STORY: "LegionQuest - Part 3: Auld Lang Syne" (23 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (plotter), Mark Waid (scripter), Ron Garney (penciller), Tim Townsend, Dan Green, Josef Rubinstein (inkers), Chris Eliopoulos (letterer), Steve Buccellato (colourist), Bob Harras (editor), Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

LEGIONQUEST, PART 3 Legion has taken four X-Men back to the past with him, but they have no memory of why they are there. Fortunately, the remaining X-Men in the present are able to send Cable's astral form back to the past to put their teammates on the right track. Meanwhile, Legion is taken in at the hospice where the young Charles Xavier and Magnus work and Gabrielle Haller is a patient.

What you need to know:

• A fair chunk of this issue is dedicated to showing Xavier and Magnus's friendship. Evidently each hasn't told the other that he's a mutant, and both have already formed their respective philosophies, even though they seem rather less committed to them at this stage.
• For absolutely no apparent reason, Legion poses as Xavier and seduces his own mother, in what is strongly implied to be a rape scene. This provoked enormous debate at the time, leading to the general conclusion that the writers must have been out of their heads to write something so stupid.

Comments: This is one of the strongest episodes of LegionQuest, if only because with Legion out of action for most of the story, there's time for the characters to do something interesting. Xavier and Magnus's relationship is well written, and the ethical problems of Xavier's romance with one of his patients are sensibly addressed. Equally, the amnesiac X-Men get some good scenes - rather than the cliched "who am I" material, instead they spend time grumbling about their inability to get on with the plot, which is far more interesting.

Unfortunately... well, it's got That Scene. Why in the name of god would Legion want to seduce his own mother? Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have anything against this scene if it had any bearing on the wider story or it shed some light on Legion's motivations. But other than to hammer home the point that he's completely round the twist, it doesn't seem to. It feels simply gratuitous, and it's a desperately unpleasant read, for all the wrong reasons.

Fill-in artwork this time (and yes, that's a fill-in artist for the fourth straight issue - even at this stage in his career, Joe Madureira treated getting out of bed as a distinctly optional part of his day) comes from Ron Garney, although it looks very little like the distinctive style that would later emerge in his work on Captain America. This may be simply because the X-books' regular inkers are trying to give him the house style, but for whatever reason it lacks a lot of the quality of his later work.

Feature characters: Professor X (last in X-Men Vol 2 #40; next in Cable #20/X-Men Vol 2 #41, then in X-Men Prime, then in X-Man #5, then in X-Men Vol 2 #42-44, then in Wolverine #91, then in X-Force #44, then in Generation X #6, then in Excalibur #88, then in X-Force #45, then in Wolverine #92, then in Cable #23, then in Wolverine: Knight of Terra, then in DC Versus Marvel #1, then in Wolverine #93, then in Wolverine '95, then in X-Force #47, then in issue #326); Cyclops, the Beast, Phoenix III, Archangel (all four last in X-Men Vol 2 #40; all next in Cable #20/X-Men Vol 2 #41, then in X-Men Prime, then in Spider-Man Team-Up #1); Gambit, Rogue (both last in X-Men Vol 2 #40; both next in Cable #20/X-Men Vol 2 #41, then in X-Men Prime, then Rogue in X-Men Vol 2 #42, then both in issue #323); Storm (last in X-Men Vol 2 #40; next in X-Men Vol 2 #41, then in X-Men Omega, then in X-Men Prime); Iceman (last in X-Men Vol 2 #40; next in X-Men Vol 2# #41, then in X-Men Omega, then in X-Men Prime, then in X-Men Vol 2 #42, then in issue #323); Bishop (last in X-Men Vol 2 #40; next in X-Men Vol 2 #41, then in X-Men Omega, then in X-Men Prime, then in X-Man #5); Psylocke (last in X-Men Vol 2 #40; next in X-Men Vol 2 #41, then in X-Men Omega, then in X-Men Prime, then in Spider-Man Team-Up #1)

Guest stars: Charles Xavier of the Age of Apocalypse, Magnus of the Age of Apocalypse (both between X-Men Vol 2 #40-41); Cable (between X-Men Vol 2 #40 and Cable #20)

Supporting character: Gabrielle Haller of the Age of Apocalypse (between X-Men Vol 2 #40-41)

Guest appearance: Domino II (b/s; between X-Men Vol 2 #40 and Cable #20)

Other characters: The Shi'ar (between X-Men Vol 2 #40 and Cable #20)

At this point, Uncanny X-Men was put on hold for four months, along with all the other X-books, so that the Age of Apocalypse storyline could appear. The substitute title in this period was Astonishing X-Men Vol 1, which was the work of the regular creative team. To all intents and purposes, those four issues are a continuation of this series. However, I intend to index all the Age of Apocalypse stories together at a later date, so for the moment I'm just going to skip over them and move on.

STORY: "Dark Walk" (21 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Tom Grummett (penciller), Dan Green, Mark Pennington, Matt Ryan, Jimmy Palmiotti (inkers), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato, Digital Chameleon (colourists), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

A group of mutants commit a spree killing in a New York nightclub. Meanwhile, the Beast, Bishop and Psylocke are visiting Hoboken, New Jersey when the Juggernaut crashes into the town. Once they calm him down, he tells them that he has been punched all the way from Canada by Onslaught.

What you need to know:

• This issue sees the beginning of two major plots. Firstly, the spree killing is the first activity we see from the mutant terrorist group Gene Nation, who dominate the next three issues. I'll come back to them in a bit.
• Secondly, Onslaught is introduced, at least insofar as the Juggernaut says he's been beaten up by him. At this stage in the plot, it appears that the creators didn't actually have any clue who or what Onslaught was. He was powerful to beat the Juggernaut - wasn't that enough to be getting on with? As we'll see, the incoherent mess that this plot degenerated into is an object lesson in the things that can go wrong when you write in this way.
• As the Juggernaut obligingly points out, this story makes no sense. There's no obvious reason for Onslaught to attack the Juggernaut in this manner and certainly no obvious reason why Onslaught would deliberately dump him in the same city where the X-Men just happen to be passing. Needless to say, none of this has ever been explained. We're now entering a decidedly dodgy period for this title, plagued by some downright hopeless plotting, and I think it's best to be upfront about that now.
• There's a nice little scene with Storm that helpfully summarises major plot developments in other books that you might want to know about. One, Gambit's now in a coma after having kissed Rogue. Two, Wolverine's now living in the grounds after having speared Sabretooth through the head in a fit of rage, and is losing his grip on humanity.
• Jean Grey belatedly gets around to telling her parents that her sister Sara seems to have been killed by the Phalanx. Incidentally, her comment that Sara was absorbed "shortly after she disappeared" can't possibly be right. The Phalanx didn't come to exist on Earth until after Warlock was supposedly killed, allowing his body to be used for the creation of the Phalanx. That didn't happen until several years after Sara's disappearance in X-Factor #2. It's also far from clear why Jean is accepting the Phalanx's version of events when they could so easily be lying, but there you go.
• The mysterious telepathic aide (later named as Noah DuBois) who was helping Senator Kelly in issue #299 crops up again. He's now intangible and invisible, and is monitoring Scott and Jean. His motivations for this remain decidedly obscure, and no real plot ever emerges out of it.

Comments: Well, after four months of the Age of Apocalypse it's certainly a relief to get back to some actual X-Men stories again. Lobdell has two main ideas here - firstly, there's an anniversary issue just around the corner, and so in come Gene Nation in preparation for that. All we see here is the aftermath of one of their killings, but it's effectively presented and it does give the impression of a real threat.

Then there's Onslaught. Lobdell's big idea was that the X-Men hadn't had a real cosmic level threat to fight since Dark Phoenix over a decade before, so he created one. Unfortunately, in typical style, the creators just assumed the plot would write itself as they went along, and didn't bother to come up with a coherent plan. Consequently this is just the first of many stories which drop enigmatic hints about Onslaught, very few of which are given any sort of satisfactory resolution. Pretty much any story involving Onslaught has to be marked down as a result - there's a few good ones in there, but there's no getting away from the dismal failure of the overall plot.

Taken on its own, this is a pretty decent issue, introducing two new plot threads in an intriguing way. Unfortunately, the latent defects will be coming out shortly...

Feature characters: Storm (next in X-Men Vol 2 #42, then in Wolverine #91), the Beast (next in X-Men Vol 2 #42-43, then in Wolverine #91, then in X-Force #45, then in issue #323), Psylocke (next in X-Men Vol 2 #44, then in Wolverine #91, then in issue #323), Archangel (next in Wolverine #91), Cyclops (next in X-Men Vol 2 #42-43, then in Wolverine #91, then in X-Force #44, then in X-Men '95, then in issue #325), Phoenix III (next in X-Men Vol 2 #42-43, then in Cable #21, then in Wolverine #91, then in X-Men '95, then in issue #325; also in f/b between Classic X-Men #42/2 and Professor Xavier And The X-Men #1; all last in Spider-Man Team-Up #1); Bishop (last in X-Man #5; next in X-Men Vol 2 #43, then in Wolverine #91, then in Generation X #6 b/s, then in Wolverine: Knight of Terra, then in issue #325); Wolverine (between X-Men Prime and Wolverine #91)

Supporting characters: Charlotte Jones (last in issue #298); John Grey (between X-Men Vol 2 #30 and X-Men Vs The Brood #1); Sara Grey (in f/b; last in Bizarre Adventures #27 f/b; next in issue #136)

Villains: The Juggernaut (between Deadpool Vol 1 #4 and X-Men Vol 2 #42); Onslaught (b/s; last in Wolverine #104 f/b; next in X-Men Vol 2 #46 b/s)

Guest appearance: Siryn (between X-Men Prime and X-Force #44)

Other characters: Noah DuBois (last in issue #299); Eve McGee (first appearance; deceased; among the people killed in Gene Nation's massacre, as revealed in Uncanny X-Men '97)

STORY: "A Nation Rising" (22 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Bryan Hitch (penciller), Cam Smith (inker), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato, Electric Crayon (colourists), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

Rogue and Iceman's road trip goes awry when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Rogue insists on sticking to their "no powers" rule. Meanwhile, Gambit regains consciousness. Storm, Wolverine and Cannonball meet with Charlotte Jones to investigate the nightclub killings and get attacked by two members of Gene Nation.

What you need to know:

• Well, principally, Gambit wakes up after a three week coma. For the first time, Psylocke senses "danger" before he comes into the room, something which is followed up in the next issue. Presumably what she's picking up on is Gambit's realisation that if Rogue has absorbed his memories (by using her powers on him), she must know the secret he's been keeping from the X-Men, as revealed in issue #350.
• Sabretooth is feeling a bit better after Wolverine impaled his head. Now he's running around the grounds like a particularly excitable dog. The narration suggests that this is genuine (and logically the telepaths ought to be able to check, despite the bemusing suggestion of some other titles that Sabretooth is faking it).
• In a subplot scene, the Beast visits Trish Tilby to take her to task about revealing the existence of the Legacy Virus (in the X-Men Prime one-shot). Quite rightly, Trish tells him it's a major health issue and the X-Men have got a damned cheek trying to hush it up.
• Noah DuBois shows up again, this time monitoring the Friends of Humanity. Again, it's never clear why.
• According to Noah, the Friends of Humanity are riding a groundswell of popular approval after the Gene Nation killings in the previous issue. Of course, this parallels the Days of Future Past storyline, in which a successful attack by a pro-mutant terrorist group was one of the key events leading to a rather unpleasant alternate future.
• Iceman hallucinates seeing Emma Frost once again.
• We're told that there's no obvious cause of death for any of the people found at the disco in the previous issue. They just "stopped." Having said that, the doctor who tells us this is a member of Gene Nation in disguise, so it can perhaps be taken with a pinch of salt. This certainly doesn't seem like what the characters were reacting to in the previous issue, though. The art in that story kept the corpses off panel for the most part, but everyone seemed to think it was one of the worst things they'd ever seen, not just thirty-odd people who'd keeled over and died. On the other hand, Charlotte Jones accepts this issue's account without question, and she was there.
• And finally, two members of Gene Nation - Sack and Vessel - make their debuts in this issue. Sack has the power to take over other people's bodies, which usually kills them in the process. If he's telling the truth about the deaths in the previous issue, then possibly this is how he did it.

Comments: There's a lot going on in this issue, but it's all far too disjointed to add up to a satisfying story. It just kind of jumps around various ongoing subplots, nudges them on a bit, and then moves to the next one.

A particular disappointment is Cannonball's first appearance as a member of the X-Men. If you're wondering where he came from all of a sudden, the answer is X-Force #44 - at around this time, the X-books were so ridiculously interlinked that major plot developments quite often happened in completely the wrong title. Unfortunately, Cannonball's depiction here as a slightly bumbling, nervous kid who can't even take Sabretooth for a walk was to set the tone for things to come. The creators took an awful lot of flak on this point from readers who had watched the character develop into an effective and competent team leader in X-Force over the previous three years and could hardly believe their eyes when they saw him being used as comic relief in the X-Men books. The creators tended to argue that Sam was overawed by the X-Men, but even that doesn't fit with earlier stories. Cannonball's involvement in the team is, all told, a dreadful mistake, and one that the creators of X-Force are now working to rectify.

Feature characters: Rogue, Iceman (both last in X-Men Vol 2 #42); Storm, Psylocke (both last in Wolverine #91); Cannonball II (last in X-Force #44; appears in X-Force #45 between pages of this story); the Beast (last in X-Force #45); Gambit (last in X-Men Prime); Wolverine, Archangel (next in X-Men '95, then in X-Men '95/2, then in issue #325; both last in Wolverine #91)

Supporting characters: Sabretooth (between X-Force #45-46); Trish Tilby (between Cable #22 and Sabretooth (first one-shot)); Charlotte Jones

Villains: Graydon Creed, Friends of Humanity (all last in X-Force #40); Sack, Vessel (real names unrevealed; first appearance of both; as Gene Nation)

Other characters: Noah DuBois (next in Wolverine #92); Dr Chen (full name unrevealed; first and only appearance; deceased; used as a host body by Sack)

STORY: "Deadly Messengers" (23 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Roger Cruz (penciller), Tim Townsend, ... Russell, Al Milgrom (inkers), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato, Electric Crayon (colourists), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

Psylocke enters Gambit's mind without his consent to try and find out what he's hiding, but Gambit blocks her probes. The X-Men fight Sack and Vessel but they escape. Iceman is still having hallucinations of Emma Frost and tries to get help from her.

What you need to know:

• As Psylocke herself says, her decision to enter Gambit's mind without consent is a total violation of all the X-Men's ethical standards for telepaths. So that scene really tells us a lot more about Psylocke (and her hypocrisy) than it does about Gambit.
• Gambit blocks Psylocke's probe, which ought to be impossible. This may be a reference back to a dropped plot from Gambit's very early appearances, in which he was shown to have some kind of telepathic power to charm people into trusting him. Supposedly this power was explicitly referred to in the scripts, but it's been dropped by later writers. Although Gambit tells Psylocke that he knows what she was doing, he never does anything about it - perhaps he is afraid that the X-Men will want to find out what he was hiding from Psylocke.
• Vessel's superhuman powers are revealed. He siphons "psionic and... physical residue" from the recently deceased and turns it into physical strength. Of course, this doesn't really mean a great deal, but the rather religious Storm interprets it as stealing souls. Oddly, Wolverine (who isn't supposed to believe in such things) goes for that interpretation as well.
• When the X-Men's fight against Gene Nation spills over into a Friends of Humanity rally, Graydon Creed insists on staying (and as a result has to be saved by the Beast). It's this sort of flagrant idiocy that made Creed such an implausible villain.
• In a rather badly drawn sequence, Vessel refers to one of the X-Men as the "first one", but it isn't clear which. Presumably he's referring to the Beast. This is a reference to a continuity rewrite that arose out of the Age of Apocalypse story. At the end of that story, the Beast's evil counterpart from that timeline (yes, I know, I know) came to Earth in the past. X-Men Prime then retroactively wrote him into continuity as the founder of the Morlocks. As several people pointed out, this flatly contradicted previous stories which had told us that Callisto founded the Morlocks, and the Dark Beast's involvement was quietly scaled down again. Anyhow, that's probably what Vessel's referring to.
• More hallucinations of Emma Frost. This is building to something, honestly.
• Rogue and Iceman visit the town of Millstone, Arizona, which just happens to be the first town they got to after their car broke down last issue. By an amazing coincidence, this is a town where Gambit once lived before he was an X-Man - a rather tenuous piece of synchronicity to say the least. Anyhow, Rogue is still being influenced by the memories she picked up from Gambit and tells waitress Claire DeLuc to "give my regards to Grey Crow." Claire still has a photo of herself, Grey Crow and Gambit. This plot is not referred to again for four years, at which point Fabian Nicieza picks it up in Gambit's solo series, revealing in the process that Grey Crow is actually the Marauder Scalphunter.
• Iceman phones Emma Frost for help, but she refuses to answer even though she knows it's him. It's not at all clear why.

Comments: A slightly better issue, since at least this one's got a plot and sticks to it. Unfortunately, it's a fight with Gene Nation, and the creators seem very muddy as to precisely what the point is. Gene Nation are supposed to be a terrorist group motivated by politics and revenge, so quite why we get all this stuff about soul stealing is beyond me. In any event, Gene Nation aren't too interesting at the best of times - there's not much to them beyond the rather obvious "we're bitter and we really hate you" angle. Fortunately, they don't stick around much longer. On the bright side, the subplots are far more interesting, with lots of interesting hints in the Rogue and Iceman stuff (albeit that they're not properly dealt with for years) and an excellent opening sequence with Psylocke and Gambit.

Roger Cruz fills in on art again (if you're keeping count, you may notice that because he put all his efforts into the Age of Apocalypse miniseries, supposed regular penciller Joe Madureira has now been absent from the regular title for an awfully long time). His chameleon tendencies are really showing here, as he shifts gear from bad Jim Lee to a bad Joe Madureira pastiche. Really, he makes an awful hash of this issue. A sequence with Sack attempting to take over Cannonball's body is drawn as nothing of the sort, and there's a lot of really badly posed characters to contend with. It doesn't help that one of the guest inkers (probably Al Milgrom, I'd guess) is using far too much black and makes it all look very dark and muddy.

Feature characters: Storm (next in Cable #23), the Beast (next in Wolverine #92, then in X-Men '95), Psylocke (next in Generation X #6 b/s, then in X-Men '95/2), Wolverine (next in X-Force #46, then in Generation X #6, then in Wolverine #92), Gambit (also in photograph between Gambit Vol 1 #3 f/b and issue #350 f/b), Cannonball II, Rogue, Iceman

Supporting character: Charlotte Jones (next in X-Force #59)

Villains: Sack, Vessel (as Gene Nation); Graydon Creed (next in X-Men Vol 2 #45); the Friends of Humanity (next in X-Factor #119)

Guest appearance: Emma Frost (last in X-Men Prime b/s; next in Generation X #5); Grey Crow (Scalphunter of the Marauders, as revealed in Gambit #7; in a photo preceding issue #350 f/b)

Other character: Claire DeLuc (a waitress; first appearance; next in Gambit #8)

STORY: "Generation Of Evil" (36 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe Madureira (penciller), Tim Townsend, Matt Ryan (inkers), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato, Electric Crayon (colourists), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

Colossus shows up at the mansion with a badly injured Callisto. Callisto tells them that it is the anniversary of the day the Marauders massacred most of the Morlocks, and that Gene Nation intend to kill a human for every mutant that died in the massacre. The X-Men track down Gene Nation, and Storm is forced to kill Marrow to stop a bomb from exploding.

What you need to know:

• Several X-Men comment that Callisto doesn't seem to be telling them the entire truth. A lot of what happens in this issue bears that out, but it's difficult to see what her motivations are. The clearest example is that she tells the X-Men that Mikhail Rasputin died when the Morlocks left Earth. She later contradicts herself, claiming that Gene Nation did something nasty to him instead. Storm picks her up on this, and she simply backtracks. She also claims that Gene Nation were "testing" the X-Men in their previous encounters, which seems implausible given that the X-Men just stumbled across them. And she claims that Gene Nation are "renegade Morlocks", which is shown to be untrue in the Storm miniseries, where they are shown as close allies of Mikhail Rasputin. Evidently Callisto is up to something, but it's unclear what.
• And how does Callisto know what Gene Nation are planning, anyway? It's possible that she's actually on their side and is trying to lead the X-Men (and specifically Storm) into a trap. Perhaps she shares their bitterness about Storm's failure to live up to her responsibilities as leader of the Morlocks, even though she doesn't agree with Gene Nation's attempt to kill innocent people.
• Curiously, the picture of Gene Nation which Callisto shows to the X-Men contains one member who never appears in the actual fight scene. He later crops up as a member of Havok's shortlived team the Brotherhood in X-Factor, calling himself Ever and not appearing to have any real connection with Gene Nation. Why he's in this issue (his earliest appearance) is something of a mystery.
• Hemingway's appearance takes Callisto by surprise. It seems he's mutated since he last saw her, and she didn't think that was possible. This is never picked up on.
• Marrow's death is reversed in Storm #4, which reveals that she survived the loss of one heart because she's actually got two. You'd have thought blood loss would be an issue here, and you'd also have thought the X-Men would have given her a proper burial instead of just dumping her corpse in the tunnels, but apparently not.
• Rogue phones the mansion and tells Gambit that she's heading for Seattle. He's horrified, but doesn't explain why. Oddly, when he tries to take it up with her she hangs up on him, and again it's not clear why.
• Gambit decides to head for Seattle himself, and a subplot shows us that Mr Sinister has been keeping an eye out waiting for this to happen. I believe this is the earliest story that clearly ties Sinister into Gambit's history.
• This issue supposedly commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the relaunch of the X-Men in 1975. Consequently, it's double the normal size, and it has a double gatefold cover that cleverly manages to avoid having the logo or the issue number anywhere that's clearly visible on the front cover. Happy hunting, collectors!

Comments: Well, it's not great, is it? Scott Lobdell has since revealed that he was ordered to write the story in such a way that Storm killed Marrow, and went through various drafts to try and find some way in which this would make some vague kind of sense. What he ends up with is the "I've got a bomb connected to my heart" routine, which kind of gives Storm a rationale, but just begs the even bigger question "Why in the name of god would Marrow want to do something as stupid as connecting a bomb to her heart?"

It's also hard to avoid agreeing with Callisto's criticism that the X-Men seem to have forgotten about the Morlock Massacre. For all their mumbling about how they got hurt in it too, they have chosen to mark the anniversary of the great day with an intervarsity baseball match and a party. Oh dear.

Joe Madureira's artwork on this issue is patchy but has some pretty good moments. His Marrow is perhaps excessively ugly even for the standards of this period, and there's a couple of rushed looking pages where the characters are very artificially posed, but for the most part his action sequences work well.

This is the last we hear of Gene Nation for quite a while, and it's no loss. They're simply not a very interesting bunch, and the blunt directness of their plans - which amount to little more than "Let's kill some people" - doesn't make for interesting stories. This is a fudged ending to a pretty dull storyline, and at least it gets it out of the way.

Feature characters: Cyclops (last inX-Men '95; next in X-Factor #115, then in DC Versus Marvel #1, then in Captain America Vol 1 #445, then in X-Men: Clan Destine #1, then in issue #328); the Beast (last in X-Men '95; next in DC Versus Marvel #1, then in Wolverine #93, then in Wolverine '95, then in Wolverine '95/2, then in X-Force #47); Phoenix III (last in X-Men '95; next in DC Versus Marvel #1, then in X-Men Unlimited #8, then in X-Men Vol 2 #46-47, then in X-Men: Clan Destine #1, then in issue #328); Bishop (last in Wolverine: Knight of Terra; next in Wolverine #93, then in Wolverine '95, then in Annual '95); Wolverine (last in Wolverine #92; next in DC Versus Marvel #1-4, then in Wolverine #93, then in Wolverine '95, then in Wolverine '95/2, then in Wolverine/Gambit: Victims #1-4, then in Incredible Hulk #434, then in Ghost Rider Vol 3 #67-68, then in Wolverine #94, then in Annual '95); Storm (last in Cable #23; next inDC Versus Marvel #1-4, then in Wolverine #93); Cannonball II (next in Wolverine #93, then in X-Force #48, then in Annual '95); Gambit (next in X-Men Vol 2 #45, then in DC Versus Marvel #1-2); Rogue (next in X-Men Vol 2 #45, where she leaves the X-Men); Iceman (next in X-Men Vol 2 #45, then in X-Men Unlimited #8, then in X-Men Vol 2 #46-47, then in X-Men: Clan Destine #1, then in Sabretooth (first one-shot), then in X-Men Vol 2 #48, then in X-Men Unlimited #10, then in X-Men Versus Brood #1-2, then in Storm #4, then in X-Men Vol 2 #50, then in issue #331); Archangel (last in X-Men '95/2; next in DC Versus Marvel #1, then in X-Men Unlimited #8, then in X-Men: Clan Destine #1, then in issue #328); Psylocke (last in X-Men '95/2; next in DC Versus Marvel #1, then in Wolverine '95, then in X-Men Unlimited #9, then in issue #328)

Supporting characters: Colossus (next in Excalibur #92), Callisto (next in Storm #2; both last in X-Men Vol 2 #44)

Villains: Marrow (next in Storm #4), Hemingway (both last in Generation X #6), Sack, Vessell (the latter three next in Storm #3 as Pain, Glass and Snow respectively), Reverb (real name unrevealed; first appearance; dies; all five teamed as Gene Nation; other Morlocks appear next in Storm #2); Mr Sinister (between X-Men '95 and X-Men Vol 2 #45); Threnody (between X-Men Vol 2 #27 and Cable #28)

Guest appearances: The Banshee, M I, Jubilee, Skin (all between Generation X #6-7)