X-Force Vol 1 59

Part of the "Shatterstar Saga" story arc X-Force Vol 1 #59 Published October, 1996 Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras Cover Artist Adam Pollina "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (Shatterstar Saga, Pt. 1)" Writer Jeph Loeb Penciler Anthony Castrillo Inker Bud LaRosa Colorist Marie Javins Malibu Hues Letterer Richard Starkings Comicraft Editor Bob Harras Previous Issue Next Issue X-Force 58 (Story) X-Force / Youngblood 1 X-Force #60

... you just have to be born lucky, I guess.

-- Longshot

Appearing in "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (Shatterstar Saga, Pt. 1)"

Featured Characters:

• X-Force
  • Shatterstar (Benjamin Russell)
  • Caliban
  • Domino (Beatrice)
  • Cable (Nathan Summers)
  • Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)
  • Meltdown (Tabitha Smith)
  • Warpath (Jimmy Proudstar)
  • Siryn (Theresa Rourke)
  • Rictor (Julio Richter) (Joins team)

Supporting Characters:

• Detective Charlotte Jones
• Longshot

Antagonists:

• Gog N'MaGog
• Gog

Other Characters:

• Benjamin Russell (Mentioned)
• Reignfire (Mentioned)
• Gamesmaster (Mentioned)
• Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
• Onslaught (Mentioned)
• Risque (Mentioned)
• X-Men (Referenced)
• Unnamed New York detective
• Graydon Creed (Mentioned)
• Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Mentioned)
• Avengers (Mentioned)
• Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
• Phoenix (Jean Grey) (Mentioned)
• Nimrod (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

• Mutants
• Humans
• Sentinels

Locations:

• Earth-616
  • Earth
    • United States of America
      • New York
        • Adirondack Mountains
          • X-Force Bunker
        • New York City
          • Manhattan
            • Police station
      • Boston, Massachusetts (Mentioned)
      • Vermont
        • Rutland
          • Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane
    • Mexico (Mentioned)
• Earth-4935 (Referenced)
• Mojoverse (Mentioned)

Items:

• X-Uniforms
• Techno-Organic Virus
• Longshot's Throwing Knives

Vehicles:

• PACRAT
  
  

Synopsis for "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (Shatterstar Saga, Pt. 1)"

X-Force Safehouse
X-Force questions Shatterstar. Cable does not trust him anymore and wants to know who he really is. With the teams battle with Onslaught he cannot take any more people with issues in their background to sneak onto their team. The rest of the group believes Shatterstar is good and wants Cable to help him. Rictor enters the room and tells Shatterstar he is along for the ride if he needs him. The team then goes off to look for any clues they can about Shatterstar's past.

Manhattan
Charlotte Jones looks over a fax that has just come through. It looks like some of the information is missing. She heads outside and sees one of the Sentinels in the street from the Onslaught battle over New York. Cable approaches her and asks her about Shatterstar's file. She tells him that some of the records are missing and just disappeared.

Weisman Institute
The team then heads to the Weisman Institute in Vermont. They find that the institute has been completely abandoned and all the information on the patients has disappeared. They do not realize that Gog and Ma'gog are watching their movements. They get back in their ship and head out.

Just as they take off to go to Boston, they are attacked by Gog and Ma'gog. They rip through the ship and Rictor tries to attack them, but only damages the ship even more. Gog grabs Shatterstar and starts to take off. They are all going down and Cable sees Gog teleporting off with Shatterstar and jumps after them.

The rest of the team suddenly blips out of existence and then reappears after the ship has already crashed into the ground. Domino cannot understand how they survived the crash and says that it was not her that got them through it. They turn to see Longshot who tells them that some people are just born lucky.

See Also

• 1 Image(s) from X-Force Vol 1 59
  

Links and References

• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 06/27/2010

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