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| #1 | | August, 1997 |
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| Steve Seagle |
Scott Clark |
Chris Carlson |
Horoscope Mac's nightmare: he trains with Logan, as Weapon Alpha and Weapon Chi. Mac fells Logan, who recovers and guts him. Clarke has Mac sign a Prometheus
Division waiver before saving his life. Heather's nightmare: she watches Mac die (see iss. I:12). Judd's nightmare: Heather lip-locks him, then Mac, then
Madison. They are all taller than he is. Judd gets an anonymous message that Mac was abducted. He finds Heather, now a florist (since Alpha Flight was
suspended in iss. I:130, and her marriage to Mac suspended since then). They lunch and are kidnapped by soldiers with sonic guns. They wake in Dept. H,
where Clarke shows them a message from a Quebecois terrorist threatening a chemical weapons strike in Vancouver. (He demonstrated his sincerity by
killing everyone in Port Radium.) Scorpio is also on the tape; Clarke says he is the real threat. He has (forcibly) assembled a new Alpha Flight to deal with it.
Mac has been de-volved to 19 to get rid of the alien technology in his body (see iss. I:25, 89). This same High-Evolutionary same process had saved him when
Logan gutted him. Walter has been mysteriously transformed and is bestial. Radius has a force field and is domineering; Flex can bend and is submissive;
Murmur can mind-control with a touch and is French-Canadian. Heather gets a new suit that controls geo-thermal energy. Manbot is a big robot. Sunfire's power
is out of control, and he wants Dept. H's help. He tries to cross the US-Canada border and is shot down. The Ecliptic can read the future; she advises Scorpio to
strike immediately. He has the terrorist (actually his captive) broadcast an ultimatum. The un-ready Alpha Flight goes to Dorion, Quebec, and ineptly fights them.
Radius pushes Taurus into Flex, ho is traumatized when he thinks he killed him. Alpha Flight captures Virgo, but the Zodiac captures Madison. Heather and Judd
confront Clarke, refusing to be on his team. They go to rescue Madison but are knocked out as they leave the building. The Director thanks Scorpio, whom he
hired for this job; Scorpio takes the money and declares himself an enemy to the world. |
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October, 1997 | | #3 | | Writer |
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| Steve Seagle |
Scott Clark |
Chris Carlson |
Bury Your Dead The weather is rough in Orloo. Someone gives Judd a secret memo about the death of the Legacy mutant Cleric. Heather trains with her new suit, not entirely
understanding or trusting it. Ex-members Wildchild and Shaman read about the new team in the papers. Clarke sends the veterans to Orloo to investigate; the
pilot of their plane is shot through the windshield, and Mac barely misses destroying the church he wed Heather in (iss. -1) as he lands. Judd investigates Hull
House, but De LaSalle quickly turns him away. Heather and Sasquatch take the pilot to a hospital, then Sasquatch runs off. Mac and Manbot investigate the
cosmic ray collector (iss. -1) and see Chinook rising from the dead. He claims to be the wind and is on a mission of vengeance, starting with Sasquatch, and
Mac who never tried to help him. Battle ensues, Sasquatch tears Chinook in two, and he dissipates, leaving strange marks in the grassy field. The team is
immediately recalled because: Back at Dept. H, Flex interrupts Radius and Murmur and gets picked on. The Corbos spy on Sunfire resisting his bonds. Radius
convinces the others to break him out and go on a joyride to Montreal. (Murmur has to use her power to convince Sunfire.) They stop on the way for food and
bump into Mesmero, who exults in his good fortune. |
| #4 | | November, 1997 |
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Inks |
| Steve Seagle |
Scott Clark &
Martin Egeland |
Chris Carlson &
Howard Shum |
Mesmerized
Mesmero realizes his chance to become a first-class villain. Radius explains that Flex got his name at Hull House as a joke. He can't eat his burger through
his force field without a filter. Mesmero stares at them, Radius starts beating on him, so he mesmerizes him and Murmur, Flex, and Sunfire when they try to
intervene. At Dept. H, Mac and Heather yell at Clarke for losing the kids. Epsilons guard the Beta Flight wing, where people are suspended in solution. Mesmero
tells his story: arrested by Alpha Flight (see I:43) and attacked by the Dark Riders (X-Men II:21), he mesmerized Gauntlet into thinking he killed him. He realized
he could control minds for long periods. At Hull House, Lilli is "adopted" into the Prometheus Division, which also gets the Prometheus Pit on-line. Mac and
Heather track the kids to the diner and find them mesmerized and acting like they work there. They call Puck, Manbot and Sasquatch as reinforcements, and
Mesmero makes the kids attack. They fight around the mesmerized civilians until Heather forces Murmur to use her power on herself, freeing her so she can free
the rest. But Mesmero catches Heather, Mac, Puck, and Sasquatch, meantime (Manbot resists), and has them attack the kids. |
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February, 1998 | | #7 | | Writer |
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| Steve Seagle |
Scott Clark |
Chris Carlson |
Insides
At night, Flex wakes full of anxiety. He goes toward the bathroom but finds a one-eyed, glowing monster and runs away. Heather demands that Su modify her suit,
and she learns she can't look up data on Beta Flight. Mac explains to Heather that since he has lost his memory, he would like them to just date awhile. She sees
the energy monster just as he (finally) kisses her. Ecliptic tells Scorpio that Virgo is in Paris. Flex puts his, Radius's and Murmur's names out on the Internet to try
to find their parents. The three then see the monster, which disappears, then returns, abducts Radius, carries him to his own bedroom, and vanishes. Puck is given
a surreptitious message that it was created by Dept. H. Puck's memory of his Sasquatch mission is erased on Clarke's orders. He and Heather remember Madison
and try to confront Clarke in the Beta Flight wing. They see bodies in containers just as the door shuts. Sunfire resolves to continue to fight the radiation poisoning
that is killing him. Murmur plays up to Mac, who kisses her, and Heather sees it. Clarke calls the team together: he is reopening the Weapon X files. |
| #9 | | April, 1998 |
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Inks |
| Steve Seagle |
Roger Cruz |
Chris Carlson |
North & South
Clarke has sent the Flight to recover Wolverine, and given them radar that can detect adamantium. Although he doesn't have that any more, they find and confront
him for the supposed murder of Jeffries (see last iss.). Logan talks big, then drives away. Radius and Mac bicker; Puck breaks it up. Mac flies after Logan and
attacks him. Heather sends Murmur and Sasquatch to see who Logan had chained up in a potato sack (Sauron, see Uncanny X-Men 355). The rest help Mac.
X-Men arrive and help Logan. They fight; Murmur tries to mind-control Maggott and gets wicked backlash. Sam and Flex talk and realize Logan was in jail when
Jeffries was supposedly killed. The Flight realizes Clarke lied and plans to have words with him. Lilli wants to go back to Hull House; Clarke has her sedated.
Sunfire wants to go back to Japan. Note: the encounter with Logan is repeated, from his p.o.v., in Uncanny X-Men 355. |
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January, 1999 | | #18 | | Writer |
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| Steve Seagle |
Duncan Rouleau |
Andy Smith |
Alpha: Omega, Part 1
The team is trying to recapture the new Weapon X, but he is resilient in his body armor. He is a New Zealander, and he is sucking up energy from a power plant.
Gentry yells at Power for sending Epsilon troops out on Huxley's authority; Huxley is jet-packing to the site. Earlier: Heather takes Mac looking for apartments,
but when he suggests they live together, she rebuffs him. Flex finds out Radius's father was Unus the Untouchable, and they are not really brothers. Radius has
been pushing beyond his limits in the training room, because of guilt over Sasquatch, and Flex rescues him. Puck reads the file sent to him by Kilgrew (iss. 13)
and reveals Huxley's secret lab: Diamond Lil in suspension; the new Weapon X. They were infected with a bacteria which is now a parasite in Weapon X and trying
to control his mind and spread itself to all humanity. The present: while battling Weapon X, the new Alpha Flight runs into the old Alpha Flight, including another Mac. |
| #20 | | March, 1999 |
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| Steve Seagle |
Duncan Rouleau |
Jaime Mendoza |
Alpha: Omega, Part 3
Snowbird turns into a polar bear and attacks. Gentry shows no fear, realizing it's an illusion, a warning from Shaman. The team sees the Hellpounder, which
is a disposal site: a deep-drilled hole with nuclear blasts. Weapon X has Huxley and wants him to detonate the bomb, to crack his suit open and infect the
world. Huxley thinks his powerful intellect will be able to dominate the bacteria and rule the world. Aurora is channeling Weapon X. Macs are empathing each
other. Manbot is sparking; Radius envelops him with his force field and smothers the fire. Old and new Alphas fight, despite misgivings. Mac and Mac finally
call a cease-fire and get everyone to go after Weapon X. They fail to catch him, and then the Hellpounder's containment field goes up. Aurora explains that
the human part of Weapon X took the bacteria from her and wants to destroy it in the nuclear blast. He jumps in the hole. Mac the younger gets Puck to trick
Huxley into lowering the shield; he orders Shaman and Heather to retrieve Weapon X, and Flex and Manbot to defuse the bomb. Macs and Radius erect their
own shielding, in case the bomb goes off. Manbot's system fails; the bomb is about to go off. Weapon X breaks free and holds the pin in the bomb, until it falls
down the hole: a noble self-sacrifice in the end. Huxley escapes; Gentry assembles all the Alphas. He doesn't reveal which Mac is real, because they've both
proven themselves. Puck and Heather are dating. Gentry holds a celebration. And thus ends the series. |
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