COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Uncanny X-Men 275 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0942430026
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Owner:
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Colossus Keck
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"The Path Not Taken"
Chris Claremont (writer), Jim Lee (penciler), Scott Williams (inker), Oliver and Rosas (colors), Bob Harras (editor), Tom DeFalco (editor in chief)
special thanks to Karl Altstaetter
Brief Description:
In the Savage Land, Magneto, Rogue and Ka-Zar accompany Nick Fury and his SHIELD agents to try to defeat Zaladane and her forces. However one of the SHIELD agents shoots Magneto out of the sky for him having caused his son’s death and then allies up with Zaladane. Brainchild uses a machine to transfer Magneto’s energies to Zaladane, but Rogue, Ka-Zar and Nick Fury free him. Right in time Rogue’s powers return, her healing process (Uncanny X-Men #269) was only somewhat delayed. During the confusion of the battle, Magneto uses the same machine to drain Zaladane of her energies and soon the villainess and her forces are defeated. Magneto takes revenge and kills Zaladane with metallic spikes, so that she never may pose a threat again. He departs. Rogue absorbs Worm’s power to free the many savages under his control. She realizes the Magneto she came to respect and was attracted to is no more. In outer space, the X-Men free themselves from the tentacles that were holding them on Deathbird’s command. While Wolverine gets after Deathbird, the X-Men meet their old friends the Starjammers and Lilandra, who eventually defeat the Imperial Guard. After that, the X-Men are reunited with their long lost founder Charles Xavier! When Wolverine brings Deathbird back to Lilandra, who puts her to justice, the gang decide to celebrate their victory and Lilandra becomes rightful Empress again. For the new members of the team it is the first time in space and they try to adjust to it in their own ways. While meditating, Psylocke gets knocked out by an unseen villain. Jubilee and Gambit find a secret passage and see Professor X taking mental control of Gladiator and Oracle and ordering Deathbird’s death. He also says that once the X-Men have outlived their purpose they will be killed too.
Characters Involved:
Banshee, Forge, Gambit, Psylocke, Jubilee, Storm, Wolverine (all X-Men)
Rogue (former X-Man)
Lila Cheney
Ka-Zar
Shanna, Ka-Zar's wife
Zabu, Ka-Zar's pet sabretooth
Nereel, leader of a savage tribe
Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Yuri Vassilyavitch Semyanov, russian S.H.I.E.L.D. agent
Magneto
Zaladane
Amphibius, Brainchild, Gaza, Lupo, Worm (all Savage Land Mutates)
Deathbird
Bolt, Earthquake, Gladiator, Tempest, Titan, Oracle, Smasher (all Imperial Guard)
Shi’Ar Empress Lilandra Neramani
Warskrulls, posing as Xavier and the Starjammers
Plrai, a Shi’Ar woman
Lord Chamberlain, Lilandra's advisor
In flashbacks :
Magneto
Anya Lensherr, Magneto's daughter
Isabelle, Magneto’s beloved
Shadow King
Story Notes:
Xavier left the X-Men way back in Uncanny X-Men #200, due to his deteriorating health. Lilandra and the Starjammers took him aboard their ship for medical treatment, but once he was cured the ship’s engines were destroyed and he couldn’t return. Since then Xavier was seen among the Starjammers a few times, and he even battled along the New Mutants once while they were in outer space, but it’s the first time that he meets his X-Men again.
Wolverine was on the brink of dying during the X-Tinction Agenda, when he was stripped of his healing factor. He is still recovering.
Magneto sank the Leningrad submarine, killing all aboard, in Uncanny X-Men #150.
The Savage Land was destroyed by Terminus in Avengers (1st series) #257, and rebuilt by the High Evolutionary in Uncanny X-Men Annual #12.
Isabelle was a woman Magneto loved before forswearing humanity, as seen in the backup story in Classic X-Men #19.
Magneto encountering the Shadow King is a yet undocumented battle, however it could refer to events off-panel in Uncanny X-Men #269, where Magneto found Carol Danvers and Rogue fighting each other. Carol was under the Shadow King’s mental hold by then. When Rogue later woke up, Carol was gone, and Magneto had reintegrated their shared life-force back into Rogue’s body.
The next issues will reveal that “Xavier“ and the “Starjammers“ are actually Warskrulls mimicking their looks and abilities.
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