From: albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: The X-Men Files #4 (150-159)
Date: 16 Apr 1992 01:44:40 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine


X-Men #150: Magneto delivers an ultimatum to the world leaders: dismantle
their nuclear weapons and give all political power to him.  He has decided 
that since humans can't run the world properly, and mutants may get injured
in human conflicts, the natural thing to do is to take over the world.  
Cyclops can't do that much to help, since his powers are neutralized by
Magneto's 'inhibitor field'  (you'd think he could give one to Rogue).
The USSR launches missles from a sub as their way of saying 'no.'  Mags
destroys the missiles and sinks the Lenningrad, with all crew aboard.  He
then causes a volcano in Varykino, a Soviet town (he does give enough warning
for a hasty evac, but the town is destroyed). The Blackbird flies too
close to Mags' island, and he sinks it.  The Prof, Moira, Carol Danvers
(hanging out with the X-men after Rogue wiped her mind), and Peter Corbeau
(a NASA friend of the X-men) are sailing closer to the island.  The X-men
are looking for Cyclops; it's only typical X-men luck that Mags' base is
right there.  The X-men swim to shore, and Colossus almost drowns after
he unintentionally transforms back to human.  Fortunately, Wolverine and
Kitty are able to revive him with CPR.  They hook up with Scott, who lets
them in on Mags' plan.  They sneak around, looking for ways to wreck Mags'
machines.  Storm comes across a sleeping Magneto, and debates killing him.
He wakes up at the last second, and throws her out the window.  The Prof 
has a psi war with Mags, who does well for a guy with no psi powers.  
Mags captures all the X-men, save Storm, who survived, and wrecked the 
inhibitor.  The X-men attack, all save Kitty who starts phasing through
all of Mags' computers, wiping them clean.  A bit peeved, Mags breaks off
and electrocutes Kitty.  He realizes that he just zapped a kid, a mutant
child (also Jewish, and Mags is a Holocaust survivor).  He decides to just 
leave.  

X-Men #151:  Kitty's parents take her out of Xavier's school, and transfer
her to Emma Frost's Mass. Academy.  The X-men can't do anything, so she 
has to go.  She gives Peter a passionate kiss good bye, and Storm drives
her down there.  Storm drops her off, and the White Queen suprises Storm
in the dorms.  Later, it turns out that Storm is not Storm, but Emma in
Storm's body.  She calls Shaw, who bwah-hah-ha's over their new insidious
plan.  Sentinels attack the X-mansion, where Amanada Sefton (Kurt's 
SO) is visiting.  Storm shows up to save the day, then zaps the X-men
with a lightning bolt.  Storm (in Emma's body) escapes from her cell,
but is having a hard time dealing with telepathy.  Storm finds Kitty,
and accidentally mind-zaps her when Kitty (understandably) tries to flee.

X-Men #152: The X-men are tortured by the Hellfire Club. Wolverine gets
roughed up by Leland and some Hellfire Thugs who now are cyborgs,
since Wolverine carved 'em up real good (these Thugs eventually become 
Reavers).  With some help from Stevie Hunter, Kitty and Storm sneak
in and save the day.  Everyone goes back to their proper bodies, and 
the Hellfire Club agress to leave the X-men alone until Shaw recovers
from being electrocuted accidentally by a storm Emma summoned. 

X-men #153: Kitty tells an Arabian Knights story to get young Illyana 
to go to sleep.  It's a classic tale, and all the characters look
suspiciously like a certain mutant team we know and love.  Read
it yourselves, it's great.

X-men #154:Storm and Cyclops mind the store while the rest of the X-men
explore Magneto's island.  Corsair crashes in the lake by the X-Mansion.
Wolverine reveals he knew Carol Danvers when he was a spy for Canada and
she was for the USA.  Corsair reveals to Cyclops that he's his father.
"Sidri Hunters" appear and wreck the X-mansion, as Storm, Cyke and Corsair
barely escape.  For some unknown reason, Cyke flies over NYC, with the 
Sidri hot on their tail.  Corsair kills the Sidri, and Cyke gives him the
"X-men don't kill speech."  It seems that Lilandra was kidnapped, and 
the Shi'ar have follwed her to Earth.  They're willing to destroy the
Earth if that's what it takes to get Lil back. 

X-Men #155:  The X-men are teleported to the Shi'ar ship, and given 
24 hours to find Lil or the Earth gets roasted.  Kurt and Kitty are
left behind as hostages (and the Prof puts all his Shi'ar knowledge 
in her head before he goes).  The X-men look for help with the 
Avengers, but only Tigra's home.  The X-men are attacked by 
Deathbird and Brood Warriors.  Deathbird escapes with Lil and the Prof,
and Colossus is mortally injured (a spear through the body).

X-men #156: The Starjammer arrives and beams up the X-men.  Colossus
is rushed into surgery. We learn that Deathbird is Lil's sister, and there's
a background alien thought pattern in her head.  The Starjammer is
captured by an Acanti Star-Whale, that the Brood use as living spaceships.  
The X-men and Starjammers manage to rescue the Prof and escape in the
Starjammer, but the warp drive is broke, and Earth's going to get
roasted soon.  

X-men #157: The X-men hurriedly fix the Starjammer, and Charles, in an
attempt to contact Kurt and Kitty, goes into a coma, after discovering
an alien presence in his mind.  The Brood decide that the X-men would
make good hosts.  (Anyone adding 2 and 2 together?  Let me add that
the Brood look like a cross between an Alien and a mosquito.)
Kurt and Kitty start their escape plan, and discover that the Lil's 
cool advisor was killed by a treacherous general.  Naturally, the 
guards find Kurt and Kitty standing over the body.  They escape
and later kidnap Oracle, of the Imperial Guard, and convince the 
Impies to help.  However, some ofthe Impies are naughty, and a 
(you guessed it) fight breaks out.  The Starjammer arrives in the 
nick of time and the Earth is saved.  

X-men #158:  The X-men recover from the last adventure.  Havok meets
Corsair, and the X-men decide to erase their existance from the USA's
databanks (a loooong time ago, the X-men worked with the FBI).  
Wolverine, Carol Danvers, and Storm sneak in.  Carol recognizes Rogue
in the hallway, and a fight breaks out.  Rogue whups up on the X-men,
while Carol sneaks off, beats up Mystique, and activates a computer 
virus Kitty and the Starjammers whipped up.  Rogue and the X-men escape.

X-men #159: Storm is mugged.  Or was it (dramatic pause) something
more sinister?  Yup, it's Drac himself.  He wants Storm as his next
bride.  Thanks to Kitty and the X-men, Storm is saved, but not before
Drav hands the X-men their booties in a knock down drag out.  Drac
realizes that Storm's will is too strong, and releases her from his
control.

X-men Annual #6: This takes place sometime after #159.  Drac wants 
Storm to destroy the Montessi Formula, which is in the Darkhold,
the Marvel version of the Necronomicon.  Otherwise, he eats some
X-men.  Rachel Van Helsing, a regular in the Tomb of Dracula comic,
is transformed into a vampire.  The X-men rush to save Storm, and 
Kitty, who is possessed by Lilth, Dracula's daughter, who is charged
with destroying him. The X-men manage to save Storm and Kitty.  
Drac is staked but not destroyed, and the X-men have to flee before
they can finish the job.  Rachel lets Wolverine kill her so
she doesn't lose control as a vampire. [It's a note of minor interest,
that the Montessi Formula does, in fact, eventually destroy Dracula, 
in a great arc of stories in Dr Strange.  However, Marvel refusing
to let a cash crop die, later brings him back somehow.]
	On a side note, Kitty's parents get divorced.

Next: Belasco, the Brood, and the New Mutants.
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