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Issue: X-Force 38 Date: Sep-94 Story: The Faith Dancers (36 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Cannonball, Boomer, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Rictor, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Excalibur: Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), Shadowcat (Katherine "Kitty" Pryde), Meggan, Daytripper (Amanda Sefton), Britannic (Brian Braddock); X-Factor: Forge, Havok (Alex Summers), Polaris (Lorna Dane), Strong Guy (Guido Carosella), Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair); Dr. Moira MacTaggert, Prof. Charles Xavier, Douglock; Colossus, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Phoenix II, Doug Ramsey, Warlock (on video) Villains: Phalanx Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza Pencils: Tony Daniel Inks: Kevin Conrad Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Note: this is part of the Phalanx Covenant. Douglock is leading Sam, Forge, and Rahne to the Phalanx, a techno-organic collective that is taking over all life on earth. Sam is distrustful; Rahne believes him. They investigate a cute little village in the Italian Alps. The inhabitants look human but are really Phalanx. In Mont St. Francis, Moira scans Rictor and Kitty for traces of the t-o virus, then uses that data to track the Phalanx to California, the Alps, and the Himalayas. Xavier telepathically searches for Forge and merges minds with him. Douglock links in, warning them that the village is the Phalanx's nursery; it transforms before their eyes, revealing pods. A baby Phalanx bursts out and attacks Forge, seeking a human host. Douglock explains the Phalanx can now reproduce and overtake the entire universe. Forge sees this new life form as beautiful. Douglock infects Rahne and Sam with the t-o virus, so they can sneak up on the Babel Tower, the Phalanx's interstellar homing beacon. Issue: X-Force 39 Date: Oct-94 Story: Letting Go (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Cannonball, Boomer, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Rictor, Domino Regular Characters: Professor (now Prosh) Guest Stars: Villains: Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza Pencils: Tony Daniel Inks: Kevin Conrad Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Domino investigates the Camp Verde base, which shows signs of a fight. A Phalanx had tried to infiltrate Professor, but instead got its body taken over by him. As Prosh, he joins the team. Simultaneously, Cable is no longer able to control his t-o infection, there is static on the comm systems, and the IPAC has grown thorns; turns out Prosh is disrupting energy from every nearby system, and can't stop without killing himself. Cable sends him away with all the camp's equipment, blasting off into space. Issue: X-Force 40 Date: Nov-94 Story: Holding On (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Cannonball, Boomer, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Rictor, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Code: Blue: Stone, Rassitano, Ruiz; Prof. Xavier, Beast (Dr. Henry McCoy) Villains: Maria (Feral) and Lucia (Thornn) Callasantos; Graydon Creed and the Friends of Humanity Other Characters: Det. Jose Hidalgo Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza Pencils: Tony Daniel Inks: Kevin Conrad, Townsend Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Cable and Domino move the team to Arcade's old Murderworld beneath New York City. The NYPD track and arrest Thornn for the murders of her family, and mutant hysteria erupts. She says Feral did it, and X-Force feels responsible to take care of their own, especially when Thornn hires Cable as her Harvard lawyer (!). He convinces Hidalgo to let him bring Feral in. The FOH blackmail the police and plan to kill Thornn during a prisoner transfer. X-Force intervenes. They take Thornn and Hidalgo to the Callasantos' old home, where Feral is waiting. Issue: X-Force 41 Date: Dec-94 Story: The Fun House: A Tale of Deception and Death (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Cannonball, Boomer, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Rictor, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Danielle Moonstar and Darkwind Villains: Maria (Feral) and Lucia (Thornn) Callasantos Other Characters: Det. Jose Hidalgo; Carolina, Matteo, and Marcella Callasantos, Harry Bellinger (in flashback) Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza Pencils: Tony Daniel Inks: Kevin Conrad Letters: Chris Eliopoulos, Oakley Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: X-Force tries to capture Feral in her old tenement home. She takes Hidalgo hostage. Feral says her sister and brother died by accident; she just didn't try to save them. She killed Bellinger to stop him from raping Thornn. Their mother, angry, killed Feral's pet pigeons, so she killed her, too. Sam shoots his kinetic blast out from his hands at her, and Hidalgo arrests her. Dani had set Feral up, to get rid of her and discredit the MLF. Issue: X-Force 42 Date: Jan-95 Story: untitled (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Cannonball, Boomer, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Rictor, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: John Proudstar (Thunderbird I, deceased and in flashback); Generation X's White Queen (Emma Frost), Banshee (Sean Cassidy), Husk (Paige Guthrie), Synch (Everett Thomas), M (Monet St. Croix), Jubilee (Jubilation Lee); the Hellions: Firestar, Tarot, Magma, Empath, Jetstream (in a picture) Villains: Frocht, Verschlagen Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza Pencils: Terry Dodson Inks: Kevin Conrad Letters: Pat Brosseau, Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bob Harras Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco Synopsis: Emma and James discuss his mistakenly blaming Xavier for John's death and the Hellfire Club for his tribe's massacre; her trying to replace the Hellions with Generation X. She tries to make him face his fear of death, but he refuses. (At least he's convinced she didn't kill his tribe.) Sean and Theresa discuss unrequited loves: James and Moira. Sam and Paige bicker: he's concerned that Emma is her role model; she doesn't want to be told what to do. Jubilee and Boomer engage in competition shopping. In Germany, Verschlagen's husband tries to break into her research facility and is killed. She prepares to be attacked by the Clan Yashida. Issue: X-Force 43 Date: Feb-95 Story: Teapot in a Tempest (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Cannonball, Boomer, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Rictor, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Prof. Xavier, Cyclops, Archangel Villains: Reignfire (Roberto da Costa) and the MLF's Locus, Wildside, Forearm, Danielle Moonstar and Darkwind; Feral (in flashback) Other Characters: Kelly Hitchuck, hookers including Priscilla Cole; Stecky Credits: Writer: Fabian Nicieza Pencils: Tony Daniel Inks: Kevin Conrad Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Mike Thomas Editor: Bob Harras Synopsis: Sam tries to link Cerebro to Cable's time displacement core (on the bottom of the Pacific, see iss. 21), to find Roberto (see iss. 28). Turns out he's in the North Atlantic right now (see Annual 3). In Manhattan, Boomer walks the streets, watches the streetwalkers, and realizes that could have been her. She sees Hitchuck try to help Cole, and decides to make her get help. Rictor and Shatterstar go to a club and dance with women (eek!). Shatterstar runs, not knowing how to deal these new feelings. In Israel, Cable and Domino help the X-Men. Locus reappears in X-Force's base. She's been wandering time, abandoned by Roberto, and now says they must stop him. She calls James "Pridewalker" and ports them to the MLF's base, collecting the rest of the team on the way (and interrupting before Boomer can help Cole). Dani is running from Reignfire, who is killing everyone, and who reveals himself to be Roberto. Then the world crystallizes. Note: the Age of Apocalypse intervenes as Gambit and the X-Ternals 1-4 Issue: X-Force 44 Date: Jul-95 Story: ...Already in Progress... (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Cannonball, Boomer, Sunspot, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Rictor, Domino, Caliban Regular Characters: Sabretooth (Victor Creed) Guest Stars: Banshee (Sean Cassidy), Cyclops (Scott Summers), Prof. Charles Xavier Villains: Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Jeph Loeb Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Farmer Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Marie Javins Color Separations: Electric Crayon Editor: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: in X-Men Prime, Arcade blew up Murderworld out from under X-Force, and Roberto rejoined as Sunspot, no longer a villain. In Westchester, Cable is in conference with Xavier, and the team is on tenterhooks, wanting to know what's going on. Siryn is missing; James has a buzz cut. Roberto flies, and nobody but Sam is comfortable with him. Shatterstar and Boomer go to use the Danger Room, but find it already in use by Sabretooth, who is, uncharacteristically, lounging in a pastoral environment (he was lobotomized in Wolverine 90). Sam hollers at them for even getting near him. Cable calls the team together telepathically for the first time. He and Xavier announce that they are planning to have their teams work more closely together, that X-Force is moving temporarily into the mansion, and everyone gets a new uniform (and James gets a bo stick). Sam has been promoted to the X-Men; Caliban is joining X-Force; Rictor quits because he doesn't want Cable in his head. Siryn is dragged in a straight jacket into the Weissman Institute for the Criminally Insane. Issue: X-Force 45 Date: Aug-95 Story: Under One Roof (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Boomer, Sunspot, Warpath, Shatterstar, Caliban Regular Characters: Sabretooth Guest Stars: Prof. Xavier, Beast (Dr. Henry McCoy), Cannonball Villains: Mimic (Calvin Rankin), Dr. Weissman Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Jeph Loeb Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Pennington Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins Color Separations: Electric Crayon Editor: Bob Harras Synopsis: Boomer has been going every midnight to give Sabretooth a bowl of milk. Tonight, she finds the Caliban beating on him, planning to kill him for vengeance because he killed Morlocks (Uncanny 211), but since Wolverine lobotomized him, he has no killer instinct and doesn't even fight back. Cable shows up, and instead of breaking it up, he gets the Danger Room back online and recreates the Morlock tunnels. He reasons with Caliban, convincing him not to kill the helpless, even if he is a murderer. Cable orders Boomer to stop bringing milk. Next day, Xavier watches Sunspot's newfound powers with some trepidation, and suggests that Cable get Jean's help in practicing his telepathy. James practices his bo stick on Caliban. Beast runs med-scans on an unwilling Shatterstar (injured in Cable 22). Boomer tries to spend time with Sam, who is too busy with X-stuff. Cable takes the rest of the team to Siberia, on an errand for Xavier. A tracking station has gone off-line; they find a gaping crater where it was, and Caliban senses something like a mutant, but not. They investigate, and find the Mimic (Uncanny 19). Issue: X-Force 46 Date: Sep-95 Story: Behind Closed Doors (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Boomer, Sunspot, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Caliban Regular Characters: Sabretooth Guest Stars: Wolverine (Logan), Deadpool (Wade Wilson) Villains: Mimic (Calvin Rankin); Jeremy Stevens (the Gamesmaster, see iss. 47), Dr. Weissman Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Jeph Loeb Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Pennington Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins Color Separations: Electric Crayon Editor: Bob Harras Synopsis: Siryn investigates the Weissman Institute's files on Stevens, a 10-year old inmate. (She also comes across records of Benjamin Russell, who looks like Shatterstar.) She is caught by Weissman, and explains she was sent undercover by Xavier, but she assumes she is insane and sedates her. Xavier had arranged for the Mimic to be cared for in Siberia, far from all mutants so his powers wouldn't go out of control. Now he attacks X-Force, blaming them for the deaths of his caretakers. He throws James through the PACRAT. Boomer continues to give Sabretooth milk. He purrs for her, and remembers his name is Victor. Sunspot grabs Mimic, who mimics his power, becoming another solar battery. Their powers repel; they explode and fall to earth. Wolverine visits Boomer in the night, warning her that he will still "finish" with Sabretooth, even if she gets in the way. Caliban tracks Mimic, but the trail ends abruptly at the site of another battle. Mimic has vanished. Siryn has been calling for X-Force on a home-made radio, but they haven't answered. So she calls Deadpool. Issue: X-Force 47 Date: Oct-95 Story: Breakout (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Boomer, Sunspot, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Caliban Regular Characters: Sabretooth Guest Stars: Deadpool (Wade Wilson), Beast (Dr. Henry McCoy), Wolverine (Logan), Deadpool (Wade Wilson) Villains: Jeremy Stevens, Dr. Weissman, Gamesmaster Other Characters: Marty "Smitty" Smith Credits: Writer: Jeph Loeb Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Pennington Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins Color Separations: Electric Crayon Editor: Bob Harras Synopsis: Deadpool arrives to break Siryn out of the madhouse, and removes her inhibitor collar. They beat up an intern, then go to berate Weissman for abusing her patients. Turns out Stevens has been controlling her mind, and he has quickly felled Deadpool. X-Force limps home in its damaged PACRAT; Roberto chews up the ball-field so they can land safely. Cable sends the boys to the med lab to get Beast to check them out; Shatterstar is still there, too. Boomer calls her father, who is trailer park trash. Siryn returns to Westchester, reporting to Xavier and giving no indication that anything went wrong at Weissman's. Roberto speaks to Cable in Askani. Boomer brings Sabretooth milk and finds out he has remembered how to talk. He doesn't want to live in the jungle, so Boomer reconfigures the Danger Room to recreate the mansion's grounds. Sabretooth sees a simulated Wolverine, and decides he likes it better inside. Stevens and Weissman have Deadpool captive, and Stevens's shadow shows him to be the Gamesmaster. Issue: X-Force and Cable '95 Annual Date: 1995 Story 1: Fun, Fun, Fun! (41 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Boomer, Sunspot, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Domino, Caliban Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Cannonball; Zack and Screech (on screen) Villains: the Impossible Man and his three sons Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Jeph Loeb Pencils: Matt Ryan, Rurik Tyler Inks: Mark Pennington, Andrew Pepoy, Ian Akin Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Matt Webb Color Enhancements: Malibu's Hues Editors: Lisa Patrick, Kelly Corvese Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Special Thanks To: Mark Waid Synopsis: On Kali in the South Pacific, X-Force plays beach volleyball, boys against girls (and Caliban), until the ball turns into the Impossible Man. He wants his kids to join X-Force, Cable says no, but he won't stop pestering them, so Cable is forced to give it a try. Turns out they're three slackers, who are impossible to motivate. X-Force is attacked the Kalinator, a local sea monster, which swallows them, so they fight it from inside its belly. Impossible Man is unable to get his kids to help, even when the monster flattens him. Cable tells the kids this is not TV, but real life. He reads the monster's mind to find what it is afraid of (its mother) and makes the kids turn into it. She/they eat the monster, and belch up X-Force (and the monster's skeleton). Impossible Man is happy, his kids are motivated, and they go off to save the universe Cable-style. X-Force chases Cable into the ocean. Story 2: The Gamut (8 pages) Feature Characters: Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Grizzly Villains: Arcade Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Todd Dezago Pencils & Inks: Daerick Gross Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: James Houston Editor: Suzanne Gaffney Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Domino bests an assailant in an alleyway, then a doppelganger of herself, then a copy of Grizzly. She does this every year, letting Arcade try to kill her. Note: a cover sketch and 3 pin-ups of the team follow. Issue: X-Force 48 Date: Nov-95 Story: Intervention (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Boomer, Sunspot, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Caliban Regular Characters: Sabretooth Guest Stars: Cannonball, Prof. Charles Xavier, Storm (Ororo Munro) Villains: Holocaust, Sebastian Shaw Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Jeph Loeb Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Pennington, Joe Rubinstein Letters: Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins, Derek Bellman Color Separations: Electric Crayon Editor: Bob Harras Technical Advisor: Christine G. Loeb, MFCC Synopsis: Boomer goes to give Sabretooth milk, but her friends hold an intervention in the kitchen, while Xavier and Storm observe. Caliban replays Sabretooth and the Marauders killing Morlocks (Uncanny 211), but she replies that Caliban and Roberto had both been villains in their turn. She believes in second chances. She doesn't want to give up on Sabretooth like she did her father. They tells her she can't be friends both with Sabretooth and with them; they can't let her put her life in danger. She is about to quit the team, when Xavier comes in and convinces her that if Magneto couldn't reform, then Sabretooth can't be trusted. She goes to say good-bye to him, but he doesn't show himself. He has reverted to a crazed state. In the South Pacific, Holocaust kills an island-full of people, then turns on Shaw (thought dead since X-Factor 67), who gives as good as he got and then partners with him. Issue: X-Force 49 Date: Dec-95 Story: Target: X-Force (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Boomer, Sunspot, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Caliban Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Sebastian Shaw, Tessa, Holocaust Other Characters: Stansfield, Marty "Smitty" Smith Credits: Writer: Jeph Loeb Pencils: Terry Dodson Inks: Lanning, Mark Morales, Russell Letters: Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins Color Separations: Electric Crayon Editor: Bob Harras Synopsis: Shaw survived his son's attempted parricide and is assembling a team, using Tessa to mind-control Holocaust when necessary. Boomer goes home to Pennsylvania to visit her father. Caliban goes home to the Morlock tunnels with Roberto, and he senses a mutant (the Morlocks were killed off by Marauders in Uncanny 211 and by Michael Rasputin in Uncanny 293). Holocaust takes them both down. James and Theresa go into New York: he thinks it's a date, she shops. She calls for help in the dressing room, and James burst in to find Shaw, who fells them both. Shatterstar wanders the streets alone, finds a gay-bashing to interrupt, and is attacked by Holocaust. Boomer talks with dad; he doesn't hate her for being a mutant, but he is a drunk. He reveals that her mother is still alive. Shaw and Holocaust show up at the front door and blast the trailer apart. Issue: X-Force 50 Date: Jan-96 Story: Target: Cable (37 pages) Feature Characters: Cable, Boomer, Sunspot, Warpath, Shatterstar, Siryn, Caliban, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Wolfsbane, Magik, Karma, Cannonball, Rictor, Feral, Warlock, Magneto (as memories) Villains: Sebastian Shaw, Tessa, Holocaust Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Jeph Loeb Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Bud LaRosa, Mark Morales, Delperdang Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins, Electric Crayon Editor: Bob Harras Synopsis: Shaw has had Tessa brainwash X-Force and orders them to kill Cable. Cable and Domino search Manhattan for their missing teammates and are ambushed by them. Tessa warns Shaw she might not be able to retain control, especially since three of them have already been mind-altered (Roberto by Cable, Siryn by Gamesmaster, Shatterstar by Spiral?). Shatterstar stabs Domino, Cable psi-blasts him in the ribs, then jumps with Domino through the skylight of the First National Bank of New York, setting off all the alarms. Roberto follows, and Cable uses a grenade and telepathy to break through to him. At dawn, they rejoin battle in Central Park. X-Force knocks Cable around, he fills their minds with team memories, and they wake from Tessa's control. Shaw retires from the field, for now.
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