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Issue: X-Force 75 Date: Mar-98 Story: Convergence (36 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Warpath, Siryn, Moonstar Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Sam Guthrie (Cannonball), Xi'an Coy Manh (Karma); Emma Frost (in flashback); John Proudstar (as a vision), Nathan Summers (Cable) Villains: Edwin Martynec (in flashback), Selene, Locus Other Characters: Simone, Jessikah, Clarissa; Neal and Maria Proudstar (as a vision) Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Morales Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Mark Powers Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: The team visits an alternative-culture carnival in the middle of the desert. They bump into Karma and her new buzz-cut. She found a doctor who can help her siblings and is on vacation with some new friends. Selene confronts a pseudo-coven. Cable chats with a fortune-teller. Sam meets up with Siryn. Bobby and Tabitha do a mutant carnival act for the crowd. Locus and a mysterious villain discuss their next attack on Bobby. James is searching for himself, now that they mystery of the Camp Verde massacre is solved. Dani uses her power to give him a vision of his family. While Bobby and Tabitha dance and kiss, Selene attacks and quickly defeats James and Dani with her elemental powers. She has a runestaff in a box, and she needs Asgardian blood to open it. Dani was a Valkyrie, which works. The nine worlds are coming into alignment, and Selene wants to tap their power. Dani wakes James with a psi-bolt, and he frees her to use a psi-arrow. Selene drops the staff, James picks it up, but the mystical energies are too great, and it flies out of his hand into a the carnival's colossal man-like structure. Tabitha and Bobby almost get body-pierced, but Sam interrupts. Then the colossal man comes to life, and everyone panics. Karma does crowd-control, Selene punches Dani, and she retaliates by giving her a vision of old age. Cable has been monitoring the team, but is able to keep at a distance. James climbs the colossus and rips out the runestaff, and Tabitha blows up the structure. Note: a pin-up of Sunspot and Moonstar follows. Issue: X-Force 76 Date: Apr-98 Story: Bittersweet Reunions (22 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Warpath, Siryn, Moonstar; Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Sam Guthrie (Cannonball), Shatterstar, Rictor; Maria Callasantos (Feral), Cecilia Reyes, Maggott, Marrow, Deadpool, Patch, Benjamin Russell (all in flashback) Villains: Arcade, Etienne Rousseau, Mojo Other Characters: various fighters including Snakeskin Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils & Inks: Mike S. Miller Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Mark Powers Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Story Idea: Adam Pollina Synopsis: The team goes bowling; Sam challenges with Dani and loses on a wicked 7-10 split. Tabitha gets bored and blows up some pins, so they have to leave, and Sam lectures her. He thinks about rejoining; Tabitha stops Bobby from telling him they've kissed. Domino is trying to get hired as a bodyguard and defeats 8 opponents including Snakeskin. The contest is being conducted aboard a ship by Arcade, who holds Rictor captive. He pits her against Shatterstar, and she quickly takes him down. Domino beheads the Arcade robot; he has already released Rictor. Rousseau offers her the job, but she instead arrests him for the UN. Mojo had hired Arcade to test Shatterstar; he wants him back. Sam finds Tabitha and Bobby kissing; he tells them both off and flies away. They feel horrible. Issue: X-Force 77 Date: May-98 Story: City of Lost Children (21 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Warpath, Siryn, Moonstar Regular Characters: Guest Stars: SHIELD including Briggs Villains: Rodney Other Characters: Jonathan "Johnny" McFee, Mary, Sheriff Hollister, Billy, Cody, Millie, Kay Credits: Writer: Joseph Harris Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Morales Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/EM Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Young mutant Johnny secretly shows Mary his power to create fire. A week later, the sheriff and SHIELD investigate his burnt corpse, the fifth death of a child in the small town of Almost Reno, NM. X-Force, lost, stops in at a diner and gets suggestions from the police and the local hicks that they leave town quickly. They read about Johnny's death and realize the town is near an old military test site. They investigate and realize all the children are mutants. Mary's mother takes her to the doctor for headaches; she developing telepathy. She attacks X-Force, but they nab her and explain they want to help. SHIELD arrives and claims the girl; she mind-blasts everyone and gets away. Dani and James talk to SHIELD, while Tabitha finds Mary in the playground and tells her it's okay to be a mutant. Mary fends off SHIELD with another mind blast, and X-Force leaves town. Issue: X-Force 78 Date: Jun-98 Story: Burning Desires (22 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Warpath, Siryn, Moonstar Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Gary Singer; Sally "Skids" Blevins; Rictor, Rusty, Cannonball, Cypher (all in flashback) Villains: Reignfire, Locus; Holocaust (in flashback) Other Characters: Getulio Villa-Lobos, Cmdr. Salles, Ruiz; Desmond; William Lonestar; Tony Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Morales Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Reignfire and Locus terrorize and kill the board members of the DaCosta company and gain control of it. X-Force is bunking with Skids in Boulder, who is in college and refuses to be a hero, since Rusty was killed (X-Men II:42). Tabitha is guilty over Sam and pushes Bobby away; Theresa likes Skid's roommate Desmond. Dani is visiting her dad when Reignfire attacks. James and Theresa are in a bar when Locus ports them away. Bobby is playing futbol when Reignfire attacks. Skids is forced into the battle, and Locus collects them all to Las Vegas. Reignfire is angry because he has Bobby's body and memories, and he wants to hurt and kill him. Issue: X-Force 79 Date: Jul-98 Story: Set My Soul on Fire (22 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Warpath, Siryn, Moonstar Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Sally "Skids" Blevins; Cannonball (in flashback) Villains: Reignfire, Locus, Dr. Joshua, Dr. Chandra Other Characters: Short Circuit (Henry Wallinger) Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Morales, Rob Stull Background Assists: Guillermo Zubiaga Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Steve Buccellato Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: From the Damocles Foundation in Portland, Joshua takes a molecular disruptor and goes to Vegas, where Reignfire is holding the team captive. He uses a mentally challenged mutant, Short Circuit, to suppress their powers. He plans to kill them all, take over the rest of Bobby's life, and destroy the world to make is safe for mutants. Reignfire was lab experiment #19: Joshua used Bobby's blood to keep him alive, and now he is able to siphon off his solar power. He kept Bobby prisoner for months and established a psychic bond with him, which Cable broke. James attacks Locus and Short Circuit, which frees the rest of the team. Locus tries to port his head off, but Sally interrupts, and when she tries it on her, their powers interact, porting both of them far away. They all break out of the building; Joshua arrives and blasts Reignfire, but not enough. Bobby picks up the disruptor and destroys Reignfire's body, so then he possesses Bobby. Issue: X-Force 80 Date: Aug-98 Story: The Fire Within (22 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Warpath, Siryn, Moonstar Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Sally "Skids" Blevins; Heroes for Hire: Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Misty Knight, Colleen Wing Villains: Reignfire, Locus, Dr. Joshua Other Characters: Getulio Villa-Lobos, Carlo, Short Circuit, Lucky, Rusty, SHIELD including Jordan Holiday Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Morales Background Assists: Guillermo Zubiaga Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/EM Colors: Gloria Vasquez Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: DaCosta Intl.'s board of directors plans to have Bobby killed rather than give in to threats (actually from Reignfire). Meanwhile, the NSA is keeping tabs on X-Force. Above Vegas, Bobby fights Reignfire for possession of his body. James tosses Dani up so she can psi-arrow him, and Meltdown distracts him with a timebomb down the pants. Siryn questions Joshua: he put Bobby's blood into a protoplasmic entity, which then duplicated him. Locus and Skids find themselves stranded on a mountain in Latveria, and are immediately kidnapped. James shoots Reignfire with Joshua's gun; Siryn adds her scream. They stop short of killing Bobby, and Reignfire creeps off him. SHIELD arrives and arrests him and Joshua. Bobby goes to his company to get money, and they sic Heroes for Hire on him, but he explains the situation and sends them home. He flies the team to Boulder to pick up their stuff, then to San Francisco to meet him. He has agreed to stay out of company business until he is 25, and the company has rented him a new headquarters for X-Force. He is also taking them to Hawaii for a vacation. Issue: X-Force 81 Date: Sep-98 Story: Hot Lava (22 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Warpath, Siryn, Moonstar Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Sledge, Pele alias Risque, Vanisher Villains: Lava People including high priest Jinku, Krotok, Boraku, Styrak Other Characters: Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Adam Pollina Inks: Mark Morales Background Assists: Guillermo Zubiaga Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes. On vacation, Bobby and Tabitha go surfing and wipe out. Tabitha sees Lava People, which she mistakes for tikis, marching across the sea floor. When she calls the team over, they are gone. At a luau, Bobby spends freely and annoys the waitress, and James bumps into Risque, who asks for help. He refuses, but she is attacked by Krotok, rising from the surf, so he defends her. She explains that Sledge, the Vanisher, and she were trying to get a mystical artifact: the "Heart of Pele," and ran into Lava People. Also, if the Heart is not returned, Hawaii will be destroyed by volcanoes. Risque takes them to Kilauea, where they meet Sledge. Lava People surround them, and Sledge explains that Vanisher vanished with the Heart. Jinku lets two of them go to retrieve it: the rest are hostages. Sledge sends Theresa and Bobby to a hotel in Maui, where they find the Vanisher by the pool. Theresa flirts with him to get close enough to scream in his ear; Bobby strong-arms him into producing the heart. They give it to Jinku, who says he will use it to destroy the earth by triggering every dormant volcano. Risque tells the team to attack so they can return the heart to the earth's core in time. They do, and Pele stops masquerading as Risque. She allows Vanisher and Sledge to leave, and promises the team a vacation without further interruption. Note: this issue has a centerfold team poster marking the end of Adam Pollina's run. Issue: X-Force 82 Date: Oct-98 Story: The Gryphon Agenda (22 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Proudstar (formerly Warpath), Siryn, Moonstar Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Jesse Aaronson, Domino Villains: Gryphon (Cmdr. Ekaterina Gryaznova) and troops from the Aguilar Institute Other Characters: Zeke Weaver Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Jim Cheung Inks: Mark Morales Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/EM Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Back in San Francisco, the team enjoys a night out watching Bogart and Bacall movies. Returning to their warehouse, they find Aaronson, who broke in and is watching TV. He is a mutant, and he got Domino captured and needs their help. He had offered to lead her to Gryaznova (see iss. 68-69), in exchange for her finding his missing brother. They went to the Aguilar Institute and were attacked by guards. Domino was captured. Gryaznova tells Domino that Bastion realized she was a double-agent and reprogrammed her Prime Sentinel nanotechs to transform her horribly. She is now Gryphon. The team boards a Da Costa helicopter and goes to the rescue, battling through the Institutes defenses. Aaronson shorts out the surveillance cameras and Domino's holding cell, freeing her. He also disables the chip in Domino's head, knocking her out. Gryphon arrives and attacks, but Domino revives and takes her out by zapping her with the cell's force field. The complex starts counting down to self-destruct, and everyone flees. Domino rejoins the team, and they plan to pay off Aaronson and find his brother. A sinister someone has located Bedlam in San Francisco. Issue: X-Force 83 Date: Nov-98 Story: Homefront (22 pages) Feature Characters: Meltdown, Sunspot, Proudstar, Siryn, Moonstar, Domino, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Cannonball; X-Men Wolverine, Maggot, Marrow, Storm, Cecelia Reyes (as memo-ries); Arcadia, Ulysses; MUSE (Mutant Un-derground Support Engine)'s Lucas Wyndham, Dr. Derek Parsons, Nicole Lo-menzo Villains: The Sword's Argos Other Characters: Lucinda Guthrie, Christopher Aaronson (as a memory) Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Jim Cheung Inks: Mark Morales , Rob Stull Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/EM Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Sam returns home to Cumberland County. His mother is ill with Guillain-BarreÈ Syn-drome, which will eventually paralyze her. She plans to move the family to Lexington, to get better medical care. This disturbs Sam, who feels out of place with the X-Men, has been betrayed by Tabitha and Bobby, and feels this is his only home. He blasts off to think and sees a glowing girl (Arcadia) running into the abandoned mines. When he approaches her, her pro-tector Ulysses attacks him. He retaliates, so Arcadia uses her power to knock him out. She is immediately tracked and at-tacked by Argos, who is defeated by Ulys-ses and Sam. Then the spaceship with rest of the Sword arrives. In San Francisco, Jesse is tracked and caught by MUSE, whom X-Force confronts. Turns out they are Xavier's underground organization that rescues mutants in crisis and takes them to a ranch in Montana. Jesse only left to find his missing brother, who Parsons says is a figment of his imagination. Issue: X-Force 84 Date: Dec-98 Story: ÖBy the Sword (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Sunspot, Proud-star, Siryn, Moonstar, Domino, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Arcadia, Ulysses Villains: The Sword's Argos, Stranglehold, Zona, Pyre, Dr. Chandra Other Characters: Lucinda Guthrie Credits: Plot: John Francis Moore Dialogue: Jay Faerber Pencils: Jim Cheung Inks: Ray McCarthy Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/EM Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Domino intends to keep her promise and find Jesse's brother. The Sword wants Arcadia; Sam needs X-Force as backup, so Arcadia uses her power to port them there. The Sword eas-ily defeats them, and their old teammate Ulysses. Then Sam and Tabitha recover and ambush them, taking them down. Arcadia turns them to crystal and plans to shatter them, but Moonstar intervenes. Arcadia transmutes her, too, so Ulysses sedates her. He explains Arcadia's (un-trained) power to alter reality is too dan-gerous and must be kept from his own people, the Deviants. He takes her off in the Sword's ship, Cannonball rejoins X-Force, and they go over his mom's for breakfast. The leader of the Sword instructs Dr. Chandra to either recruit X-Force or elimi-nate them. Issue: X-Force 85 Date: Early Jan-99 Story: Possession (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Sunspot, Proud-star, Siryn, Moonstar, Domino, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Skids; Benchley, Jennifer Kale Villains: Locus, Pandemonia Other Characters: Kruella, Dr. Leonard, Selena Ciscernos Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Angel Unzueta Inks: Bud LaRosa Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Skids and Locus have been in Pandemo-nia's dungeon on Mt. Sorcista in Latveria since iss. 80. She enthralls them and plans to escape her confinement take over the world. She easily subdues X-Force, except for Sam, Dani, and Jesse, who are out. They return. Pandemonia is forbidden by treaty with Asgard to enthrall Dani, but she orders X-Force to attack her. Sam blasts away with her and Jesse before the fight starts. Desperate, they go to an occult bookstore for help and find Benchley, who brings them to Kale, an apprentice of the Atlan-tean sorcerer Dakihm. She identifies Pan-demonia from the sigil inscribed on her victims' foreheads. They all go to rescue X-Force: Theresa knocks down Jesse, Dani psionically stabs Jimmy, and Sam has a good excuse to hit Bobby. Kale breaks Pandemonia's spells, but she counter-attacks. Dani somehow is able to release mystical power and blasts the demoness, and Kale sends her back to the Chaos dimension. Locus ports away, and Dani is still glowing. Domino questions Dr. Leonard about the Aguilar Institute and learns about the mutant children in Almost Reno (iss. 77). Issue: X-Force 86 Date: Late Jan-99 Story: Experimental Living (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Sunspot, Proud-star, Siryn, Moonstar, Domino, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Skids Villains: Agent Briggs; Odysseus Indigo Other Characters: Johnny McFee, Mary, Zachary "Zak"; Lewis Hammond (flashback) Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Jim Cheung Inks: Mark Morales, Rob Stull, Harry Can-delario Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Emerson Miranda Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Domino leads the team to Almost Reno. Johnny is now a human torch, and he at-tacks, blaming them for his condition. Jimmy throws him off, accidentally killing him. Domino says it wasn't his fault; the children in this town are part of a eugenics experiment by the Aguilar Institute. The search the deserted town and find the telepath Mary playing a jukebox, and Zak, who is made of stone. Theresa enters, pretending to be a waitress, and keeps everything calm. Mary explains that one child started glowing, then men came and took everyone away. Briggs shows up; X-Force refuses to let him take the children and easily defeat them. But Zak's insides are starting to turn to stone, and he is dying. Dani tries to psychically calm him, but instead finds herself able to heal him. Mary hears Briggs' thought about the Da-mocles Foundation (iss. 79), and just then Indigo shows up representing them. He explains that Damocles funds Aguilar, and he is the deviant Ulysses Dragonblood's brother (iss. 83). Mary tries to attack him, but he neutralizes her power, and then Tabitha gets the same treatment. He wants a truce. He explains that A-bomb testing had made everyone in Almost Reno sterile. The Damocles Foundation let them have children, but with X-factor and devi-ant genes. This started killing the children, so the foundation quarantined them to try to find out what went wrong. X-Force still refuses to give him Mary and Zak, and Indigo goes away. Issue: X-Force 87 Date: Feb-99 Story: Armageddon Now 1: Family Matters (23 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Sunspot, Proud-star, Siryn, Moonstar, Domino, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Catseye, Roulette, Jetstream (in flash-back); Husk (Paige Guthrie), Jennifer Kale Villains: The White Queen (Emma Frost), Trevor Fitzroy, a Sentinel (all in flashback); Gun-ther; the New Hellions: Christopher Aaron-son (King Bedlam, see next iss.), Magma (Allison Crestmere), Paradigm, Tarot (Marie-Ange Colbert), Switch (Devon Alo-mar) Other Characters: Dabney Saunders, Marty "Smitty" Smith and Wanda Jo Bialowsky-Smith Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Jim Cheung Inks: Mark Morales Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Dave Lanphear Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Five years ago, the White Queen tried to bully Christopher Aaronson into her Mas-sachusetts Academy, but he refused. He was also Tarot's boyfriend. The present: Tarot (supposedly killed in Uncanny X-Men 281-282), contacts James, warning of danger without and within. Domino found out Jesse's parents (Kyle and Nina) were spies and takes Jesse to their supervisor, Saunders, who is inco-herent in a nursing home. Jesse takes pills. Paige calls Sam to let him know their mom is doing okay. Tabitha wants some time apart from Bobby, but he trails her. She is meeting her dad, who in-troduces his fourth wife. He was scared by near-death (iss. 49) and has joined a new-age cult, the Triune Understanding. Kale examines Dani's new power. She says it's not magic, but cosmic. Domino and Jesse break into the house of the man watching Saunders and are at-tacked by Magma and a cyborg, Paradigm. They nearly escape but are stopped by Christopher, who can scramble their brain functions. He says Saunders took him to a lab be-cause he was a mutant, and years later he escaped. He has started the New Hellions and invites Jesse to join. Issue: X-Force 88 Date: Mar-99 Story: Armageddon Now 2: Blood & Betrayal (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Sunspot, Proud-star, Siryn, Moonstar, Domino, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: the rest of the original Hellions: Haroun ibn Sallah al-Rahman (Jetstream), Jennifer Stavros (Roulette), Sharon Smith (Cat-seye), Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha (Empath), all in flashback Villains: New Hellions: King Bedlam, Magma, Para-digm, Tarot, Switch, Feral (Maria Cal-lasantos); the Armageddon Man Other Characters: Credits: Writer: John Francis Moore Pencils: Jim Cheung Inks: Mark Morales, Rob Stull Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Dave Lanphear Colors: Marie Javins Editor: Bobbie Chase Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Domino awakes in Switch's body. The Hellions talk to X-Force; Magma has turned mean and greedy. Feral has stayed mean. Domino and Jesse try to convince X-Force to trust the Hellions. They have doubts but accept Christopher's hospitality. James meets Tarot; she says she did die (Uncanny X-Men 281) but must live again and atone for her sins. She loves Christ-opher but is against his plans. Jesse talks to his brother and learns he has stolen the Armageddon Man from the government. He has to choose to back or fight his Christopher. Domino in Switch's body bursts in, and Siryn uses her scream to breaks Switch in Domino's body's concentration. They switch back. X-Force confronts the Hellions and is swiftly encased by tech-organic fiber from Paradigm. He intents to study their DNA. Jesse sides with his brother, with misgiv-ings.
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