STORY: "The Splinter Of Discontent" (19 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Bryan Hitch (penciller), Paul Neary (inker), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato (colourist), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

Injured in a recent battle and unable to return to human form, Iceman turns to Emma Frost for help. She helps him to change back himself.

What you need to know:

• Iceman's injuries happened in X-Men Vol 2 #50 in a rather pointless battle with Onslaught's herald, Post. Basically, his chest has been shattered and he doesn't dare change back. Emma simply shows him that he could have changed back all along with a bit of effort.
• The Beast has been kidnapped and replaced by the Dark Beast, his counterpart from the Age of Apocalyspe, in X-Men Unlimited #10. He crops up at the beginning of the issue doing a moderately good job of fooling X-Force.
• Archangel and Psylocke take a leave of absence from the X-Men while they recover from their injuries (Archangel having been injured in the Sabretooth one-shot).
• Cyclops and Phoenix visit the place where Cyclops, Storm, Iceman and Wolverine fought Post in X-Men Vol 2 #50 and discover that it's completely barren and shows no signs of their battle. Quite how they're supposed to have found it is anybody's guess. It's possible that this is actually a mix-up where Bryan Hitch, who drew this issue, wasn't given correct references for the original story and inadvertantly came up with an entirely different landscape. In any event, as Phoenix says, "this doesn't make sense."

Contrary to popular belief:

• In the name of god, people, Emma does not ask Bobby if he's thinking of taking up interior decorating because she thinks he's gay. She says it because he's just filled her office with bloody great towering lumps of ice that fill two thirds of the page.

Comments: This issue ties up the long-running subplot about Emma Frost's relationship with Iceman. The suggestion seems to be that Emma was angry at Iceman's failure to develop his powers properly while drifting merrily through the Marvel Universe, while the Hellions she put so much effort into training got themselves killed by a third-rate nobody. It's a perfectly good idea but nothing really seems to come of it. Iceman gets a bit more self-confidence, a kind of friendly rivalry relationship is set up, but I can't really get too worked up about it, I'm afraid. Mind you, maybe it's just me - I know there are fans (and writers) out there who find the whole Iceman/Emma Frost thing absolutely gripping. To each their own.

Guest art this issue comes from Bryan Hitch, although for some reason the issue is foisted with a dreadful cover by Jeff Matsuda. It's not one of Hitch's best pieces of work, not helped by a colourist who seems to think that ice is grey.

Feature characters: Professor X (last in Cable #29; next in Cable #31, then in X-Men Vol 2 #51); Cyclops (last in Cable #29; next in X-Men Vol 2 #51); Phoenix III (last in Wolverine #98 f/b; next in X-Men Vol 2 #51, then in Archangel); Archangel (last in X-Men Vol 2 #50), Psylocke (b/s; both next in Cable #31, then in Archangel, then in issue #333); Gambit (last in Storm #1; next in X-Men Vol 2 #51-52, then in issue #333); Bishop (last in X-Men Vol 2 #50; next in X-Men Vol 2 #51-52, then in Annual '96); Iceman (last in Storm #4)

Guest star: Emma Frost (between Generation X #11-12)

Villain: The Dark Beast (between X-Men Unlimited #10 and X-Men Vol 2 #51)

Guest appearances: Meltdown II, Warpath, Shatterstar, Sunspot (as X-Force; all between Cable #29 and X-Force #52); the Banshee (last in X-Men Vol 2 #50; next in Generation X #12); Jubilee (between Generation X #11-12)

STORY: "Destiny's Child" (46 pages)
Credits: Terry Kavanagh, Howard Mackie (writers), David Perrin, Nick Gnazzo (pencillers), Art Thibert, Harry Candelario (inkers), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Kevin Somers (colourists), Malibu (colour enhancement), Kelly Corvese (editor), Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)

Bishop and his sister Shard have a reunion in their home town of Las Vegas. The disturbed mutant Preacher is led there by his precognitive visions. He is followed by the Hound, who captures Bishop, Shard and Preacher and takes them to Operation: Zero Tolerance. OZT's experiments on Shard turn her into an energy being. The heroes escape.

What you need to know:

• Shard and fellow guest star Wild Child are both members of the government team X-Factor at this point. The Hound is a government-created mutant-hunter who had also recently popped up in X-Factor. Lots of references to X-Factor, very few of which have any bearing on the X-Men.
• We're told that Bishop and Shard were born in Las Vegas.
• Bishop's lack of interest in his sister before this story is explained by his not accepting her as anything more than a holographic copy of the real Shard. He changes his mind after meeting her.
• Shard gets turned into a "photon based life form", which is all very fascinating if you read X-Factor. The pseudoscience count is really high in this story - one page contains the lines "the encrypted data parameters constituting her mind field" and the ever popular "double the high-spectrum intensity of the laser-pulse barrage."
• One of Shard's memories of her own time has Colossus in it, so presumably he survived the Sentinel domination of North America in that timeline. (As opposed to the original Days of Futures Past timeline, where he was killed.)
• Preacher's final vision in this issue is foreshadowing the arrival of Onslaught.

Comments: Er... yes. What the hell is this doing in Uncanny X-Men's annual when it plainly ought to be in X-Factor? A major change for an X-Factor character, an X-Factor villain as antagonist, and not much X-Men material at all apart from re-establishing the relationship between Bishop and Shard.

The original Preacher story in the 1995 Annual was a pretty good effort. This isn't - a bland, boring effort which labours mightily to make us believe that the Hound is an interesting villain but falls flat on its face. The art is competent but no more, and on the whole this is an entirely missable issue.

Feature characters: Storm (last in Cable #29), Bishop (last in X-Men Vol 2 #52; also in f/b somewhere among the f/bs in XSE #1-4; both next in issue #333)

Guest stars: Wild Child, Shard (becomes a photon-based energy being; also in f/b somewhere among the f/bs in XSE #1-4)

Villains: The Hound (no further appearances), Operation: Zero Tolerance (both last in X-Factor #123), Bastion (last in X-Men Vol 2 #52; the latter two both next in issue #333); Dr L Stephens (a government scientist; first and only appearance)

Other characters: Preacher (last in Annual '95; no further appearances); Recoil (b/s), Amazon (both in f/b; last in f/b in Bishop #3; ??no further appearances)

STORY: "The Road To Casablanca" (19 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe Madureira (penciller), Tim Townsend (inker), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato (colourist), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

The X-Men try to find Wolverine, who has devolved into a feral state [after Wolverine #100]. They find him in the underground temple of Ozymandias, an Egyptian king who has been turned to stone and forced to serve Apocalypse.

What you need to know:

• It's a crossover. It fits in between Wolverine #100-101 and forms part of a, let's face it, downright silly storyline where Wolverine turns into a kind of humanoid dog. Without a visible nose. Just... don't think about it, okay? The woman in red wandering around on the fringes of the story is Daredevil supporting character Elektra Natchios, who plays a significant role in the ensuing storyline in Wolverine.
• As part of the X-Men's attempts to find Wolverine, Professor X meets with Wolverine's sometime ally Zoe Culloden of Landau, Luckman and Lake. This is an interesting meeting both because it establishes Culloden as willing to kill Xavier to protect LLL's secrets, and because we discover that Xavier knows an awful lot about LLL's secret interdimensional operations (which aren't news in themselves, but Xavier's knowledge of them is).
• This is the first appearance of Ozymandias, whose origin is revealed some time later in Rise of Apocalypse #1-4. Those issues establish that Ozymandias's claim to be a king is hyperbole. He wasn't - the time-traveller Pharaoh Rama-Tut got there first. Ozymandias demonstrates his power to channel precognitive visions through the rather impractical medium of sculpture, which is a pretty important element of his later appearances. He also demonstrates the power to bring his sculptures to life and control them mentally, which isn't.
• The one stone statue that the X-Men don't recognise is Nate Grey, star of X-Man. None of the X-Men present have met him. The others appear to be the Blob, the Acolytes, Magneto, the Dark Riders, and some copycat X-Men.

Comments: Ho hum. It's a crossover, and it's a crossover into a downright stupid storyline to boot. The bits with Landau Luckman and Lake work quite well, though, and Lobdell does get a bit of mileage out of the Ozymandias concept. Having said that, Ozymandias obviously underwent a bit of a rethink after this story arc finished. His rather banal power to bring statues to life was quietly shoved under the carpet, and his motivations were steadily shifted from slavish devotion to Apocalypse (motivated by abject terror) to a rather more sympathetic position. Reading it again in 1999, his depiction here is a bit jarring.

One thing that really doesn't work in this issue is the artwork on Ozymandias's wall carvings. The inker appears to have tried to ink them in very thin lines, and it just hasn't come across at all in the printed version. The effect that Madureira was aiming for is totally ruined.

Feature characters: Professor X, Cyclops (both last in X-Men Vol 2 #51), Iceman, Phoenix III (last in Archangel), Wolverine (last in Wolverine #100), Cannonball II (last in Cable #32 b/s; the latter five next in Wolverine #101, then Professor X and Wolverine in Wolverine #102)

Guest star: Zoe Culloden (last in Wolverine #100; next in ??Deadpool Vol 2 #1)

Villain: Ozymandias (first appearance; last in Gambit Vol 3 #3 f/b; next in Wolverine #101)

Guest appearance: Elektra Natchios (between Wolverine #100-101)

STORY: "The Other Shoe..." (19 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Pascual Ferry (penciller), Tim Townsend, Rob Hunter, Mark Morales, ... Hunt (inkers), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato (colourist), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

Gambit and Phoenix sneak into the headquarters of new anti-mutant organisation Operation: Zero Tolerance. They are discovered, but Onslaught helps them escape. Meanwhile, Cyclops saves Senator Robert Kelly from an assassination attempt by the Friends of Humanity, and a mysterious shadow entity appears at Archangel and Psylocke's home.

What you need to know:

• This is the first we see of Operation: Zero Tolerance, who will be the basis of a major storyline in 1997. Unfortunately, it's not going to be a very good one. They're introduced as being a multinational organisation formed by co-operating governments.
• Their leader is Bastion, who is seen clearly for the first time here. He's later revealed as a reincarnation of the mutant-hunting robot Nimrod, who was shoved through the mystical Siege Perilous in issue #247. Interestingly, guest artist Pascual Ferry has drawn Bastion in a much more angular and inhuman form than any subsequent artist (with the possible exception of Chris Bachalo).
• Senator Kelly has found out about Operation: Zero Tolerance and wants to stop it. That's why he wants to speak with Cyclops, and that's why the Friends of Humanity want to kill him. This will become significant when OZT becomes the main storyline.
• Kelly starts giving a list of people he contacted to try and set up his meeting with Cyclops. Presumably he's guessed that these people have some connection with the X-Men. The people he mentions are Professor X, Moira MacTaggert, and Ambassador St Croix (an established member of Xavier's Mutant Underground network).
• The Onslaught storyline also gets advanced. Bastion, who's a bastard but isn't an idiot, is busy worrying about the strange Onslaught-related events (virtually none of which were ever explained) that had been cropping up in numerous series around this time. In particular, he obligingly confirms that the technicians abducted by Onslaught in X-Men Vol 2 #46 were returned. Admittedly, Bastion assumes Onslaught is a mutant (he isn't, not really), but at least he's taking an interest in it.
• Plenty of hints in this issue of Professor X's connection with Onslaught (explained in just a few short issues). His inconsistent comments about how he can use his powers in the Operation: Zero Tolerance base and the X-Men's surprise at learning about the existence of Onslaught at all are just some of the signs that he's keeping something from them. Ultimately, it's Onslaught who saves Gambit and Phoenix from OZT, presumably with a view to recruiting Phoenix to his side (as he attempts in X-Men Vol 2 #53).
• Archangel and Psylocke's sparring session is interrupted by a big Juggernaut-shaped shadow. Which you won't be surprised to learn contains the Juggernaut. This is the Juggernaut returning to mainstream continuity following the cancellation of Malibu's series All-New Exiles, in which he starred. However, subsequent comments from Marvel, particularly in the Marvel Vision magazine, suggest that Exiles may not be part of continuity at all. This plot thread continues directly into X-Men Vol 2 #53.
• Archangel is still grumbling about the injuries he suffered a while back. Psylocke, meanwhile, is making muttering noises about the strange changes she's gone through as a result of all that Crimson Dawn stuff in issue #330.
• How Thick Is Graydon Creed, Part 236: he decides to kill a political rival, and tags along to watch. Duh.
• You want trivia? We got trivia. Cyclops's hair is parted on the wrong side throughout this issue.

Comments: The official start of the Operation: Zero Tolerance storyline, and more development of Onslaught. Yes, it's two, two, two crap late-nineties plots in just one issue! Although in fact, this is a pretty good issue, let down only by the knowledge that the stories never go anywhere interesting. If the creators had been able to keep up this level of quality, we'd all have been rather happier with the next couple of years.

Operation: Zero Tolerance are introduced as a genuinely dangerous opponent, and Bastion makes a pretty impressive showing in his opening story, leaving his true nature as a genuine mystery (and, for once, one that had pretty much been thought out in advance - Lobdell had intended the Master Mold rather than Nimrod, but the basic idea remains). Kelly, the X-Men's former political nemesis, is wheeled out as a dissident in order to emphasise just how nasty this bunch are, but since he'd been effectively mellowed over the previous few years, it works. As for Onslaught, by this point Marvel seemed to have worked out who he actually was and were starting to drop sensible hints about it all (though they never managed to satisfactorily explain most of the previous build-up).

Guest art on this issue is from the excellent Pascual Ferry, who went on to provide memorable work on Heroes For Hire and Warlock. The inkers on this issue are obviously trying to make him look like Joe Madureira, but his work still looks impressive.

Feature characters: Professor X, Wolverine (both last in Wolverine #102), Storm, Bishop (both last in Annual '96), Archangel, Psylocke (both last in Archangel), Gambit (last in X-Men Vol 2 #52), Iceman, Cannonball II, Cyclops, Phoenix III (the latter four last in Wolverine #101; the latter two next in X-Force 55, then in Excalibur #96, then Phoenix, Archangel and Psylocke in X-Men Vol 2 #53)

Supporting characters: Robert Kelly (last in X-Men Vol 2 #46; next in X-Factor #123); the Juggernaut (possibly last in All-New Exiles #9; next in X-Men Vol 2 #53)

Villains: The Dark Beast (last in X-Men Vol 2 #52; next in Cable #33); Bastion, Operation: Zero Tolerance (both last in Annual '96); Graydon Creed (last in X-Men Vol 2 #51), the Friends of Humanity (last in X-Factor #119; both next in X-Men Vol 2 #53); Onslaught (last in X-Man #15; next in X-Men Vol 2 #53)

STORY: "Dark Horizon" (22 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe Madureira (penciller), Tim Townsend (inker), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato (colourist), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

The Juggernaut comes to the X-Men's Mansion to enlist Phoenix's help in revealing the identity of Onslaught, which is locked in his mind. Meanwhile, Professor X acts increasingly eccentrically.

What you need to know:

• More hints, and increasingly obvious ones, to the effect that Professor X is Onslaught. Of course, strictly speaking he's only part of Onslaught. But there you go. One of the scenes is Xavier delivering a monologue to himself and thanking Nate Grey, star of X-Man, for what he's about to do. The idea of this is supposed to be that by bringing Xavier's astral form onto the physical plane in the otherwise exceptionally dull and unimportant X-Man #10, Nate made it possible for Onslaught to emerge. It doesn't come across very clearly.
• The Dark Beast is having an increasingly difficult time maintaining his impersonation of the real Beast. Not surprisingly.
• Bastion takes Graydon Creed to task for his idiotic attempt to assassinate Robert Kelly in issue #333. And quite right too. Good to see at least one other character realises that Creed is a total halfwit.
• In a curious subplot, Bishop comments that the technology used in Cerbero is almost identical to that used in his own timeline, and wonders what could have set back the development of technology. Of course, this is ludicrous. Bishop's timeline includes a horrific civil war that bordered on global apocalypse. Not surprisingly, it set society back a bit. And the X-Men's technology is way in advance of the rest of the planet's. So quite what Lobdell was thinking of here is beyond me.
• The story continues in X-Men Vol 2 #54 and Onslaught: X-Men, in which Professor X is revealed as Onslaught outright, and then turns against the X-Men.

Comments: It's one month to go before the Onslaught storyline proper, and this is... not much of anything, really. Xavier's being nasty, the Juggernaut's once again being wheeled out to emphasise just how darned dangerous Onslaught is supposed to be, and it doesn't add up to anything much. It builds up the tension, it gets the job done, but looking back on it now there's not much of interest.

Feature characters: Professor X (next in Fantastic Four Vol 1 #414 b/s), Phoenix III (both last in X-Men Vol 2 #53), Cyclops (last in X-Force #55), Storm (last in Cable #33), Iceman, Wolverine, Gambit, Bishop, Cannonball II (after the above, all next in X-Men Vol 2 #54, then in Onslaught: X-Men); Archangel, Psylocke (both last in X-Men Vol 2 #53)

Supporting character: The Juggernaut (last in X-Men Vol 2 #53)

Villains: The Dark Beast (last in Cable #33); Graydon Creed (last in X-Men Vol 2 #53; next in Spectacular Spider-Man #237); the Friends of Humanity (last in X-Force #56; next in X-Factor #127); Bastion (next in X-Men Unlimited #11)

STORY: "--Apocalypse Lives!" (22 pages)
Credits: Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe Madureira (penciller), Tim Townsend (inker), Richard Starkings, Comicraft (letterers), Steve Buccellato (colourist), Bob Harras (editor, editor-in-chief)

ONSLAUGHT, PHASE 1 The X-Men, X-Force, the Avengers and Nate Grey combine forces to plan against Onslaught, who has taken over Professor X completely.

What you need to know:

• It's part of the godforsaken Onslaught crossover. Of which more later. Suffice to say that this issue is mainly devoted to packing various characters off to appear in other tie-in issues.
• Apocalypse wakes up from another of his patented healing slumbers, ready to intervene in the Onslaught story. In other books.
• Uatu the Watcher hovers round the edge of the story looking ominous. For those of you not familiar with wider Marvel continuity, Uatu is an alien whose sole job is to observe and record events on Earth. He shows up to attend major events in person. Unfortunately, over time he's become a cheap way of adding weight to a flimsy story. And that's what he's doing here.
• The X-Men Mansion is in a pretty nasty state, after an entire wing got blown up in battle with Onslaught in Onslaught: X-Men. They start rebuilding it after Onslaught.
• This is the first time Nate Grey meets Cyclops and Phoenix. Their counterparts on his world were his genetic parents, although he only met them briefly. Naturally, Nate mistakes Jean for her clone Madelyne Pryor, a supporting character from his own book. Not much is made of this, however.
• In a brief subplot scene, Moira MacTaggert announces that it's time to unseal the Xavier Protocols. The founding X-Men go trudging off to Muir Isle where they clog up the otherwise totally unrelated Excalibur #100 looking into this. Basically, it's just a load of instructions on how to kill X-Men, and it's not of any great plot significance.
• The rest of the heroes split into three groups. Some of them go off to find Magneto, some of them go off to warn the Fantastic Four that Onslaught has taken an interest in Franklin Richards, and X-Force are left at the mansion to babysit Nate Grey. Oh, and Storm goes off to take care of Cable - her interest in him is one of several allusions around this period, mainly in Cable's own title, to a potential romance between the two of them. It goes nowhere. Wolverine heads off on his own as well, to investigate a hunch. Anyhow, all of these plots are picked up in other titles elsewhere in the crossover.
• Psylocke and Archangel make more vague mutterings about how she's been changed by the Crimson Dawn.
• And in a closing subplot scene, Onslaught is a bit nasty to the Dark Beast (who left the X-Men to join up with him in Onslaught: X-Men). Once again, all this is picked up in other books.

Contrary to popular belief:

• One of the odd things about Nate Grey is that he only gets referred to as X-Man in guest appearances, never in his own book. I choose to take the view that this is an error. After all, he's supposed to be distrustful of the X-Men. Why on Earth would he call himself X-Man? On the other hand, this view takes a bit of a hammering from more recent stories scripted by Terry Kavanagh - the writer of X-Man - in which Nate's still calling himself X-Man. But strangely, never in his own book.

Comments: Well. Onslaught.

Onslaught is not the least coherent crossover Marvel ever published. That honour belongs to The Crossing, an Avengers story so impenetrable that it was later unceremoniously booted out of continuity by being explained away as a deliberate attempt by a villain to confuse everyone. The Crossing is unlikely ever to be beaten on this score. But Onslaught's pretty bad as well.

When Scott Lobdell created Onslaught, his concept was a simple one. The X-Men hadn't had a big cosmic-level villain since Dark Phoenix, and wouldn't it be nice if they had one? Well, yes, it would. And that's about the last stage at which Onslaught was a good idea.

The character lumbered gamely into print in a variety of oblique hints and subplots long, long before anybody had really worked out who he was or what he was trying to achieve. Larry Hama, then writing Wolverine, reported that he had been asked to use Onslaught - but the editors could not tell him anything about the character at all. Not surprisingly, this resulted in a load of impenetrable and irreconcilable hints which were never satisfactorily explained. This issue makes a feeble attempt to wave them aside by saying that everything we know about Onslaught was suspect because he was the source of information. That's not so much an explanation as a disguised admission of failure.

As if this incoherent mess wasn't bad enough, it was at around this point that Marvel entered into the Heroes Reborn deal. This involved handing over control of four main titles - Avengers, Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Captain America - to Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld. It was decided that the four titles should be moved into a pocket universe while all this was going on. An excuse was needed to achieve this. Marvel latched onto Onslaught and decided he could be turned into a device to get Heroes Reborn set up. A character who should have been an epic X-Men plot suddenly found himself as a set-up and a plot device in a story concerning a whole load of characters he had no connection with at all.

Worse yet, nobody ever seemed to work out a sensible plot for the crossover. Onslaught's motivations and aims are totally oblique. Foreshadowing from even a couple of months before fails to lock into the actual story in any way. Shortly after the storyline was published, Marvel released Road To Onslaught, a "behind the scenes" guide which contained a plot summary that not only bore almost no resemblance to what had seen print, but was a thousand times better than the published version. As in, it made sense. It almost looked as if every writer had assumed somebody else was going to do the major job of explaining what Onslaught was up to. None of them did.

Scott Lobdell later described Onslaught as "a work in progress." Of course, it isn't. It's a published, finished work. And while there are some decent issues in there - mainly in fringe titles which didn't carry the burden of advancing the bemusing plot - the story as a whole fails totally.

Feature characters: Professor X (next in X-Factor #125, then in Fantastic Four Vol 1 #415, then in X-Men Vol 2 #55), Storm (next in Cable #34, then in Incredible Hulk #444, then in Generation X '96 f/b), Wolverine (next in Wolverine #104, then in Generation X '96 f/b, then in Wolverine #105, then in Onslaught: Marvel Universe, then in issue #337), Gambit, Iceman, Bishop (the latter three next in Avengers Vol 1 #401, then the latter two in Fantastic Four Vol 1 #415, then all in X-Men Vol 2 #55), Cyclops, Phoenix III, Cannonball II (all last in Onslaught: X-Men), Archangel, Psylocke (the latter five next in Excalibur #100, then in X-Men Vol 2 #55, then Cannonball in Cable #36, then Archangel in Avengers 1999 f/b, then Cannonball and Archangel in issue #337 b/s)

Guest stars: Captain America I, Thor, the Scarlet Witch, the Vision, Iron Man III (all last in Onslaught: X-Men), Quicksilver (last in Avengers Vol 1 #400; all as the Avengers; next in Avengers Vol 1 #401); Nate Grey (last in Onslaught: X-Men; next in X-Man #18)

Villains: Onslaught (next in Incredible Hulk #444 f/b), the Dark Beast (next in X-Factor #125; both last in Onslaught: X-Men); Apocalypse (last in X-Force #18), Ozymandias (last in Wolverine #101; both next in Cable #34)

Guest appearances: Uatu the Watcher (last in Fantastic Four Vol 1 #416/2; next in Fantastic Four Vol 1 #415); Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Meggan, Colossus, Pete Wisdom (as Excalibur), Moira MacTaggert (all between Excalibur #99-100); Domino II (last in Cable #33), Siryn, Shatterstar (both last in X-Force #56), Meltdown II, Caliban (the latter three b/s), Sunspot (the latter three last in X-Force #55; all six as X-Force; all next in X-Man #18)