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STORY: "Falling from Grace" (22
pages) Exodus and Holocaust's fight tears Avalon apart.
Cyclops, Phoenix and Colossus help everyone to escape.
What you need to know:
Magneto's orbiting Avalon space station is destroyed,
finally putting an end to this chapter in the lives of
Magneto, Exodus and the Acolytes.
In fact, everyone survives the crash (aside
from Javitz, a generic Acolyte who is quietly despatched by
Holocaust in the course of the issue). Exodus and
Holocaust just survive the plunge because they're so damn
powerful. Everyone else escapes - Colossus and the
comatose Magneto are in one capsule, Phoenix and Skids get a
chunk of space station and survive thanks to their powers,
while Cyclops and the remaining Acolytes join forces to
survive their own crash.
Cyclops was a villain in the Age of
Apocalypse timeline, which is why Holocaust is surprised to
see him on the other side.
Comments:
It's a big action story, but a pretty good one. Of
course, it always helps when some major and permanent changes
take place - Avalon had been a fixture for a couple of years,
so ripping it apart does come across as a major plot
development. (And this one actually stuck - Magneto,
Exodus and the Acolytes all moved on to different storylines
after this.)
Once again, Paul Smith provides
guest art. It's a well told story, which shows that just
because the characters are all running around in total chaos,
the actual storytelling doesn't have to get confusing.
The sense of Scott, Jean and Peter being stuck on a collapsing
space station with a bunch of complete lunatics comes across
well. Issues #42-43 are a good couple of issues.
FEATURE CHARACTERS
Professor X, Cyclops and Phoenix III
The Beast (next in Wolverine vol 2 #91, then in
the first and second stories in Wolverine '95, then in
X-Force vol 1 #45, then in Uncanny X-Men
#323-324, then in Wolverine vol 2 #92, then in DC vs
Marvel #1-2, then behind the scenes in DC vs Marvel
#3-4, then in X-Men '95)
Bishop (last in Uncanny X-Men #322)
VILLAINS
Exodus (next in Cable #30)
Holocaust (next in X-Force vol 1 #48)
Magneto (next in flashback in issue #86)
The Acolytes: Joanna Cargill, Colossus, Harlan Kleinstock,
Sven Kleinstock, Scanner, Skids, Carmella Unuscione, Amelia
Voght and Javitz (dies)
Written: 10 December 2004
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