COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Uncanny X-Men 296 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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3937914016
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Owner:
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Colossus Keck
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Story Title:
X-Cutioner’s Song part 9: Crescendo
Staff:
Scott Lobdell (writer), Brandon Peterson (penciler), Terry Austin (inker), Chris Eliopoulos (letters), Joe Rosas and Marie Javins (colors), Bob Harras (editor), Tom DeFalco (editor in chief)
Brief Description:
During their escape, Cyclops and Jean Grey are attacked by the Dark Riders - but they quickly overpower them, and continue their escape through Stryfe’s complex, which is strangely familiar to them. At the Mansion, the Beast and Moira MacTaggert via video conference, continue to discuss ways of curing Professor X of the techno-virus which has ravaged his body. Moira’s computer breaks the binary code, but it is just a taunting message from Stryfe. Inside Graymalkin, Wolverine, Cable and Bishop watch a re-play of events since the attempted assassination on Xavier. They work out the key players in this to be Cyclops, Jean Grey, Cable, Stryfe and Apocalypse, but wonder what the connections are. Continuing their escape, Cyclops and Jean Grey soon come across a baby attached to wires and cables. Back at the Mansion, Havok, Storm, Cannonball and Archangel discuss with Apocalypse his offer of teaming up, and of him helping to cure the Professor. The X-Men are hesitant to ally themselves with one of their deadliest enemies, but Archangel convinces them to. Apocalypse asks his “son” why he doesn’t slay him now, to which Archangel tells him that he wants him to suffer the way he did. Inside Graymalkin, the men begin a scan for where on Earth Stryfe could be hiding, supposing he is in one of Apocalypse’s base of operations. Jean and Cyclops attempt to remove the baby from the cables, but Stryfe informs them that the child is genetically linked with his own consciousness and interwoven into the life support system of this complex. He tells them that they can escape by simply destroying the child. Of course Cyclops and Jean refuse to do so, and continue to try and remove him, before they are attacked by the Dark Riders. They fight the Dark Riders, and soon the “child” is revealed to merely be a techno-organic construct. Cyclops blasts a hole in the side of the complex - and they are sucked through a vortex. Inside Graymalkin, the scan for Stryfe came up negative, which is when Wolverine reveals that is why Jean has not been able to telepathically contact anyone - because they are in Apocalypse’s last base of operations - on the moon! And at that moment, Cyclops and Jean fall to the lunar surface.
Characters Involved:
Archangel, Beast, Bishop, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine (all X-Men)
Havok, Polaris (both X-Factor)
Cannonball (member of X-Force)
Cable
Dr Moira MacTaggert
Apocalypse
Stryfe
Zero
Barrage, Foxbat, Gauntlet, Harddrive, Psynapse, Tusk and the Underlings (all Dark Riders)
Professor
Story Notes:
HardDrive is called Mainframe in this issue.
Apocalypse created a T-O virus and had Nathan Summers, Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor’s baby, infected with it in X-Factor #68. Scott had to make a quick decision: whether or not to send Nathan to the future to be healed by the Askani. He chose to do it and so Nathan was sent away. He later returned to the present as Cable.
Part 9 of the X-Cutioner's Song crossover.
This issue follows X-Force (1st series) #17 and continues in X-Factor (1st series) #86.
Cyclops and Jean Grey began their escape from Stryfe in X-Force (1st series) #17, not X-Factor (1st series) #84 as the footnote this issue indicates.
Harddrive is called “Mainframe” this issue.
The Dark Riders began following Apocalypse in X-Force (1st series) #17, not #16 like the footnote this issue indicates.
Members of the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force battled, and defeated, the Mutant Liberation Front in X-Factor (1st series) #85 and X-Men (2nd series) #15.
Stryfe and Apocalypse fought in X-Force (1st series) #17.
Baby Nathan was infected with the virus in X-Factor (1st series) #67. He was taken into the future by Askani in X-Factor (1st series) #68.
The original X-Factor fought Apocalypse and his Dark Riders on the moon in “Endgame” [X-Factor (1st series) #65-68].
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