From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
Subject: Re: Mutant Crossovers
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 07:02:23 GMT

I agree with Mr. Henry: You seem to have a lot of facts jumbled up. One
thing is that just because two comic books come out the same month doesn't
necessarily mean that the actions within take place at the same time.

Longshot did _not_ join the X-Men at the end of his mini-series; he went
back to Mojoworld to rejoin the rebellion he helped start. At some point,
Longshot and Riccochet Rita are captured (all of this is off-camera; I
don't think this has actually been shown) and when Mojo decides to play
with the X-Men in X-MEN ANNUAL #10, he teleports Longshot into the Danger
Room.

In Acts of Vengeance, there _was_ no real X-Men team. All of the members
had gone through the Siege Perilous, and as far as I know, Moira
McTaggert's so-called X-Men team hadn't been formed. Wolverine got involved
because he happened to be in Madripoor at the same time the Mandarin was
using Psylocke (not Psyloche; she's not Scottish!) to consolidate his
power. (This was, I assume, in addition to his being involved in the
"gang of six" in Acts of Vengeance, hence it was a crossover.)

I try not to flame people for spelling, but when it's pretty consistent, I
have to say something. (I mean, you presumably have read the character's
name multiple times in comic books; you think you'd pick it up by
osmosis!) The Trickster is not "Trixster"; that's a pop band!

And the reason they went after Cable in the X-Cutioner's Song (I find the
constant "X-" puns really annoying...) was because they thought Stryfe
was Cable, not because they thought Cable was Stryfe. (It makes sense,
really! They were looking for Cable, not Stryfe.)

The Technovirus wasn't to make Professor X look dead, it was to make his
dying extremely slow and painful, I think to force the X-Teams to split
their resources between finding Apocalypse (whom they thought was behind
the attack of Cyclops and Jean) and helping to treat the professor.

What else? Well, you refer to Storm fighting Colossus for control of the X-Men
(which was merely a plot device to get Scott cut loose for the then-new
X-FACTOR series) but it was a one-time glitch. You call Madelyne Pryor
"Madelyne Pryde" by accident, somewhere around the same time you
mistakenly refer to her as a demon queen. She was _not_ a demon queen; she
merely made a deal with Nastirh (I ain't worrying about where the
apostrophes go...) to get her life back. It ended up with her becoming
slightly insane and allying with the demons to get her son back (to kill
him? Why?) I think all the demons did was activate her latent mutant
powers (she _was_ a clone of Jean Grey, after all)

And the "Mutant Genesis" (which was not really any kind of cross-over;
merely a catchy name for what was going on the the X-books) did not
shuffle any teams to different books. True, the original X-Men rejoined,
and Val Cooper built a new X_Factor team to replace Freedom Force, but the
breakdown was not as clear; the X-MEN book was to feature the adventures
of "Blue Team" (Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Beast, and Psylocke)
while UNCANNY X-MEN featured "Gold Team" (Storm, Colossus, Iceman,
Archangel, and Jean Grey) while Forge, Banshee, and Professor X sat on the
sidelines. Bishop and Jubilee hadn't joined yet; Bishop joined in UNCANNY
X-MEN #287, while Jubilee started tagging along around X-MEN #4

Hope this helps!

Jay (=

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