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Issue: X-Factor 98 Date: Jan-94 Story: Into Oblivion (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Forge, Random Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Villains: Radha Dastoor (Haven) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: J.M. De Matteis Pencils: Greg Luzniak Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Lois Buhalis Colors: Matt Webb Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Alex tries to arrest Haven as a terrorist, but Lorna and a Jamie defend her, and when Forge catches her, she ports away. Forge briefs the team on her: she preaches the dawn of a golden age that can only be brought about by disasters, which her group therefore causes. Lorna doesn't believe this, since the government has lied to them and tried to kill her (iss. .96) Alex agrees to go over the files with her and decide if X-Factor should be involved. Jamie argues with himselves. Different aspects of his personality are becoming separate dupes, and when he tries to reunify, he can't absorb two of them. Random shows up, Guido and Rahne attack, and he surrenders. He wants to team up, since the government tried to kill him, too (last iss.). Val becomes a follower of Haven, who as an initiation sends her through oblivion and back. Issue: X-Factor 99 Date: Feb-94 Story: The Cure! (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Forge, Random Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Villains: Radha Dastoor (Haven), her followers including her brother Aloba Dastoor (Monsoon) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: J.M. De Matteis Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Forge, Alex, and the Pentagon files are unable to convince Lorna that Haven is a terrorist. She notes that the government is capable of exaggeration and distortion. Random offers to help X-Factor find the people that paid him to kill Lorna. After a harsh exchange, Forge hires him to provide that information, plus assistance against Haven. Rahne, half-crazy because of her mutate bond to Alex, almost tries to kill him. Forge sends the team to arrest Haven, but they are confronted by Monsoon, and Random starts a fight. Haven calls a cease fire, and they all sit down to talk. Haven explains that she is causing disasters in order to end the current age and bring in the golden one. When Val supports this, Rahne nearly rips her throat out. Haven catches her, sends her through oblivion, and heals her. She can assume human shape, and her bond to Alex is gone. She decides to side with Haven. Issue: X-Factor 100 Date: Mar-94 Story: Mahapralaya (47 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Forge, Random Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Villains: Radha Dastoor (Haven), her followers including her brother Aloba Dastoor (Monsoon) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: J.M. De Matteis Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Rahne wants to stay with Haven, who cured her; a Jamie dupe also joins her. She restates her intention to cause disasters and kill three-quarters of the world, starting with a satellite-induced earthquake in California. This convinces Alex and Lorna to arrest her. Haven sends them all to oblivion, and there psychoanalyzes each member of the team. They rematerialize in a cell, and Random has to reform his body from goop. Monsoon and Val release them, revealing that they are secretly working together to stop Haven before she kills more innocents. Haven's troops attack, but when Alex and Lorna work together to blast Haven's satellite out of the sky (good aim!), she calls them off. Jamie has come to her to be healed of the Legacy Virus, and collapses. Alex chooses to let her try to heal him. She sends him through oblivion, but he comes back dead. Her inner voice has (belatedly) explained that the Legacy Virus is destined to purge mutantkind. Issue: X-Factor 101 Date: Apr-94 Story: Afterlives (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Forge, Random Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Ororo Munroe (Storm), Prof. Charles Xavier, Dr. Moira MacTaggert Villains: Other Characters: Credits: Writer: J.M. De Matteis Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings, Jon Babcock Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Alex was unable to face going to Jamie's funeral. Lorna, looking for him, stumbles into Forge's new holographic defense system and talks to Storm. Rahne is all regrets, and Guido is all jokes. Alex wanders into a diner, which is held up. Alex, despite his self-doubt, blasts the gunman, freeing the hostage waitress. He rages, sick of the responsibility and violence. Random rejects Forge's offer to join the team, and Lorna realizes that his tough-guy facade is not real. Xavier uses his mind to project images of Jamie, to help Moira grieve. Forge uses his holographs to project images of Africa, to thank Storm for being there for him. Alex visits Jamie's grave, blames himself, and decides to leave the team. Issue: X-Factor 102 Date: May-94 Story: The Polaris Plot! (31 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Forge, Random Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Ororo Munroe (Storm), Prof. Charles Xavier, Dr. Moira MacTaggert Villains: Beatrice Conners, Colonel Jefferson Malone; Freedom Force's Janos (Avalanche), Frank Bohannan (the Commando), Malice Other Characters: Credits: Writer: J.M. De Matteis Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Matt Webb Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Malone and Conners have failed to kill Lorna twice (iss. 95-96). Storm, Xavier, Moira, Rahne, and Guido spend some quality time together, while Alex flies to Hawaii alone. Lorna researches Random's career and finds he is not a maniac killer. They and Forge go after the people that are trying to kill her, only to be attacked by Malone, Avalanche and the Commando. Malone tells Forge to back off because it is a national security matter, but they fight, instead. Malone, facing an investigation, commits suicide. Conners arrives by chopper and explains that her "Polaris Project" was part of the "Magneto Protocols": Lorna was to be the US's last defense against Magnus. She promises an investigation (and wears Malice's choker; see Uncanny X-Men 219, 250, X-Factor 39). Lorna flies off to Hawaii after Alex. Issue: X-Factor 103 Date: Jun-94 Story: Friends and Family (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Random Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Villains: Beatrice Conners, Malice Other Characters: Guido's Uncle Lou and Aunt Lois, their son Anthony, locals including Bob, Jeremy, Dave Kane, Dennis McElroy, Mary Bradley Vanderbilt, Mr. Kelly Credits: Writers: J.M. De Matteis, Todd DeZago (plot); Todd DeZago (script) Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Guido and Rahne hitch a ride to Rhinebeck, New York, with Random, to visit Guido's family. Lorna catches up with a guilt-stricken Alex on the beach in Honolulu, as does Malice, in Conners, who kills a poodle and some tourists. Lorna convinces Alex not to blame himself for Jamie's death and to come back to the team. She also flies him inside a volcano. The next morning, he is possessed by Malice, and Rahne feels it in New York. Issue: X-Factor 104 Date: Jul-94 Story: Malicious (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) Villains: Malice; Mr. Sinister and his Nasty Boys: Ruckus, Slab, Ramrod, Gorgeous George, Hairbag Other Characters: Uncle Lou, Aunt Lois, cousin Anthony, locals including Mary Bradley Vanderbilt, Tristan; Beatrice Conners Credits: Writers: J.M. De Matteis, Todd DeZago (plot); Todd DeZago (script) Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Malice in Alex attacks Lorna. She says she is hiding from Sinister and trying to kill Lorna because their life forces are linked. Guido catches up with Mary, who fell in love with him in the hospital, but now says it was just a crush. Anthony talks to Rahne: he is afraid of becoming a mutant. Lorna puts Alex in a garbage dumpster to hold him, picks up an unconscious Conners, and tries to call for back-up. Malice blasts the phone and holds Conners hostage. Val, unable to get Forge or Quicksilver, picks up Guido and Rahne and flies to the rescue. Malice bashes Lorna around but is stopped from killing her by the arrival of Sinister and the Nasty Boys. Issue: X-Factor 105 Date: Aug-94 Story: Final Sacrifice (29 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Multiple Man Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Villains: Malice; Mr. Sinister and his Nasty Boys: Ruckus, Slab, Ramrod, Gorgeous George, Hairbag Other Characters: Credits: Writers: J.M. De Matteis, Todd DeZago (plot); Todd DeZago (script) Pencils: Bryan Hitch Inks: Andy Lanning Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Sinister won't allow Malice to kill Lorna, one of his "pawns." He sics the Nasty Boys on her. Val, Guido, and Rahne arrive. Sinister knocks Guido down with a tap and is unable to convince them that the Nasty Boys are really attacking Malice, not Alex, so they fight. Lorna wakes and stops them. Malice in Alex explodes, knocking all down. Lorna, in desperation, attacks Alex. Sinister tells Malice to leave Alex's body and possess Lorna. Lorna agrees to this, to save Alex, but Alex's consciousness fights the process, to save Lorna. Malice, unable to possess either, screams. Sinister plucks the incorporeal being away and crushes her choker, destroying her. He disappears with the Nasty Boys, promising to always take an interest in the Summers family. Meanwhile, back in Washington, someone very much like Jamie Madrox enters X-Factor headquarters, but finds no one there. He is shocked to see an old picture of Jamie as a member of the team. Issue: X-Factor 106 Date: Sep-94 Story: The Phalanx Covenant: Life Signs Part 1 (45 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Forge Regular Characters: Guest Stars: X-Men Prof. Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, Beast, Cyclops, Rogue; X-Force's Cannonball, Shatterstar, Boomer, Thunderbird, Rictor; Excalibur's Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Britannic, Meggan, Day Tripper, Douglock; Dr. Moira MacTaggert Villains: the Phalanx, Shinar, Stephen Lang, Cameron Hodge; Zero Other Characters: Guiseppe Russo Credits: Writers: J.M. De Matteis, Todd DeZago (plot); Todd DeZago (script) Pencils: Jan Duursema, Roger Cruz Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Glynis Oliver Cover: Steve Lightle Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: this issue is part 1 of the Phalanx Covenant: Life Signs. X-Factor flies to a monastery in northern France at Xavier's request and are met by suspicious members of X-Force and Excalibur. Boomer and Guido tussle, until Xavier appears. He brings them inside and explains that the X-Men were attacked by Phalanx, a techno-organic life form that is trying to replace all life on earth, and capable of cloning. The Phalanx was transmitted electronically from the Xavier mansion to Muir Island, where Xavier, Moira and Excalibur fought it and then fled, soon realizing that Xavier's chair and their hovercraft were also compromised and had to be destroyed. They washed ashore at Mont St. Francis, the old base of the Acolytes (Uncanny X-Men 300). Rahne sneaks off to see Douglock, who locked himself away to prove that he is not a threat. Xavier brings Forge to examine Douglock, to better understand the Phalanx. He is struck dumb at the beauty of the construction. Shinar attacks a shepherd. Inside the Phalanx, Lang argues with Hodge; it seems parts of the Phalanx are starting to think independently, and mutants cannot be absorbed into the collective consciousness. Douglock relates the history of the Phalanx: after the Extinction Agenda, the Genoshans sold Warlock's remains to scientists, who wanted to create a new breed of living Sentinels. They abducted Lang to be the core mind of the Phalanx, who went mad from it. Various prototypes were created, including some made by absorbing volunteers, and Douglock, who was based on Doug Ramsey's engrams, and who was able to become independent through the intervention of Zero. The Phalanx is adapting to earth, following the genetic impulse to expand, just like Warlock's race. Douglock "acquires" Forge, for his knowledge, Cannonball attacks, and Rahne tries to negotiate. Douglock subdues them and runs off with them to stop "Babel." NOTE: a pun-up of Alex, Forge, Cannonball, Shadowcat, Boomer, and Nightcrawler follows. Issue: X-Factor 107 Date: Oct-94 Story: Punch-o-Rama (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Forge Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Villains: Frederick J. Dukes (Blob) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Todd DeZago Pencils: Paul Borges Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Guido, at Dulles trying to get to a Lila Cheney concert, finds the Blob hijacking a plane, and intervenes. They wind up on a luggage cart, barreling toward a fuel truck, which they are almost able to avoid. Blob catches the front wheel of a 747, breaks through the floorboards, and demands to be taken to St. Croix. In the Shi'ar danger room, the team practices detecting Mystique, when they hear the news and rush off to Dulles. Guido, meanwhile, has been dropped through five stories of control tower and nearly run over by the 747, which he brakes before it crashes. (While doing so, he feels a pressure in his chest.) He and Blob duke it out some more; Guido lifts him and the ground under him, exposing wires; the fuel truck explodes; Guido drags Blob away from the flames; and X-Factor arrives in time to remand Blob to the police and pick an exhausted Guido up off the tarmac. Issue: X-Factor 108 Date: Nov-94 Story: Promised Vengeance (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Forge Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: X-Men's Rogue, Excalibur's Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler), S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Nick Fury, Gabrielle Haller Villains: Raven Darkholm (Mystique), Avalanche, David Charles Haller (Legion), Irene Adler (Destiny) Other Characters: Mavis Fein, nurse Natalie Mier Credits: Writers: John Francis Moore (plot), Todd DeZago (script) Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Forge replays Mystique's presumed suicide (X-Men Unlimited 4) from Rogue's memory. He thinks she was faking insanity and survived, and that Rogue perhaps wants to protect her (she is her foster mother). Nick Fury has video proving Mystique is alive and is in contact with Avalanche, whom Guido and Alex then try, and fail, to apprehend. Mystique is suspected of wanting to kill Legion as revenge for the murder of Destiny (Uncanny X-Men 255). X-Factor go to Legion's hospital in Tel Aviv, but Mystique morphs to Gabrielle's form and is about to inject Legion with curare, when he wakes up, quite able to defend himself. Issue: X-Factor 109 Date: Dec-94 Story: Waking (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Forge Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Gabrielle Haller Villains: Raven Darkholm (Mystique), David Charles Haller (Legion), Avalanche Other Characters: Credits: Writers: John Francis Moore (plot), Todd DeZago (script) Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: this is part 1 of the Legion Quest crossover. Mystique fails to choke the life out of Legion and then gets away from X-Factor. Forge sends Rahne and Lorna to track her, but she sends an ambulance careening into a crowd and distracts them. Legion's own personality is dominant. It seems he has spent his time in coma talking to Destiny's ghost. X-Factor catches Mystique by trailing Avalanche, who attacks with a tidal wave, which Alex blasts down. Legion talks with his father (Prof. X, see Uncanny X-Men 319), and runs away. He telekinetically stuns Forge so he tells Mystique that Destiny loves her. He ports X-Factor away before they can apprehend him and flies off, saying he will make everything better. Issue: X-Factor 110 Date: Jan-95 Story: Creatures on the Loose! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Forge Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Lila Cheney Villains: Jornik/Jornick, an Urg, Raven Darkholm (Mystique), David Charles Haller (Legion) Other Characters: Chow Yun Credits: Writers: John Francis Moore (plot), Todd DeZago (script) Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Matt Webb Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Lila trails Jornik to earth. X-Factor materializes over a reeking canal in Madripoor. Splashing down, they land on an alien spacecraft. An urg emerges, beats on Guido (who is ported away by Jornik), then attacks the rest of the team. Mystique flies to Paris, still planning to kill Legion. Jornik asks Guido where Lila is, and just then she pops in, pointing a gun at Jornik. It seems he robbed her stash, including an urg egg, which should not have hatched for another millennium, and music box that Lila needs desperately but which Jornik has already sold. Lila ports the urg to its home planet and, back in Madripoor, is accosted by another alien craft. Issue: X-Factor 111 Date: Feb-95 Story: Explosive Performance (22 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Forge, Multiple Man Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Lila Cheney Villains: K'Lanti Other Characters: Balthazar Credits: Writers: John Francis Moore (plot), Todd DeZago (script) Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: The K'lanti capture Lila and demand their Harmonium back, but she no longer has it (see last iss.). They threaten to bomb the city if she doesn't return it within the hour, so she takes Guido and Lorna to get it from Balthazar's junkyard. Meanwhile, Forge, Rahne, and Alex go on bomb-disposal duty. In Washington, Val sees Jamie alive. Guido has to beat on the alien junkyard dog, but they get the Harmonium and return it to the K'lanti, who fly away. They leave one more bomb behind for Lila, but Guido falls on it, absorbing the energy, releasing it in one great punch, and collapsing with a heart attack. The world then crystallizes. NOTE: the Age of Apocalypse intervenes as Factor-X 1-4.
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