X-Cutioner's Song
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Cover of X- Cutioner's Song (1994), trade paperback collected edition.Art by Jae Lee.
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||
| Publication date | November 1992 – February 1993 | ||
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X-Men X-Force X-Factor Mutant Liberation Front Stryfe |
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| Writer(s) | Scott Lobdell, Fabian Nicieza, Peter David | ||
| Penciller(s) | Brandon Peterson, Andy Kubert, Jae Lee, Greg Capullo | ||
| Inker(s) | Terry Austin, Mark Pennington, Al Milgrom, Harry Candelario | ||
| Colorist(s) | Mike Thomas, Marie Javins, Glynis Oliver, Joe Rosas, Steve Buccellato | ||
| X-cutioners Song | ISBN | ||
"X-Cutioner's Song" is a crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics' in twelve parts from the November 1992 to early 1993. It ran in Uncanny X-Men, X-Men (vol. 2), X-Factor, and X-Force, and featured Stryfe as the central villain. The story was heavily hyped as revealing the origin of popular X-Force star Cable, but ultimately Cable's origin was not covered in any of the installments.
The main issues of the crossover were sold polybagged with a special trading card that featured Stryfe's personal views of key characters from the crossover. Because of this, the issues themselves were priced at $1.50, twenty-five cents more than their normal price of $1.25.
Mutant pop-star Lila Cheney organizes a free concert in Central Park to promote diversity in society and invites Professor Charles Xavier to speak at the concert. His speech is interrupted by Stryfe who, disguised as his doppelganger and nemesis Cable, shoots Xavier with a bullet that infects the professor with a lethal strain of the Techno-organic virus.
Meanwhile, War and Famine, the Horsemen of Apocalypse, attack Iceman and Colossus, distracting them from Caliban, who kidnaps Cyclops and Jean Grey. The Horsemen are working for Mr. Sinister, who is impersonating the Horsemen's former master Apocalypse. Mr. Sinister organized the kidnapping as part of his newly formed alliance with Stryfe. Stryfe trades Mr. Sinister a canister containing the past and future Summers family DNA history, and receives Jean Grey and Cyclops in the exchange.
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