Author: Robert Diehl
Created:
Updated: Version 3.2, last modified April 10, 2001
| Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next |
Issue: X-Factor 84 Date: Nov-92 Story: Tough Love (23 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: X-Men Prof. Charles Xavier, Bishop, Ororo Munro (Storm), Warren Worthington, III (Archangel), Betsy Braddock (Psylocke), Remy LeBeau (Gambit), Rogue, Logan (Wolverine), Dr. Henry McCoy (Beast), Jean Grey, Scott Summers (Cyclops); X-Force members Maria Callasantos (Feral), Benjamin Russell (Shatterstar), Samuel Guthrie (Cannonball), Tabitha Smith (Boom Boom), Julio Esteban Richter (Rictor) Villains: The Horsemen of Apocalypse: Caliban, Famine, War; Mr. Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) Other Characters: X-Patriots Prodigal, Lukas, Pirouette, Taylor Credits: Writer: Peter David Pencils: Jae Lee Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Brad Vancata Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: this is part 2 of the X-Cutioner's Song crossover. Xavier, shot in the head by Stryfe in Uncanny X-Men 294, is rushed to the same hospital as Taylor (last iss.). Alex sends Rahne and Guido to the scene of the crime to try to track Stryfe, whom everyone thinks is Cable. There they run into a vengeful Archangel, as well as X-Force, and Rahne breaks cover to greet her old teammates. Guido and Rahne try to use force and sentiment, respectively, to arrest the outlaw X-Force, and a fight breaks out. Rahne bests Feral, and after the rest of X-Factor shows up and a short fight, X-Force retreats, Alex damaging their aircraft as a parting gesture. Alex decides to follow X-Force back to Cable, and X-Men Blue tags along. The captive Scott and Jean are dumped at Apocalypse's feet by his horsemen, but it turns out he is really Sinister impersonating old blue-lips. Xavier is infected with a technovirus and cannot be helped by conventional medicine. He is sent to the mansion to die. Issue: X-Factor 85 Date: Dec-92 Story: Snikts and Bones (22 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Quicksilver Regular Characters: Guest Stars: X-Men Bishop, Ororo Munro (Storm), Warren Worthington, III (Archangel), Betsy Braddock (Psylocke), Remy LeBeau (Gambit), Rogue, Logan (Wolverine), Robert Drake (Iceman), Jean Grey, Scott Summers (Cyclops); X-Force members Samuel Guthrie (Cannonball), Tabitha Smith (Boom Boom), Nathan Christopher Summers (Cable) Villains: En Sabah Nur (Apocalypse), Stryfe; The MLF: Dragonness, Tempo, Forearm, Kamikaze, Wildside, Reaper; Stryfe Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Peter David Pencils: Jae Lee Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: this is part 6 of the X-Cutioner's Song crossover. In the records room of Dept. K, Bishop, Wolverine, and Cable, tracing Xavier's attacker, run into each other (Uncanny X-Men 295). Since Bishop and Wolverine think Cable is that man, they attack. Cable find an armory, shoots Bishop with an energy weapon, and regrets it. Then, on advice from Professor, he stops fighting and convinces Wolverine that he is not the bad guy. Apocalypse searches Cable's safe house in Switzerland and realizes the technology there was copied from his Ship. Scott, a captive of Stryfe, strafes the darkness with his eye-beam, only to be shown that he has killed children and Jean. A task force of X-Men, X-Factor, and X-Force trace the MLF to Dust Bowl, Arkansas. In the ensuing battle, Kamikaze beheads himself on Archangel's wings, and Reaper is in position to behead Pietro and Gambit. Issue: X-Factor 86 Date: Jan-93 Story: One of These Days... Pow! Zoom! (21 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: X-Men Prof. Charles Xavier, Bishop, Ororo Munro (Storm), Warren Worthington, III (Archangel), Betsy Braddock (Psylocke), Logan (Wolverine), Dr. Henry McCoy (Beast), Robert Drake (Iceman), Jean Grey, Scott Summers (Cyclops); X-Force members Samuel Guthrie (Cannonball), Nathan Christopher Summers (Cable); Dr. Moira MacTaggert Villains: Stryfe, En Sabah Nur (Apocalypse), MLF soldiers, the Dark Riders Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Peter David Pencils: Jae Lee Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Steve Dutro Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: this is part 10 of the X-Cutioner's Song crossover. To the moon! go the X-Men and X-Factor, since Wolverine realizes that is where Stryfe has Scott and Jean captive. Stryfe actually saves them from suffocation (they broke out into the vacuum in Uncanny X-Men 296), takes a walk in the moonlight with them, and broadly hints that he is Scott's son. Cable recalibrates his bodysliding doo-hickey on Greymalkin (shown to be a space station) and takes Wolverine and Bishop. Alex leads a team of Psylocke, Archangel, Iceman, Lorna, Cannonball, and Storm. But first, Archangel gets his "father" Apocalypse to treat Xavier's technovirus. The treatment is severe: he accelerates the virus, so that it abandons Xavier to look for a better food supply. Storm voices her appreciation, and Apocalypse offers to fly her to the moon. Issue: X-Factor 87 Date: Feb-93 Story: X-aminations (31 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Ren and Stimpy, Dr. Leonard "Doc" Samson. Villains: Other Characters: Sheila, Charlie Credits: Writers: Peter David, Shana David Pencils: Jae Quesada Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings, Steve Dutro Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: The team has to talk to a psychiatrist (government regulations!). Rahne tells him about her dreams and about her crush on Alex. He suggests she is drawn to authority figures because the Rev. Craig who raised her hated her. Pietro explains that the relative sluggishness of others constantly irritates him, making him grumpy. Lorna, not talkative though her jaw is no longer wired, evidently feels that she repels things (Alex, presumably). Guido talks about his childhood: being the smart kid in class, and also the class clown. Getting into a fight at the school bus stop, and finding out he has the mutant power to absorb kinetic energy, which also distorts his body, and he is now in constant agony, but covers it with jokes. Jamie explains that he spent his childhood alone, and he seeks attention to feel less lonely. Alex feels burdened with responsibility, jealous of his brother, and detached from his own team. Val provides completely wildly descriptions of each team member and is attacked by a nest of toothed snakes. Issue: X-Factor 88 Date: Mar-93 Story 1: ...Random Violence (14 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Dr. Moira MacTaggert, Marshall Evan Stone, III (Random) Villains: Other Characters: Trish Tilby, Sgt. Murphy; X-Patriots Prodigal, Lukas, Pirouette, Taylor; the president of Genosha; Sasha Ryan; Pres. Mabawa of Aznia Credits: Writer: Peter David Pencils: Jae Quesada Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Ariane Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: The mutant hunter Random is brought in to deal with the X-Patriots, who have taken over the hospital ward. X-Factor arrive to take charge, and since they prove unable to force Random out, Alex buys him off, instead. The team accompanies the X-Patriots back to Genosha. En route, Val is acting oddly, and Rahne makes a pass at Jamie. The president of Genosha installs Ryan as the new Genegineer. Story 2: Time Out (8 pages) Feature Characters: Quicksilver Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Crystal Villains: Other Characters: Baldrick Credits: Writer: Peter David Pencils: Chris Batista Inks: Andrew Pepoy Letters: Lois Buhalis Colors: Ariane Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Quicksilver takes time off to be with his wife Crystal; she called him to attempt a reconciliation. Val lends them a safe-house: a cabin in Maine. While Crystal urges her husband to take his time, they are being spied on. Issue: X-Factor 89 Date: Apr-93 Story 1: Dark Homecoming (15 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Dr. Moira MacTaggert Villains: Dick Chalker (Carnivore) Other Characters: X-Patriots Prodigal, Lukas, Pirouette, Taylor; the president of Genosha; Sasha Ryan; Pres. Mabawa of Aznia Credits: Writer: Peter David Pencils: Joe Quesada Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: X-Factor escorts the X-Patriots home to Genosha, where the president assures them that mutants are now welcome. Jamie berate Moira for thinking he was a fake (iss. 75), and Rahne is still acting strangely frisky. Carnivore is the mutant brother of Vic and Mick Chalker (RIP in iss. 77, 83, resp.), who decides to kill all mutants, ending with himself. Instead, he is run over by a Hack truck. Rahne dreams of being the genie in Aladdin, and also of being made a mutate (see New Mutants 96), with Alex rubbing her lamp, then shooting her. Moira and Ryan examine her and her records and discover that the mutate process bonded her unnaturally to Alex, who was at that time a magistrate. Rahne is enraged at the violation. Guido accompanies Pirouette home and is welcomed by her grandmother. The Genoshan president offers Prodigal a voice in government. We learn that Ryan is in league with a mystery man who vows to eliminate mutants from Genosha. Story 2: Cabin Fever (7 pages) Feature Characters: Quicksilver Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Crystal Villains: Torq Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Peter David Pencils: Chris Batista Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Lois Buhalis Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Pietro and Crystal shower together and watch the sunrise. They each admit to having made mistakes, and Pietro explains that he is seeing a psychiatrist who has given him some new insights. Pietro goes for groceries and is accosted by a reporter, Torq, who shows him pictures of Crystal with another man. Pietro vehemently threatens to kill him if he prints them. Torq walks away with a broken nose, but he and his associates gloat that they have succeeded in screwing up the couple's reconciliation and inciting Magneto's son to violence. Issue: X-Factor 90 Date: May-93 Story: A Green and Tender Place (31 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Dr. Moira MacTaggert Villains: mutate 416 (Piecemeal) Other Characters: X-Patriots Prodigal, Lukas, Pirouette, Taylor; the president of Genosha; Sasha Ryan; mutate 24601 Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Joe Quesada Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Tom Smith Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Lorna prevents Rahne from flying back to the US alone, and they each share their anger about having their minds manipulated. Alex is enraged at the lies of the Genoshan government. He destroys the monitoring devices in the president's garden, only to have them reform into Piecemeal, one of the bodyguards. Since he is energy-based, Alex puts him down with a left-cross. Val tells Pietro not to come to Genosha, and when Jamie questions this, she yells at and insults him. The Genoshan president and Genegineer reveal to X-Factor that the mutates are dying of an untreatable disease (eventually known as the Legacy Virus). Moira is off to Paris to confer with Xavier (Uncanny X-Men 300), and Rahne feels abandoned. Mutate 24601, infected, escapes the hospital, and X-Factor runs off to catch him before the Genoshans terminated him. Issue: X-Factor 91 Date: Jun-93 Story: Underpinnings (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver. Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Villains: Other Characters: mutate 24601, the president of Genosha Credits: Writer: Scott Lobdell Pencils: Joe Quesada Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Tom Smith Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: X-Factor battles magistrates in the sewers of Genosha, looking for mutate 24601. Val accosts a troubled and briefly drunken Pietro in the Genoshan airport bar (his reconciliation with his wife failed in iss. 89). Rahne tells Alex that she knows her love for him was artificially induced, and all she wants is her life back. Jamie finds the ill mutate and, risking his own life, creates a dupe and performs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The Genoshan president thanks X-Factor and pledges to find a cure to the mutate disease, and then free all the mutates from the vestiges of mind control. Issue: X-Factor 92 Date: Jul-93 Story: The Man Who Wasn't There (45 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Marshall Evan Stone, III (Random) Villains: Acolytes Fabian Cortez, Senyaka, Harlan and Sven Kleinstock, Andrew Hamish "Amos" Graves (Spoor), Javitz, Scanner, Joanna Cargill (Frenzy), Amelia Voght, Carmella Unuscione, Seamus Mellancamp, Exodus; Senator Robert Kelly; Sentinels Other Characters: Nurse Leslie Murray, Dr. Johnson Credits: Writers: Scott Lobdell, Joe Quesada (plot); J.M. De Matteis (script) Pencils: Joe Quesada Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Background Assist: Cliff Van Meter Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: NOTE: this issue is part 1 of the Fatal Attractions cross-over. The Acolytes attack a hospice in Wauntaugh, Virginia, wantonly killing and maiming "in Magneto's name" for no apparent purpose. X-Factor is brought in to investigate. Scanner observes them, especially Pietro, and reports to Cortez, who is based aboard the wreck of the Leningrad (see Uncanny X-Men 150, X-Men 1). Spoor had been captured, and X-Factor interrogate him. He is defiant until Pietro enters, whom he reveres as "the only begotten Son" (of Magneto). X-Factor learn of a planned Acolyte attack on Cape Hayden, in Kentucky (which is inland and therefore has no capes), an obscure army base. Val takes Pietro and the bounty-hunter Random there, and Alex follows against orders with the rest of the team. They are interdicted by Exodus, who pauses, then flies off without a word. Val finds Kelly on base, which turns out to be a facility for government-sponsored Sentinels (Project: Wideawake). Alex and team arrive, and all are outraged by the government's new stance against mutants. But Pietro insists that humans have the right to protect themselves against mutants like his father. The Acolytes break in, and while they fight X-Factor, Kelly orders the evacuation of the Sentinels. Jamie is attacked by Mellancamp and creates a dupe inside him, gruesomely killing him. Frenzy confronts Kelly, and Rahne saves his life, then threatens him, giving him two things to think about. Cortez offers Pietro leadership of the Acolytes as heir of Magneto, and although he turns it down, the thought remains. Voght ports the Acolytes away. Val spits up a horror which the Acolytes had used to control her mind since issue 87. The team is still angry at her lying to them, and a rift is created. NOTE: a pin-up follows, "Behold the Son of Magneto!" Issue: X-Factor 93 Date: Aug-93 Story: The Longest Day Part I (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver, Forge Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: X-Men Warren Worthington, III (Archangel), Peter Rasputin (Colossus), Robert Drake (Iceman), Scott Summers (Cyclops),. Prof. Charles Xavier; Lila Cheney and her band Villains: Magneto Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Scott Lobdell (plot), J.M. De Matteis (script) Pencils: Terry Shoemaker Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Alex and Rahne go to Westchester and find that Colossus is taking his sister's recent death (Uncanny X-Men 303) with a strange, cold severity. Pietro and Lorna have been issued standardized uniforms, which they at first hate. Jamie is morose, perhaps over his killing of Melloncamp last issue. Lila ports Guido naked out of his shower and offers him his old job back, but he doesn't accept. While Xavier examines Rahne (she is still mentally bonded to Alex, see issue 89), Alex bonds with Scott. Then, waiting in Xavier's office, he sees a display on the Mutant Underground. Xavier refuses to discuss it with him. Rahne requests a leave of absence to go to Muir Island and get her brain straightened out. Val turns her responsibilities over to Forge, and notes that X-Factor is the US's first defense against Magneto. Issue: X-Factor 94 Date: Sep-93 Story: Eveningwhere: The Longest Day Part II (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Quicksilver, Forge Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Marshall Evan Stone, III (Random) Villains: Bob and the Mrs. Other Characters: Capt. Fillmore Credits: Writers: Scott Lobdell (plot), J.M. De Matteis (script) Pencils: Paul Ryan Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Janice Chiang Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Alex and Lorna go out to dinner, but he is stressed out about Rahne's departure. Rahne, en route to Muir Island, talks to Guido about inner pain. Pietro plays with clay and decides he has always felt an outcast in every group he's been in. Jamie is coming apart at the seams, and when a dupe tries to talk to Pietro, he ignores him. Bob is a rude mutant-hater who purposely spills a drink on Alex. Lorna forces him to apologize and incites a mutant rights debate and brawl among the crowd. Rahne arrives at Muir and changes to human form, reverting to Mutate 490 (see New Mutants 96), and passing out. Lorna, bailed out of jail with Alex, gives a short speech to the press demanding acceptance. Random observes, admires, and plans to kill her. Issue: X-Factor 95 Date: Oct-93 Story: Fatal Repulsions (31 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Forge Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Dr. Moira MacTaggert; Marshall Evan Stone, III (Random); New Mutants Cannonball, Sunspot, Karma, Psyche; Quicksilver Villains: Rev. Craig, Senator Robert Kelly (on screen) Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Scott Lobdell (plot), J.M. De Matteis (script) Pencils: Greg Luzniak Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Random asks Lorna to a private meeting, then ambushes her. She retaliates by smashing him with his Lamborghini. Forge confronts Alex as the new government liaison, informs him that Pietro has taken a leave of absence, and demands that he justify each member of the team. He does, and Forge, impressed, explains that Alex will be running the team, while he takes care of the bureaucrats. Random explains that his power is to counteract all other mutant powers. Lorna defeats him and gets him to confess that someone in the government hired him to test her limits. Jamie broods, quails, and parties with Guido, respectively. Rahne compulsively runs away from Muir Island and returns to Alex. Issue: X-Factor 96 Date: Nov-93 Story: In the Beginning (31 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Forge Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Marshall Evan Stone, III (Random), "Buds" Bunny Villains: Radha Dastoor (Haven) Other Characters: Credits: Writer: J.M. De Matteis Pencils: Greg Luzniak Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Glynis Oliver Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Terrorists start a fire in the Kennedy Center, and X-Factor responds, rescuing the survivors. A shadowy government figure pays off Random (see last iss.) and is ordered to have him killed. Rahne is angry that she can only go to Muir to get her head fixed if Alex goes with her, but he doesn't have time for her. Jamie's dupes are aggressive, passive, and frivolous, while he himself is reading "Man, Mutant, and the New Humanity." It dawns on Lorna that he is infected (see iss. 91), but she is just then attacked by government operatives who want to capture her and use her as a weapon. Haven comes to her rescue. Issue: X-Factor 97 Date: Dec-93 Story: The New Humanity (30 pages) Feature Characters: Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane, Forge Regular Characters: Val Cooper Guest Stars: Prof. Charles Xavier, Marshall Evan Stone, III (Random) Villains: Radha Dastoor (Haven) Other Characters: Vera Credits: Writer: J.M. De Matteis Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Al Milgrom Letters: Richard Starkings Colors: Mike Thomas Editor: Kelly Corvese Group Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Haven has ported Lorna to a "pocket between worlds," and she convinces her to trust her, for now. She announces a new age, and deposits Lorna back in Georgetown with a complimentary copy of her new book. Val, at home and shunned by the team (see iss. 92), is reading the same book. Random, at home and badgered by Vera, is attacked and subdues by government operatives (see last iss.). Xavier and Lorna agree that Haven's book is both brilliance and nonsense. Jamie also holds these opinions. Lorna notices the dupes are behaving independently, and realizes he is ill with the Legacy Virus (see iss. 91). Haven gives a lecture, which is attended by Val and X-Factor. She says a golden era is dawning, that man and mutant are not different, and is interrupted by Alex and Forge, come to arrest her.
| Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next |
Chronology.Net was created and is maintained for personal use by Darren Duncan. All content and source code was created by me, unless otherwise stated. Content that I did not create is used with permission from the creators, who are appropriately credited where it is used and in the Works Cited section of this site.
You may not copy any text, graphics, layouts, code, or database structure from this site for use in any public forum unless I have given you written permission to do so. However, I encourage you to provide hyperlinks to this site. I have put years of hard work into the content of this website and consider it a valuable asset.
This site is not affiliated with Marvel Entertainment Group, who are the TM and copyright holders of the 'X-Men' and associated characters. Any references made on this site to said property constitutes fair use.