Credits: Written by Fabian Nicieza, pencilled by Greg Capullo, inked by Harry Candelario and edited by Bob Harras Plot: Cable has made it through the barrier between Stryfe's machine and the rest of the moon, seemingly alone. Now he battles with Stryfe for the lives of Scott 'Cyclops' Summers and Jean Grey. Behind the machines, … Continue reading Part 12: X-Force 18 – The Final Verse
Credits: Written by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Greg Capullo, inked Harry Candelario by and edited by Bob Harras. Plot: Stryfe has arrived to battle Apocalypse and proceeds to pound on him, berating him about some great wrong done to him and Apocalypse has not got a clue who this spiky armoured assailant is. After batting … Continue reading Part 8: X-Force 17 – The “for me it was Tuesday” of grudge matches.
Credits: Written by Fabian Nicieza, pencilled by Andy Kubert, inked by Mark Pennington and edited by Bob Harras. Notes: In the infirmary at his home, Charles Xavier is dying and Dr Henry 'the Beast' McCoy and Dr Moira MacTaggart are struggling to be hopeful. Present with them are Val Cooper (X-Factor liaison to the US … Continue reading Part 3: X-Men 14 – The issue where everyone catches up on their messages.
Credits: Written by Peter David, pencils by Jae Lee, inked by Al Milgrom and edited by Kelly Corvese. Plot: Charles Xavier has been shot and is being rushed into surgery, already at the hospital are the members of X-Factor (Havok, Polaris, Quicksilver, Wolfsbane and Multiple Man ) because of a Genoshan mutant who was beaten … Continue reading Part 2: X-Factor 84 – I don’t think these writers were talking to each other.
Credits: Written by Scott Lobdell, pencilled by Brandon Peterson, inked by Terry Austin and edited by Bob Harras. Plot: Central Park is hosting a world harmony concert. As one of the guests Lila Cheney is able to invite Charles Xavier to speak to the crowd to help further his goals of human/mutant co-existence. Warren 'Archangel' … Continue reading Part 1 Uncanny X-Men 294: It’s a little suspect when the assassin name-checks himself isn’t it?
When I started properly collecting X-Men comics, it was late 1991, just after Chris Claremont had been shown the door. It was a scant year before the Image exodus, so by the time I was heavily invested in this expanded X-line, X-Factor, X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and X-Force had lost their pencillers (it was the early … Continue reading Playing the opening bars: X-Cutioner’s Song prelude
The Age of Apocalypse ran from 27 December 1994's X-Men Alpha through to X-Men Omega released on 25 April 1995. The whole thing ran for 4 months, but in that time 40 comics were produced. For it's time it was a bold idea, cancelling, or at least pausing, 8 or 9 of your higher selling … Continue reading Age of Apocalypse: Well that went better than I expected
Credits: Written by Scott Lobdell with Fabian Nicieza, pencils by (Deep breath) Bryan Hitch, Jeff Matsuda, Gary Frank, Mike McKone, Terry Dodson, Ben Herrera and Paul Pelletier, inks by (deeper breath) Al Milgron, P Craig Russell, Cam Smith, Mark Farmer, Mark McKenna, Tom Palmer, Tim Townsend, Hecoor Collazao and edited By Bob Harras. Based on … Continue reading X-Men Prime: Maybe Bishop should be in therapy? Ever think of that?
Credits: story by Scott Lobdell, scripted by Mark Waid, pencilled by Roger Cruz, inked by many and edited by Bob Harras. Cast:Earth 616- Erik 'Magnus' Lenscherr, Charles Xavier, Gabrielle Haller, David 'Legion' Haller, Ororo 'Storm' Monroe, Robert 'Iceman' Drake, Lucas Bishop + older Lucas Bishop Earth 295 - Erik 'Magneto' Lenscherr, Rogue, Nate Grey, Jean … Continue reading X-Men Omega: Next time, kill the guy, don’t James Bond villain him.
Credits: Written by Fabian Nicieza, pencilled by Andy Kubert, inked by Matt Ryan and edited by Bob Harras. Cast: Lucas Bishop, Earth 295 versions of Jamie Madrox, Ororo 'Storm' Munroe, Sean 'Banshee' Cassiday, Pietro 'Quicksilver' Lenscherr, Victor 'Sabretooth' Creed, Wildchild, Rogue, Morph, Clarice 'Blink' Ferguson, Piotr 'Colossus' Rasputin, Ilyana Rasputin, Kitty 'Shadowcat' Rasputin, Paris 'Exodus' … Continue reading Amazing X-Men 4 – The Final 4th
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