From: albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: The X-Men Files #3 (140-149)
Date: 13 Apr 1992 02:11:27 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine


	Someone pointed out that I'm not really annotating the X-men,
so I changed the name to the X-Men Files.  (Happy now?)
	[I'm not changing the name again, sports fans.]

X-men #140: Back at the X-Mansion: Angel has problems dealing with 
Wolverine being a berserked, and Storm and Kitty hang out after Kitty's 
dance class with Stevie Hunter.  Back in the Great White North, Alpha 
Flight, Wolverine and Nightcrawler share some back bacon and doughtnuts
and then spend the rest of the issue fighting the Wendigo.  Wolverine 
has a flashback, mentioning how James and Heather Hudson found Wolverine
after what later was revealed to be the Weapon X storyline.  The Wendigo 
is defeated by Wolverine and Snowbird (in the form of a real wolverine), and
then Shaman casts a spell to turn him back into Georges Baptiste, and then
Baptiste is arrested, since he became the Wendigo of his own free will
(see Wolverine's first appearance in Hulk for details).  The PM dissolves
Alpha Flight, so John Byrne can write them, and the Blob escapes from 
a New Mexico jail, to go join the New Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

X-Men #141: (Days of Future Past Part 1) In 21st Centure New York, 
Kate Pryde meets with Wolverine, leader of the Canadian Resistance Army.
In this time, the Sentinels rule America, and mutants are in concentration
camps.  Kitty smuggles the last part of an jammer to the inhibitor 
collars that all mutants wear.  A graveyard of dead heroes has such names 
as: Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, Charles Xavier, Scott Summers, Kurt Wagner,
Reed and Susans Richards, Lorna Dane, Bobby Drake, Warren Worthington, 
Peter Parker, and Hank McCoy.  (On the cover, an X-men wanted poster
has Magneto, the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and "orge" who we can assume
is Forge, around 40 issues before he actually appears.)  Anyway, the 
future X-men are Storm, Colossus (Kate's husband), Magneto (in a 
wheelchair), Rachel (Summers), amd Franklin (Richards).  Rachel 
sends the mind of Kate back to the present to try to change the future.
Kitty has her first session in the Danger Room, and passes with 
flying colors, only to be stunned by the mindswitch.  She tells them
the story of her future, and they decide to take her to Professor X.
In the future, the X-men escape from the camp, and Franklin is killed
by a Sentinel energy blast.  The rest of the X-men escape.  Mystique
speaks with the New BOEM (Destiny, Avalanche, Pyro, the Blob and herself.
Rogue was in the Avengers Annual where the rest of the BOEM first appeared,
but she isn't involved here).  The X-men show up at the Senate Mutant 
Hearings, where the Prof and Moria are speaking.  Then, the BOEM show
up, intending to make a statement about mutant power by snuffing Senator
Robert Kelly, the chair.

X-Men #142: The X-men and the BOEM fight in the present, and the X-men
sneak into the Baxter Building, the Sentinel HQ of the future.   Nightcrawler
notices how much he looks like Mystique, and she drops hints about his
past before vanishing.  In the future, Wolverine, Storm and Colossus all
die.  Kate manages to stop Destiny from killing Senator Kelly, and swaps
minds back to the future.  The X-men and the BOEM all escape.  Henry 
Peter Gyrich, a government pain in the ass from the Avengers, shows up,
and agrees to give Shaw Industries government money to fund a new 
set of Sentinels.

X-men #143: On Christmas Eve, Kitty is alone in the X-mansion, when  
a demon called a N'gari (bascially, an "Alien") attacks.  She eventually
roasts it with the Blackbird's engines, but not before most of the 
X-mansion is trashed. (This was John Byrne's last X-men for a loooong
time.)

X-men #144: The demon D'Spayre tries to get the souls of Cyclops and
Lee Forrester, the captain the the fishing ship Cyke is working on.
He fails, and Scott begins to fall for Lee.

X-men #145: Arcade's assistant kidnapps Jean Grey's parents, Mario MacTaggart,
Candy Southern (Angel's SO), Amanda Sefton (Nightcrawler's SO), and 
Illyana Rasputin, because Dr Doom kidnapped Arcade, and Miss Locke
wants the X-men to rescue him. Professor X gets Iceman, Havok, Polaris,
and Banshee to break into Murderworld and rescue the hostages while the
X-men get Arcade.  The Professor discovers that Magneto has set up  
an interferance pattern in Earth's magnetic field to hinder long 
distance telepathy.  Lastly, Scott and Lee wash up on a deserted 
island after a tropical storm sank their boat. Storm dines with Doom
while the rest of the team break in.  Arcade reveals that he is a semi-
-unwilling guest of Doom.  Doom transforms Storm to chrome, and the 
rest of the X-men are captured by Doom.  

X-men #146: All of the captured X-men are put in elaborate traps to 
test their mettle.  Storm, still a statue, is suffering from her
claustraphobia, and subconsciously generating the mother of all
thunderstorms.  The Murderworld team eventually free the hostages and
nab Miss Locke.  Nightcrawler escapes from his trap.

X-men #147: Nightcrawler begins his attempt to rescue the X-men, while 
the rest of them escape their traps.  They attack Doom and he gives them
the gizmo to free Storm.  She goes berserk and the X-men have to calm
her down.  They force Arcade to apologize to Doom and they all depart.
Scott and Lee discover a new island right next to theirs that rose in the
middle of the night.

X-men #148: Lee and Scott explore the new island.  There are all 
sorts of Cthulu carvings all over the place.  Angel quits the X-men,
because he can't deal with Wolverine.  Spider-Woman introduces
Banshee to his long-lost daughter Siryn.  Caliban attacks a disco 
where Storm, Spider-Woman, Stevie Hunter, are watching Dazzler 
perform.  Caliban was lonely, and could detect the mutants present. 
He sneaks back into the sewers.  Scott and Lee find the single 
inhabitant of the island, Magneto. 

X-men #149: Kitty shows off her first self-designed costume.  It is 
really UGLY.  The X-men work on fixing the Danger Room, still trashed
from #143.  The Prof sends the X-men out to check out Magneto's old
Antarctic base.  Kitty stows away.  They find Garock, the Petrified
Man, who's now pretty nuts.  They eventually defeat him.  Magneto
reveals he knows who Scott is, and that his optic blasts will not
work on the island.

X-men Annual #5: The Fantastic Four and the X-men team up to
fight the evil Badoon on the planet of Arkon.  Lots of fighting,
not that much plot.

Next:  Magneto, the Hellfire Club, the Starjammers, Rogue, and Dracula.



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