Author: Robert Diehl
Created:
Updated: Version 1.3, last modified July 3, 2001
| Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next |
Issue: X-Man 18 Date: Aug-96 Story: In the Company of Strangers (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody Guest Stars: X-Force: Caliban, Meltdown (Tabitha Smith), Domino, Sunspot (Roberto DaCosta), Siryn (Theresa Rourke), Shatterstar Villains: Sinister, his Marauders: Arclight, Scalp- Hunter, Harpoon, Vertigo Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Steve Skroce Inks: Bud LaRosa, Rob Hunter Colors: Mike Thomas, Malibu Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: this is part of the Onslaught crossover, Phase 1. Sinister finds Apocalypse's empty sarcophagus in Egypt. Nate is with X-Force in Westchester, watching a video of Xavier as Onslaught defeating the X-Men. He doubts he could ever fit into a team. Threnody is holed up in the cathedral of St. John the Divine, when the Marauders ambush her. She defeats them, but then runs into Sinister. He then goes to collect Nate, knocking his way through Siryn and Caliban. X-Force arms themselves from Cable's cache, but guns have no effect on Sinister, and he turns off their mutant powers, too. Nate remembers the AOA Sinister and realizes he created him. Sinister says Nate is the one who taught Onslaught to act in the physical plane (iss. 10), and he knocks him out, planning to control his near-infinite power. Issue: X-Man 19 Date: Sep-96 Story: Shades of Grey (21 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody Guest Stars: Franklin Richards Villains: Sinister, his Marauders: Scalp-Hunter, Arclight; Onslaught, his Sentinels Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Steve Skroce Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas, Malibu Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Note: this is part of the Onslaught crossover, Phase 2. Nate wakes, a captive of Sinister, who can control him ever since he entered Threnody's mind through Sinister's baffles (iss. 17). She, meanwhile, is being held by the Marauders and kills a rat to get the energy to escape. All await the end of the world. Onslaught has Franklin Richards in him, now, and makes him call out to Nate. Sinister is annoyed by the interruption: he was planning to use Nate as a weapon. Nate fights him, and his mind reroutes itself. He realizes his need for control and to choose his battles, so he reaches out to Franklin, ignoring Sinister's warning that it's a trap. Now Onslaught has Nate. Note: a preview of Heroes Reborn follows. Issue: X-Man 20 Date: Oct-96 Story: The Morning After (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody, Madelyne Pryor II Guest Stars: Villains: Abomination (Emil Blonsky) and the Forgotten including Watts, Cole, Roust, Joust; Selene, Trevor Fitzroy Other Characters: Emil (in flashback), Ella Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Steve Skroce Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Dana Moreshead, Malibu Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Threnody's old benefactor Abomination finds her in an alley and takes her underground to the Forgotten, his collection of vagrant children whom she had betrayed. Nate can telepathically sense her anger, as well as everyone's mind in New York, still recovering from Onslaught. Threnody squabbles with her former friends, and Nate bursts in, shoves them all back, and after Abomination accuses Threnody, enters his mind. When he had first found her, she couldn't control her power and killed two elderly people. Nate lets Abomination think he has defeated him and takes Threnody out. Selene, Maddie, Fitzroy, and Ella fly to New York to meet Shaw. Note: A preview of Heroes Reborn follows. Issue: X-Man 21 Date: Nov-96 Story: Open Cage (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody, Madelyne Pryor II Guest Stars: Villains: Trevor Fitzroy, Tessa, Sebastian Shaw, Selene Other Characters: Emily O'Hare, Liz, Foggy, Midge Marder, Jeffrey Raines, Ella Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas, GCW Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras In Memory Of: Mark Gruenwald Synopsis: In Washington Square Park, Threnody introduces Nate to 3-Card Monte, which he wins by reading minds, and a palm reader, whose life story he tells her; then he plays Cupid and scares off a soon-to-be arsonist. All these miracles gather a crowd, including Maddie, but he runs off with Threnody. He manipulates minds to impersonate Quentin Tarentino and Naomi Campbell and eat in the Rainbow Room. But when they dance on air, anti-mutant hysteria is raised, and Nate has to stop a riot and erase all memories. Threnody, meanwhile, has pick-pocketed from the rich, but Nate makes her throw it to the poor. He offers to reroute her mind and free her from Sinister's baffles, but she isn't sure. Selene sends Fitzroy to Shaw's yacht, to effect a meeting. In response to Bastion's attack on mutants, she wants to reestablish the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. Issue: X-Man '96 Date: 1996 Story 1: Sins of the Father (41 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody, Madelyne Pryor II (both in flashback) Guest Stars: AOA versions of Eric Magnus Lensherr, Forge, Calvin Rankin, Jason Wyngarde, Sydney; AOA versions of Theresa Rourke, Souron (in flashback) Villains: Sugarman and his magistrates Other Characters: Credits: Writer & Art: Terry Kavanagh, Alan Davis Inks: Mark Farmer, Robin Riggs Colors: Tom Vincent, Malibu Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate flies across the Atlantic from New York in response to an energy ripple. He suddenly sees the AOA genetic processing plants, which just as suddenly disappear. In Genosha, Sugarman experiments on mutates and builds the rippling Fargate, to get back to the AOA. He realizes it no longer exists and he must go back in time as well, but he needs more life energy. Nate burst in and frees the mutates, but unwittingly powers the Fargate. Sugarman goes through, and Nate follows. Magnus saves him from drowning under Niagara, at Forge's request. Nate pushes Magnus off but embraces Forge, who explains that they have done this before, and they have plans to attack Sugarman's base. Sugarman has invented a vaccine to Apocalypse's penitence plague and plans to take over the real world. He makes Wyngarde pretend to be infected, to flush out Forge's inside man, Sydney. Forge's team attacks; Nate psi-links him to Sugarman, and he realizes Sugarman has contaminated the falls. Nate telekinetically stops the water and separates out the virus. Magnus contains it in a scrap- metal sphere and flies it into space. Over his objections, Forge wants Nate to go back to the real world with Sugarman. Forge gets Wyngarde to make an illusion of Magnus attacking him; Nate's reflexive defenses power the Fargate, which Nate (in a prior time loop) had Forge rig to force him through, too, to protect the real world. Story 2: Mind Games (14 pages) Feature Characters: Regular Characters: Madelyne Pryor II Guest Stars: Scott Summers, Jean Grey Villains: Tessa Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Ralph Macchio Pencils: Terry Dodson Inks: Rachel Pinnock Colors: Joe Andreani, Malibu Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Selene has come to Shaw's yacht, offering to reestablish the Hellfire Club, and offering him Maddie. Tessa distrusts, and sneaks into Maddie's cabin and mind. She finds images of the X-Men, then of baby Nathan, taken from Maddie, who then senses Tessa's invasion, slams her out, and attacks telekinetically. Tessa pulls her back to the psi-plane, where Maddie invades her mind, considers suffocating her, but doesn't want to anger Shaw. She erases Tessa's memories of the evening, but is disturbed by her own. She plans to take revenge on the X-Men and Sinister. Their battle wakes Jean, but she can't pinpoint it. Issue: X-Man 22 Date: Dec-96 Story: Falling Up (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody Guest Stars: Villains: Bastion, Daria; Sebastian Shaw, Tessa, Selene, Madelyne Pryor II, Trevor Fitzroy Other Characters: Frankie Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz, Manny Clark Inks: Bud LaRosa, Geiger Colors: Mike Thomas, GCW Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Someone (last iss.) is burning the Lower East Side, and Nate is rescuing the homeless junkies there. He makes the arsonist see the fire through a victim's eyes, shocking him. Threnody is collecting money from the crowd in Washington Square Park, who want Nate to do miracles. She meets a child with cancer, and is drawn to his death force. Nate splashes up from the fountain and senses that the child doesn't need his aid, then eases the mother's mind. He is enjoying helping people, Threnody takes him clothes shopping with his fees. Then they bed down in a vacant loft under a huge clock. Bastion has Daria monitoring the Hellfire Clubs and the Silver Surfer. The Inner Circle reassembles on Shaw's yacht, with Fitzroy and Maddie as rooks. Tessa is worried about allying with the former Goblin Queen, but Selene sees her as a way to beat the X-Men. Issue: X-Man 23 Date: Jan-97 Story: Crash Course (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody Guest Stars: Bishop, Rogue Villains: Scribe, Madelyne Pryor II, Sebastian Shaw, Tessa, Selene, Trevor Fitzroy, Mountjoy Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz, Manny Clark Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate has been vegging for days, absorbing TV and takeout food and ignoring Threnody, whom he is beginning to love, although he doesn't trust her because of her connection to Sinister. On Liberty Island, Shaw makes Maddie fight Scribe. She sees through the ruse, pulls Mountjoy out of her, and becomes the Black Rook. Bishop and Rogue break in on Nate; after a brief scuffle they talk. They're both worried about Nate, who is making a spectacle of himself in the park. Rogue encourages him to keep in touch if he needs help. He returns to the loft and feels a strange presence. Issue: X-Man 24 Date: Feb-97 Story: First Noel (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody Guest Stars: Peter (Spider-Man) and Mary Jane Parker, Aunt Anna Villains: Sebastian Shaw, Tessa, Madelyne Pryor II; Michael Morbius Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas, GCW Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: At Christmas, Threnody tours the cancer ward, killing the patients and feeding off their deaths. For dessert, she kills the homeless. In Queens, Anna gives gifts to Mary Jane and Peter, whose spider-sense warns him to go to the neighbor's garage. He finds Nate, whose psi-powers have gone amuck in proximity to Morbius, transforming him into a vampire. Maddie has gone to Shaw without Selene and heals his facial scar, offering a direct alliance. With Spider-Man, Nate follows the trail of death to Threnody, who is visiting her mother's grave in the Bronx. Morbius is there, too, having absorbed Nate's attraction to her. They share a hunger for death. She attacks Spider-Man, while Morbius gets slammed by Nate. Spider-Man chases him, and Threnody apologizes to Nate, who realizes what she has done and leaves her. Just then, Maddie confronts her. Issue: X-Man 25 Date: Mar-97 Story: Closer to the Flame (35 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Threnody Guest Stars: Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Cable (Nathan Christopher Summers), Havok (Alex Summers) Villains: Madelyne Pryor II; Mother Sanctity; Sinister (in flashback), Sebastian Shaw Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas, GCW Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Threnody relates Maddie's history (Sinister's clone of Jean, became the Goblin Queen, died), then realizes she is still dead. Maddie refuses to believe it, pulls a baffle from Threnody's head, contains the resulting explosion, then clobbers her. Ripples on the psi-plane alert Cable and Havok (Maddie's son and ex-lover). Sanctity appears to Jean, warning her about Maddie. Nate's mind wanders to Threnody, then to Maddie, and he realizes she's nearby. He follows her to the graveyard, not noticing Threnody, and then to Switzerland. She tries to figure herself out and collapses. Nate takes her to Claris's cabin (iss. 5); they kiss but are interrupted by a mental command from Jean, who has flown the Blackbird there. Maddie crashes right through it; Nate keeps it from crashing, and Maddie calls him traitor. Jean strikes out at Maddie, so Nate defends her. Sanctity reappears and goads Jean to kill him. Nate asks Maddie to explain Jean, but she just makes the ground erupt, forcing Nate to put up a TK shield, which makes his nose bleed. Jean realizes Maddie is feeding off him and tells him to shut off his power. She wants his help to invade her mind, but Maddie knocks him down first, then lets Jean in, to taste the dark side and trap her there. Nate reaches out to help Jean, and they all realize the truth: when Nate first crashed to earth (iss. 5), his subconscious sought the AOA Jean and reassembled Maddie. He tries to reverse it and let her rest in peace, but she continues to live on her own, and leaves. Jean invites Nate back to the X-mansion, but he's a loner. Maddie goes to bed with Shaw in Hong Kong. Nate realizes his TK is burnt out, and only his telepathy is left. Issue: X-Man 26 Date: Apr-97 Story: Down to Earth (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Peter Parker and the staff of the Daily Bugle including Ralfie; Dr. Moira MacTaggert; Excalibur: Amanda Sefton, Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), Kitty Pryde, Pete Wisdom; Val Cooper; Havok (Alex Summers) Villains: Dark Beast, Fatale Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Pascual Ferry Inks: Jaime Mendoza, Hack Shack Colors: Mike Thomas, GCW Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate stows away (on Swiss ships?), sails, and climbs the cliffs to Muir to get a physical form Moira. Previously he had psychically projected his image to talk to Parker, who lectures him on the impropriety of such a stunt, then suggests he consult the X-Men about his medical condition, or at least Moira. So he spies around Muir, hiding himself from everyone's perceptions. But Moira has a helmet with shields, and she points a big gun at him. He gets her to call Forge, in Virginia, but Cooper reports X-Factor are all dead (Nate knows that's false, see X-Factor 132). Moira is amazed that he created a living being, notices his binge eating, and sees his TK is dormant. Then she starts shooting, chasing him through the lab. Just a test, to see if his TK would reflexively kick back in. She says his mind is just suppressing, to save itself. Dark Beast sends Havok to Muir to recruit him to their Brotherhood. Issue: X-Man 27 Date: May-97 Story: Blood Brothers (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Havok (Alex Summers), Aurora (Jeanne- Marie Beaubier) Villains: Dept. H guards, Fatale, Dark Beast Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: In Canada, Dept. H has been quietly preparing to cooperate with anti-mutant programs in the U.S. government. They are transferring Aurora, captive and drugged, on a train which Havok and his Brotherhood attack, with Nate observing. Nate reads a guard's mind and learns that the train is shipping poison gas (Coldsnap, or CS- 9), so he joins the battle and takes over the guards' minds and the train. They deliver Aurora to professional help, then give Nate a chair and helmet to restore his TK. He later wanders the base and finds a locked vault, and inside, the poison. He confronts Fatale and Havok, who says the poison was their main objective, so he reads Havok's mind to make sure he isn't under someone else's control. Alex lets him learn of Dark Beast. Back in New York, mysterious things wait for Threnody in the loft. Issue: X-Man 28 Date: Jun-97 Story: Dance with the Devil (22 pages) Feature Characters: Nate Grey Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Havok (Alex Summers), Aurora (Jeanne- Marie Beaubier) Villains: Fatale, Dark Beast (here called the Black Beast), AOA Aurora and Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier), AOA Havok; the Hellfire Club: Sebastian Shaw, Tessa, Madelyne Pryor II, Selene, Trevor Fitzroy Other Characters: Credits: Writer: Terry Kavanagh Pencils: Roger Cruz Inks: Bud LaRosa Colors: Mike Thomas Letters: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/AD Editor: Jaye Gardner Editor-in-Chief: Bob Harras Synopsis: Nate projects an image of what would happen if the CS-9 were released. He doesn't trust the Brotherhood; Havok says better them than Dept. H, and reminds him that Dark Beast fixed his TK, which neither Moira nor the X- Men did. Nate blasts his way out and plans to take Aurora with him, until he realizes she's nuts. She calls out for her brother, and Nate remembers avoiding the AOA version of the twins and of Havok. Nate decides to leave the Brotherhood, and Alex tries to convince him otherwise but then lets him go. Nate knows his "Uncle Alex" is lying to himself. Fatale uses her feminine wiles trying to keep him, but he just stops back to tell Dark Beast not to harm Aurora and to destroy the DS-9 by exposing it to air, and to himself in the process. In Hong Kong, Maddie is officially inducted into the Hellfire Club, as Shaw's consort, and Selene allies with Fitzroy and Tessa against her.
| Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 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.