COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Uncanny X-Men 298 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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0980081005
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Owner:
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Colossus Keck
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Story Title:
For the Children
Staff:
Scott Lobdell (writer), Brandon Peterson (penciler), Al Milgrom (inker), Chris Eliopoulos (letterer), Marie Javins (colorist), Bob Harras (editor), Tom DeFalco (editor in chief)
Brief Description:
Charles Xavier has been secluded for over three days, accessing information from all around the world. Bishop disturbs him and says he must tender his resignation. The Professor wants nothing of it, not giving up on Bishop as easily as Bishop appears willing to give up on the X-Men. Jean Grey is filling in for him and Cyclops, taking over a Danger Room session with Archangel, Gambit and Bishop. Over at a school called Our Mother of the Sacred Heart, Sharon Friedlander is attacked and killed by a group of Acolytes, her last act being a desperate call for help to Charles Xavier. While receiving some information from Detective Charlotte Jones, Charles hears the cry for help and summons his X-Men to her location, sixty miles north of the mansion. At the school, Tom Corsi arrives back with a bus full of kids and senses something is wrong, just before the Kleinstock brothers blow up the school and attack the bus. Tom manages to kill Eric Kleinstock but Carmella Unuscione attacks him. Fortunately, the four X-Men arrive and a fight ensues. The X-Men are disgusted by the attitude of the Acolytes and even more so when they discover that the mutant they came to find is actually a young boy with Downs Syndrome. The Acolytes attack the bus, forcing the X-Men, along with Storm, who arrives to dowse the flames, to save to children while they make their escape. On the news later, Senator Robert Kelly calls for the American people to wake up and see the mutant menace for what it really is.
Characters Involved:
Professor Charles Xavier
Archangel, Bishop, Gambit, Jean Grey, Storm (all X-Men)
Sharon Friedlander
Joanna Cargill, Eric Kleinstock (dies), Harlan and Sven Kleinstock, Carmella
Unuscione (all Acolytes)
Detective Charlotte Jones
New York City citizens
Dwayne, Tom Corsi, Teddy Matson & unnamed students at Our Children of the Sacred Heart
(on television screens)
Trish Tilby
Several unnamed reporters and members of the public
Senator Robert Kelly
Story Notes:
This is the first appearance of the Kleinstock brothers and Carmella Unuscione. Joanna Cargill appeared in early issues of X-Factor (1st series) as Frenzy in Apocalypse’s Alliance of Evil.
Charlotte Jones gives a stolen coroner's file to the X-Men. Professor Xavier mentions that he has been gathering medical reports over the last few weeks in X-Men (1st series) #300, as part of his research into the Legacy Virus.
Unuscione reveals that Fabian Cortez is alive and well after fleeing Asteroid M back in X-Men (2nd series) #3 and that they are working for him. She appears to be the field leader on this mission.
Gambit calls Joanna Cargill by her first name. There are several possible reasons for this including a) He knows her already b) He heard someone call her Joanna off-camera and c) He has done his homework and read some of the X-Men’s files, recognizing the name Cargill when Carmella Unuscione says her name.
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