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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:00:34 -0400 
From: "David M. Pahnos" <dp0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: New Mutants nitpick...

Seeing as how this gets asked about every other week, don't you think
it's about time it gets put in the FAQ?


I think we need to make a FAQ for the rac xbooks alone.  There are
enough questions, and the regular FAQ would be a lot shorter...

any takers?

michael j pastor iii
guest on davids account
From: ALWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Prof.X, his school, and higher education
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:16:15 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center


 A few amusing thoughts and questions:

   What is Professor Xavier's degree in, and which college did he attend?

   Considering that the X-men's headquarters is supposed to be a school,
   what is its goal and core cirriculum?

     I remember years ago Xavier giving Kitty Pryde a private class in
   learning the controls of the Blackbird and she said that fairytale
   story to Illyana in Russian and the rest of the team were outside
   gagging at the story,so they all learned Russian. At least there was
   an effort made in showing the X-men as students, not just super heroes.

     Interestingly, I had read in one of the Byrne issues that Magneto
   had studied and done research into Physics and magnetism in order to
   sharpen his mutant power. (He even bragged to himself that he could win
   the Nobel prize and recieve critical acclaim in the science world if he
   wanted to.) IMHO, that was a good attempt at giving him some dimension
   in that he had to read up on magnetism.

     It seems that the smartest X-man is Hank McCoy (Beast).

     Where did Xavier get all that money to own that huge estate let alone
   to rebuild and maintain that huge mansion? What about the neighbors?

     I really wish that they could give the current characters more dimension
   as they did in the past.




    Al
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From: sazan@hounix.org (Kevin Winkler)
Subject: Re: what happened to Amanda Stephan??????
Organization: Houston UNIX Users Group (HOUNIX), Houston, TX
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:41:38 GMT

    Judith also madan appearence in Excalibur:Mojo Mayhem, when her marriage wascrashed by Excalibur, The X-Babies and assorted other characters.

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From: proct_hately@hg.uleth.ca (Kintair of Hawkehaven MKA Bill Hately)
Subject: Re: X-Force=Newfoundland
Reply-To: proct_hately@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Distribution: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:58:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.024526.11454@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>, 
cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  8823239) writes:
>Having just read the latest X-Force (yes I still buy it, I have hope
>that things can inprove. I'm naive like that) and I have noticed yet
>another reference to Newfoundland. Now we are not exactly a major
>crossroads of the world, but this is several times that the comic has
>made reference here. I'm getting parnoid or something. Maybe Niceza is
>trying to make up for that disasterous AVengers story from a couple of
>years ago.
>
>Also, explain if you can the almost total lack of coordination between
>Weapon X, K or Prime to the rest of Alpha Flight. And don't you think
>that Wolvie would know about a Wendigo being used by the govt and be a
>tad pissed. Oh well, maybe it's just more screwed up writing.
>
>*************************************************************************
>* Craig Welsh                  *    "I'm a few bricks short of a       *
Be careful or you could end up having State parks in Newfoundland too, I'm 
still trying to find "Buffalo Woods State Park" here in Alberta, the Closest
I've come is Wood Buffalo National Park :-)- but at least now we exist as more 
then a "Cold desolate place" between the US and the Arctic circle (I think they
said we had Waterton State park too once) Sheesh and they wonder why we get
annoyed.    (Waterton is a National park as well - I would even accept them
calling them Provincial parks but STATE!) (sorry, pet peeve)
Bill
Kintair of Hawkehaven          | Bill Hately   | Talk (403) 381-1741
Shire of Windwyrm              | Lethbridge AB | proct_hately@hg.uleth.ca
Crown Principality of Avacal   | Canada        | Smile Dammit
An Tir (I wouldn't dream of subjecting any corp. or Educational Institution to
        these opinions, so they certainly aren't the opinions of the UofL)
  (And I'm not an officer of the SCA so I can't have an official opinion There
              - even if I wanted to )
Life is a Sexually Transmitted Terminal Condition
From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: The Good Old Days Moved!
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:27:20 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <16fbj0INNrmt@agate.berkeley.edu> mikebcg@ocf.berkeley.edu (Mikel Bancroft) writes:
>From what I remembered, Freedom force was sent to Iraq to extract some
>scientist for some reason (I dont feel like fishing through my comics either).
>Supposedly the orders were to kill him if they couldn't get him out. They
>ran into a group of Iraqi mutants calling themselves the Desert Sword if I
>remember correctly.  Super Sabre was decapitated and the Crimson commando 
>had one of his arms cut off.  The Desert Sword had the scientist and after
>that display, FF figured that they couldn't save him, and Pyro roasted him.
>Avalanche left with the Crimson Commando to the rendevous point with Blob and
>Pyro running interference.  After being rescued, Avalanche found out that
>killing the scientist was not part of the plans, so he decided to leave Blob
>and Pyro behind.
>Blob and Pyro surrendered, figuring that the ol' U.S. of A would get them out
>of this fix.  So as it stood, yes Blob and Pyro were left behind and Avalanche
>got away.  I dont think they have devoted any comic space showing how Blob
>and Pyro got back to the states.  The way the war went I figure the marvel
>plot guru's got them out in a prisoner exchange.  The however many thousand
>Iraqi POW's for Blob and Pyro. :)

Seems about right, but I thought that Avalanche was given a choice between
either escaping with Crimson Commando, and the both of them living, or
waiting for Blob and Pyro, and possibly getting all of them killed.  But
I'm not sure.  Anyway, the problem came up when they were left in Kuwait,
and then were miraculously back in the U.S. in X-Force.  I think the
reason this was never resolved should be obvious.  Here's a hint:  his
initials are R.L. and he has no writing or drawing talent, but the fanboys
love him anyway.  You figure it out.
From: fogel@plains.NoDak.edu (Chris Fogel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Wolverine/Cable Questions???
Date: 15 Aug 92 03:33:59 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


 Hello everyone, I just had a few questions and was wondering if you could
help me out.

	1. Is there truth in the rumor that Wolverine actually got his
	   claws from Apocalypse?

	2. Is Cable actually Scott Summer's son?

	3. There is a rumor that Professor X's father had something to do
	   with Wolverine getting his bones. Is this true?"

	4. Anyone want to spill the information about who killed the X-Men
	   in Bishop's future??????

	5. Any other rumors that anyone might want to clear up?

	I haven't benn reading lately here, so if these questions have
	already been answered, then I am sorry for re-asking and wasting
	bandwidth.

	Thank you in advance for any help. :):)

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From: mikebcg@ocf.berkeley.edu (Mikel Bancroft)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: The Good Old Days Moved!
Date: 14 Aug 1992 04:08:00 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug13.085501.58117@cc.usu.edu> sl859@cc.usu.edu writes:
>In article <10597182.56.713682134@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>, 10597182@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JASON BELL) writes:
>> 
>>>	I have another question...  How did PYRO and BLOB survive when they
>>>were fighting in the middle-east???  Does Anyone remember the issue I am 
>>>refering to?  Freedom Force was fighting against Razor and some other semitic
>>>heroes, and the Blob and Pyro, I believe were left behind.  Did they just drop
>>>that one too ??? I thought they were done for... Didn't Avalanche survive that
>>>or did he die?  I cannot remember and would hate to have to go fishing through
>>>my comics to find it...
>> 
>> It was the Kings of Pain Annual series.....
>> 
>> Mephisto
>
>Thanks Mephisto, but I don't think that answered my question...  As I remember
>they left the storyline dangling...  Was it ever resolved and how???

From what I remembered, Freedom force was sent to Iraq to extract some
scientist for some reason (I dont feel like fishing through my comics either).
Supposedly the orders were to kill him if they couldn't get him out. They
ran into a group of Iraqi mutants calling themselves the Desert Sword if I
remember correctly.  Super Sabre was decapitated and the Crimson commando 
had one of his arms cut off.  The Desert Sword had the scientist and after
that display, FF figured that they couldn't save him, and Pyro roasted him.
Avalanche left with the Crimson Commando to the rendevous point with Blob and
Pyro running interference.  After being rescued, Avalanche found out that
killing the scientist was not part of the plans, so he decided to leave Blob
and Pyro behind.
Blob and Pyro surrendered, figuring that the ol' U.S. of A would get them out
of this fix.  So as it stood, yes Blob and Pyro were left behind and Avalanche
got away.  I dont think they have devoted any comic space showing how Blob
and Pyro got back to the states.  The way the war went I figure the marvel
plot guru's got them out in a prisoner exchange.  The however many thousand
Iraqi POW's for Blob and Pyro. :)

Hope this helped.

Mikel B.
"It's not the mileage, it's the make." - Cain
From: sue_clark@maillink.berkeley.edu (sue clark)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: what happened to Amanda Stephan??????
Date: 16 Aug 92 19:16:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: electronic anarchists
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1a2

From: David Donald, donald@dvinci.USask.Ca
Subject: Re: what happened to Amanda Stephan??????
In article  David Donald, donald@dvinci.USask.Ca writes:

>gtm1@cec2.wustl.edu (Gareth Torrey Munger) writes:
>
>>	What every happened to Amanda Stephan? Kurt W. SO.  or I
>>should say ex-SO.  I heard she was involved with some of the
>>muir Island stuff, but what exactully is She doing now?
>
>
>
>>The Tigerdragon
>
>Minor Nitpick: I believe the ladies' name is Amanda Sefton, not Stephan.
>
>As to her whereabouts, I don't believe that has been addressed since the 
>Muir Island Saga, although it would be nice to know.
>
>David

I don't think she was 'around' for the most recent of the X-fights on
Muir Island.  (The one where Chuckie's legs got rebroke).  She's kinda in
dangling plotlines limbo at present.

Sue
--------------------
sueborg@aol.com

"I fear for the darkness as four Justices anxiously await the single vote
necessary to extinguish the light." -- from an exerpt of Judge Blackmun's
opinion on Planned Parenthood vs. Casey; from the NY Times, Tuesday, June
30th.
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From: tgt33358@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Deus Imperator)
Subject: Re: Origin of Quote Question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:46:25 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.182711.5900@news.acns.nwu.edu> msr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Rosenberg) writes:
>What is the origin of the phrase, "Bang...you dead" and before people start
>responding thus, it is NOT Gambit.  Although everyone remembes him for this
>line when he used it against Wolvering after a training room session, he was
>not the first x-character to use it.  Forge uses it in Uncanny X-Men
>#255..."Bang buster.  You're dead."  (Well it's close enough).
>
>I have a feeling this quote originally comes from somewhere else (a movie?  TV
>show?)  I'm wondering if anyone knows where...
>
>--Mike
Weeeellll...I'm sure it goes back WAAAYYY before this, but in perhaps the
most frightening _Alfred+Hitchcock_Presents_, there's an episode called
Bang, You're Dead, where a little boy (in the revision, it was a girl),
gets his hands on a REAL gun, and proceeds to load it, one bullet at
a time.  Every time he does, he spins the barrel, and finds
somone who's mean to him.  Each time he pulls the trigger...and the 
bullet wasn't in THAT cylinder.  Each time he does this, however, he adds
a bullet.  Kinda like Russian Roulette.  And then he loads the final 
bullet...

-- 
Thanatos, DeathUrge, Master of Everything But Love tgt33358@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
"Oh God, does this mean we have to fight?"
			-Selina Kyle, _Batman_ 
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From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner)
Subject: Cable -- did 501 man create him?
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 18:59:21 GMT

Just curious here -- did Rob Liefield create the now infamous
Retro-active man, Cable, who's been in Marveldom all along
but we just haven't noticed him?

Scott

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From: 10597182@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JASON BELL)
Subject: Re: The Good Old Days Moved!
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:02:14 GMT


>	I have another question...  How did PYRO and BLOB survive when they
>were fighting in the middle-east???  Does Anyone remember the issue I am 
>refering to?  Freedom Force was fighting against Razor and some other semitic
>heroes, and the Blob and Pyro, I believe were left behind.  Did they just drop
>that one too ??? I thought they were done for... Didn't Avalanche survive that
>or did he die?  I cannot remember and would hate to have to go fishing through
>my comics to find it...
>							wReam...

It was the Kings of Pain Annual series.....

Mephisto
From: rsdoyle@swift.cs.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: For Sale: Xmen, New Mutants, X-Factor, Excalibur
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:16:24 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin

X-comics for sale.

I have some sets of comics that I wish to sell! I would prefer to sell
them in the sets I have advertised them below, but I am willing to
respond to sensible offers for sub-groups of them.


Uncanny Xmen


Set 1
156-164		15 pounds Sterling.

Set 2
199		3 pounds sterling.

Set 3
212		8 pounds sterling (Wolverine vrs. Sabretooth)

Set 4
242-255		30 pounds sterling (includes Jim Lees 1st 248)

Set 5
257-292		45 pounds sterling (includes 268, Cpt America, Widow, Wolvie,
		269 Split personality rogue, 275)



Excalibur (Complete set plus)

Set 6
1-50, Sword is drwan, Mojo Mayhem, Possession		75 pounds sterling.



X-Factor (Complete Set of old team)

Set 7
1-70		100 pound sterling.



New Mutants
Set 8
2-72,74-100	150 pounds sterling (includes all the cable issues
		and the Scienkieviz issues, grest bear etc.)


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From: good@gdwest.gd.com (David L. Good)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: What happenned to Nimrod (Was: Re: The Good Old Days Moved!)
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:23:33 GMT
Organization: General Dynamics Corp.

In article <1992Aug10.171748.58035@cc.usu.edu> sl859@cc.usu.edu writes:
[snip, snip, snip...]
>  I hope they don't kill off the following either... 
[...]
>Nimrod :  Where is he?  I wouldn't mind seeing him blown up, or at least I 
>felt this way, but now I don't know... Maybe if he killed gambit or something
>attrocious like that I wouldn't mind him being destroyed.
>							wReam...

Didn't he get sucked into the "Super Sentinel" that caused all the X-men to
hop through the Seige Perilous (tm) a while back?

-- 
David Good                                               good@gdwest.gd.com

                 This space intentionally left blank.
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From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A Lady and her Walrus)
Subject: Re: The Good Old Days Moved!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:00:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.092403.58150@cc.usu.edu> sl859@cc.usu.edu writes:
>I remember some gal getting hurt or killed
>I don't recall her name being Super Sabre, but I am trying desperately to
>remember it in the first place.  

I seriously doubt it was Super Sabre then, since SS was a guy.

The Walrus

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From: dlangend@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Darryl M Langenderfer)
Subject: Re: Magneto??? (Spoiler???)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:54:06 GMT

In article <Bt9CBB.I1s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincen
t Vaugn ) writes:
>I haven't read X-men for a while, but while scanning messages I have
>noticed a few references to a "dead" Magneto. Is Magneto dead? If so,
>when and how did this happen?
>
>-pmm
>

Off top of my head I don't remember the exact praticulars, but it was something
like this....

    As the X-Men were leaving Astriod M after battling Magneto/saving members
    of their team, Magneto evidenly "blew up Ast. M.  I personally don't
    believe he's dead and I think thats what most rummors suggest.  If
    you want I could look up the issue this took place in, I think it crossed
    both X-Men titles.

         --D.
From: ALWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: Origin of Quote Question
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:03:22 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

In article <1992Aug19.182711.5900@news.acns.nwu.edu>, msr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
(Michael Rosenberg) says:
>
>What is the origin of the phrase, "Bang...you dead" and before people start
>responding thus, it is NOT Gambit.  Although everyone remembes him for this
>line when he used it against Wolvering after a training room session, he was
>not the first x-character to use it.  Forge uses it in Uncanny X-Men
>#255..."Bang buster.  You're dead."  (Well it's close enough).
>
>I have a feeling this quote originally comes from somewhere else (a movie?  TV
>show?)  I'm wondering if anyone knows where...
>
>--Mike
        I first saw it in Daredevil #181, where Bullseye is fantasizing about
  killing Daredevil.
        Interestingly, for a time Gambit was throwing the Ace of Spades as
  a projectile to energize. IMHO, that was taken from Bullseye. In DD #181,
  Bullseye was fighting Elektra, and he threw the Ace of Spades at her,
  slashing her throat.


 Al
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From: jmw1388@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Jamesa Willer)
Subject: Re: Magneto???
Reply-To: jmw1388@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:48:34 GMT

Maggie was (supposedly) killed in [Just Say] Xmen #3, but if you
believe that, I've got some property in Citrusville I'd like to
sell you.

Rule #1: Always check whether or not the person was killed on-panel.
	Deaths off-panel are easily confused with near-deaths and are
	not to be trusted. (Magneto supposedly 'went down with the
	asteroid' and burned to a crisp in Earth's atmosphere...)
Rule #2: Don't take characters' word as gospell.  Just because all
	of the other characters think someone is dead does not mean
	that they really are DEAD. (Narrators can generally be belived,
	but they have been wrong in the past, as well.)
Rule #3: Read the Limited Series. Deceased characters *rarely* get
	their own LS. (There is a Magneto LS planned for sometime next
	year.  If he *is* demised, it would have to be either a recap
	of his life <not very interesting, for those of us who already
	know his history> or several issues of different views of a
	corpse <VERY BORING>.  Of course they could do a somewhat
	offbeat approach <Magneto at the Pearly Gates or Someone making
	off with Maggie's Magneto-Powered Bones (tm)> but I *don't
	think so*.)

					James Willer
{The opinions above are probably NOT those of
 anyone at all.}
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Thursday, 13 Aug 1992 12:43:27 EDT
From: <ALWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: What happenned to Nimrod (Was: Re: The Good Old Days Moved!)
 <1992Aug12.212333.22006@gdwest.gd.com>

In article <1992Aug12.212333.22006@gdwest.gd.com>, good@gdwest.gd.com (David L.
Good) says:
>
>In article <1992Aug10.171748.58035@cc.usu.edu> sl859@cc.usu.edu writes:
>[snip, snip, snip...]
>>  I hope they don't kill off the following either...
>[...]
>>Nimrod :  Where is he?
>
>Didn't he get sucked into the "Super Sentinel" that caused all the X-men to
>hop through the Seige Perilous (tm) a while back?
>
    For what it's worth... Nimrod was assimilated into the Sentinel and
>  attacked Rogue and Psylocke. The other X-men at the time came out of
   Gateway's portal and jumped in the fight. In the course of the battle
   the Sentinel had his huge hand holding Rogue and Dazzler opened the
   Seige Perilous and the Sentinel went through holding Rogue.
    There was some story line in there where Nimrod's psyche tricked
   the Sentinel into self-destruct sequenced before it was rushed into
   the Siege and Sen. Kelly's wife was killed during the fight. In his anger
   over the loss he ordered the go-ahead to a project that created Nimrod.
   So had Nimrod not come from the future he never would have been created.
   Go figure.


   Al
From: sl859@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: The Good Old Days Moved!
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:55:00 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <10597182.56.713682134@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>, 10597182@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JASON BELL) writes:
> 
>>	I have another question...  How did PYRO and BLOB survive when they
>>were fighting in the middle-east???  Does Anyone remember the issue I am 
>>refering to?  Freedom Force was fighting against Razor and some other semitic
>>heroes, and the Blob and Pyro, I believe were left behind.  Did they just drop
>>that one too ??? I thought they were done for... Didn't Avalanche survive that
>>or did he die?  I cannot remember and would hate to have to go fishing through
>>my comics to find it...
>>							wReam...
> 
> It was the Kings of Pain Annual series.....
> 
> Mephisto

Thanks Mephisto, but I don't think that answered my question...  As I remember
they left the storyline dangling...  Was it ever resolved and how???
							wReam...
P.S.  Jimmy that lock, or maybe you ought to try to Karen it for the 
feminists!

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