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Updated: Version 1.0, last modified July 25, 2001
Index to Bishop, XSE, Bishop: XSE, and Bishop the Last X-Man Version 1.0, last modified July 25, 2001 by Robert Diehl (rfdiehl@yahoo.com) Issue: Bishop 1 Date: Dec-94 Story: Escape from Tomorrow (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Randall, Malcolm (as holograms); Forge, Storm, Prof. Xavier, Jubilee Villains: Mountjoy, Bantam, thugs including Eustace Other Characters: Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils: Carlos Pacheco Inks: Cam Smith Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Joe Rosas Editor: Suzanne Gaffney Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: The XSE has come back in time 70 years to our day, to capture escaped convicts. Randall and Malcolm cover Bishop and get killed (Uncanny X-Men 287). Bishop has been rerunning this scenario in the Danger Room, and Storm is concerned, and Xavier interrupts and orders Bishop to go out on the town with her, offering to get them theater tickets (a new mutant power?). Bishop hands Forge a broken holographic projector that contains the form of his sister Shard. Bantam needs to find Bishop, to protect him from Mountjoy now that Fitzroy is gone (Uncanny X-Men 302). In Central Park thugs attack, and while Bantam gets away, Mountjoy kills all but one, whom he uses as a host. Bantam calls the mansion but gets Jubilee, who tells him Bishop is at the theater, and Bantam catches up to him outside Cats. He explains that Mountjoy had ridden inside him to this time, while the villain attacks and absorbs Storm. He uses her lightning to attack Bishop, who just redirects it. So Mountjoy shoots him with poisoned crossbow bolts. He threatens to beat him to death if he doesnıt release Storm, so he does, and when he tries to slit Bishopıs throat Storm zaps him, and he runs. Note: a pin-up follows. Issue: Bishop 2 Date: Jan-95 Story: One Man Posse (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop Regular Characters: Shard Guest Stars: Prof. X, Forge Villains: Mountjoy Other Characters: Annette Folsom, Capt. Eagleson Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils: Carlos Pacheco Inks: Cam Smith Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Joe Rosas Editor: Suzanne Gaffney Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Bishop, disoriented, finds himself at the mansion, with the X-Men all dead and Jean recording her message (Uncanny X-Men 287) and then getting shot by Bishop, who turns on himself. Bishop wakes from the nightmare; he is in the medical bay with his sisterıs hologram, which Forge has made totally interactive. She is not impressed with Xavierıs dream, since it got all the X-Men killed, and she says Bishop should have killed Mountjoy even though he was in Stormıs body (last iss.). Bishop goes after Mountjoy, resigning from the X-Men so thereıs no conflict. Xavier lets him make his own decisions. Mountjoy feeds on a young woman and plans to attack Bishop preemptively. Bishop rides a motorcycle to a police station in the city and pretends to arrest Shard. He wants information on Mountjoyıs ³ride² (last iss.), but the cops just thought he was crazy and sent him home. Bishop gets the address, and Shard disappears. Mountjoy was already there, in a policeman, and he attacks Bishop, but the cops help him beat him off. Motorcycle chases car and crashes: boom! Bishop, disoriented, wakes in his own time. Issue: Bishop 3 Date: Feb-95 Story: Future: Intense (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop Regular Characters: Shard, Malcolm Guest Stars: Villains: Mountjoy, Halftrak, Billiboy, Eddie Other Characters: Hancock, Dan, Xavierıs Security Enforcers (XSE) including Recoil, Amazon Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils: Carlos Pacheco Inks: Cam Smith Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Joe Rosas Editor: Suzanne Gaffney Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Shard slaps her brother to get him to focus: heıs not sure heıs really in his time. Things fade, and heıs in our time, still chasing Mountjoy, who absorbs a bum for energy. Bishop grabs high voltage lines to charge up and chases him, only to be knocked off a building. Things fade, and heıs a boy in the future, with Hancock, who lose his eyesight in the Summers Rebellion, when mutants and men worked together to overthrow the Sentinels. Mountjoy attacks, although Bishop hadnıt met him yet, and he runs, no longer able to tell past from future. Punks beat him up until the cops rescue him, just as the XSE had/will rescue him from Halftrak and Billiboy, which is why he joined that team, taking Shard with him. Mountjoy attacks with many arrows, killing a cop and absorbing the punks until Bishop wallops him, but he is no longer willing to kill in the line of duty. Shard yells at him, since he keeps refusing promotions, wanting to stay on the street. Bishop chases Mountjoy into a subway tunnel and gets ambushed. Mountjoy rides in his body and plans to destroy the X-Men. Issue: Bishop 4 Date: Mar-95 Story: Final Reckonings (23 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop Regular Characters: Shard Guest Stars: Psylocke, Gambit, Prof. X, Archangel, Beast Villains: Mountjoy Other Characters: Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils: Carlos Pacheco Inks: Cam Smith Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Joe Rosas Editor: Suzanne Gaffney Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Mountjoy in Bishop walks to the mansion, planning to kill the X-Men (making Bishop the X-traitor). He punches the first one he sees, Gambit, but Bishop points a gun at his own head, so Mountjoy jumps into Psylocke and then knocks down Bishop and absorbs Gambit. Shard wakes her brother: ³Mountjoyıs off to eat the X-Men, and Iım only a hologram.² Bishop puts her into the mansionıs security system. Mountjoy absorbs Archangel next, making a strange-looking composite. Shard distracts him; he doesnıt realize sheıs not real and chases her into the Danger Room, which has been made into the XSE future. Bishop demands he release the X-Men, but he fights, instead. Shard catches hold of him and tells Bishop to blast them both; he does, and the X-Men are freed. Shard insists he execute Mountjoy, but he decides to be an X-Man and releases his energy, as Xavier and Beast look on from the control room. Shard disappears, but she may be repairable. Issue: XSE 1 Date: Nov-96 Story: Time Lost (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Shard Regular Characters: XSE including Sureshot, Trace, Recoil, Amazon, Hecatıe, cadets Sherry (later Shirley Baylor), Trevor Fitzroy (in flashback) Guest Stars: Cyclops, Iceman, Colossus, Psylocke?, Forge?, Sunspot; grandma Storm? (in flashback) Villains: Nimrods, Sentinels; Exhumes Virago, Daemon; Billiboy, Halftrack, Emplates (in flashback) Other Characters: Hancock, Rochimbeaux, DeCamp (in flashback) Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils: Chris Gardner Inks: Terry Austin, Tom Palmer Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Colors: Derek Bellman Color Enhancement: Graphic Color Works Editor: Kelly Corvese Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Special Thanks to: Deodato Studios, Harry Candelario, the Raiders In Memory of: Mark Gruenwald Synopsis: Note: this entire series occurs in the Danger Room, where Bishop and Shard show holograms and talk about their future past. Bishop shows the final battle of the Summers Rebellion (including the death of Cyclops). Then the mutant prison camp where they were raised, the day the XSE came after Virago, who tries to use young Shard as a human shield. Bishop intervenes, and Sureshot kills Virago. That is when he realized he wanted to join the XSE. In the present, Bishop asks Shard to join the X-Men, but she refuses to follow his footsteps. He shows their grandmother (evidently Storm) telling them tales of the X-Men. On her deathbed, Bishop promised to protect Shard. He feels guilty about her later death. Shard reminds him that he saved her from thugs and got her accepted to the XSE academy with him. In the Summers Rebellion, humans and mutants overthrew the Sentinels, but mutants remained outcasts. Mutant terrorists (Exhumes) spurred the formation of the XSE, mutants policing mutants, using the M tattoo now as a badge. Cowardly classmate Fitzroy and Hecatıe each give them a hard time, but they persevere. On a class trip, they are attacked by Emplates, who kill Trace and Sureshot. Issue: XSE 2 Date: Dec-96 Story: Future Intense (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Shard Regular Characters: XSE including Hecatıe, Amazon, Malcolm, Randall, Feral, cadets Shirley Baylor, Trevor Fitzroy, Hooper (in flashback) Guest Stars: Villains: Emplates, Exhumes including Styglut (in flashback) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils & Inks: Deodato Studios, Mozart Cuto Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Colors: Derek Bellman Color Enhancement: Graphic Color Works Editor: Kelly Corvese Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Emplates attack Shard, and her mutant ability to generate force manifests, saving her. Bishop rallies the cadets until help arrives. Because of this, he is inducted into the XSE. In the present, Shard explains she always had to prove herself so she wouldnıt be in Bishopıs shadow. She reminds him about Malcolm and Randall, who fought beside him against Exhumes who destroyed the human-mutant utopian commune Harmony, killing Malcolmıs brother. They later died defending Bishop (Uncanny X-Men 278). Issue: XSE 3 Date: Jan-97 Story: Future Betrayed (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Shard Regular Characters: XSE including Malcolm, Randall (in flashback) Guest Stars: Villains: Mountjoy, Trevor Fitzroy, Anthony Shaw (the Black King) (in flashback) Other Characters: Lycadeon (in flashback) Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils & Inks: Deodato Studios, Mozart Cuto Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/DL Colors: Shannan Blanchard Color Enhancement: Malibu Editor: Kelly Corvese Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: The XSE chases Mountjoy, who can possess or absorb others. He corners Shard, but she defeats and collars him. She gets promoted and works on a prototype holographic soldier, which Bishop shows to be flawed. They fight, and Hecatıe reprimands both. Shard admits she dated the creepy Fitzroy just to bug Bishop. He is the bastard of Anthony Shaw, and when his legitimate brother William dies, there is room for him in the Hellfire Club. He quits the XSE and goes villain. Shard and Bishop later catch him, and at the trial, Shaw offers Bishop a place in the Hellfire Club. He refuses. Shaw gets Fitzroy off, who forms a group of debauched Hellions who torture humans. The XSE catch him again, and since his father wonıt help, he makes a deal: he tells Bishop how to find the Exhumes. Shard goes after them, without Bishop so she gets credit, and her whole team is made vampiric by Emplates. Fitzroy set them up. Issue: XSE 4 Date: Feb-97 Story: Conflagration (23 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Shard Regular Characters: XSE including Hecatıe, Malcolm, Randall (in flashback) Guest Stars: the Witness (LeBeau, presumably Gambit), Shackle (Shirley Baylor) (in flashback); Storm Villains: Other Characters: Lycadeon (in flashback) Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils & Inks: Deodato Studios, Mozart Cuto Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Colors: Shannan Blanchard Color Enhancement: Graphic Color Works Editor: Kelly Corvese Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Bishopıs team is ordered to kill Shardıs team, now Emplates. He knocks her out, instead, and takes her to see the Witness. He asks him to make Shard a hologram, and agrees to work for him for a year. Hecatıe is willing to just suspend him from the XSE, since information about the Witness would be useful. Bishop works with Shackle, his former classmate Shirley, who sold out to Stark/Fujikawa. He talks to the Witness, who says he is in jail and is a jail. After a year, he takes his sisterıs holoprojector and returns to the XSE, who send him after Fitzroy, whom he chased back through time (Uncanny X-Men 282). In the present, Shard goes off to be part of X-Factor, with Bishopıs approval. Issue: Bishop: XSE 1 Date: Jan-98 Story: Rook Takes Pawn (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Shard Regular Characters: XSE including Hecat'e, Malcolm, Randall Guest Stars: Villains: the Fanatix: Annabella Knox (Rook), Pulsar, Kali, Hardball, Dogface, Razorback, Shadowbox; the Hellfire Club: Anthony Shaw (Black King); the Human Defense League: Selden Seymour (Trask) Other Characters: Jerome J. Knox Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils: Steve Epting Inks: Mark Prudeaux Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraftıs Albert Deschesne Colors: Brad Vancata Editor: Kelly Corvese Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: In future New York, Knox throws a gala to raise money for human-mutant relations; the mutant terrorist Fanatix attack; the XSE come to the rescue. They kill most of them, but Shadowbox phases away with Pulsar. While talking to Knox, Randall blasts him dead. At the Hellfire Club, Annabella informs Shaw that sheıs joining as the Rook, and will prove herself by destroying the XSE. Seymour denounces the XSE on TV and demands a final solution to the mutant problem. Bishop and Shard investigate, to prove Randall innocent. Just then, he breaks jail. Bishop is unable to stop him joining the Fanatix. Randall, a captive, learns the Rook can grow and wear body duplicates, which is how she impersonated him. She now dons Bishopıs form. Issue: Bishop: XSE 2 Date: Feb-98 Story: Rook vs. Bishop (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Shard Regular Characters: XSE including Hecat'e, Malcolm, Randall Guest Stars: Villains: the Fanatix: Annabella Knox (Rook), Pulsar, Shadowbox, Razorback; the Hellfire Club: Anthony Shaw (Black King); Toaster, Booger Other Characters: Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils: Steve Epting, Nick Nappalitano Inks: Mark Prudeaux, Robert Jones, Andrew Pepoy, Steve Moncuse Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/ST Colors: Brad Vancata Editor: Kelly Corvese Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: In future New York, the mayor dedicates the new Statue of Liberty, and is shot down by the Fanatix. They kill all the humans and destroy the statue. Rook removes her helmet, revealing Bishopıs face to the TV cameras. Shaw lets Bishop know Annabella is out to destroy the XSE. Hecat'e sends Malcolm to apprehend Bishop, and confines Shard to monitor duty. Bishop sneaks in and asks her for information on the Knox family, then he goes to a dive bar and asks the same. Shard learns that the ancient police force SHIELD has been experimenting with organic Life Model Decoys, and that Annabella has no records. Malcolm arrests Shard, and then corners Bishop. Issue: Bishop: XSE 3 Date: Mar-98 Story: Final Ploy (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Shard Regular Characters: XSE including Hecatıe, Malcolm, Randall Guest Stars: Villains: the Fanatix: Annabella/Jimmy Knox (Rook), Pulsar, Shadowbox, Razorback; the Hellfire Club: Anthony Shaw (Black King); Booger; the Human Defense League: Selden Seymour (Trask) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: John Ostrander Pencils: Steve Epting Inks: Andrew Pepoy, Mark Prudeaux Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/ST Colors: Brad Vancata Editor: Kelly Corvese Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Bishop refuses to surrender; Malcolm refuses to kill him. Instead, he agrees to help him catch the Rook. The Rook impersonates Hecatıe, planning to kill Trask and discredit the XSE. Randall has turned Pulsar against the Rook, so when Bishop attacks to free him, the Rook kills Pulsar, phases away with Shadowbox, then kills her. The XSE pursue, finding the Rook in her lab beneath their own building (formerly owned by Jerome Knox). They destroy all the Rookıs grown bodies, forcing it to return to its original. Turns out to be Jimmy Knox, a little boy. The XSE catch him and congratulate themselves. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 1 Date: Oct-99 Story: Time Loves a Hero (35 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom Regular Characters: Shard, Michael Guest Stars: Storm (Ororo Munroe) Villains: Trevor Fitzroy (the Chronomancer) and Chronotroopers (see iss. 6) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Allen Martinez Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Children around a campfire; someone tells them a story of a hero on the mean streets where he grew up: Bishop, who ignored his sister Shardıs orders so he could apprehend some punks. He found Fitzroy, who escaped him through a portal, and the ceiling collapsed on him. Bishop wakes from his nightmare, back in the mansion after his captivity in space (Uncanny X-Men 342-372). Storm is unable to convince him to stay (cf. X-Men II:92); he gives her his X-medallion till he returns and goes to finish things with Fitzroy (cf. Uncanny X-Men 282). His sister, deceased (XSE 4) and brought back as a photon-based life form (Uncanny X-Men ı96 Ann.), had been in X-Factor (till X-Factor 141), and he follows her instructions and finds her unconscious in a tenement. She tried and failed to stop Fitzroy, and the next room is full of his victimsı corpses. A portal opens; Chronotroopers attack, ignoring Shard. Bishop drops through the rotting floor, finds an electrical box, and blasts. He saves the boy Michael from the falling ceiling, but then the building collapses. Shard watches helplessly as Bishop is removed from this timeline; he wakes in a desert just as mutant bandits rob a regentıs carriage. He tries to defend himself but falls unconscious, and the carriage gets away. The bandits take Bishop with them, because they also have the mark of the M, but theirs are painted on. Fitzroy is the Chronomancer, with a castle, Chronokeep, and Chronotroopers as guards, whom he commands to suicide when he realizes Bishop has survived. Note: 3 pages of sketches follow. Note: the story titles are taken from rock songs: 1. Time Loves a Hero (Little Feat) 2. Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) 3. Walk This Way (Aerosmith) 4. Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin) 5. In the Hall of the Mountain King (ELO) 6. The Battle of Evermore! (Led Zeppelin) 7. A New Day Yesterday (Jethro Tull) 8. Hello, Old Friend (Eric Clapton) 9. Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull) 10. Gimme Shelter (the Rolling Stones) 11. Canıt You Hear Me Knockinı? (the Rolling Stones) 12. Helter Skelter (the Beatles), They Might Be Giants (self-titled) 13. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pink Floyd) 14. Remain in Light (Talking Heads) 15. Been a Long Lonely, Lonely, Lonely, Lonely, Lonely Time (from ³Rock And Roll² by Led Zeppelin) Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 2 Date: Nov-99 Story: Wish You Were Here (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Shard, Michael Guest Stars: Witness (Remy LeBeau, see iss. 7) Villains: Fitzroy, Chronotroopers Other Characters: Joshua, Innocent, Morgan, Merrian Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Allen Martinez Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Bishop wakes on a makeshift operating table, bandaged and bound. Witness has him released and speaks in riddles about time and where they are now (an alternate and unpleasant future, apparently). He says Fitzroy is now Chronomancer, and refugees relate that his clicking, robed Chronotroopers have taken over, stealing children. Fitzroy has Shard captive and wants her bod; she realizes heıs insane. Scorch challenges Bishop, not sure heıs the legendary X-Man. Bishop absorbs the heat of his flames and blasts him; Scorch is convinced but now angry that Bishop didnıt stop Fitzroy long ago. Bishop feels guilty; Jinx gives him the broken X-medallion that he had left with Storm (last iss.), and they nearly kiss. Michael interrupts them, also lost in this time, and then the camp explodes. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 3 Date: Dec-99 Story: Walk This Way (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Shard Guest Stars: Witness Villains: Fitzroy and Bantam, Chronotroopers Other Characters: Merrian Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Allen Martinez Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Michael runs for his life from Fitzroyıs soldiers, who attacked the camp; Bishop nabs him and tells him to keep still, while he absorbs a blast, and Jinx (super-speed) and Scorch (flames) attack. Witness directs Link (telepath) to Dunduine, the city beyond the plains, and explodes his tent as Fitzroyıs troops try to capture him. Bantam, Fitzroyıs toady, brings petitions from subject nobles: they think his latest attack is insane. Fitzroy thrashes him, no longer wanting an anchor, since heıll make his stand here. He uses his power on captive children, seeking those who are mutants. Bishop helps bury the dead, takes Michael under his wing, paints Xıes over the survivorsı eyes, making them his X-Men, and leads them toward Dunduine. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 4 Date: Jan-00 Story: Over the Hills and Far Away (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael Guest Stars: Villains: Dunduiners including mayor Duncan Jericho, Kith Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils & Inks: Charlie Adlard, Georges Jeanty, Art Thibert Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: this is the Kith Trilogy Part 1. Bishop has led the team for days across the high plains, and now heıs lost Nom. Flashback: they walk until Link can no longer mask their presence telepathically, and then squabble about where to go, and then Bishop notices a walled city in the middle of nowhere: Dunduine. They enter the gates, and mayor Jericho welcomes them, dressed as an ancient Roman. They are suspicious of the hospitality but take a room for the night; Nom gets up when he hears a kitten padding around; it leads him onto a platform of a huge machine, which lifts him high in the air, where something swoops down and nabs him. Jericho explains itıs a Kith, and the city has to offer them living sacrifices; guards surround the team but are quickly defeated. Bishop has to restrain Scorch before he kills them. He leaves Michael with the townspeople while the team offers itself to the Kith, to get Nom back. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 5 Date: Feb-00 Story: In the Hall of the Mountain King (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael Guest Stars: Witness, Clan Hellfire including Fold, Trickster Villains: Kith including King Kalin Karth Kith second son of Kol Other Characters: Dunduiners including Duncan Jericho, Justina Jericho; Kinlan Karth Kith first son of Kol Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Allen Martinez Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: this is the Kith Trilogy Part 2. Bishop stands before King Kalin of the gargoyle-like Kith and tries to bargain for Nom and to warn them about Fitzroy. Meanwhile Link scans, realizes the Dunduine captives are alive, and gets feedback from Kalin. In Dunduine, Fold and Trickster catch Michael, teleporting away with him. The team scuffles with the Kith, who say they are the last of their breed and have already made a deal with Fitzroy. The cavern collapses, and the team finds the captives, including Nom, in sacks, in stasis. Bishop has got separated and finds Kinlan in chains: he is the elder brother and rightful king. Fold and Trickster teleport the team to the sewers of Dunduine, where Witness, not dead, is with Clan Hellfire. The Kith are swarming on the city. Bishop is left in the cavern with the freed captives. He gets their help to free Kinlan, and then rides on his back to Dunduine. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 6 Date: Mar-00 Story: The Battle of Evermore! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael Guest Stars: Witness, Clan Hellfire including Samarra Shaw, Fold, Trickster Villains: Kith including King Kalin Karth Kith, Chronotroopers Other Characters: Dunduiners including Duncan Jericho, Justina Jericho; Kinlan Karth Kith Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Michael Ryan Inks: Andrew Pepoy Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: this is the Kith Trilogy Part 3. Kith carry Chronotroopers to attack Dunduine; the team attacks and kills a few, which gives the panicked townspeople courage to fight. Bishop and Kinlan also arrive, and the brothers fight for the throne while Bishop is surrounded by Chronotroopers; he realizes theyıre after Shaw. Kinlan defeats Kalin, knocking the city wall over, which crushes the Chronotroopers. The city is free and in Bishopıs debt, and Kinlan is also his ally. Shaw has the team teleported away. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 7 Date: Apr-00 Story: A New Day Yesterday (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael, Shard Guest Stars: Witness, Clan Hellfire including Samarra Shaw, Fold, Trickster Villains: Fitzroy and Bantam, Chronotroopers Other Characters: Sentinel GOL-19 Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Allen Martinez Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Shaw has taken them to her dilapidated mansion. Jinx and Scorch have a moment together. Shaw tells Bishop she brought him to this time, to get his help against Fitzroy. She disrobes and takes him. He wakes in a disused subway tunnel and comes upon a damaged Sentinel, which unexpectedly has a message for the last X-Man and gives him Stormıs headdress as proof. It tells him to return to the site of the X-Menıs last stand, and then dies. The team squabbles with Shaw, until Witness puts an end to it. All are unhappy with his deceitful ways, but heıs not sure whom to trust, and he tells them to take care of Bishop. Shaw retrieves Bishop after the Sentinel gave him its secrets and last energy cell. Fitzroy is determined that Shard should love him as she once did. He contacts Shaw, offering a deal. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 8 Date: May-00 Story: Hello, Old Friend (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael Guest Stars: Wolverine, Storm (in flashback) Villains: Sentinels (in flashback), Fitzroy Other Characters: Sentinel GOL-19 (in flashback) Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Allen Martinez Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Bishop leads his team to the X-Menıs last stand and tells them the tale: Wolverine and Storm run through the California Redwoods to Sentinel GOL-19, which has been reprogrammed by Forge. They had been fighting Sentinels a long time, and Magneto is about to unleash an E-M pulse. Storm gives the Sentinel their secrets and her tiara as a key. Sentinels attack, and GOL-19 fights his own to protect the mutants, but Wolverine sent him off to the Hellfire Club, where Gambit has gone. The last of the X-Men died there, and now Bishop finds the imprint of the tiara on a rock, and beneath it a Cerebro unit. He and Link use it to find Fitzroy. Note: at some point hereabouts, Bishop is temporarily returned to our timeline, for the Twelve crossover (Uncanny X-Men 377). Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 9 Date: Jun-00 Story: Locomotive Breath (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael, Shard Guest Stars: Villains: Tull, Fitzroy Other Characters: Williams John Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Allen Martinez Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: The team is en route to Fitzroy and comes across train tracks, well maintained by Tull, who is like Nom but can speak. He offers them his train, if they can fix it. They follow the tracks past villagers who are not pleased to see another giant: Tull has been sitting under the bridge, trapping them. Bishop offers to help, if they ally with him against Fitzroy. Nom goes back to Tull, who tells him of Azeroch, who led the mighty giants and would return when they needed him. The race has diminished since then. Tull attacks Nom as a rival ³last of the giants,² and they damage the bridge. Michael slips and starts the train moving; it slams into Tull before he can kill Nom and crashes in the gully below. Bishop leads the team and villagers toward Fitzroy, who offers to give Shard what will make her happy. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 10 Date: Jul-00 Story: Preludes Part 1: Gimme Shelter (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael, Shard Guest Stars: Villains: Fitzroy and Bantam, Chronotroopers, regents including Kendrick, Kith Other Characters: Menzies, Morrow, Morlocks including Pendicies, Roosus, Choff Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Allen Martinez Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Fitzroy has collected his regents, who bristle under his savage rule, so he kills them all. Bishopıs ragtag army is also restless, trekking through the snow toward a dangerous enemy. Bantam sneaks into Shardıs cell and tells her Bishop is alive. He finds Morlock child laborers in the cellars and is appalled. Bishop rallies his troops with an inspiring speech, then yells at Michael for wearing the X on his face and making himself a target. The kid runs off, sees a savage man, and runs back to Bishop. An avalanche falls on all of them, and they slowly dig themselves out. Morlocks confront them. Nom rises from the snow and walks away, seeking his kind. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 11 Date: Aug-00 Story: Preludes Part 2: Canıt You Hear Me Knockinı? (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael, Shard Guest Stars: Villains: Fitzroy and Bantam, Chronotroopers Other Characters: Morlocks including Seer, Thumper, Note, Tracker Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Eric Benson Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: The Morlocks have been awaiting a deliverer, but Thumper decides Bishop is a loser and attacks him, and Note hypnotizes the rest. They demand Bishop pay a toll to pass the mountains, but when they find Stormıs tiara on him they stop. Shard is at the end of her rope, as Fitzroy continues to try to influence her. The Morlocks take Bishop to a chamber with a huge image of the tiara of their leader ³Oro.² They ally with him against Fitzroy and get them into Chronokeep. Bishop finds Bantam, who tells him Fitzroy has Shard. Chronotroopers appear but fail to attack Bishop; he takes their energy and blasts them with it. Fitzroy wants him for himself, and Bishop takes Link, Bantam, and Tracker while Scorch and Jinx lead the army. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 12 Date: Sep-00 Story 1: The Chronowar: Act 1: Helter Skelter (31 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Link Regular Characters: Michael, Shard Guest Stars: Villains: Fitzroy and Bantam, Chronotroopers Other Characters: Morlocks including Tracker, Pendices Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Eric Benson Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Fitzroy tells Shard how heıs learned to control time and says heıs changed. He offers her a choice. Bishop sends Bantam and Tracker to open the gates, while he and Link go for Fitzroy. Michael, looking for Bishop, stumbles into the workroom and is mistaken by the guards for a Morlock child. The army invades past the few guards; Bantam has been beaten and warns them to retreat, but the gates swing closed and they are suddenly surrounded by Chronotroopers emerging from the floor of the courtyard. Bishop finds his sister, but Fitzroy has begun turning her back into flesh, and she is disoriented. Bishopıs army is defeated, and Fitzroy has him captive. Story 2: They Might Be Giants (8 pages) Feature Characters: Nom Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Other Characters: Giants including Chakra, Azeroch Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Art Thibert Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Synopsis: Nom crawls through the desert till his kind finds him. They take him to Azeroch, dead and withered on his throne, but who promised to return. The child Chakra says Nom is Azeroch reborn and hands him a staff. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 13 Date: Oct-00 Story: The Chronowar: Act 2: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Link Regular Characters: Michael, Shard Guest Stars: Uatu the Watcher Villains: Fitzroy and Bantam, Chronotroopers Other Characters: Morlocks including Tracker, Kith including Kinlan Karth Kith Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Art Thibert, Green, Milgrom, Elmer, Cannon Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Fitzroy has Bishop in chains and has caught Michael, too. He tells the boy how Bishop and he had been friends, but he became a laughing stock, so that Bishop didnıt even bother tracking him down. He plays around Michael, nearly feeding on him, till he bites his hand and runs. So Fitzroy tortures Bishop by torturing Tracker, using portals to cut off his body parts and sending them around the world. Fitzroy demands Bishopıs submission but gets his spittle instead. Kinlan reappears and frees Jinx and Scorch from the Chronotroopers. He has brought reinforcements. Link finds Shard, who says Fitzroy wants to become time itself, and they can stop him at the moment of transformation. Fitzroy goes out to the snow to begin the process; energy whirls around him; and even Uatu comes to watch. Bishop has been freed by Link and confronts him. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 14 Date: Nov-00 Story: The Chronowar: Act 3: Remain in Light (22 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop, Scorch, Jinx, Nom, Link Regular Characters: Michael, Shard Guest Stars: Witness, Uatu the Watcher Villains: Fitzroy, Chronotroopers Other Characters: Morlocks including Thumper, Kith, giants Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Ray Snyder Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Bishop attacks Fitzroy, weak after opening a large portal. Kith attack the Chronotroopers, while Scorch gets Jinx to safety, and Link and Michael join them. Scorch leads them back into the battle, and then Nom appears with the giants as reinforcements. Witness reappears and takes Michael away. Shard, in chains, regrets becoming flesh again and slices off her arm to get free. She gets to Bishop and dissolves into energy, which he absorbs. He blasts Fitzroy but misses, and Shardıs energy goes into the portal. Fitzroy is about to follow, but Bishop catches his ankle and holds him as the portal collapses, bisecting him. Energies flash into Bishop and then explode, and Bishop is gone. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 15 Date: Dec-00 Story: Been a Long Lonely, Lonely, Lonely, Lonely, Lonely Time (23 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop Regular Characters: Nom, Michael (in flashback) Guest Stars: Prof. X and Cadre K Skrulls including Fiz Villains: Deathbird; Trevor Fitzroy (in flashback) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Nathan Massengill Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Jason Wright Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: this is part of the Maximum Security crossover. Cadre K investigates a wrecked starstation, finding nothing but corpses: Deathbirdıs handiwork. An energy field slams into the station: Bishop has been returned to our universe. Deathbird knocks out Bishop and carries him away, uses him as a shield against the Shiıar energy weapons, and runs away when he overloads. Bishop wakes to find Xavier in a Shiıar suit that lets him walk, and Cadre K, the mutant Skrulls he now leads. Xavier reads his mind and sees his war against Fitzroy and the allies he made along the way, including Michael, who was left behind. Xavier explains that Earth has been made a prison planet, with an energy barrier around the solar system. Deathbird has a key, and Xavier needs to rescue his student ZıCann, a Skrull telepath. Deathbird shoots Xavierıs suit, so Bishop has to go after her alone. She wallops him with a metal rod but then uses a blaster, which he redirects to her. She throws the key to him, wanting to pit Xavier against Lilandra. She dares him to kill her, then opens an airlock and is sucked into space. Bishop is able to close the airlock, and he admits to himself that he hates her. He regrets the innocents that died before he put down Fitzroy, and heıs determined not to repeat that mistake. Xavier is back on his feet and volunteers Bishop to go to Earth. Issue: Bishop the Last X-Man 16 Date: Jan-01 Story: Dreamıs End Part 3 (23 pages) Feature Characters: Bishop Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), Wolverine (Logan), Rogue Villains: The Brotherhood of Mutants: Sabretooth (Victor Creed), Mystique (Raven Darkholme), Toad (Mortimer Toynbee); Sen. Robert Kelly (as a template for Mystique) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell, Joe Pruett Pencils: Thomas Derenick Inks: Massengill & Team X Letters: Jon Babcock Colors: Jason Wright Asst. Editor: Mike Raicht Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Synopsis: Note: this occurs after Cable 87. On Muir, Wolfsbane is trapped under a fallen girder, and Sabretooth approaches. But when he threatens Moira, she goes wolf, and he wallops her. Bishop interrupts, blasting him out of the way. He frees Wolfsbane and sends her to find Moira. Sabretooth thinks heıs out of power, but Bishop blasts him again: he doesnıt bluff. He sees Kelly outside, warning about the abuse of mutant powers, then Wolverine attacks, and Bishop stops him. Kelly was Mystique, of course, and she gets away. Wolfsbane finds Toad tied up and hanging by his tongue. Rogue is there, mixed up with various borrowed mutant powers. Then Mystique shoots Wolfsbane. Bishop and Wolverine find Moira in the debris of her lab (blown up in Uncanny X-Men 388). She is dying, but she says Mystiqueıs manipulation of the Legacy Virus (to kill only flatscans, Uncanny X-Men 388), has given Moira the cure. Mystique tells Rogue she shot Wolfsbane with the gun the U.S. government had Forge make to neutralize mutant powers (Uncanny X-Men 185). Rogue wonders if it has another charge, but Mystique is unwilling to give her an easy out, and she kicks her instead. Rogue says sheıs sick and Xavier can help her, but Mystique stuff a knife into her belly, actually harming her. Mama knows her weaknesses. Bishop and Wolverine show up, but Mystique takes Wolfsbane hostage and points her gun at Wolverine, who would die without his healing factor. Rogue rallies and stabs her mother with her Wolverine claws. Note: the story continues in X-Men II:108
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