X-Factor # 65-68
More tying things up, this time with X-Factor and some of the goings on there. While the X-Men are off in space with the Shi'ar, X-Factor faces off with Apocalypse, who is out for revenge against X-Factor for his past losses.
Apocalypse infects Ship with a virus, which ultimately leads Ship to destroy himself - save for a small, living piece of itself. At the same time, Apocalypse captures lil' Nathan Christopher. Also, he unleashes the Riders of the Storm (aka, the Dark Riders and I'll be calling them that from here on out), a team of Mutant mercenaries. All the while? He's capturing Inhumans.
Apocalypse sets himself up on the moon, where he's contending with the attacks by the Inhumans. X-Factor and Detective Charlottle Jones eventually meet up with the Inhumans and join in on the battle against Apocalypse. As they do, a woman in the body of a robot has traveled back in time and has taken the name "Askani." She wishes to take the dying Nathan into the future - for only there can the virus that Apocalypse has given him can be cured. As it turns out, 'Poccy is up on Nate's potential to overthrow him.
If he only knew . . .
The story is by Claremont, Jim Lee, and Whilce Portacio. It's not bad, though I wish Simonson would have written it since she made X-Factor her's. Claremont does a decent job. He attempts to draw parallels of sacriface and loss in this story to those in "The Dark Phoenix Saga." It comes off as flat.
Scott is the star of the story, and his struggle to send little Nathan to the future is nice.
This is a key moment in the Apocalypse/Cable mythology. It'll be touched quite often for the next decade or so. While it's a fairly decent story, it's missing a something that I just can't put my finger on.
That is fab.
~W~
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