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"My dear friend, Comrade Korbut is a dedicated and conscientious artist of the soviet people. You should not make fun of her so.”
-- Colossus, to the lighthearted Nightcrawler, after taking Olga Korbut's name in vain, pg. 12
More Sentinel carnage, courtesy of a mad as hell Russkie!
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X-Men #99
Script: Chris Claremont • Letters: Irv Watanabe
Villain: Sentinels, Dr. Steven Lang, Black Tom, X-Men clone robots (Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman, Beast, Cyclops, Professor X)
First Appearance: Black Tom
Guest Appearance: Peter Corbeau, Starcore astronauts Hilary, Col. Kutuzov & Dmitri, Solicitor Flaherty
Cameo: Roger, Geraldo Rivera, Judge Robert Chalmers (image broadcast in news report)
Death: Flaherty
Innovations: Storm's usage of solar winds for her power arsenal
Gadgets & Technology: Sentinel Atmos-Spheres
Letters Page: Letters page coming soon!
Banshee, Wolverine and Jean Grey float
through space, near death from suffocation. Sentinels fly forth from Steven Lang’s
Project Armageddon space platform to rescue and retrieve the mutant specimens,
returning them to the evil, heckling Lang. Back on Earth, Dr. Peter Corbeau and
Cyclops tap CEREBRO into NORAD’s data bank to discover that their kidnapped
teammates are outside the Earth’s atmosphere on SHIELD’s orbital platform.
The X-Men go into rescue mode, and along with Dr. Corbeau, lift off from Cape
Canaveral in a Starcore shuttle, under the pretense of being a normal science
research flight, hurriedly prepared to beat out oncoming solar flare storms threatening
space flight. Their mission is so risky, in fact, that it draws the awed attention of the
crew of Starcore One, a UN research platform, and the scientists on that orbital wonder
aloud how it will be possible that the shuttle can make it through such incredible solar
storms.
Cut to Dal’roon, Ireland, where a lawyer named Flaherty makes his way to a post office
to deliver a crucial piece of mail addressed to Sean Cassidy (aka Banshee.) After
doing so, he is confronted outside the post office by a mystery figure in the shadows,
a man who calls himself Black Tom. Flaherty tells him that it’s too late- that he’s already
mailed warning to his cousin Sean. Black Tom guns down the lawyer with a strangely
powered cane of wood and cackles into the night.
Back in space, Dr. Corbeau attempts to gain sanctuary from solar storms for his shuttle
on the commandeered SHIELD platform, a request which is denied after Steven Lang is
informed that their mutant detectors are going crazy. Sentinels are dispatched to take
on the shuttle of mutants, and a Sentinel blast rips a hole open in the hull that sucks
Storm outside. She is clothed in a spacesuit, and is able to control cosmic storm
energies to destroy an oncoming Sentinel. Corbeau’s shuttle takes matters into its own
hands and dives headfirst into the SHIELD platform, breaching it and gaining entry
inside.
A melee ensues, featuring the X-Men Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Cyclops taking on
several Sentinels. After subduing the giant robots, their concerns turn to their compatriot
Storm, who has impressed all by making her way in from the cold of outer space
(especially a perhaps over-affectionate Colossus!) Cyclops is reached telepathically
by Jean Grey, who informs them where they are and what Steven Lang is up to. Cyclops
and Peter Corbeau head to the deck where Jean is being kept, while the others go to
a separate deck to rescue Wolverine and Banshee.
Immediately upon encountering Lang, Cyclops starts to beat the bejeesus out of the
man who has kept his love captive. Jean pulls Cyclops off of him before he can beat
him to death, when all of a sudden he is shot down from behind by a mysterious force.
She stands shocked by the identity of the figure in the shadows, as Lang informs her that
this person, and those who stand with him, are the “heart of Project Armageddon.”
And as the rest of the X-Men, including Colossus, Storm, Wolverine, Banshee and
Nightcrawler, pull up at her side, they stand facing off against Lang’s team arrayed
against them: the heroes Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, Iceman and Professor
Xavier, and the battle is on: New X-Men vs. Old.
(continued in X-MEN #100)
--synopsis and panel images by Gormuu
--letters pages provided by Avengers Assemble
Issues Reprinted Click on cover image to learn more about each issue. |
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XM #94 |
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XM #96 |
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XM #97 |
XM #98 |
XM #99 |
XM #100 |
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