From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Subject: Re: Mutant Crossovers
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:50:57 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

>	The crossover you are referring to is the Mutant Massacre, and it is
>not the first mutant crossover.  However, there have been so many of them,
>and even Wizard #14 got them mixed up, so I'll give the run down as completely
>as I can to try to clear things up.

A massive summary of mutant crossovers followed. I'm just going to comment
on one or two things:

>	The first crossoever the X-Men were involved in was the Secret Wars.
                                    ....
>changes her name to Shadowcat.  In the middle of the limited series, Forge
>also strips storm of her powers.

The blame should be shared with Gyrich, and it didn't happen in any
crossover. It happened in X-Men #185.

>upset.  So Loki steals the New Mutants, and a Storm (who had been turned into
>a kid the age of the New Mutants), who had just defeated the Shadow King, and 
>take them to Asgard.  The X-Men, with Cyclops back again, go to Asgard and rescue the New Mutants and have Storm returned to her normal size.  While all 
>this is happening (and right in the middle of Secret Wars II, too) the 
>Brotherhood of Evil Mutants reform to become Freedom Force, and Professor X 
>becomes infected with an incurable disease.  He decides to leave with Lilandra 
>and the Starjammers to see if the Shi-ar can cure his disease and leaves 
>Magneto in charge of the New Mutants.  Then a powerless Storm fought Colossus 
>for leader of the X-Men and Storm wins.  (This is also the infamous issue with
>the first appearance of baby Nathan.)

...and so on. You seem to be giving a more general Total History of the
X-Men, and not just the crossovers. With all respect, maybe you should have
stuck with just the x-overs, considering how garbled your facts above are:

Storm fought Cyclops, not Colossus, for the leadership, and that was in
X-Men #201. Professor X was not, at that time, infected with an incurable
disease, he was badly, badly injured, and only the Starjammer had the
medical facilities to heal him. There's no internal evidence that the X-Men/
Alpha Flight LS took place at the same time as Secret Wars II, although the
X-Men were hardly major players in SWII. Storm was not turned into a kid
until the Art Adams Mojo X-Men Annual, and she wasn't turned into a kid
again until she escaped Nanny, during the Siege days. Loki first noticed
Storm when she was bravely fighting in the great Asgard/Surtur war, from the
Thor series (although Storm herself didn't appear in Thor).

>During the this time period [the Mutant Massacre], the Longshot
>limited series also hit the stands.  At the end of this great series, Longshot
>joined the X-Men.

The Longshot LS came out before the X-Men hit 200, I'm reasonably sure.
Art Adams did it way before he did the X-Men in Asgard Annual, which came
out around 200.

>	That was probably the last good X-Men story for many years.  I would
>recommend reading Spider-Man or the Hulk during the intermittent time period.

Your most accurate statement so far.

>finds Forge, and Naze (who is actually the Trixter, chaos incarnate) banishes

Silly chaos, Trix are for kids!

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