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My thoughts on this series as a whole have not entirely been formed yet,
at least not so far as I would feel comfortable making them public. But anyway, I highly doubt
that you came here to read what it is that I may or may not have thought.
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190, 272, 277, 280, 281, 283, 295, 296, 301
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| #190 | | February, 1985 |
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| Writer | Artists | Color | | Chris Claremont | John Romita Jr. &
Dan Green | Glynis Wein | | Sorcerer Kulan Gath has magically tranformed Manhattan island to the barbarian age, building a kingdom of terror, hate and magik. His henchmen are the Morlocks, his enemies the X-Men and the Avengers, or rather barbarian-counterparts of those heroes. By accident, Storm and Callisto fall into the ocean and the current takes them out of the spell’s range. They unite to battle Kulan Gath and have unexpected help in the form of Selene, who although still in Manhattan, is unaffected, as she lived back in the era where Gath is from. The evil sorcerer puts Xavier, Dr. Strange and the New Mutants under his control, while Selene turnms Magma and Rachel Summers into her loyal followers, since both girls don’t remember past encounters. Storm and Callisto re-enter the city, their minds proitected by Selene‘s sorcery, yet it’s too late, she has already been captured by Gath. Storm, and Callisto unite with the ancient versions of the X-Men, the Avengers and Illyana rasputin against the immortal tyrant. |
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January, 1991 | | #272 |
| Writer | Penciller | Inks | | Chris Claremont | Jim Lee | Scott Williams | | The captured members of the X-teams are put on trial in Genosha. They are offered to volunteer for the mutate bonding process, otherwise they have to face death. All of them choose the latter and are brought to Cameron Hodge, who enjoys having so many 'toys'. The mechanical monster has Archangel and Wolverine fight each without restraints and forces the others to watch. Psylocke pretends to no longer bear the brutality and accepts to be transformed into a mutate. Soon after she is led away she surprises her guards with her asian ninja skills and escapes. The Genegineer Moreau and Tam Anderson decide that Hodge has finally snapped and plot behind his back. Outside the citadel Dr. Moreau orders a mutate to create a tunnel below the citadel; not aware that they are being watched by Rictor, Jubilee and Boom-Boom. Cameron Hodge murders Wipeout and frames Magistrate Havok for the crime, getting rid of both the only way for the X-Men to regain their powers and a possible opponent. Tam Anderson and Psylocke take mutate 20 (Storm) to the prisoners, who have just freed themselves thanks to Gambit’s lockpicking. Something strange happens as Storm hits Cyclops with a lightning. Ororo is back to her former adult self and has washed off all effects of the mutate bonding process and Scott too has back his optic blast. |
| #277 | | June, 1991 |
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| Writer | Penciller | Inks | | Chris Claremont | Jim Lee | Scott Williams | | The X-Men fight the Starjammers, who turn out to be Warskrulls in disguise. From inside their ship, Gambit helps his friends, while Lila Cheney and Deathbird discover the Warskrulls matrix chamber, where all captives are held in some strange techno-organic net. The real Xavier mentally guides Lila to teleport the rest of the X-Men into that chamber as well and a big fight starts. At first the X-Men (Storm, Forge, Banshee, Gambit) seem to hold their ground against Gladiator and the Skrull versions of Wolverine, Psylocke and Jubilee, but the fake Xavier then attacks them with his telepathy. However the matrix control was damaged in the fight, allowing the real Xavier to free himself, and in direct battle, the original proves to be better than the copy. With their leader’s defeat all Warskrulls decompose. Xavier explains that after his capture, he was sending out psychic S.O.S. calls and surprisingly found a sympathitic soul in Deathbird. It was him who subconsciously influenced her to get Lila Cheney and the X-Men to help. Lilandra wants to talk with her sister about the throne, but Deathbird says that she no longer wants it, in fact she came to hate the daily duties of monitoring the huge Empire, and she leaves. The X-Men inform Xavier of how they fared in his absence and of Moira’s strange behavior and he understands that the Shadow King is back. He says goodbye to his love Lilandra and decides to go back to Earth with the X-Men. Meanwhile in Salem Center, Stevie Hunter is attacked by Colossus, who already is under the Shadow King’s control. |
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September, 1991 | | #280 |
| Writer | Penciller | Inks | | Fabian Nicieza | Andy Kubert | Inks R Us | | Xavier inspects the ruins of Muir Island and finds X-Factor and the free X-Men held in a telekinteic field by Legion, who has been made the Shadow King’s new host body. The Professor and the Shadow King fight and Storm, who had remained hidden after her defeat by Legion, zaps him with a lightning, causing him to loose control over the telekinetic field and retreating. Xavier and the free mutants come up with a plan, Xavier will engage the Shadow King on the astral plane, with Jean anchoring him and Storm, Cyclops, Colossus and Archangel shielding them from physical attacks, while Beast, Banshee, Iceman, Forge and Rogue will enter the lab complex to disruprt the Shadow King’s nexus. Xavier is not faring very well on the astral plane, as his astral injuries all show on his physical body too. First his legs are broken and he suffers more injuries. The lab team has to fight the mutants still influenced by the Shadow King, and many personal issues hinder them, like Banshee having to go up against Moira and Syrin for example. The team that is supposed to guard Xavier enters the astral plane too through Jean’s telepathy to help the Professor, yet this exposes him to physical danger in the form of Legion lurking around. The Shadow King now can destroy both Xavier’s mind and body, but before he fulfills his deed, Forge uses a neuro-synaptic weapon on Psylocke and while she is still dazed, he plunges her psychic blade into Polaris’s head, disrupting the Nexus and the Shadow King’s power source. The Shadow King vanishes, Legion falls unconscious and Xavier’s body is heavily damaged, but the X-Men won. |
| #281 | | October, 1991 |
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| Scripter | Penciller | Inks | | John Byrne | While Portacio | Art Thibert | | Shinobi Shaw and Trevor Fitzroy belong to a new group called Upstarts. They are in competition against each other and get points for killing certain people. Currently their targets are present and former members of the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle. Shinobi is in the lead for having killed his father, but Fitzroy plans to get ahead by sending his own breed of Sentinels to Australia where they slaughter most of the Reavers to get to Donald Pierce. Only Deathstrike and Cylla are clever enough to realize that as long as they don’t get in the way, they won’t get attacked. Pierce tells Gateway to take him to the person responsible and enters the teleportation portal with some Sentinels following him. Meanwhile the X-Men Gold team are attending a Hellfire Club party, meeting with the Hellions and the White Queen Emma Frost. She contacted them for help as somebody has tried to kill her several times. Fitzroy appears, intending to finish what his operatives could not, but he gets defeated by the X-Men. Right then Gateway’s portal opens and Pierce arrives with the Sentinels in pursuit. The robots kill both Emma Frost and Donald Pierce, and on Fitzroy’s command then battle the Hellions and the X-Men. The young mutants panic and end up captured or killed one by one. The X-Men ensure that the civilians are out of harms’s way and manage to destroy one of the Sentinels, however Jean gets outnumbered by the other two and realizes that she has only one slight chance of surviving. Yet she gets blasted by the robots and is apparently dead. Fitzoy and his robots leave. |
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December, 1991 | | #283 |
| Scripter | Penciller | Inks | | John Byrne | While Portacio | Art Thibert | | , Malcolm and Randall battle the criminals from the future, who desperately try to save Fitzroy. While Bishop kills the criminals, Fitzroy escapes, only to be captured by Shinobi Shaw, who tells him that the Gamesmaster deemed Fitzroy a cheater and takes his ring back. The X-Men try to stop Bishop, who seems to be an X-Man from the future, but the man believes that Fitzroy is trying to trick him with imposter X-Men. The X-Men battle Bishop and the others until Storm defeats the three. Meanwhile, Xavier and Forge help restore Jean back to her body, but Xavier senses another presence. Fitzroy’s complex detonates and the X-Men are separated from Bishop. Bishop and his men escape to track the rest of the criminals and the real X-Men. The X-Men regroup and Storm is more determined than ever to discover the truth about Bishop. Meanwhile, Gamesmaster and Selene watch the events unfold and laugh at what they have in store for the Upstarts. |
| #295 | | December, 1992 |
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| Writer | Penciller | Inks | | Scott Lobdell | Brandon Peterson | Terry Austin | | Apocalypse inspects the Horsemen’s headquarters but finds them defeated by the X-Men Gold team. Since Sinister had claimed that Apocalypse has Scott and Jean, the X-Men fight him when he shows up, but surprisingly, despite his dimished state caused by his interrupted restoration cycle, Apocalypse manages to render all of them unconscious and teleports away. His next course of action is to find out who set him up. At Xavier’s mansion the other X-Men and X-Factor gather data on Stryfe. It’s not much: they only know of his connection to the MLF and that he may be Cable in disguise. They let Cannonball help bring Stryfe in, in exchange for X-Force’s information on the MLF. Wolverine and Bishop infiltrate Department K to get their data on Stryfe, and run into Cable, who had the same idea. |
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January,1993 | | #296 |
| Writer | Penciller | Inks | | Scott Lobdell | Brandon Peterson | Terry Austin | | Beast and Moira remove the techno-organic bullet from Xavier’s head, even though it’s a delicate operation. In Stryfe’s base, Jean and Scott try to escape, but find a baby strapped up in some wires. They don’t dare remove them, as it might kill him. Stryfe tries to make them commit murder by saying he and the boy are linked; one’s death would mean the other’s, too. He expects them to go through with it and murder the child, but they surrender. He then tries to press them into doing it, but they fight back. It turns out that the baby was a fake. Jean and Scott escape and find themselves on the lunar surface. Meanwhile, Apocalypse makes a deal with the X-Men and says he can cure Xavier. Aboard Graymalkin, Bishop, Cable and Wolverine recap the events and figure out Stryfe’s location on the moon, though they still wonder what his motives are. |
| #301 | | June,1993 |
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| Writer | Penciler | Inker | | Scott Lobdell | John Romita Jr | Dan Green | Dominion Beast and Moira remove the techno-organic bullet from Xavier’s head, even though it’s a delicate operation. In Stryfe’s base, Jean and Scott try to escape, but find a baby strapped up in some wires. They don’t dare remove them, as it might kill him. Stryfe tries to make them commit murder by saying he and the boy are linked; one’s death would mean the other’s, too. He expects them to go through with it and murder the child, but they surrender. He then tries to press them into doing it, but they fight back. It turns out that the baby was a fake. Jean and Scott escape and find themselves on the lunar surface. Meanwhile, Apocalypse makes a deal with the X-Men and says he can cure Xavier. Aboard Graymalkin, Bishop, Cable and Wolverine recap the events and figure out Stryfe’s location on the moon, though they still wonder what his motives are. |
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After 20 years of drawing comics, he left the industry in the 80's to focus on his legal career as a public defender. In 1992, Bill was struck by a car while rollerblading, suffering a severe head trauma. He spent over a year in a coma and has since been institutionalized, he is not expected to fully recover.