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STORY: "Inside... Out!" (23 pages)
The X-Men win, but the villains escape. Later,
Wolverine and Maverick ambush Matsuo as he tries to recover
the C-synthesiser. Wolverine severs Matsuo's hand, and
Maverick recovers the device.
What you need to know:
Psylocke escapes the hypnotic suggestion after sensing
Wolverine's near death experience. That actually
happened last issue, but the idea is that she's been playing
possum since then, and took control of Sabretooth instead.
This doesn't really make sense, because Wolverine's near death
experience (or at least the one we saw on panel) took place
before Psylocke was enslaved in the first place.
It finally becomes clear what happened to
the C-synthesizer - Logan stole it at after the mission, and
had it buried with Janice Hollerbeck.
Matsuo Tsurayaba tries to recover the
device from Janice's grave, but Wolverine and Maverick are
waiting. Wolverine severs Matsuo's right hand, setting
him up as a recurring Wolverine villain. Maverick
shoots Dr Cornelius and kills him.
Maverick indicates, in a thought balloon,
that his original reason for being at the Hand's base was
somewhat dodgy. We never find out what it was.
Rather strangely, the script has the X-Men
going to "the German embassy" to recover from their fight with
the Hand. Given that the story took place in Berlin,
that can't be right.
Mojo once again defeats Longshot's latest
insurrection attempt. Dazzler escapes and decides to
enlist the X-Men's help.
Comments:
The storyline reaches some kind of resolution, but it's still
awfully garbled. Psylocke's mind control plot really
doesn't make much sense, and much of Maverick's motivation
remains unrevealed (deliberately, to be fair). The art's
a bit rushed, as well.
It's still somewhat enjoyable -
there's a decent story in there, but it really needs an editor
to take a shotblaster to it and strip it down to the core
ideas. There are just way too many people running around
and contributing nothing. At its core, the plot is
really pretty simple - Omega Red wants the C-synth, Wolverine
ought to know where it is, the villains capture Wolverine,
everyone runs around corridors getting captured and then
escaping for the remainder of the story. Somehow it ends
up being far more complicated than it has any need to be.
FEATURE CHARACTERS
Wolverine (appears between pages in Marvel Comics
Presents #101-108; also in flashback following the
flashback in issue #5 and preceding the flashback in
Wolverine vol 2 #61; next in
Wolverine vol 2 #51-53, then in Wolverine vol 2
#55-57, then in Wolverine vol 2 #60-65, then in
Wolverine vol 2 #58-59, then in X-Men Annual
vol 2 #1)
Psylocke and Rogue (both next in X-Men Annual
vol 2 #1)
The Beast (next in Wolverine vol 2 #53, then in
X-Men Annual vol 2 #1)
Cyclops (next in Wolverine vol 2 #51, then in
Wolverine vol 2 #65, then in X-Men Annual vol 2 #1)
Gambit (next in Wolverine vol 2 #53, then in
Wolverine vol 2 #55-57, then in Wolverine vol 2
#60, then in X-Men Annual vol 2 #1)
GUEST STAR
Maverick (next in Wolverine vol 2 #62; also
in flashback between the flashbacks in issues #5-6)
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Lila Cheney, Dazzler and Longshot (all next in
issue #10)
Jubilee (next in Wolverine vol 2 #51)
VILLAINS
Omega Red (next behind the scenes in issue #17)
Matsuo Tsurayaba (next in Wolverine vol 2 #55)
The Hand (next in ...)
Sabretooth (next in Wolverine vol 2 #60; also in
flashback following the flashback in issue #5 and preceding
the flashback in Wolverine vol 2 #61)
Fenris: Andrea Strucker and Andreas Strucker
(both next in Daredevil vol 1 #307)
Dr Cornelius (dies)
Mojo and Major Domo (both between X-Factor
Annual #7 and issue #10)
Meek (an agent of Mojo; first appearance; next in
flashback in issue #10)
OTHER CHARACTER
Janice Hollerbeck (in flashback; last in flashback in
issue #5; next in flashback in issue #6)
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