Uncanny X-Periment # 92: "Shockwave"

Generation X # 67-70, X-Man # 67-70, X-Force # 106-109, Cable # 85-86

We finally get to some issues that are better than others. You can kinda consider this “Revolution” version of the entry entitled “The Kids” [link] “Revolution” brought some serious changes to “X-Man,” “X-Force,” and “Generation X.” “Shockwave” takes a look back 6 months to see what kicked off these changes.

At the Massachusetts Academy, life continues on for the Generation X gang. Everett and Monet are all caught up in a teenage love life, even though Jubilee is so totally crushing on Ev. This all goes to hell, though, as tensions among the students continue to get worse. It turns out that Emma’s sister Adrienne is looking to kill the students. She does this by increasing the tensions amongst the students and their parents. Eventually, things get so bad that all of the parents show up to pick up their kids . . . and bombs are placed in the school. Ev – after saving some bullies – attempts to disarm the bomb while synching M’s powers. By the synch isn’t strong enough and he dies. Sean and Emma then turn the school back into the original training program that it was supposed to be – after Emma shoots Adrienne, of course.

Meanwhile, Nate Grey discovers that Maddie has been replaced by a Maddie from Earth-998. She takes Nate to her world to make him destroy Asia. He refuses and runs into his counter-part, who has become a shaman. He instills knowledge as to how to heal people into Nate’s mind and deactivates the part of Nate that was supposed to blow him up. After doing away from Maddie (who is really Jean Grey from this Earth) and her agent Mr. Scratch, Nate comes back home and becomes a shaman to Mutantkind.

Pete Wisdom, who wanted to run the team so they would handle the spy and black ops stuff, took in X-Force. He also helped them expand the use of his powers. Presently, Pete’s “dead,” and Domino is being hunted by a Mutant with the gene for murder. X-Force takes him down.

Over in Cable (which takes place modern day, although after all the stuff that’s coming into the next entry), Cable heads off to the far, far future after getting some distress calls from Rachel. Turns out that now that Apocalypse is dead, Rachel didn’t end up his future. A guy named Gaunt captured her, but Cable defeated him and has brought her back. Now Rachel is seeking her own life.

Each book tends to have it’s own and varies in quality. I find myself enjoying “X-Man” and “Generation X” the best as we really see some nice creativity injected into them. “X-Force” feels like a cooler version of what we were getting. “Cable” was pretty bad, though I’m glad Rachel is back. All of these stories were co-written by Warren Ellis, so it works out, I guess.

~W~