COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Uncanny X-Men 263 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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3880621009
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Owner:
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Colossus Keck
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"The Lower Depths"
Chris Claremont (writer), Bill Jaaska. (Guest Penciler), Josef Rubinstein (Guest Inker), Tom Orzechowski (letterer), Glynis Oliver (colorist), Bob Harras (editor), Tom DeFalco (editor-in chief)
Brief Description:
Forge and the transformed Jean Grey and Banshee are still in the Morlock Tunnels. Thanks to Forge’s devices, they learn that Peter Nicholas and Callisto have been abducted by Masque and are to be hunted. They decide to help. All the while, Forge has flashbacks to his last mission in Vietnam. Peter makes Callisto see that her exterior doesn’t have to decide who she is as a person, moments before they are attacked. As Masque stabs Peter, he automatically turns into Colossus again. Together with Forge, Jean and Banshee make a run for it, but are almost taken over by Masque, until Colossus stops him. They bluff that they are going to kill him so convincingly that Masque lets them go. Outside the Tunnels, Forge restores Banshee and Jean to their true forms, thanks to the cell samples he took earlier. Later, he says good-bye to the friends he lost in the war, happy that this time he managed to get his friends out. In Washington, Val Cooper has a clandestine meeting with Soviet spy Alexej Vazhin, who is worried about new mutant factions and especially one he cannot yet name.
Characters Involved:
Banshee, Colossus, Forge(all X-Men)
Marvel Girl (member of X-Factor)
Callisto
Dr Valerie Cooper
Colonel Alexi Vazhin
Major Debra Levin
Masque
Bliss, Bouncer and other transformed Morlocks
in Jean’s memories
Angel
Nightcrawler
in Forge’s memory
19 –20 year old Forge
Forge’s troop
Viet Cong soldiers
Story Notes:
The Marauders killed the Morlocks and injured several X-Men and members of X-Factor around Uncanny X-Men #211 and X-Factor #10 in the Mutant Massacre.
Mr. Sinister seemingly perished at the end of the Inferno crossover.
According to the notes, the X-Men perished to the world in issue #243. Actually, it was issue #227, the end of the Fall of the Mutants storyline.
Debra Levin is a homage to a character of the same name in the series The Nth Man (however that Debra Levin was an American soldier, not a Russian agent).
The coordinated super villain effort Vazhin refers to occurred in the Acts of Vengeance crossover.
Forge’s comment regarding Banshee refers to a short story by science fiction author Harlan Ellison: “I have no mouth and I must scream”.
Forge compares himself to both Tom Swift (a character from 20th century children’s adventure novels) and Tom Edison (a prolific late 19th, early 20th century inventor).
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