and Milaje fly in to see Ororo,
and she goes with them: she has a private
history with the Black Panther. Jean does a
light psi-scan to make sure it's safe; Hank
worries about the potential for mutants to
abuse their powers.
The airmen thank the X-Men for rescuing
them (last iss.), and Forrester sympathizes
with Jean for the loss of Scott. But both Rogue
and now Jean have sensed that he is still alive.
In space, Lilandra is aboard the Starjammer.
Xavier telepathically projects himself there,
and Lilandra asks for his help finding
Deathbird. He is angry that Earth has been
made a dumping ground for intergalactic
criminals, but Lilandra says Earth's influence
is disproportionate, and the galaxy wants it
stopped. She had to avoid civil war, but she
sent Cerise (ex-member of Excalibur) to warn
the X-Men.
Mandroids attack the hospital; Hank
recognizes their armor is out of date, but Jean
says they have advanced psi-shielding, so she
can't tell what they're after. She and Nathan
lead the battle away from the hospital and
into a warehouse. Rogue touches a soldier and
learns he is a diversion: the real objective is
Jean. Jean and Nathan are ambushed, and she
is captured. She attacks Webwing on the psi-
plane; it retreats in horror when it sees the
Phoenix sign. Star Hammer blasts Jean, and
she barely holds on. Nathan throws his
psimitar at C'Cll and B'Nee, and then the other
X-Men arrive. Rogue recognizes their foes as
court-martialed Imperial Guard, who say they
have been exiled to Earth.
Jean tries to attack Star Hammer on the psi-
plane, but she is overwhelmed with images of
the D'Bari home world burning. Jean denies it
was her, but Star Hammer insists on
retribution and blasts her. He is the last
D'Bari, and Jean has let him think he killed
her.
The X-Men clean up the mess. Jean says she is
responsible for Dark Phoenix because she let it
merge with her. She plans to set things right.
The X-Men realize Earth has become a prison
planet. Jean realizes Scott may be alive.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 2000
Date: 2000
Story: Share (40 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Cable
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Amelia Voght (in flashback)
Villains: Casey Fullerton-Smith
Other Characters: Amy Stringer, Penny, Simmons,
Charlene
Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell, Fiona Avery
Pencils: Essad Ribic
Inks: Jimmy Palmiotti
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Saida
Temofonte
Colors: Guy Major
Asst. Editor: Pete Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada
Synopsis: St. Madeleine's school in Holyoke, TN. Amy
and Penny are friends. In the schoolyard on
Thanksgiving, Penny gets shot. Then a lot of
students get shot. The gunman confronts Amy,
who says she's not afraid. He shoots her in the
head twice. She lives, but she's blind and
crippled. The doctors say she could walk
again, but she's too angry to try.
A few days later, a firetruck driver suddenly
goes blind and crashes. In Westchester, Xavier
wakes, sensing something. Neither Nathan nor
Cerebro can detect it, but hundreds of people
have been rendered blind temporarily.
Xavier goes to Amy's house, where she sits
alone in her room, ignoring a party. She
senses him telepathically, and he touches her,
showing her his memories of his own
recuperation, when he was first paralyzed
(iss. 20, -1). It didn't work for him, but it
could for her. He offers to train her body and
her incipient telepathy. She agrees, trains
hard, and is able to walk with crutches.
Xavier has Nathan pick him up.
The gunman was another student, Fullerton-
Smith, and he goes on trial, pleading insanity.
Amy testifies. The defence counsel questions
the extent of her injuries. Angered, she makes
everyone in the room go blind and feel what
it's like to be shot. She grabs the bailiff's gun
and points it at Fullerton-Smith.
Xavier freezes everyone's minds and tells Amy
this isn't the way: she has let her anger carry
her away, like Fullerton-Smith did. Authority
must be respected, even when it's not right.
He says abusers rarely understand the pain
they cause, and now at least Fullerton-Smith
does. It's not enough, but she can't let rage
consume her.
Amy stays to suffer the consequences for her
own behavior. Xavier releases the room and
goes home with Nathan. He is impressed with
her.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 388
Date: Jan-01
Story: Dream's End Part 1 of 4: The Past is but
Prologue! (23 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Phoenix, Beast, Storm,
Nightcrawler,
Wolverine, Colossus, Rogue, Psylocke, Gambit,
Bishop, Thunderbird III, Cable
Regular Characters: Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Guest Stars: X-Force: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar,
Bedlam, Banshee (?); Generation X: Jubilee, M,
Chamber, Husk, Skin; Wolfsbane
Villains: Sen. Robert Kelly; Magneto; the Brotherhood
of Mutants: Mystique, Sabretooth, Toad, Blob;
the Hellfire Club including Sir Gordon
Phillips; Sentinels, Trevor Fitzroy (as Danger
Room simulations)
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Salvador Larroca
Inks: Art Thibert, Larry Stucker
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Saida
Colors: Richard Isanove
Asst. Editor: Pete Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada
Synopsis: Note: for a previous "Dream's End," see iss.
372.
Kelly gives a campaign speech on the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial, equating the end of
slavery with that of the mutant threat.
Mutants around the world watch on
television, with anger and fear. Mystique, in
Glasgow, plans another assassination attempt.
Off the Hebrides, a soldier on the yacht
Divinity tries to escape by helicopter, but
Sabretooth stops him, with Toad at his side.
Mystique has killed and replaced Phillips's
wife; he is the head of all the Hellfire Clubs.
She says they were testing a human-only
strain of the Legacy Virus, and Phillips, still
living, is therefore a mutant. She flies the
helicopter away as the yacht explodes.
The X-Men train in the Danger Room. Bishop,
recently returned, is distracted by a simulation
of Fitzroy. Jean and Nathan are sympathetic;
Xavier is not: he needs him focused on
immediate problems. Logan and Rogue play
hide-and-seek on the grounds instead of
attending Xavier's conference, in which he
briefs them on Mystique. He has planted
Nathan in Kelly's inner circle to guard him.
Logan finds Rogue manifesting Ororo's
powers and with claws in her hands. He
prompts her to retract the claws so the
wounds can heal.
Mystique impersonates Moira on Muir, but
Rahne sees through it, tussles with Sabretooth
and bites him, then runs off to call the X-Men.
Rogue is randomly manifesting powers of
mutants she has touched; her skin becomes
metal like Piotr, and blue like Kurt, and her
eyes blast like Scott (but she can control it).
Bishop grabs her, trying to absorb her energy,
but is quickly overloaded. Jean and Xavier
arrive to help order her mind. She wakes,
saying Mystique is on Muir. Xavier tries to
mind link with Moira, but no luck. Rogue
grabs Logan and Bishop and flies there.
Nathan observes Kelly's speech at Faneuil
Hall, Boston. Blob crashes the party.
Muir Island blows up (cf. X-Factor 69).
Note: the story continues in Cable 87.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 389
Date: Feb-01
Story: The Good Shepherd (23 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Beast, Storm,
Nightcrawler,
Wolverine, Colossus, Rogue, Psylocke, Gambit,
Dr. Cecelia Reyes, Thunderbird III
Regular Characters: Dr. Moira Kinross MacTaggert (in
flashback)
Guest Stars:
Villains: Mystique; Joe MacTaggert (in flashback)
Other Characters: Troop, Benes (in flashback)
Credits: Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Salvador Larroca
Inks: Art Thibert
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Saida
Temofonte
Colors: Hi-Fi Design
Asst. Editor: Pete Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada
Synopsis: Note: this occurs after X-Men II:108.
Xavier works out, swinging on rings,
swimming in the pool, and thinking about
recent set-backs: Moira and Sen. Kelly
murdered; a young mutant in Texas, Serafina
Montoya, also murdered; Rogue's power
dangerously mutated; Cecelia addicted to
Rave.
Moira had been buried by family and friends
in Scotland; Kelly with honors in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Xavier remembers meeting Moira Kinross, at
Oxford at a lecture by a brilliant geneticist
whose mind Xavier couldn't read (Milbury,
perhaps?). Xavier was already bald; Moira
was dating a Royal Marine, Joe MacTaggert
(here misspelled MacTaggart), but she invited
Xavier to ride motorcycles with them to
Devon for the weekend. Xavier sensed she
was attracted to him and Joe wanted to punch
him. He went, more interested in standing up
to a bully than in getting the girl. Moira told
him she's attracted to Joe's recklessness.
In a local pub, Joe started making out with
Moira, getting them kicked out. She tosses
Xavier the keys to her bike, and he stays, but
hears a telepathic warning. He raced the bike
through a storm and found Joe with his
crashed bike, wounded but all right. He found
Moira telepathically, they instantly fell in love,
and she broke up with Joe.
In the Danger Room, Cecelia hallucinates and
rages as she goes through withdrawal. Kurt
teleports himself, Neal, and Betsy out of the
way when her force field spikes crash through
the control room window. Betsy tries to
contain her with TK and calls Xavier.
Xavier remembers first talking to Cecelia. She
didn't want to be a mutant, and he said there's
no choice, like being a Puerto Rican woman.
He asked her why she became a doctor: her
father was shot dead in front of her and she
couldn't help him. She asked him why he
started the X-Men: he remembers the war
(now looking more like Vietnam than Korea).
Xavier enlisted to prove his manliness to Joe
and worked in search and rescue, becoming a
legend and receiving the nickname "The Good
Shepherd." Moira sent him a Dear John
(different from the "someone like me" one in
iss. 309) a month before their wedding. On
his next mission, Xavier tripped a land mine.
He lay there, wounded in body and heart,
then got up and completed his rescue mission.
Ever since, he has lived for the futures of
others.
Rogue takes Logan to snoop in Kitty's room
(MIA since X-Men II:100). They see her photo
collection of dead friends, and Rogue says
Kitty left her a letter telling her about
Destiny's diary, volume 7 of 13. They read
and find themselves in it, then see Remy trying
to kill Mystique in the infirmary of the Federal
super-hero prison on Long Island.
Ororo sneaks in as well and stops him.
Mystique, speaking around the tube in her
mouth, says their fate is sealed. At age 13,
Destiny's power manifested, and she
compulsively wrote 13 cryptic diaries that
year. When she finished, she was blind. She
and Mystique spent years trying to decipher
them, but were unable to change anything.
Mystique gave the diaries she still had to
Xavier, to let him play Cassandra for a while.
Ororo and Remy ask for proof: she tells them
to ask Logan and Rogue, who have read this
conversation in the diary.
The mansion shakes, and Xavier knows it's
time for him to help Cecelia help herself. He
enters the Danger Room, and she lashes out at
him, while Betsy, Kurt, and Hank vainly try to
protect him. He talks to Cecelia, saying they're
both doctors (since when is Xavier a medical
doctor?). He says the drug is an excuse for her
to lash out: her real fear is of being a mutant.
She calms down and apologizes; he says,
"You're not really part of the team until
you've trashed the Danger Room."
The dream lives.
Mini-Rant: "The Good Shepherd" is an
appellation of Jesus Christ (John 10:11).
Xavier was Onslaught. 'Nuff said.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 390
Date: Mar-01
Story: The Cure (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Beast, Colossus, Dr. Cecelia
Reyes, Prof. X,
Gambit, Wolverine; Phoenix (in flashback)
Regular Characters: Dr. Moira MacTaggert (in
flashback)
Guest Stars:
Villains: Stryfe, Mastermind, Mystique (all in
flashback)
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Salvador Larroca
Inks: Townsend, Stucker, Vines, Hanna, Miki
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Colors: Hi-Fi Design
Asst. Editor: Pete Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada
Synopsis: Mystique's manipulation of the Legacy Virus
helped Moira discover the cure, and Xavier
read it from her dying mind. Now Hank has it
all put together, and his triumphal yawp
rebounds across the grounds. The X-Men
come running, on alert, but Hank says he has
the cure, which can be disseminated just like
the virus: airborne, triggered by the first
subject's mutant power. Cecelia points out
that would kill the first subject, so Hank puts
it away till he can figure a solution. Piotr
contemplates.
The others play basketball, with powers,
saying they should enjoy and not hide them.
Xavier joins in, manipulating all their minds
so he can score.
Piotr uses anesthesia on Cecelia, injects
himself with the cure, and turns to metal. He
blames himself for not sending Illyana home
to safety, and he refuses to wait while others
die. His energy signature flares, making a
flash that alerts the X-Men. Cecelia wakes and
does CPR, but he is gone.
Quotations from Giant-Sized X-Men 1, 1975.
Piotr: "Papa ? what should I do?quot;
Nikolai Rasputin: "Do as your heart tell you,
my son. It will not betray you."
Extended rant: the Legacy Virus was
elaborated as a bad practical joke, but instead
of an ingenious and elegant solution to the
mind-game, we get lame babble put into
Hank's mouth. And "Patient Zero" was
Gordon Lefferts (X-Force 18), with no
indication he was a mutant. And an
instantaneous airborne cure is more mystical
than medical. And Xavier is a telepath, but he
mistakes Hank's yell for an attack and doesn't
sense Piotr's state of mind.
We live in a culture of violence, where many
children think it's cool to hurt others, with
words, fists, and sometimes weapons. Piotr
was a gentle giant: arms of steel but the heart
of an artist, horrified when forced to kill (iss.
211). Now he is gone, and Marvel will judge
only by sales.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 391
Date: Apr-01
Story: Dad (23 pages)
Feature Characters: Cyclops
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Corsair (Maj. Christopher Summers); Raza,
Ch'od, Hepzibah, Alex Summers (all in
flashback)
Villains: Shi'ar (in flashback)
Other Characters: Katherine Summers (in flashback)
Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Salvador Larroca
Inks: Tim Townsend, Lary Stucker
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Saida
Temofonte
Colors: Hi-Fi Design
Asst. Editor: Pete Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada
Synopsis: Scott is back, having been merged with
Apocalypse and presumed dead for months
(Search for Cyclops LS). He has a new movie-
star haircut, uniform, and motorbike. He
mourns Piotr's death but respects his decision
(reader persuasion alert!) He is considering
his future and has asked his father to meet
him. They awkwardly avoid hugging and then
go fishing.
Corsair recalls thinking the Starjammers
could change the Shi'ar Empire. On the lam,
they went diving for food but were driven off
by large-toothed sea creatures. He laughs at
the memory; Scott doesn't get it and continues
brooding.
They camp; Corsair asks Scott to use his
power to start the fire, but he's offended his
own father doesn't know he has a force beam,
not a heat ray. Corsair tries to apologize but
gives up. Scott finally asks him why he didn't
come back for his kids; Corsair says he was a
captive and then had responsibilities with the
Starjammers; Scott says he never cared about
them; Corsair backhands him. Scott: "Yeah,
that's a solution." He doesn't want children
because he's afraid of being a bad father. But
he went time traveling to raise Nathan
(Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix) and again
asks why Corsair didn't come back.
Corsair breaks down and admits he was too
ashamed, unable to protect his family, and he
thought they were better off without him. He
apologizes. Scott relents, and they awkwardly
avoid saying they love each other. Scott recalls
the last night the family was together,
camping, and just like then he falls asleep in
his father's embrace.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 392
Date: Apr-01
Story: From the Ashes of the Past? Still Another
Genesis (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Phoenix, Jean-Paul Beaubier
(Northstar),
Hector Rendoza (Wraith), Paulie Provenzano,
Leyu Yashida (Sunpyre), Johanna Cargill
(Frenzy), Dazzler, Prof. X, Wolverine, Cyclops
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars:
Villains: Magneto, mobsters including Big Fats
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Salvador Larroca
Inks: Scott Hanna, Tim Townsend
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's ST
Colors: Hi-Fi Design
Asst. Editor: Pete Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada
Synopsis: Note: this is Part 1 of Eve of Destruction.
Magneto's ambassador Cargill is illegally
captive in the Pentagon; Jean wipes the federal
agents' minds and frees her.
Jean-Paul (formerly of Alpha Flight; openly
gay and Quebecois) is in Philadelphia (as in
the Tom Hanks movie), signing his book,
"Born Normal." A man posing as a fan pulls a
machine gun, but he's not super-fast, so Jean-
Paul turns it round on him. Jean arrives and
questions his mere celebrity, but he claims to
be happy.
In Boston Common, a mob attacks Hector, age
16, a sick mutant with invisible skin. Jean
arrives and freezes the mob. She recruits him
to save a world that hates and fears him.
Paulie returns to a mafia front in Brooklyn. In
the Marines he learned he is invulnerable. He
wants half; the mobsters shoot him, ruining
his suit, so he beats them up. Jean arrives,
expresses disgust, and recruits him. They
drive to the mansion just as Leyu flies in. She's
Shiro's little sister and is using his Sunfire
costume; neither Yashida is particularly keen
on helping the X-Men. Paulie is knocked
through the door; he has a problem with
"limp wristed" Jean-Paul, who beats him
rapid-fire till his nose bleeds.
Jean says Magneto has declared war on
humanity, abducted Xavier and displayed him
as a symbol of foolish pacifism. Most X-Men
are gone fishin' (for Destiny's diaries, X-Men
II:109; X-Treme X-Men), so she needs an
interim team. Meanwhile, Logan and Scott are
already in Genosha.
They need to leave immediately, without
training, with Cargill agreeing to be their
guide. The doorbell rings, but the neither
mansion security nor Jean's telepathy detects
anyone. She opens the door to find Dazzler, a
bit worse for wear.
Note: it was once unacceptable to perform a
homosexual act; now it is unacceptable to
criticize it; cf. Isaiah 5:20.
Issue: Uncanny X-Men 393
Date: May-01
Story: Like Lambs to the Slaughter! (22 pages)
Feature Characters: Prof. X, Colossus (in flashback),
Cyclops,
Wolverine; Phoenix, Northstar, Wraith, Paulie
Provenzano, Sunpyre, Frenzy, Dazzler
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: Polaris
Villains: Magneto; X-Baby AOA Apocalypse, Dark
Beast, Sugarman, Holocaust (all as memories)
Other Characters:
Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell
Pencils: Tom Raney
Inks: Scott Hanna
Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/ST
Colors: Hi-Fi Design
Asst. Editor: Pete Franco
Editor: Mark Powers
Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada
President: Bill Jemas
Synopsis: Note: this is Part 3 of Eve of Destruction.
Magneto remembers being nursed by Piotr,
after Xavier shut off his mind (X-Men II:25).
Piotr wanted him to ignite the faith he once
had; Magneto now berates Xavier for not
stopping human attacks on mutants and says
Piotr achieved in death more than he or
Xavier ever did. He is slowing the blood to
Xavier's brain, to keep him captive.
Jean telepathically trains her interim team in
the use of their powers; Provenzano is a pig,
and she puts him in his place. Jean takes
everyone into Dazzler's memories of the
Mojoverse, which was overrun by X-Baby
versions of the AOA. Longshot may be dead.
The Blackbird lurches forward and breaks
apart. Jean scrambles to get the team safely to
the ground, but they are delivered by
magnetic power to Magda Square. Scott and
Logan come running, while Lorna helps
escapees.
Magneto shows them Xavier; Dazzler uses the
roar of the crowd to blast him with light, but
he uses magnetism to deflect it back,
disintegrating her.
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