STORY: "One Day at the Mansion" (48 pages)  The X-Men, X-Force and Generation X get together at the Mansion and play baseball.  Oh, and they beat up a Sentinel.

What you need to know:
The Sentinel is rather broken, and turns up at the Mansion trying to warn the X-Men about something it's discovered.  Naturally, the poor guy gets blasted to smithereens before he can say what it is.  Presumably this was intended to be set-up for Operation: Zero Tolerance, although it's never expressly resolved.

Wolverine and Cable take the opportunity to bury the hatchet.  They've never exactly been friends, but there's a lot of tension at the moment because Wolverine killed Cable's son Genesis in Wolverine #100.

Comments:
Dreadful.  Aside from a few pages of Sentinel smashing at the start, it's literally an entire issue of the X-Men and their spin-off teams hanging around the Mansion playing games.  For 48 pages.  It's meant to be heartwarming, but the conversation is largely superficial, and the art is just plain horrific.  Don't waste your time unless you're a hardcore completist.

FEATURE CHARACTERS
Cannonball, Cyclops, Phoenix III and Storm (all last in DC/Marvel: All Access #4; Cannonball appears next in X-Factor vol 1 #130, then in X-Men Forever #2, then again in X-Factor vol 1 #130, then all four appear in X-Men vol 2 #60)
Wolverine (last in DC/Marvel: All Access #2; next in Wolverine vol 2 #107-110, then in Marvel: Shadows & Light #1, then in Marvel Fanfare vol 2 #2, then in X-Men vol 2 #61)
Psylocke (between Uncanny X-Men #338 and X-Men vol 2 #61)
The Beast, Bishop (both last in X-Men vol 2 #59) and Rogue (last in X-Men vol 2 #58; the Beast appears next in Beast #1-3, then all three appear in X-Men Unlimited vol 1 #13, then in Silver Surfer vol 3 #123, then in X-Men '97)
Gambit (last in DC/Marvel: All Access #2) and Joseph (last in X-Men vol 2 #59; both next in X-Men '97)

GUEST STARS
The Banshee, Emma Frost and Generation X: Chamber, Husk, Jubilee, M I, Mondo II, Skin and Synch (all last in the second story in Incredible Hulk '97 except for Emma, who was last seen in Generation X #23, and Husk, Skin and Synch, who were last seen in DC/Marvel: All Access #2; all next in Generation X '97, except Mondo, who appears next in Generation X #24)
X-Force: Cable (last in the X-Men story in Marvel Holiday Special 1996), Caliban, Domino (both last in Cable #36), Meltdown, Shatterstar, Siryn and Sunspot (the latter four last in X-Force #58; all seven next in X-Force '96)

SUPPORTING CHARACTER
Iceman (last in DC/Marvel: All Access #4; next in X-Men '97)

GUEST APPEARANCES
Gateway (between Wolverine vol 2 #104 and Beast #1)
Artie Maddicks and Leech (both last in the second story in Incredible Hulk '97; both next in X-Men Unlimited vol 1 #14)

Written: 21 July 2005

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