Mid 80's Post Morlocks Massacre-Early 90’s X-titles Issue summaries

X-Factor's Fall of the Mutants

Apocalypse makes his move and starts his campaign of the survival of the fittest unleashing his Four Horsemen on New York City, and X-Factor are the only ones standing in the way of Apocalypse from destroying the city.

Characters:                             

Heroes: X-Factor, Power Pack

Antagonist: Death/Archangel, Caliban

Villains:  Apocalypse, War, Plague, Famine, Cameron Hodge

Issue Summary:

X-Factor 23: X-Factor battle Cameron Hodge who has revealed himself to be an anti-mutant fanatic, while Apocalypse unveils his new Horseman Death/Archangel who battles the other horsemen to become their leader.

X-Factor 24: X-Factor is teleported to Apocalypse's ship and given a chance to join him, since they don't agree he sends his Horsemen to take them down, and Archangel just takes down  X-Factor single handedly.

X-Factor 25: X-Factor escapes and battles the Horsemen again and Apocalypse, while his ship is destroying parts of the city. Iceman tricks Archangel to think that he killed him breaking Apocalypse's hold, leading him to attack his master, Apocalypse makes a run for it.

X-Factor 26: X-Factor establishes themselves in Apocalypse's ship as a new base.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         We get the new Archangel with Techno-Organic Wings and blue skin.

·         Caliban changes sides a become an associate of Apocalypse and future Horseman.

·         X-Factor will use Apocalypse's ship as a new base.

The Good:

·         We get to see Hodge's armor used again by Fitzroy.

·         We learn more about the nature of Apocalypse.

·         Archangel look cool as hell

Rating: 10

Uncanny X-Men 228: Issue has a Dazzler and Wolvy team up issue.

 

Uncanny X-Men 229: The X-Men battle the Reavers for the first time.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Introduction of the Reavers and the mutant Gateway.

·         Roma uses her Magic to make the X-Men invisible to cameras and electronic detectors.

·         Roma leaves the siege perilous in the X-Men control.

·         X-Men establishes themselves in the Reavers base in Australia.

Uncanny X-men 230: X-Men return all the stolen stuff o the Reavers back to their owner's thanks to Longshot's powers to visualize the history of an object.

Uncanny X-Men 231: Gateway ports Colossus away so he can help his sister in a battle limbo.

Uncanny X-Men 232-234: X-Men battle the Brood, while Madeline Pryor is being courted by the evil limbo demon Sym.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Birth of Goblin Queen

X-Men Annual 12: X-men head to Savage Land to discover it has been destroyed by Terminus, with help of High Evolution and a Giant Talking dog they defeat Terminus that actually had entrapped Garrok inside.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Savage Land is reborn

·         Introduction of Zaladan.

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Excalibur; The Sword is Drawn: Phoenix is on the run having escaped from Mojo, but she has his War Wolves hot on her tail. At the same time, Gatecrasher and her team under the orders of  Saturnina crosses paths with Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde and Meggan, trying to also hunt down Phoenix. So the heroes going forces with Captain Britain help stop both villain team from capturing the Ex-X-Man.

Lasting Effects:

·         Heroes decide to join forces and create Excalibur to save Britain from inter-dimensional threats.

The Good:

·         War Wolves are pretty cool bad guys.

·         Gate Crasher crew has some really crazy powers.

Excalibur 1-2: Team is hot on the trail of the War Wolves that are causing trouble in London

Lasting Effects: The birth of Widget and Kylun.

Excalibur 3: Crazy inter-dimensional lady arrives on Earth 616 and sets Juggernaut free from jail, but is stop by Excalibur.

Excalibur 4-5: The Wild Bunch team up with Arcade to destroy Captain Britain and his team, but fail.

Inferno

This Issue is one of my first comics in my collection, that I Got at a garage Sale when I was a kid

It's one of my favorite X-crossovers ever it intertwines three stories: In the first one Madeline  Pryor has been manipulated to unleash limbos demons  on  Earth,  willing sacrifice her own child Nathan Summer ( the future Cable), to take vengeance on all that have hurt her, especially her Ex husband Scott/Cyclops, on the other hand we have Majik battling the forces of limbo to stop the  demon invasion and save her soul and finally because of the activities of the Goblin Queen Sinister is forced out of the shadows and make his move against the X-men 

Characters:

Heroes: X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants, Excalibur, Fallen Angels

Antagonist: Hellfire Club

Villains: Madeline Pryor/Goblin Queen, Sym, Mr. Sinister, Marauders and N'astirh

 Sporting Cast:   

Issue Summary:

·         Uncanny X-Men 239: Madeline decides to take vengeance on the Marauders and to take back her son from the members of X-Factor and she asks N'astirh for his help.

·         Uncanny X-men 240:  Madeline discovers that her life is a lie, while the X-men hunt down the Marauders.

·         The New Mutants 71: New Mutants are trapped in limbo battling Sym, they receive help from N'astirh to defeat  Majik's arch enemy, but when they defeat him they unleash limbo on Earth by accident, N'astirh had played the young mutants.

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·         X-Factor 36: X-Factor arrives to the city to stop the chaos caused by the demon invasion.

·         Uncanny X-men 241: Sinister reveals to Madeline, her origins and even though she is a clone, the   phoenix force seemed to have given her life, when Jean was killed on the moon battling the Imperial Guard, Sinister created her so she could meet Scott Summers and have a child that would be an exceptional mutant, to serve Sinister purposes.

·         New Mutants 72-73: Majik battles N'astirh, while Colossus clashes with Sym, Majik defeats her enemies and reverts back into a little child

·         X-Factor 37: N'astirh kidnaps little Nathan from X-Factor's care, then the team is confronted by Madeline that has completely become the Goblin Queen, and tricks the X-Men to think that X-Factor are the bad guys wanting to hurt her.

Amazing Spider-man 311: Spider-man battles Mysterio, but not are is what it seems not all are his illusions the city is starting to be overrun by limbo demons.

Amazing Spider-man 312: In a long-awaited showdown Green Goblin and Hobgoblin battle, Hoby wants the Goblin formula, while the city is converting into a hellish limbo.

Amazing Spider-man 313: The Lizard is back and wants to kill his family but to many Demos and Spidy get in the way.

·         Excalibur 6-8: Rachel Grey/Phoenix II heads to New York to help her mother Jean Grey, but when she arrives, she's attacked by Goblin Queen, Excalibur arrive to New York trying to find their teamate but the team engulfed in the cities madness, especially Meggan that with her empathic power she becomes the Goblin Princes.

·         Uncanny X-Men 242: The two teams clash, Havok joins the  Goblin Queen, while she prepares the ritual to sacrifice her own son.

·         X-Factor 38: X-men and X-Factor join forces to stop Goblin  Queen, Jean and Mady lock in combat, with Jean Grey defeating her clone with some help from the Phoenix.   

·         Uncanny X-Men 243: The X-teams discover that Madeline was a creation of Mr. Sinister and that he has taken up residence at the X -mansion.

·         X-Factor 39: X-teams battle and defeat Sinister.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Complete introduction of Mr. Sinister.

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·         Death of Madeline.

·         Majik becomes a child again.

·         Shadow Cat ends up with the Soul Sword.

·         We learn about how Sinister created Madeline and that she's Jean Grey's clone.

·         Inferno has an important impact on the Mutant X title with Havok.

·         Magneto ends his relationship with the New Mutants.

·         Archangel decapitated Cameron Hodge.

·         It's revealed that Sinister had shaped great part of Cyclops's childhood.

·         Some Marauders that were killed during the mutant massacre are still alive, we discover many years later that Sinister's has clones of all of his minions.

The Good:

·         Introduction of my second favorite X-villain of all time.

·         It's cool to see a certain aspect of Colossus's powers are illustrated in this crossover, he immune to magic.

Rating: 10

Excalibur 8: Excalibur in New York, a fun fill in issue.

Excalibur 9-10: Excalibur battles a team of Nazi Excalibur that has traveled to the 616 universe.

Mojo's Mayhem: Excalibur help save the X-babies from the clutches of the Evil Mojo.

Excalibur 11: Excalibur's base seems to be a nexus between realities.  

Uncanny X-Men 235-238: X-Men encounter the Magistrates from Genosha for the first time. Wolvy, Rogue, and Madeline get captured and taken back to Genosha, and discover this country the survives on the exploitation of mutant slaves.

Uncanny X-men 248: Nanny and Orphan Maker attack the X-men seemingly killing Storm ( Which really was an LMD in Nanny's ship, the real Storm well reappear as a child thanks to Nanny's pixie dust).

Uncanny X-men 249-250: X-Men battle the Savage land mutants under Zadalane's control, rescuing Polaris who has lost her magnetic powers thanks to Zadalne and for some reason now she has super strength. 

 

The big guy in the back is Sunder not Strong Guy, I have a reference on a trading card that establishes that it strong guy but it's wrong.

Uncanny X-men 251: Wolverine has been captured by the Reavers, and the X-men that have returned from Savage Land but Psylocke who realized what has happened convinces Colossus, Havok and Dazzler to enter the Siege to start their lives again, leaving Wolvy to fend for himself.

 

Repercussions and Lasting Effects: Donald Pierce destroys the Siege.

Uncanny X-Men 252: Jubalee helps save Wolverine and hide him till he recovers from the Reavers torcher.

Uncanny X-men 253: Storm is back as a young child, while Forge discovers that the Shadow King is back and up to no good, and he heads out to find the X-men.

Uncanny X-Men 254: Reavers Attack Muir Island.

Repercussions and Lasting Effects:

The Morlock Sunder is killed  


Uncanny X-men 255: Forge and Freedom Force battle the Reavers to save the mutants of Muir Island

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Legion kills Destiny, setting the events of Legions Quest, Age of Apocalypse and X-Men Forever down the line.

·         White Bishop kill Stonewall.

Uncanny X-Men 244: X-Ladies have a night on the town.

Lasting effects: Introduction of  Jubalee.

Uncanny X-men 245: Terrible fill in made by Rob Lifeld.

Atlantis Rising:

X-Men Annual 1989:

X-Men battle the Serpent Society

Uncanny X-Men 246-247:

Master Mold has fused itself with Nimrod and attacks the X-men, the mutants use the Siege Perilous to stop the giant robot.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Master Mold becomes Bastion thanks to the Siege Perilous.

·         Master Mold takes Rogue with it into the Siege

·         Robert Kelly  losses his wife in the battle blaming mutants for the tragedy, becoming a thorn in the side of the X-Men.

Uncanny X-men 248-249: The Reavers are back and allied themselves with Donald Pierce and Lady Deathstrike, while the X-men are attacked by Nanny and Orphan Maker

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

• Longshot leaves the team.

• Storm seemingly killed.

Acts of Vengeance:

Uncanny X-Men 256-258: Mandarin makes a deal with the Hand and receives a new hit man, Psylocke that is Japanese now  and has been brain washed. Wolvy has a run in with this new Psylocke in Madripoor and gets his butt kicked

Uncanny X-men 277: X-Men defeat the War Skrulls.

This issues is one of the first comics that I ever picked put at a cmic book store

New Mutants 87: Introduction of the Mutant Liberation Front ( MLF), Stryfe and Cable, who tries to stop the MLF from a kidnapping Rusty and Skids, but  fails and gets captured by the authorities.

New Mutants 88: Cable escapes Freedom Force's custody.

New Mutants 89: The New Mutants help Cable defeat Freedom force who are hot on his tail. Cable becomes the New Mentor for the young mutants.

Note:

·         Moira knows Cable from before, we learn more of this in Cable -1.

·         Things are gearing up for the Muir Island Saga.

·         Team starts its transition into X-Force.

New Mutants 90: New Mutants head to the Morlock tunnels in search for Rictor who has crossed paths with Caliban who is hunting Sabertooth in vengeance of the Morlock Massacre.

New Mutants 91: Caliban clashes with Sabertooth, while Cable and the New Mutants have a run in with Masque and his evil Morlocks, Caliban seemingly kill Sabertooth ( No one knows that Tooth has a healing factor).

New Mutants 92-94: New Mutants head to Japan and team up with Sunfire to battle the MLF, Cable crosses paths with Wolvy that has some bad blood against Cable.

X-Factor 65-68

Apocalypse is back, and he has kidnapped Scotts son Nathan because he has something to do with the 12.

Characters:

Heroes: X-Factor, Inhumans, Avengers, Fantastic Four, the Askin

Antagonist:

Villains: Apocalypse, Dark Riders

Supporting Cast: Charlotte Jones

Issue Summary:

·         65 Apocalypse strikes X-Factor with the Dark Riders, infecting their ship with the Techno Organic virus.

·         66 The T.O. virus attacks the city, but it a distraction while one of the Dark Rider Foxbat kidnappes. X-Factor take their ship into space from stopping from destroying the city, but it blows up in outer space.

·         67 X-Factor is recued in space by the displaced Inhumans, that have been kick out of Attilan by Apocalypse, who has taken over their city on the moon.

·         68 Heroes battle Apocalypse and defeat him but he infects Nathan with the Techno Organic virus. The Askin take young Nathan to the Future to heal him.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Apocalypse replaces his Horsemen for the Dark Rider for a while.

·         Nathan will taken to the Future to be taken cared by the Askin

·         Nathan Infected with the Techno Organic Virus.

·         X-Factor losses their base, the celestial ship.

·         Who are the 12, it will take a  very long time to find out.

·         Shinobi Shaw seemingly kill Sebastian Shaw, don't worry he will come back in a couple of years.

·         Nathan possibly is some kind of mutant Messiah  

The Good:

·            The Dark Riders are not mutants but Inhumans.

Rating: 10

Muir Island Saga  (Note when I was a Kid just starting to collect comics I remeber seeing this comic of the Shelf,  and thinking to myself that Strong Man was cool as hell).

Muir Island Saga

Shadow King finally make his move to take over the world. 

When I was a Kid, just starting to collect comics I remeber seeing this comic on the shelf at my local comic shop,  and thinking to myself that Strong Man (actually he didn't have that code name yet) was cool as hell

Characters:

Heroes: X-Men, X-Factor     

Antagonist: Muir Island Mutants

Villains: Shadow King

Sporting Cast:   

Issue Summary:

·         Uncanny X-men 278: Xavier is back on Earth reunite with his X-men , while Moira makes her mutants battle each other like gladiators, Shadow King starts to take control of Muir Island. X-men head to Muir Island to Investigate whats going on there.

·          Uncanny X-Men 279: Shadow King sends Colossus out to kill Xavier, while the Muir Island Mutants defeat the X-men.

·         X-Factor 69:  X-Factor battle the Muir Island mutants, while Shadow King Makes his move to attack Xavier.

·         Uncanny X-Men 280: Xavier goes for the final shadow against Shadow King.

·         X-Factor 70: Fallout from the battle with Shadow King, Legion King's  final host is left in a coma.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         The end of the 80's X-Men, getting ready for the 90's reboot of the X-men into the Blue and Gold teams.

·         A New X-Factor is Born.

·         Gambit, Jubalee Join the X-men.

·         Xavier is Paralyzed again and rejoins the X-men.

·         Legions mind is completely destroyed.

·         Polaris regains Magnetic powers

The Bad:

The Good:

·         Great cross over

This one of the only original Excal. issues that I have in my Collection.

Excalibur 41: Excalibur battle the Warwolves that were posing as the X-men.

90's Mutants Titles II New Mutants 99-100,Su X-Force, Cable and X-man Issue summaries

This series was sort of a let down not much X-Force in it

Cable -1: We learn that when Cable arrives to the present he was taken in by Moira MacTaggert.


Deadpool vs. X-Force 1-4 (Note this miniseries came out in 2014 but chronologically this story happens before New Mutants 98) 

Weapons dealer called Talbot sends Deadpool to the past and tricks Cable and X-Force to fallow him in a grand deception to alter the time line so he can become the most powerful man on the planet, good thing Deadpool screws up in the ending setting everything straight. 

Characters:                             

Heroes: Cable and X-Force

Antagonist:

Villains: Talbot, Sentinels and Deadpool

Sporting Cast: Hitler

The Bad:

·         The title of the series is wrong should be Deadpool vs. Cable Starring X-Force, X-Force members participation in the ark isn’t very relevant.

·         Not much of a story either.

The Good:

·         It’s cool to see a more evil Deadpool.

·         Great to see Cable and Pool punch the snot out of each other for 4 issues

Rating: 6

I used to really dig Rob Liefeld drawing style lot when I was a kid, but now I issues with his drawings

 New Mutants 99-10 and X-force 1

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: X-force

Villains: Masque, Mojo, Hellfire Club, Black Tom and MLF

Supporting Cast: Gideon, Nick Fury, G W Bridge and Sunspot

Issue Summary:

·         NM We see the gestation of a new team, Shatterstar drops in from the Future searching for the X-men, but he meets Cable and his crew who help him defeat Mojo’s forces that have followed him.

·         XF 1 X-force battles the MLF on their first mission.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Cable Recruits Warpath

·         Birth of X-force

·         Sunspot leaves the team

·         Shatterstar and Feral join the team.

·         Shatterstar chops Reapers hand off

·         We discover that Cable has TK powers

The Bad:

·         Introduction of Feral I never liked that Character.

·         What up with Domino’s eye patch.

The Good:

·         Introduction of Shatterstar, Gideon, Tyler and G W Bridge

Rating: 9

X-force -1

We learn more about Warpath’s and Firebird’s past.

Rating 6


Cable First Miniseries 1

Characters:                                                    

My first Cable comic ever

Heroes: Cable and the Six Pack

Villains: MLF and Stryfe

Antagonist: Kane

Issue Summary:

·         Cable battles the MLF stops them from stealing a sword related to Apocalypse, Kane is sent to capture Cable since the military a photo of Stryfe without his helmet and he looks like Nathan.

                                                              

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         All of this will add up to become the Executioner Song.

·         We discover Cable had another Team the Six Pack

The Good:

·         Why is MLF so interested in artifacts related with Apocalypse?

·         Why does Stryfe look like Cable?

Rating: 10

X-force 28

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: X-force

Villains: MLF

Antagonist: Henry Peter Gyrich

Supporting Cast:

Issue Summary:

·         X-force battles MLF to save Gyrich’s life.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Feral leaves the team to Join the MLF

·         Shatterstar cuts Reapers other hand.

The Good:

·         Who is Reignfire?

·         Shatter uses his mutant powers.

·         I love to hate Gyrich

Rating: 8

X-force Annual 3 1994

MLF start making trouble in China.

Cable Ongoing 

Cable Issue 9

Cable gets his butt kicked by Omega Red. 

Cable 16/X-Force 36:  Phalanx Covenant

X-Force 39: Prosh becomes a independent being apart from Cable thank to the Phalanx, but he being near  Cable is killing him so he heads out to travel the Stars.

Lasting Effect:

·         Prosh will be a major player in X-Men Forever.

Cable Issue 18-19

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: Cable, Storm, Domino and Caliban

Villains: Genesis/Tyler Dayspring (Cable’s son), Dark Riders

                                

Issue Summary:

·         18 Cable and crew set out to hunt down Apocalypse who’s up to no good, and they clash with the Dark Riders, and to Cable's  Surprise  it’s not Apocalypse but Tyler his son. Cable gets captured.

·         19 Cable’s allies rescue him and defeat Genesis and his Dark Riders.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Tyler as Genesis will make things miserable for Cable and Wolverine.

·         Apocalypse is back.

Rating: 8

X-force 44

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: X-force and X-men

Antagonist: Sabetooth

Issue Summary:

·         X-force establish themselves at the X-Mansion, and are integrated into the X-men

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Rictor Leaves the team

·         Cannoball joins the X-men

·         Caliban Joins X-force

The Good:

·         I love Adam Pollina’s run!!!!

Rating: 9

Cable Issue 22  

Shatterstar helps Cable and Domino  save Dr. Majcomb, Rictor leave for Mexico
Rating 6

X-Force 45

Caliban wants to make Sabertooth pay for what he did to the Morlocks and we have the return of the Mimic.

X-Force 48

The evil Sabertooth is coming back.

 

Cable Issue 23
 What's Jemskot Cable wife doing in the present.
Rating 6 

Cable Issue 24
Domino has to put Grizzly down who has been driven mad by Genesis
Rating 7

Cable Issue 25

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: Cable, Domino, Jenskot

Villains: Stryfe

                                                              

Issue Summary:

·         25 Cable travels back to his time and discovers a young Stryfe has stolen the artificial intelligence of the Professor, the entity that helps young Nathan keep the T-O virus at bay. Cable is able is able to steal it Back.  

Rting: 7 

Cable 26-28

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: Cable, Domino, Philipe Moreau and Jenny Ransom

Villains: Magistrates, Sugar man

Supporting Cast: Mr. Sinister, Dark Beast

Issue Summary:

·         27 Cable and Domino are transported to Genosha and take sides in its revolutionary war.

·         28 Cable and crew start investigating who is really behind the Mutant slave program.

·         29 Cable and friends battle Sugar man and his mutant monsters, Sugar man escapes taking all of his secrets with him.  

                                                              

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Who is Nate Grey?

The Bad:

The Good:

·         Suger man from the Age of Apocalypse has been living in Genosha for many years and is the person behind the mutant slaves that fueled the country’s economy.

·         Sinister is actually helping the heroes he wants to destroy Sugar man atrocities, that get in the way of his investigations.

Rating: 8

X-force 49-50

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: X-force

Villains: Sebastian Shaw, Tessa and Holocaust

Issue Summary:

·         49 Shaw  rebuilds Holocaust’s body armor, and with help of his new friend captures X-force

·         50 Brain washed X-force set out to kill Cable and Domino.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Why does Shaw stop Holocaust from killing Shatterstar? Who would retaliate that he’s afraid of?

Rating: 8

Cable Issues 29-31

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: Cable, X-man

Villains: Exodus

Supporting cast: X-force, Blaquesmith, Xavier , X-men

                                                              

Issue Summary:

·         29 Cable discover the existence of Nathan Grey/X-man, he’s Cable from another dimension the Age of Apocalypse. So Cable goes out to confront his younger self.

·         30 Nate confronts Cable but Exodus drops in on the Party. 
31 Nate battles Cable, but they are able to amend there differences
Rating: 7

X-force 52

X-force goes to investigate the site where they had confronted the Nimrod, but nothing is there expect for two thing a graffiti with the word Onslaught and a super powered up Blob.  

Rating: 9 I love thise issue.

X-force 53-54

I actually had a Crule Action Figure, they made one for a dude that only appeared in 4 issues at most

Some is out killing X-ternals and X-force is hot on the killers trail.

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: X-force

Villains: Black Queen, Crule, Absalon and Saul

Antagonist: Bastion (in the Shadows)

Supporting Cast: Blaquesmith

Issue Summary:

·         53 Absalon and Crule think that X-force killed Gideon.

·         54 It’s discovered that Black Queen is responsible for the murders, and she kills off the rest of the X-ternals and battles X-Force.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         Gideon, Absalon, Crule and Saul are dead.

·         Who is Benjamin Russell, and what relationship does he have with Shatterstar.

The Bad:

·         The X-ternals were cool; they shouldn’t have killed them off.

The Good:

·         Lots of action.

·         Cable drops in.

Rating: 8

Cable Issue 32

Transition issue gearing up for Onslaught, Post hot on Cable's heels

Rating 6

Cable Issue 33 Origin of Post the heavy hit that works for Onslaught.

  Rating: 7

X-Force 56

Siryn heads back to the Weisman Institute to recue Deadpool, with help Shatterstar. They defeat the Gamemaster and free Deadpool. But Gamemaster floods Shatterstar mind with images that show that his life is a lie and that he’s a mutants called Benjamin Russell.

 Cable/X-force annual 1996

A Techno Organic alien arrives to give to give Cable and X-force  intergalactic trouble, it seem to be Worlock is back  but it’s just another alien with the same abilities this comic is a wast of time.

Rating: 2

X-Force 59-61

We Discover who the hell   Benjamin Russell is, sort of ¿?¿?

Characters:                                                    

Heroes: X-Force, Long Shot, Dazzler and Cable

Villains: Mojo

Supporting Cast: Spiral, Doctor Strange  

Issue Summary:

·         59 Shatterstar and Cable are Kidnapped by Mojo’s men, good thing that Long Shot drops in.

·         60 X-Force asks Doc. Strange if he can teleport them to the Mojoverse.

·         61 Shatterstar is actually killed in his final combat with Mojo, and with help of Spiral his soul is fused with Benjamin Russell body that is actually is in a coma, at the Weisman Institute.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         The mystery of Benjamin Russell is solved.

The Bad:

·         Choppy story telling and art.

The Good:

·         Rictor is back.

Rating: 6

X-Force 63: X-Force having fun in Latveria.

Youngblood/X-Force 1-2: Both hero teams join forces to stop Mojo causes inter-dimensional havoc.

X-force 64 

X-Force lost in time.

Rating 4

X-force 66

Domino discovers that Dani Moonstar is a Shield Agent.

Rating 7

Cable Issues 45-47 and X-Force 67-69  Zero Tolerance check out this link
 

Cable/Machine Man 98: Agent of Shield arrive to clean up the Hulk Buster base used for Zero Tolerance and are killed by Machine Man that is under the control of Master Mold, GW contacts Cable to find out what happened to his lost agents at the  Hulkbuster. When Nate arrives he's confronted by Machine Man. Cable discovers that Bastion is Nimrod, and after making Machine Man remember that he was a hero the defeat Bastion

Lasting Repercussions:

·         We discover that Bastion is actually the Nimrod/Mastermold that feel into the Siege Pelagius.

·         Machine Man is infected with the Sentinel protocol attacking mutants.

 

Cable Issue 49: Cable discovers that the Hellfire club has a secret agenda related to Apocalypse. 

Cable 52: Cable confronts the Hellfire Club in the Alpes.  

Cable 57: Cable battles Rama-Tut

Cable Issues 59-62 1998

Nemesis Contract

Plot: Evil Shield Scientist captures Cable to use his tecno-organic virus in his Nemesis Robots.

                                                 

Characters:

Hero: Cable and Nick Fury

Villains: Horatio Belgrade (Evil Shield Scientist)

Antagonists: ZZZax, Agent 18 and Shield.

Issues Summary:

59: Horatio Belgrade (which actual isn’t mentioned till about issue 61) sends Agent 18 to capture Cable. 18 sets Zzzax loose in Hell Kitchen, which is Cables New found home, to draw him out.

60: After defeating Zzzax, Cable gets his Butt kicked by Agent 18 and is captured by Shield.

61: Belgrade is able to take part of Cable tecno-organic material and make part of his Nemesis Robots.

62: Nemesis Robots go crazy for no reason what so ever, start to attack everyone on the Helicarrier, Cable and Fury stop them. Cable goes for a final show down with Agent 18, but everything explodes and 18 is very severely injured.                     

Repercussion and Lasting effects:

Agent 18 is to become a new Deathlok for marvel M tech Series.

The Bad: Why do these robots go crazy?

The Good: Fury is back at Shield

Verdict: 7 

X-force 74

X-Force battle Stryfe in hell, to save Warpath’s life.

Rating 8

 

Blood Brothers

Crossover Cable with the X-man Series.

X-man 46, Cable 63, X-man 47

                                                 

Plot: Stryfe attacks Latveria taking advantage that Doom is gone and most of earths telepaths too. So he starts to spread havoc in this small country, but there is just one problem Nate Grey (X-man) is in town and he will not let this happen.  

                                                 

Characters:

Heroes:  Cable and X-man (who is actually sort of Cable from a parallel universe)

Villains: Stryfe (Evil clone of Cable), Dark Riders and lots of Doom Bots           

Supporting Cast: Madelyne Pryor (Clone of Jean Grey, Cable’s Mommy), Ness (Witness) and Blaquesmith.

Issues Summary:

X-man 46: Nate tries to stop Stryfe’s invasion of Latveria, after clobbering Tusk and vaporizing Psynapse, X-man goes head to head with Stryfe and gets his butt kicked, and out of nowhere Stryfe slaps the same device Doom used to steal Silver Sufers powers on Nate.  

Cable 63: Blaquesmith finds Cable and informs him of what has happened with Stryfe, Cable goes to Latveria to give Nate a hand.

X-man 47: X-man recuperates and defeats Stryfe, with helpe of Cable and Madelyne.

Repercussion and Lasting effects:

·         Tusk is permanently gone from Marvel.

·         Barrage, Mainframe and Psynapse, are killed.

  

The Bad: The writing is pretty choppy and it isn’t  that good, also there’s continuity issues Nate vaporizes Psynapse in the middle of  X-Man 46 but he appears again in the final frame of the same issue.  

And where did Stryfe get so fast the device that Doom used on Silver Surfer so fast? That’s pretty sloppy story telling.

The Good: You get to see Nate face off with Stryfe

Rating: 5    

Cable Issue 64: Fill in, they retell Cables Origin Rating: 1 

X-force 75
X-Force battles Black Queen over a mystical artifact. Also Karma and Cannonball drop in for a visit.
Rating: 8


Cable 65:  Fill in issue, Cable goes head to head against a Acid Droid created by the Tinkerer. The only relevant thing of this issue is that Rachel tells Cable who are the twelve. Rating: 2  

Cable:

Issue 66-68

Plot: Harbinger has arrived to New York and he’s ready to level the city, to prepare the grounds for the Age of Apocalypse, so Cable joins forces for the first time with the Avengers.

                                                 

Characters:

Heroes: Cable and the Avengers: Captain America, Wonder Man, Thor, Iron Man and Vision  

Villains: Harbinger and Apocalypse, but he’s just watching from the shadows

Supporting Cast: Blaquesmith and Ozymandias, they are investigating who are the twelve.

Issues Summary:

66-68: Cable and the Avengers go on a punch fest against Harbinger over three issues.

Repercussion and Lasting effects: The Twelve story arc officially begins.

The Bad: Not much of a plot.

The Good: It really fun to read.

Rating:            8

X-Force 78-80 

The Mystery of Reignfire is solved.

Characters:                             

Heroes: X-Force

Villains: Reignfire and Locus

Supporting Cast: Heroes for Hire.

Issue Summary:

·         79 Reignfire is back and has captured most of X-force’s memebers

·         80 Reignfire reveals that he’s a lab experiment that Gideon had bank rolling, where they fused the Dacosta’s DNA with body of a protoplasmic mutant. And that they shared a telepathic bond.

·         81 X-Force finally defeats Reignfire for good.

Repercussions and Lasting effects:

·         No more MLF the last members are gone for good.

Rating: 8

Cable 69-70

2 atomic level fillins

Rating: 1

X-Force 81

Vacation in Hawaii, a fun fillin issue.
 Rating: 6

Cable 71: Cable is ported to the future to save Cannonball from Ahab.

Cable 72

More on the origin of post and how the Mandarin experimented with him.  Cable crosses paths with Post, and we discover that he lost his weaponry thanks to Machine man.

 

X-Force 95

X-Force takes a mission that will take them to Genosha, and they meet up with their ex-Teacher Magneto who is the ruler of this nation, and he’s isn’t happy to see them.

 Rating: 7

X-Force 115

Whole team gets killed on a mission, don't worry they come back alive in about 3 years from the end of this first series, what a crappy why to end such a good series.