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Index to X-Force, including annuals and related Version 3.4, last modified June 7, 2001 by Robert Diehl (rfdiehl@yahoo.com) Issue: X-Force 102 Date: May-00 Story: Games without Frontiers (22 pages) Feature Characters: Peter Wisdom, Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Alistaire Stuart Villains: Meatspore Stormtroopers Other Characters: Korolyev, Maj. Valentina Credits: Writers: Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton Pencils: Whilce Portacio Inks: Gerry Alanguilan Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Avalon Studios Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: here begins X-Force as a "Counter-X" series. Surviving an issue longer than the New Mutants, it has been co-opted by the British. Stuart is now head of the Department, the British organization that replaced Black Air (see Excalibur 86ff). He knows Wisdom is up to something. Wisdom says he knows about British Intelligence's dissection lab, just as he blows it up. Six months later, a secret Russian lab is under attack by Meatspore Stormtroopers, which are self-replicating robots of flesh, accidentally released. Wisdom leads X-Force to the rescue. Sam slams into the ground; the shock wave kills many. Jesse disrupts the electronics, and Tabitha makes shows new skill with her bombs. Wisdom offers to lead them in crusade against secret anti-mutant conspiracies. In San Francisco, a girl goes berserk on the street, lasers shooting from her eyes. Issue: X-Force 103 Date: Jun-00 Story: Games without Frontiers Part 2 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wisdom, Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Dr. Niles Roman, Ford Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton Pencils: Whilce Portacio Inks: Gerry Alanguilan Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Avalon Studios Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Wisdom lectures to spies about a mad scientist (Roman) working for Cuckoo, who meanwhile sees a bio-reactor go off in San Francisco. Tabitha tries to make Sam resent Wisdom's authority; Sam hotly asserts it as a collaboration. Wisdom tells them that the CIA in the 50's experimented with LSD on people and collaborated with Cuckoo. In San Francisco, people on the street randomly erupt with mutant powers. X- Force's SUV crashes on the way home. Issue: X-Force 104 Date: Jul-00 Story: Games without Frontiers Part 3 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wisdom, Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Dr. Niles Roman, Ford Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton Pencils: Whilce Portacio Inks: Gerry Alanguilan Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Avalon Studios Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Roman and Ford jet to San Francisco, to observe the results of an old experiment. X-Force gets out of their crashed SUV and finds cars full of unconscious people. Wisdom has Sam and James (he can fly, now) carry "his" X-Men and his battle-ax into the city, where they are attacked. Wisdom takes them to an abandoned (and illegal) SHIELD base. He explains that the U.S. government set up Cuckoo, under Roman, to play human vs. mutant war games. So he made a bioreactor to force latent mutants to mutate rapidly and go insane, but the government shut him down before he caused a real war. But he didn't dismantle the device, just put it on a slow timer. Wisdom sends them into the melee to destroy the bioreactor. Issue: X-Force 105 Date: Sep-00 Story: Games without Frontiers Part 4 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Wisdom, Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Dr. Niles Roman, Ford Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton Pencils: Whilce Portacio Inks: Gerry Alanguilan Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Avalon Studios Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: The team makes its way through the carnage in San Francisco, while Wisdom taps into Roman's security cameras. James uses a big stick and super-speed to take down the crazed mutants single-handedly. Together, they stop another group of mutants attacking the police; Jesse pushes his power and scrambles their minds, which somehow reverts them to normal. They locate the bioreactor, 300 feet below a particularly large and gruesome amalgamation of mutants. Jesse scrambles the minds, while Sam blasts straight down, drilling a hole down to the reactor, and destroys it. Roman, meanwhile, has traced Wisdom's tap, found him, and shot him. Issue: X-Force 106 Date: Oct-00 Story: Murder Ballads: Part 1 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino; Peter Winton Wisdom, Moonstar (both in flashback) Regular Characters: Cable (in flashback) Guest Stars: Romany Wisdom Villains: Aenteros, Vogel, Marconi, Marcus Tsung (all in flashback) Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton Pencils: Whilce Portacio, Lan Medina Inks: Gerry Alanguilan, Boy Sicat, Edgar Tadeo, Gary Mayoralco, Lan Medina Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Avalon Studios Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Wisdom's tombstone reads, "Stuff This for a Lark." Tabitha is upset that none of his Excalibur teammates shows up for the funeral, but Sam says X-Force is out of the loop, and they were probably busy. James is worried that the X-Men have turned their back on the whole team. An old woman with thugs show up at the gravesite; she tosses Wisdom a light. Domino arrives and says it's Wisdom's sister. Six months ago: after the High Evolutionary (iss. 101; Uncanny X-Men 380), Domino fights X-Force in a dockyard and defeats them. She wants to train them as martial artists, so they don't depend on their mutant powers. Wisdom shows up; after Genosha (iss. 95) he offered to lead them against anti-mutant spies. Sam and Jesse are in favor, since it would give the team a purpose. Dani and Domino quit in protest. In the present, the team catches up in a coffeehouse. Domino was possessed by Aenteros (Cable 82) but doesn't remember much about it. Now she needs X-Force, because she is being hunted: she took a mercenary job in New Delhi, to take down a terrorist organization that was attacking a Swiss conglomerate. But the mercenaries weren't paid, and Domino realizes Tsung is hunting her, killing two mercenaries in passing. Issue: X-Force 107 Date: Nov-00 Story: Murder Ballads: Part 2 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino; Wisdom (in flashback) Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Marcus Tsung Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton Pencils & Inks: Ariel Olivetti (so everybody looks old) Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Avalon Studios Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Six months ago: Wisdom trains X-Force in an abandoned Hulkbuster base, with Danger Room robots with no safety protocols. Jesse and Tabitha expand control of their powers; Sam practices as a field leader. Then Wisdom makes them let James face the robots alone: when the High Evolutionary played with their powers, James got access to his entire genome (iss. 101), and he learns to fly. In the present: after Wisdom's murder, the team quickly moved to an abandoned office in a skyscraper in San Francisco; Wisdom taught them to survive. Domino briefs them on Tsung: half- Hungarian and half-Chinese, he has the mutant power of virtual bullets and used it to build a criminal empire in Asia. Then one day he walked away from it all and disappeared. Domino knows he's after her, since he killed her once before. Tsung's jet lands in the desert in California; he is greeted by government officials and kills everyone to keep himself secret. Issue: X-Force 108 Date: Nov-00 Story: Murder Ballads: Part 3 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino; Wisdom (in flashback) Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Marcus Tsung Other Characters: Traveler, Abel Baker, Charlie Credits: Writers: Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton Pencils: Whilce Portacio, Ian Medina Inks: Gerry Alanguilan Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Avalon Studios Asst. Editor: Lysa Hawkins Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Cover Art: Salvador Larocca, Vince Russel Synopsis: Domino's back is half covered with a parasite; she has Jesse scan it, and he feels electric and biomagnetic energies, then it scans him back. She says she got it when she died: she knew Tsung was after her, so she disguised herself, but he still found her and shot her in Paris. She woke in a morgue, about to be autopsied. The parasite grown from her gunshot wound, resurrected her and healed all previous scars. Six months ago, Wisdom initiated X-Force into the real, hidden world of espionage. He says they need to know who to go to for help. Tsung crashes a birthday party and kills everyone there, so he can use the phone. X-Force waits for a contact; a city bus pulls up and morphs; they enter and are scanned. The spies Abel, Baker, and Charlie are angry they let Wisdom die, but they take a look at Domino's back. Domino tells Sam not to imitate Wisdom too much: there is good in the world as well as hatred. The spies are unable to find any information through their normal channels, but Jesse suggests visual clues. They find a fossil dug up in South Dakota in 1908 that matches, and it is large. Just then the bus is attacked by helicopters with missiles. Issue: X-Force 109 Date: Dec-00 Story: Murder Ballads: Part 4 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino; Wisdom (in flashback) Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Romany Wisdom Villains: Marcus Tsung Other Characters: Traveler, Abel Baker, Charlie Credits: Writers: Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton Pencils & Inks: Enrique Breccia Letters: Chris "the Mets fan" (Eliopoulos, presumably) Colors: Avalon Studios Asst. Editor: Lysa Hawkins Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Cover Art: Whilce Portacio, Gerry Alanguilan Synopsis: Words of Wisdom: "?throw a spanner in the works and don't let anyone stop you." The magic bus is under attack, so Sam lets two helicopters chase him till they crash, while Jesse (who is suddenly Sam's twin!) scrambles the third's electrical systems. James pulls its door off, lets bullets bounce off his chest, and tries to make the pilot talk. But an invisible bullet kills the guy first: Tsung has arrived. Sam attacks, and his blast field mostly shields him, but Tsung is fast. He climbs up a building, kicks Sam out of the sky, then steps on his throat to kill him slowly. Jesse scrambles his brain to block his mutant power, and James throws a punch, but Tsung is a lethal martial artist as well as a mutant, and he throws James into Jesse. Tabitha sneaks up behind him, puts her hands over his eyes, and makes a plasma bomb. Tsung goes down, and Sam kisses Tabitha. But then Tsung is up, pinching Tabitha in the back of the neck to take her hostage. Domino finds a rifle, but it is a standoff. Romany appears and shoots Tsung, and her men finish the job. She tells the magic bus spies not to cross the line again, tells Sam he's naÔve, and orders X-Force onto her helicopter. She says the parasite on Domino's back is what killed the dinosaurs. Domino, under its control, grabs Sam and Romany by their throats and sprouts toothed tentacles. Romany puts her down with a tranquilizer gun. X-Force sees the news, with the official story of the helicopter crashes. Domino's operation has been a success, but Romany can't really explain what the parasite is (some sort of sentient alien technology), or why Domino was chosen, or who she works for. She says her brother was an extremist with a history of psychosis, guilty over being a secret anti- mutant operative, a genetic traitor. She tells X- Force to go home and get a life. Issue: X-Force 110 Date: Jan-01 Story: Rage War Part 1 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Maj. Valentina Rychenko Villains: Warborgs, Dr. Constantin Racal (see next iss.) Other Characters: Frank Casey, wife and daughter; Daniel, Carol, and Philip Lindenbrook Credits: Writers: Ian Edginton Pencils & Inks: Jorge Lucas Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Gina Going Asst. Editor: Lysa Hawkins Editor: Jason Liebig Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Synopsis: In New York, Casey and his wife are having trouble with a rebellious daughter. Warborgs posing as cops ring the doorbell, kill the parents, kidnap the girl, and blow up the apartment. A reporter says that much of San Francisco was recently mutated (iss. 102-105), with loss of life. Some of the crowd call for rounding up all mutants; others are more tolerant. Jesse gets angry at the bigots and explodes the TV; Domino says if humans knew half of what they did, they'd obliterate all mutants or die trying. Sam goes to check on Tabitha, who has been quiet since she saw Tsung killed. She realizes being mutant mercenaries isn't fun but is dangerous. Neither of them wants to become murderers. They kiss. In New England, Racal recites a poem to a couple, changing them into monsters. They were moles, and it is war. He shoots their son. In San Diego, two villains search a ship for Rychenko. She attacks and kills them and removes technology from their corpses. Domino apologizes and says she's glad to lead the team again. She has reviewed Wisdom's files on anti-mutant crimes: 82 require "direct action." She and Sam convince Tabitha and James not to go after Roman immediately (iss. 105), since that's what he expects. Jesse is having migraines; Domino realizes someone's sending them a message in Morse code: "Valentina," with some coordinates. They realize it's Rychenko. Issue: X-Force 111 Date: Feb-01 Story: Rage War Part 2 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Rychenko, SHIELD including Nick Fury, Jennifer Wentworth Villains: Warborgs, Racal, Katrina Other Characters: Progenitor Credits: Writers: Ian Edginton Pencils & Inks: Jorge Lucas Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Gina Going Asst. Editor: Frank Dunkerley Editor: Matt Hicks Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Synopsis: Rychenko is out of bullets and about to be killed by Warborgs, on the authority of Dumas and the Executive Security Committee, but X-Force arrives and stomps them. Tabitha tries to blind them with hard light blades, and Jesse tries to short out their mechanical parts, but they're heavily shielded, so Sam calls a retreat and sends Jimmy to beat on them. He does but gets poisoned in the process. In New England, the two Russian spies who let themselves be mutated into monsters look at the teenage daughters they don't remember. One feels betrayed and resists following orders; Racal orders the other to kill him, then sends her on a suicide mission while he collects the girls. Progenitor observes but doesn't interfere yet. Rychenko dissects the brain of one of the Warborgs to get its data cluster. She explains they're reanimated Russian soldiers, killed in Afghanistan and Chechnya. She's trailing their creator, Racal. Tabitha has Domino read the data cluster remotely via Sam's headset and is disproportionately congratulated for the idea. Jesse destabilizes Jimmy's nervous system slightly, to keep him stable. On the Helicarrier, Fury is briefed: recent attacks on decommissioned bases by mutated humans. They and the Warborgs are based on the same decades-old Soviet technology, and they aim to kill Rychenko and Sam. Rychenko tells X-Force about it: volunteers mutated and brainwashed to be moles in America, activated by oral command. Two decades later, Warborgs were sent to destroy them before they become liabilities, but found that some of them had children, which was supposedly impossible. She takes them to Racal's base, who is her father, and X-Force starts to suspect her motives. Issue: X-Force 112 Date: Mar-01 Story: Rage War Part 3 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Rychenko, SHIELD including Nick Fury, Capt. Angel Tamaki; Pete Wisdom (in flashback) Villains: Racal, Dr. Niles Roman Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Ian Edginton Pencils & Inks: Jorge Lucas Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: Gina Going Asst. Editor: Frank Dunkerley Editor: Matt Hicks Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Synopsis: Sam accuses Rychenko of lying; she says the truth would have complicated things. He demands they cure Jimmy, or he'll leave them bloody; he takes Racal, and SHIELD sees him blasting. Tabitha asks Rychenko why her father has girls in tanks, but she doesn't know. SHIELD surrounds them, and other task forces surround Domino in San Francisco, and Sam, Jesse, Jimmy, and Racal. Fury tells Sam they need to talk; he surrenders. In the Ural Mountains of Russia, Roman has girls in tanks. Jimmy recovers; Fury explains they're going after Roman, who killed Wisdom (iss. 105). Racal had used specs from Cuckoo (corrupt US spies) to make Meatspore Stormtroopers (iss. 102), Warborgs, and sleeper agents, but when his government decided to abduct the innocent children of the sleepers, he decided to act. To do so he had to activate the sleepers, who were programmed to assassinate U.S. soldiers. Fury wants X-Force to destroy Roman's base; SHIELD can't because Russia is now friendly. Roman is using the girls' ovaries to grow a private army. Issue: X-Force 113 Date: Apr-01 Story: Rage War Part 4 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Rychenko Villains: Dr. Niles Roman, Ford, Warborgs; Michael Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Ian Edginton Pencils & Inks: Jorge Lucas Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: VLM Asst. Editor: Frank Dunkerley Editor: Matt Hicks Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Synopsis: "Once upon a time, we shared a noble man's fine dream? and then we woke up!" X-Force and Rychenko attack Roman's base. Sam has Jesse disrupt all systems, so the only forces left are Warborgs, then sends Jimmy in with two Gatling guns. Roman recognizes them and sends his collection of monsters to attack. Sam concentrates his forces, making a way for Domino and Rychenko to get to the cold fusion reactor. Roman, realizing he is in jeopardy, has Ford wheel him to X-Force. He tells them they and Wisdom were deceived. He's trying to save humanity from an alien being which collided with Earth long ago, forming the moon, and shattering to bits, which have been growing as parasites ever since (see iss. 108). When he worked for Cuckoo, he realized its real aim was to convert Earth into a living alien ship; the Russians also realized this and tried to kill him; he used Cuckoo's technology to heal himself and was monstrously transformed. "I'm also missing half of my brain, but I get by. I haven't slept since 1971 and exist mostly on baby food and prescribed narcotics injected into my brain stem." Spies observe and remotely activate the Vibranium Initiative, which transforms Rychenko into a bomb and explodes her. Issue: X-Force 114 Date: Mar-01 (?) Story: Epitaph, Part 1 of 2 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Villains: Gentechnic including Michael, Corben Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Ian Edginton Pencils & Inks: Jorge Lucas Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: VLM Asst. Editor: Frank Dunkerley Editor: Matt Hicks Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Synopsis: Buenos Aires, 6 months later: a bomb goes off, to a lunching couple's approval. James flies to safety with Jesse and Domino. Gentechnic was harvesting tissues from mutant infants to cure rich people's diseases. X-Force has just blown up their building: the couple was Tabitha and Sam, his hair dyed black. They plan their next mission, having decided to play dead and operate overseas. Domino uses her luck to win lottery money to finance them. Shadow operatives track them en route to Australia; Domino senses something wrong, so they don't get on the plane, which Corben knocks out of the sky with eyebeams. James flies up to confront her, then brings her down for the team to interrogate. Jesse tortures her, making her brain sense pain, then puts her into a coma. Sam preps the team to go after the people who tried to kill them twice now. Issue: X-Force 115 Date: Jun-01 Story: Epitaph, Part 2 of 2 (22 pages) Feature Characters: Cannonball, Meltdown, Proudstar, Bedlam, Domino; Pete Wisdom Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Alistaire Stuart; Maj. Valentina Rychenko, Dr. Constantin Racal (in flashback) Villains: Tsung, Warborgs, Dr. Niles Roman (in flashback), Romany Wisdom Other Characters: Credits: Writers: Ian Edginton Pencils & Inks: Jorge Lucas Letters: Chris Eliopoulos Colors: VLM Asst. Editor: Frank Dunkerley Editor: Matt Hicks Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Synopsis: Then: James and Jesse attack Stuart's bodyguards in the streets of London and kidnap him. Now: a wounded and defeated Domino says attacking British Intel was the beginning of the end, and not everyone survived. Then: Stuart is shocked to find Wisdom, but Sam says it's just him with black hair. X-Force was supposedly killed in Russia (iss. 113); Stuart realizes they've been working with Wisdom's files. They want his help; he needs convincing; they relate their recent woes up to the interrogation of Corben (iss. 94-114): Romany Wisdom ordered them killed. Stuart says she heads a secret operation, but they could trace her through the parasite removed from Domino. They attack her base, and she let them take out her men, but then orders them to surrender, die, or join her team. She takes them on a tour of the massive, underground base, constructed of technology like the alien parasite. She has culled death-row inmates and is using them as symbiotes to rewrite the human genome and eliminate disease and crime, in line with the alien technology. She notes X-Force killed Gentechnic personnel who had families (last iss.); Jesse notes she's full of alien technology. They refuse to join her, so she sics symbiotes on them. Tabitha and Sam are overwhelmed before Jesse can use his power to disrupt them. Domino was evacuated by helicopter and doesn't know if anyone else survived. Pete Wisdom is with her interviewers; he has been dead, too, and thinks his sister will have escaped. He manipulated X-Force into saving the world and says they'll be back, too, when you least expect them.
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