Issue Description

Marrow, the leader of the Gene Nation, has tagged innocent civilians with explosives that can go off at any minute. The only way to deactivate the devices is to stop Marrow's heart. As the former leader of the Morlocks, Storm steps up to take Marrow down.

*spoilers*

Our story opens with a friendly baseball game involving members of the X-Men and Generation X. ( Which as you can imagine makes normal baseball seem like a cakewalk!) We see Jean and Scott, Cannonball, Jubilee, Bishop, M, beast, Skin, Storm and Wolverine as they play their match. Once things become a human mountain with skin entangled everywhere while our precocious M sits atop, the long absent Colossus teleports inside the mansion’s grounds. (Same colossus who when his sister died he defected to Magneto’s team “The Acolytes”) Not only does he teleport in, he is carrying an injured/unconscious Callisto.

Not the type to refuse friend or foe assistance Callisto is quickly moved into the med lab so she can receive medical attention. When she regains consciousness, she informs the X-Men that a group of second generation Morlocks, calling themselves Gene Nation, are planning to kill a human for every Morlock who died during the “mutant massacre” ( in essence a slaughter of their people orchestrated by Mr. Sinister). The X-Men rush to Manhattan where they hope to stop the would be re-enactment. Gene Nation however have already set their plan in motion and hold a group of humans hostage in the subways. Their young leader, Marrow going so far as even, attaching incendiary devices to them, linked to her own heartbeat. (She’s just a peppy little bundle of fun isn’t she?)

After a brief skirmish between Storm and Callisto in the tunnels where tempers flare and egos (the size of bananas) are roused they encounter the first casualty of the day. A man is killed and his bicycle is wrapped around him and a sign painted in blood points the x-men toward our villains (Creepy stuff). Marrow’s teammates attack with Vessel taking Wolverine, Hemingway taking colossus and Callisto taken down by a bullet through the shoulder by Glass. Storm saves Callisto and finally locates Marrow. Their Marrow reveals the nature and origin of her hate, Storm has failed as leader in her eyes, she recounts how as a child she witnessed Storm defeat Callisto. Storm “the bright lady” and Calisto “the dark” and how she had such hopes for her and her people to finally be free of the tunnels but storm eventually did nothing and that lead to the “massacre” and from that she was born.

Marrow then challenges Storm to a fight, as payback for Storm’s shortcomings when she was the leader of the Morlocks. Storm intent on rescuing the civilians (typical Xavieret behavior) takes up the challenge and they begin a vicious battle. Storm draws first blood while Sarah slices off ½ her hair on one side of the face and cuts her cheek. As the battle rages on marrow and storm seem evenly matched and her compatriot Reverb interferes only to be killed by storm. As Marrow grabs storm and has her face the soon to be exploding civilians she loses it completely, she goes crazed with madness in her eyes and she lets her guard completely down. Storm realizing that she has no choice and that the only way to prevent the bombs exploding and killing all the civilians is to stop Marrow’s beating heart. Storm break free and before marrow even knows what happens she rips out her still beating heart, from her chest, thus she disarms the bombs, but kills Marrow in the process.

Meanwhile…….

Gambit receives a phone call from Rogue, she’s with Iceman who happens to be her traveling companion for now (their actually on a road trip but hey that sounds lame). While they talk Gambit senses that she may be remembering things that she absorbed during their kiss (which only happened because of the crystal wave…but that’s a story for another time) He heads out to try and speak with her. Shortly there after, Mister Sinister (the Goth mutate man himself) is informed by Threnody (a sexy black succubus mutant) that Gambit is traveling to Seattle. Turns out she was asked to inform him if Gambit ever went there (so she has been keeping tabs? I wonder what “things” she’s seen our Gambit do when he thinks no one is looking?) . However, Sinister seems a bit preoccupied and is busy worrying if all his well-laid plans are heading towards certain ruin.

The Uncanny X-Men (1981)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

This is a continuation of Stan Lee's and Jack Kirby's original The X-Men (Vol. 1). Beginning with issue #114 the descriptive "Uncanny" was added to the cover treatment but it wasn't until issue #142 that the volume's official name was permanently changed to Uncanny X-Men.

The title has had many creative influences over the years but Chris Claremont was probably the force that drove the title through many it its historic changes, truly bringing it from "the world strangest teens" into their new status a team of mutants fight in a "world that fears and hates them". During his legendary 15 year run he gave us character and stories such as Phoenix/Dark Phoenix, the Hellfire Club, the New Mutants, X-Factor, the Mutant Massacre, Inferno and Jubilee and numerous other historic heroes and events. This epic run ended after editorial disputes in 1991.

For the Uncanny X-Men Post-Schism, see Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 2).

Collected EditionsIssues #142-143 are collected in X-Men: Days of the Future PastUncanny X-Men Omnibus Volume 3 (#154-175)Issues #168-176 are collected in From the AshesIssues #199-209 are collected in GhostsIssues #210-213 are collected in Mutant MassacreIssues #225-227 are collected in Fall of the MutantsX-Men: Inferno Prologue (#228-238)Issues #239-243 are collected in InfernoX-Men: Inferno Volume 1 (#239-240)Issues #248 and 256-258 are collected in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues #265-267 are collected in Gambit ClassicIssues #268-269 are collected in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues #270-272 are collected in X-Tinction AgendaX-Tinction Agenda: Warzones! (#270)Issues #273-277 are collected in Crossroads and in X-Men Visionaries: Jim LeeIssues # 281-293 are collected in Bishop's CrossingIssues #294-297 are collected in X-Cutioner's Song (Hardcover)Issue #298-305 are collected in Fatal Attractions (Hardcover)Issues #308-310 are collected in X-Men: The Wedding of Cyclops and Phoenix #1 - TPBIssues #316-318 are collected in Generation XIssues #320-321 are collected in LegionquestIssues #322-326 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #1 - Volume 1Issues #327-328 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #2 - Volume 2Issues #329-332 are collected in X-Men: Road To Onslaught #3 - Volume 3Issues #334-335 are collected in The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 1X-Men: Operation Zero Tolerance (#346)X-Men: The Hunt For Professor X (#360-365)Deathlok: Rage Against the Machine (#371)Issues #372-375 are collected in X-Men: The ShatteringIssues #376-377 are collected in X-Men Vs. Apocalypse: The TwelveIssue #378 is collected in X-Men vs. Apocalypse: Ages of ApocalypseIssues #379-380 are collected in X-Men: Powerless!Issues #388-390 are collected in X-Men: Dream's EndIssues #391-393 are collected in X-Men: Eve of DestructionIssues #394-409 are collected in X-Men: X-CorpsIssues #410-415 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1: HopeIssues #416-420 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 2: Dominant SpeciesIssues #421-427 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3: Holy WarIssues #428-436 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 4: The DracoIssues #437-441 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 5: She Lies with AngelsIssues #442-443 are collected in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6: Bright New MourningIssues #444-449 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: The End of HistoryIssues #450-454 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: The Cruelest CutIssues #455-461 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: On IceIssues #466-471 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: End of GreysIssues #472-474 are collected in Uncanny X-Men - The New Age: First FoursakenIssues #475-486 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar EmpireIssues #487-491 are collected in Uncanny X-men: ExtremistsIssues #492-494 are collected in X-Men: Messiah CompleXIssues #495-499 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Divided We StandIssues #500-503 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Manifest DestinyIssues #504-507 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: LovelornIssues #508-512 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: SisterhoodIssues #513-514 are collected in Avengers/X-Men: UtopiaIssues #515-522 are collected in X-Men: Nation XIssues #523-525 are collected in X-Men: Second ComingIssues #526-529 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: The Birth of Generation HopeIssues #530-534 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: QuarantineIssues #535-539 are collected in Uncanny X-Men: Breaking PointIssues #540-544 are collected in Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Men

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